Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. TSM: What is the most important thing you tell other startup founders? Magazine’ Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2013

Some startup founders try unusual word spellings to make their business stand out, but this can be trouble when customers ‘Google’ your business to find you, or try to refer you to others. Your business name should match your business in order to remind customers what services you provide. Avoid unusual spellings.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Then, match that person up with a one day or so a week senior person who gets paid mostly in equity. The problem with that junior person is that they don't know enough about brand strategy, messaging, and don't have the network to really get the company placed where it needs to show up. You could do the same thing in engineering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Some startup founders try unusual word spellings to make their business stand out, but this can be trouble when customers ‘Google’ your business to find you, or try to refer you to others. Your business name should match your business in order to remind customers what services you provide. Avoid unusual spellings.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Learn about how her creative mind discovered a niche and filled it, asking her peers in the Compass Fellowship — an organization devoted to nurturing and networking young entrepreneurs — for their input. Elizabeth Sabol-Jones at Inspirist , Jan. Oprah Winfrey at Academy of Achievement , Feb. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Match students with relevant startup internships. Everyone wanted to work in finance.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. Recent growth in digital social networks has served as a reminder on what differentiates our species.

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Gust

MARCH 30, 2014

Some startup founders try unusual word spellings to make their business stand out, but this can be trouble when customers ‘Google’ your business to find you, or try to refer you to others. Your business name should match your business in order to remind customers what services you provide. Avoid unusual spellings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Some startup founders try unusual word spellings to make their business stand out, but this can be trouble when customers ‘Google’ your business to find you, or try to refer you to others. Your business name should match your business in order to remind customers what services you provide. Avoid unusual spellings.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. She is sitting now at Georgetown's Beeck Center, running a digital service's collaborative there and knew that she would have the right network and the right orientation for this. Digital Response. She served as the U.S.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

His picture of all of the different elements you have to deal with infrastructure (network, storage, os, db, etc.), The promise is so great, but the reality is that if you aren't developing something that matches with the models they provide then it represents a challenge. application services (security, integration), etc.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Researching the limits of puppy learning has given us the ability to have 8 week old puppies matching items, 13 week old puppies imitating our gestures and 15 week old puppies reading flashcards, how cool is that! To me personally, being the founder of an online business, distribution will never be a problem. Be blessed!

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2023

Recently, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures hosted our Pre-Series A Offsite —a one day single track conference that matched 60 top startups planning their Series A round within the next 12 months or so with 15 Series A check-writers for a day of panels, networking and small group working sessions. 2) Most startup events suck.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Jillian Darlington, right, the founder of the MomCo app, with her co-founder Beth Bryan. I was inspired by the technology that existed in dating apps,” says Jillian, speaking of apps like Tinder that use matching and geolocation. Jillian knew firsthand the difficulty of being a single mom without a network.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 28, 2011

On the other side of this radio interview are Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams , both founders of their own startups, both coaches and mentors to dozens of other startups over the years, and who together created and still run the In Good Company co-working space for women entrepreneurs in New York City. They’re really neat.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

The net effect was more money raised, higher valuation and the same percentage of equity sold. Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital. For example, liquidation prefs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? In fact, I remember sending him and his obscure-to-me co-founder (aka Reid Hoffman ) a bug report early-on, instead of taking them up on their offer of an in-person meeting. Maybe, but the thought never even entered our minds.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Facebook , LinkedIn , and other successful social networks have elevated this technique to a high art. So you decide to try to reposition around a different value proposition, one that more closely matches what your product is best at. Direct notifications can help ameliorate that problem. Organic notifications.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 7, 2019

Of course, many of you know his book, Book Yourself Solid , his more recent Steal the Show , and he’s also the co-founder of Heroic Public Speaking , an organization that is really, I think, revolutionizing the training of public speakers and presenters. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Michael Port.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Importantly, your brand is not what you say it is.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout.

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