YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For years, the most desirable exit strategy for startup companies was to go public through an initial public offering. Today, many startups are succumbing to the temptation to sell their companies early. A review of recent case studies from similar startups may make this decision a little easier. Here are a few to consider.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. Dont confuse passion with volume.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

A new study shows that startups do better when they’re launched in the place where their founders were born or have lived for a long time. Our first guess was that the key to startup success is the founder’s ability to go to their parents’ house to cadge a hot meal. And that’s not entirely wrong.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

A new study shows that startups do better when they’re launched in the place where their founders were born or have lived for a long time. Our first guess was that the key to startup success is the founder’s ability to go to their parents’ house to cadge a hot meal. The post Want Your Startup to Succeed?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. Half of the Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, an 88 percent growth from the previous year. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. It’s basically office space where as a startup you can be located with dozens of other companies at a similar stage to your own. Total raised: $17.0mm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. Six out of 10 Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase. entrepreneurs gen-y Ewing Kauffman startups baby boomers business'

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

With the prevalence of social media, there is almost no excuse for a cold-call or cold-email anymore. As Mark Suster, a prominent venture capitalist, put it very aptly at my Founder Showcase event, “in the era of social networks, if you can’t figure out how to get access to a venture capitalist, hang up your cleats now.

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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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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. 9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Trending Stories.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

business #entrepreneur #startup #story #why #ceo #ceoblognation #CEOs #hearpreneur. Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Before: After: And thenI ran into a Mixergy interview where 37signals founder, Jason Fried, talks about their free plan (6:00 into the interview): “… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Below are the headlines for the week of July 8 2010: Startups of the week. SupersonicAds – a dominant leader in virtual currency monetization for online games, virtual worlds and social networks. Twitter’s founder and CEO Biz Stone said that Twitter gets over 800 million queries a day at a conference in Aspen.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Founded in 2015, revenue intelligence startup Gong is now valued at $7.25 They’ve grown to attract big-name clients like LinkedIn, PayPal, and Shopify, mostly through social media channels rather than organic search. Choose the right social media platforms. Create social media content that serves your audience.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

AngelList Launches Docs To Help Startups Sign And Close Seed Rounds Online With Low Legal Fees. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Today, AngelList is debuting Docs, which lets seed-stage startups close their round online. Enterprise.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap.

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