crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner – [link]. More Vacation is the Secret Sauce – [link].

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tech is absolutely a boon the city — the city has doubled in size since 1999 on the back of countless new tech jobs. Capital Factory, a mentorship driven co-working space and incubator regroups much of the city’s entrepreneurs and tech mentors. Yet tech is also changing the very fabric that makes Austin awesome.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2012

After several years spent watching angels, super angels and incubators move in on their turf, VCs are flexing back. When we did our first survey there was competition between VCs, angels, superangels and incubators,” says Ted Hollifield, a corporate partner in Dorsey & Whitney’s venture capital practice. from 75.8%

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

This past December I spent a week in Boston to try to get to know some of the local VC’s and entrepreneurs a bit better. I believe that first-time entrepreneurs also benefit hugely from working in close proximity to other companies. Entrepreneurs need to share more information with each other.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 9, 2010

With the success of Y Combinator and TechStars , several incubators (sometimes referred to as “accelerators&# ) have popped up everywhere. b) Office space is a nice kicker, but no entrepreneur is going to give up equity in their mobile app startup company for office space. Some have done quite well. c) Mentorship is key.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

So much so that Jeff Levy, an entrepreneur and investor at Lamberts Cove, believes that an accelerator bubble may be forming. Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. Accelerators are also booming. Venture Capital ? Innovation. So does less venture capital mean less innovation?

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. What would you advise entrepreneurs expanding globally? It was like a foreign language to me - I’d never heard of any of this before.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. Most importantly, if you know a high-quality entrepreneur who you think would add to the conversation, would you be willing to try and convince them to attend? It was a disaster.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

Like any motivated entrepreneur, I started a company (in this case, an investment platform), to fill the gaps – which I also believed FPV was uniquely capable of filling. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. Below is a recap.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Like any motivated entrepreneur, I started a company (in this case, an investment platform), to fill the gaps – which I also believed FPV was uniquely capable of filling. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. Below is a recap.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

So much so that Jeff Levy, an entrepreneur and investor at Lamberts Cove, believes that an accelerator bubble may be forming. Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. Accelerators are also booming. Venture Capital ≠ Innovation So does less venture capital mean less innovation?

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Venture Capital Deal Flow Atlanta Incubator 66

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. We think so. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. At stake: Power itself. Enlarge Image Close.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Some have made the model work. and chartbeat.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

He would know; he’s been backing tech start-ups since 1984, incubating at least one hen house full of millionaires.and probably a few empty ones. A smaller grouping of red circles on the SFBT map near AT&T Park on Third and King streets covers Multimedia Gulch, the major hub for start-ups during the first dot-com boom of the 1990s.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy.

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