YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

Mawuna Koutonin is the founder of London-based GoodBuzz , and his story is the stuff of dreams. This would inspire him to start GoodBuzz in 2005, a free web-based peer-to-peer referral network that would allow artists, bands, associations, public organizations, event promoters and organizers to help promote each others’ events. .&#

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Facebook acquihired the Branch team on Monday there were some gasps because Branch founder/CEO Josh Miller had been outspoken re: Facebook’s challenges. Facebook’s Head of Product Chris Cox is, gasp, in his 30s and joined Facebook in 2005. Myopic groupthink kills more companies than constructive criticism ever will.

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

Because there is often a lot at stake for a new company, its wise to ask where you will fit in among founders and first hires — and how you can make a direct impact on the companys success. What are your founders goals? If interviewing with a founder, Id ask what the founder hoped to gain from the venture.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. Is that when it became big?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. I got an engineering degree and worked on various entrepreneurial projects but my heart was always in data science and analytics. We dug in deep looking for names that would somehow represent some part of us as founders.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. What They Do: Travel search engine. round closed Feb 2005. Series A Preferred.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. With three co-founders, what was decision making and roles and responsibilities like? And there you have it.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Groups list on March 15, 2005. Still in business today and run by my co-founder. I built the eCommerce engine myself and self-funded the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. And for many of these they were (over) funded 7-10 years ago and don’t necessarily all represent great returns for investors or founders. some founders lose their life savings. That’s not true.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends , an award-winning online publication. She hosts Small Business Trends Radio , where she interviews other small business experts. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. She is also the co-founder, co-owner and CEO of MFE Interactive in addition to being the co-owner and SVP of Marketing for Speedy Incorporation. . Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The co-founders that shook the world Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. How to find a co-founder. Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur at the moment, and resources such as WorkInStartups , Founder2Be and Enternships have sprung up to help people locate co-founders and create or work in startups. Guest post by Paul Higgins*.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc. He has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years, and is a frequent contributor to various online publications.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. When potential readers are using search engines, you’re going to want your content as high in the rankings as possible.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Manu Kumar is Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. That company merged with another company in Boston and grew to about 80 people and was acquired in 2005.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries. TR: This was an easy one for me.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? Engineering/QA. I’d love to get involved in Founders Institute.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. We all know the famous story of Apple, which at one point kicked out its co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. But I digress?—?this or break?—?the

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. I mean, I'm sure you run into a lot of companies that are still founder driven, very good at selling and they've grown.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

I’ve given advice in this area to many entrepreneurs, and I pose this lesson to you as food for thought (the right answer very much depends on the unique nature of the startup and its co-founders). But I’ll grant that he taught us a lot and had crazy-good engineers. But remember that this was 2005?—?and The content is genius.]

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2018

The head of Google Boulder (I think his official title in Googlespeak is “Engineering Site Director”) is Scott Green. I got involved shortly after it was founded in 2004 and became the board chair in 2005 (which I served as until I resigned all my non-profit board positions at the end of last year.)

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

I remember hearing the Spanx founder, Sara Blakely, talk about brand names and how having a strong K sound in your name made it more memorable. Why should a highly-trained engineer, who could potentially be building a bridge, waste time on a sales proposal in PowerPoint? PR and Prose. Thanks to Lauren Gilmore, PR and Prose ! #9-

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

From: Brett Hurt Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:52 AM To: All Bazaarvoice?—?Internal Hurt Founder and CEO Bazaarvoice, Inc. We’ve also had regular stand-up meetings since the beginning of data.world, which was inspired by my co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Jon Loyens. Thanks, Brett A. we meet every day.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

So, for example, the CEO could have a base salary of $190K and be in the 30th percentile, while a VP of Engineering could have the same $190K salary and be in the 90th percentile. For obvious reasons, we compare founders to founders and non-founders to non-founders. I would love to hear your thoughts.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 13, 2016

By Danielle Tate, Author of “ Elegant Entrepreneur: The Female Founders Guide to Starting & Growing Your First Company “ Three years ago Sheryl Sandberg challenged women to “ lean in ,” but we are leaning into the wrong career path if our goal is power and happiness.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. Stanford University computer science grad students Larry Page and Sergy Brin created a search engine called “BackRub” not as a business venture, but as a Ph.D. Insomnia Cookies.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

A few years before all this scandalous VC behavior occurred, in 2005 Paul Graham ) started Y Combinator. And in addition to helping each other, they also started funding each other , and even helped YC select future batches of founders. and no, we didn’t. but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either).

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In other words, Ben asserts that bringing in a professional CEO should be a last resort for a founder. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Currently he is most well known as one of the founders of the 30 Day Challenge , an introductory program that aims to take any person from absolute beginner to making their first few dollars online, and beyond, within 30 days. What’s not clear, is how exactly to rank video based pages well in search engines.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

million in 2005. Google is one of the largest companies in the world and its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are some of the richest entrepreneurs to date. Brin and Page nearly gave up their would-be fortune because the search engine they built was taking up too much of their time and distracting them from their graduate studies.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

JS: I grew up in Silicon Valley and had always found technology fascinating, but I never thought we would be at this point of stardom for founders and tech execs. I think it was on a list of “Top 100 projects that should probably not launch” in the summer of 2005. Is it weird seeing people you know get famous in that way?

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. “It’s not been a difficult sell.&# All Rights Reserved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Derek Sivers, founder of CDBaby, recently stopped by the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast and recounted a story of his now famous package insert. Do you send out automated follow-ups that beg to be ignored?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Lisa Barone Lisa Barone is Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media , Inc and writes for the Outspoken Media Blog. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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