YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic. Oprah Winfrey at Academy of Achievement , Feb. Rather than fad chasing, take away from his story a lesson in noting more permanent consumer desires and catering to them.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. For example, digital startups are more likely to secure funding if someone on their founding team holds a doctoral degree. even selfish humans are more likely to act fairly when in public.” ( Burnham, 2003 , pp. The problem? How can you reveal your reputation?

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. 2009-2011: Retrenchment. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. But startups rarely have either luxury. to store it.

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Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. This was particularly common from 2001 to 2003, after the dot-com crash when companies had raised a large amount of venture financing at high valuations.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. Reading Time: 5 minutes. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 Before I started GigaOm (the company) in June 2006, I had never really worked for a startup.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There was a healthy amount of capital ($20-30B annually) invested in VC funds during the 2003-2008 timeframe. 4) VCs Keep Quiet About Fading Away - As described above, VC firms usually die gradually and quietly rather than spectacularly and publicly as is sometimes the case for startups. So at a fund level (e.g.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

BizMe2 , a new Israeli startup led by serial entrepreneur Yair Margolin, is looking to do to conferences what WordPress did to blogging. VC Cafe: You have a pretty long track record in startups. Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs.

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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. Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms.processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Incubators, too, helped flood the markets with even more startups, and AngelList played its part too. A name like 500 Startups says it all. Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems.

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