YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2019

by Boris Pfeiffer , CEO and Founder of Riddle. But for small businesses, like startups, carrying out an effective marketing strategy is critical to their very survival. It is a sobering truth that nine out of ten startups will fail , and marketing success can often be the key element for any startup’s viability.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). Mike Stern (wasn’t sure which one so leave a comment if it’s you): Q: “is it possible to sell your startup without venture investment if the company has big traction and a large user base?&#

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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.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# I’ll list other consultants I know about, as well.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? Paths to Liquidity: a quick history of the four waves of startup investing. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It’s addicting. 8 beers that night.

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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.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . Looking to launch your startup, raise money, and learn about starting a company? This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. Others Alon Alroy Bizzabo conference event startup technology United States'

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It’s addicting. 8 beers that night.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Dec 26, 2009).

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2010

Startups Showcase Fashion 2.0 and FashInvest invite the online fashion community to present their startups to the audience and special feedback panel consisting of leading investors in the space. This month's talk is about corporate formation, investor visas and and tax accounting for startups. RSVP: [link] 6:00PM Fashion 2.0:

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? December 10th, 2008 | Becoming a Better Developer Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release).

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Are you a first time entrepreneur and looking for angel funding for your startup? It is important to get involved with different startup networks, conferences, and competitions. You are each other’s biggest support system and resource for all things startup. It is more of a social networking for raising equity.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. I liked the founders and considered making a personal investment, but ended up passing. Steve, I was pleasantly surprised to find your blog when researching startup financing. February 15, 2008 2:08 PM. Anonymous said.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. I love startups. Here’s my high-level approach for startups. No, I have many ideas.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time. Update – As a followup, we analyzed all of these startup failure post-mortems to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. Post-Mortem Title : How My Startup Failed.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. They seem so reachable.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Urbanization of Startups. I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, April 13, 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

And many of the best women founders. Even more interesting is that at GRP Partners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! Please watch this.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. ” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” What is the True Sentiment of VCs? All of these are false.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Marc Andreesen gave a great interview about a year agi about “The Future of the Enterprise” and where the next startups will be playing – Hadoop, Big Data, BYOD, etc. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., You mean startups?

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2017

Silicon Valley is on a tear, so it might seem like the US is teeming with startups. But, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research , the number of high-growth startups has been declining since the 90’s. After the turn of the century, startups created fewer jobs than they did before the year 2000.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. February 10th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place. Leave a Comment Building Your Startup? at 12:51 am [.]

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. You can go without these expenses for a short time while in startup mode, but if you plan to build a company that’s sustainable in the long-run you’re going to need to cover these expenses before you think about collecting a salary.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Wintegra founders Kobi Ben-Zvi and Robert O’Dell will join PMC-Sierra. “Given the strong strategic fit between the two companies, joining forces will allow us to further accelerate the industry’s transition to IP-based networks,&# Kobi Ben-Zvi, founder and chief executive officer of Wintegra, said. .

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. How did you end up heading to Silicon Valley from France to join a startup? But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2017

When Julisa Salas told me she wanted to join a startup, I was worried. Capable, smart and personable, she was also the type of candidate that most startups shy away from — no technical background, zero startup experience, and a young woman of color trying to break into an industry dominated by white men.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2017

When Julisa Salas told me she wanted to join a startup, I was worried. Capable, smart and personable, she was also the type of candidate that most startups shy away from — no technical background, zero startup experience, and a young woman of color trying to break into an industry dominated by white men.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Israeli startups in the mobile space are once again showing impressive attendance levels, with 56 Israeli companies exhibiting in the Israeli Pavilion. IPgallery, a privately held US company, founded in 2000, is a leading global supplier of converged Legacy and Next Generation/IMS Value Added Services for Voice, Video, and Data.

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