The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

This year, The Startup Magazine is proud to sponsor the entrepreneurship and venture capital conference, SeedCon, run by the Chicago Booth business school. This year’s conference will take place at 1871, Chicago’s startup incubator located in the Merchandise Mart. Event Focus. Investors and Entrepreneurs. SeedCon 2019.

Chicago 101

Chicago Venture Capital Cofounder Incubator 101

Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. As I said, this happens both in large enterprises and growing startups alike.

Phoenix 175

Phoenix Software Review Technical Review Cofounder 175

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

- Would you like to have a salary from day one of your startup? Initially you will likely be working out of our co-working space on West 36th St., CEO: Ideally a successful serial entrepreneur who has taken a startup from Series A all the way to an exit. If the answer is yes to any of these, you should keep reading.

Cofounder 133

Cofounder New York Venture Capital B2C 133

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

Startup 120

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The Howdy Austin mural commissioned by Ride|Austin Here is your home page to get started and meet all of the people you need to know to plug into the Austin tech startup scene?—?the the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. What do you do until we’re hanging out in person again?

Austin 110

Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Andrew Ellis, one of the co-founders of SignNow.com, was so enthusiastic about his company, I’m going to let him do most the talking on this one: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother? than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure.

Small Business 105

Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. I once mentioned this idea to a fellow SoCal VC when I told him I wanted a CIC in LA and he said, “Co-location is dead. Uh, I guess he won’t be co-sponsoring a technology lab in LA with me then?

San Francisco 285

San Francisco Incubator Silicon Valley Startup 285

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. It was a disaster.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

Maybe you’re thinking about startups to invest in, or making decisions about where to place resources in your company. In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. My blog was wiped out. He handled this perfectly.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 25, 2013

I was recently at the Melbourne Startup Grind event down at Depo8. NetMind: Alan was a cofounder of this startup, which he said never really made money. They made a trade sale in late 1999. Alan was then asked to give some startup advice: - Don’t get caught up in startup hype. Really hard.

Australia 80

Australia Startup Valuation Cofounder 80

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology. I cant really imagine how much it cost our "grownup" counterparts at other dot-com startups to get their first app up and running. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We’re a crossover fund.

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

by Thomas Smale, founder of FE International. What if there was somewhere you could go where you can be surrounded by founders just like you? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Here are the top 10: 1.

Las Vegas 124

Las Vegas Software Review Affiliate Cofounder 124

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically. So the answer to “Do you guys invest in hardware startups?” I described our existing investments in Whoop and Konekt and our thinking more broadly on businesses that have a hardware component.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically. So the answer to “Do you guys invest in hardware startups?” I described our existing investments in Whoop and Konekt and our thinking more broadly on businesses that have a hardware component.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Startups such as Shopkick offered real time deals when users were in stores and Shopsavvy and similar mobile price comparison tools from Amazon and Google empowered consumers to find the best deals. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Brown was one of the four co-founders of Techstars (with Cohen, me, and Jared Polis). Like many other startups, it had many ups and downs but the David’s created a very successful, profitable business that was acquired by ZOLL (a Boston-based public company) in 1999.

Boston 137

Boston Cofounder Partner Leadership 137

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I looked at my inbox this morning, I had emails from six organizations I have advised/worked with over the past couple of years (including Astia and Techstars ) announcing their partnership with the White House’s Startup America initiative. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

Silicon Valley 45

Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Karen Bantuveris, CEO of VolunteerSpot ( ff VC and angel-backed startup with 2.5m How to build a portfolio of startup investments. What to do when your portfolio startup pivots. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 Thanks to Tabitha Jean Naylor, Successful Startup 101 ! #37 Thanks to Adam Hergenrother, Hergenrother Enterprises ! #12

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

If we fund an early stage startup company today and it’s hugely successful, it’ll be coming into its own in 2025. This is dangerous, especially for founders. In 1999, the year an online pet store fronted by a sock puppet raised $50 million, Harmonix was laying off staff. Ponder that for a moment.

Boston 70

Boston Cofounder Early Stage Founder 70

ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

In our hyper-competitive global economy, startups are just as likely to find their first customers in Paris, France, as in Paris, Texas. In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”.

Global 60

Global United States Intellectual Property Malaysia 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. When I founded my first company along with Brian Moran (whose idea it was) I had no real experience running startups.

Founder 299

Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Email address: Home.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. I built my first startup in Argentina during the economic crisis-turned-revolution in 2001,” writes Frederic Kerrest , “and my co-founder and I started Okta in the depths of the U.S.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Up and Running

MAY 11, 2011

Tweet Having just completed my spring business plan season — three big business plan contests and our angel group investment — I think it’s a good time to poke some holes in several damaging and far-too-common myths about startups. Money is spent the right way, building the business, but without overspending.

Oregon 121

Oregon Angel Groups Cofounder Business Plan 121

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

Endlessly curious, I went from startups in military intelligence to microprocessors to supercomputers to video games. As time went on, I was a co-founder or member of the starting team for six high-tech startups…. With every startup came increasing responsibility. I was always learning.

Philadelphia 335

Philadelphia Miami Thailand Silicon Valley 335

Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. and dangerous. We all have them?—?no

Advisory Board 48

Advisory Board Cofounder Hiring Partner 48

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

We made a prototype that accurately monitored multiple vital signs and decided to create a startup company that would make tracking a person’s vital signs convenient, accurate and simple. We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA).

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Non-Compete LLC Social Media 48

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I followed her writing and bought her AOL book back in 1999. Just as importantly, she was an incredibly loyal and supportive friend and co-worker during really difficult times. That's how you win out in the venture and startup world. How did this startup come to be? My first article for the monthly edition was on AOL.

Silicon Valley 112

Silicon Valley Cofounder Venture Capital Valuation 112

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. And the great ideas that became todays successful tech startups dwarf anything that had been done to that point.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Software Review LLC 48

Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

I was at the University of Chicago when a bunch distinguished professors created UNext.com during the late 1990s — BIG BUST just like the startup I joined in 1999). While people in the article claim ‘this time is different, I am not so sure. (I A similar wave hit in the late 90s, during the larger dot-com frenzy.

Indiana 54

Indiana Cofounder Chicago Venture Capital 54

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Chris Dixon , September 12, 2010 My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. Why You Should Write. Your service: the game.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. It was December 1999. So, where does this all come from and how can you apply it in practice? I was resolute.

Technical Review 301

Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301