The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Whether you are a startup, a small- to mid-sized business, or a large corporation, data management can make you cringe. When you manage your data on premise, it is most likely that you’ll invest thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars into hardware and software. Accounting software such as QuickBooks. Cloud Solutions.

Cloud 71

Cloud Software Review Illinois Technical Review 71

David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Our website.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

Over the years, I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. Software as a Service. We could upgrade our software whenever we wanted, as compared to on-premise enterprise competitors like NetGenesis and Accrue.

Software Review 48

Software Review Cofounder eCommerce Austin 48

The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Dallas Startup Happy Hour is tomorrow @ 5pm! Big in Japan and Architel announced the speakers for the inaugural Startup Happy Hour 2.0, 27, at Campbell Centre, will include Blake Burris of CoHabitat ; Gabriella Draney of Tech Wildcatters ; Danica Mathes of Ignite Dallas ; and Joey Pomerenke of Startup Weekend.

Dallas 60

Dallas Intellectual Property Fort Worth Japan 60

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Michael Margolis is the CEO and founder of Storied. He then went on to found his own business and run marketing for a number of early-stage startups. Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005. The Motivation Code: Discover the Hidden Forces That Drive Your Best Work.

Marketing 91

Marketing Silicon Valley Cofounder Framework 91

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). We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. What kind of startup outsources everything?

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We focus primarily on software and Internet companies in areas such as SaaS, application software, financial software, consumer internet, and online marketplaces. These sectors generally leverage the Internet or software in a fundamental way.

Private Equity 48

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. Maybe you’re thinking about startups to invest in, or making decisions about where to place resources in your company. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Take a look – and take your time.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We asked 10 founders to share what they think the future of personalized shopping holds (ecommerce entrepreneurs, listen up!). After those experiences, they may review on a third-party site before going in-store to purchase. Topics: Business , e-commerce , retail , shopping , Startups. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc.

eCommerce 108

eCommerce Technical Review San Francisco New York City 108

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself. 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. From the middle to 2005 to early 2010 the business was break-even or better every quarter.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Cofounder SMS 48

Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Our whole startup team brainstormed for days before coming up with ideas. In 2010, I started building a software that analyzed why websites ranked highly on Google’s SERP. After a few years building and refining the software, I knew more about the algorithms Google used to rank pages than just about anybody outside Mountain View.

Naming 149

Naming Entrepreneur New Hampshire LLC 149

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

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. Experience with Startups! Have an account?

CTO Hire 73

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented.

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B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

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. It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. This post originally ran on TechCrunch.

Saudi Arabia 309

Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

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. Consumer approach to software for business users. Folksonomy.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Listen to the female startup club, wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to the female startup club, wherever you get your podcasts. Duct Tape Transcript.

CTO 79

CTO Cofounder Networking Operations 79

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. 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. Kayak Software Corporation. April 17, 2011.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

Software Review 49

Software Review RSS Software Developers Software Development 49

Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. In startups, you have no time to waste. Startup life can be short and fragile. Every day counts.

Conversion 48

Conversion Email Cofounder Hosting 48

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Durant lost control of GM to a bankers' trust just two years later, in 1910, due to enormous debt and a crumble in automobile sales. Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer were all shuttered due to GM's bankruptcy, which occurred on June 1, 2009. 5- WhatsApp founders. It was originally a holding company founded by William C.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Software Review Las Vegas Bankruptcy 120

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. Few startups get it quite right. Apply for funding by March 3.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Want to start a startup? Its equivalent toasking how to make a startup succeed—if you avoid every cause offailure, you succeed—and thats too big a question to answer onthe fly. 1 ] In a sense theres just one mistake that kills startups: not makingsomething users want. Whats wrong with having one founder?

Startup 108

Startup Software Review Hiring Detroit 108

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be.

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Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? His full bio is here. To tell my story.

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Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering.

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur CTO Hire Startup Mobile 167

www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. Company founders don’t have the luxury of ‘diversifying their portfolio,’ so to speak. But VC’s depend on the founders thinking that a VC wouldn’t let them go down in flames.

Software Review 40

Software Review Software Startup Massachusetts 40

www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup. For a startup, if you are a businessperson, a) Do you already have money to start the businesses? So, what makes you worth 50%? (Or

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Startup Due Diligence 40

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

That company, which now has a client list of more than 200 companies and additional offices in the Philippines and New York, takes on the startup projects that Kayweb Angels selects. In exchange for $150,000 to $300,000 of work, each startup has given Kayweb 14% to 40% equity.

Equity 74

Equity Engineer Technical Review Social Media 74

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

So now I'm home-based in Austin, Texas and I'm spending a lot of time with a lot of startups and a lot of CEOs that are trying to scale their companies. And I'm usually the rah-rah business transformation, startups guy, so even I feel like I've been infected by the sense that we're in a really dark place. And look, it was a scary time.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. Drift’s marketing team refined a concept.

Naming 119

Naming Conversion Flash Cofounder 119

mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

10 Essential PR Tips for Startups. Sign up for her course on “ PR for Startups ” to learn more about getting media coverage for your fledgling business. Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. Read on for my startup tips.

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PR Startup Social Media Technical Review 103

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.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

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.

Software Review 78

Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  The criteria for inclusion on this list is rough but basically boils down to the primary author of the blog has to be a founder or C-level executive at an entrepreneurial organization and write relatively frequently about entrepreneurial stuff.    So with that in mind, I created a list of entrepreneur blogs. 

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Technical Review Venture Capital 59

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. Kohort is not alone, or even lucky, in its ability to break through the startup-launching, consumer-pitching chaos.

Pakistan 94

Pakistan Social Media Startup Stealth 94

Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

Everyone knows how difficult it can be to launch your first product, and frankly, a lot of the startup advice out there just makes it harder. One of the biggest mistakes I see founders make is abandoning what already works and trying to take on a bigger challenge before they’re making enough money to develop products full-time.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Technical Review SEO Revenue 41