Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Photo Credit: Jen Wan. Thanks to Jen Wan, Soteri Skin ! #5-

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

We then spoke about startups. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. Startups shouldn’t be like this. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. What is your mobile strategy?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Founded in 2005, the company has since delivered more than $1 billion from employers to freelancers. Most of clients are “startups, small businesses, and solo entrepreneurs who are building their business on or around oDesk,” Cooper said. One thing we consistently hear is that you just can’t hire enough mobile developers fast enough.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

As an investor, I am also bullish about the innovation wave already in its early innings around mobility and autonomy. But a realistic understanding of the potential timeline for autonomous vehicle adoption is vital to decision making as a startup entrepreneur or investor in this area. . ==. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Taken together they tell us clearly that mobile and social are still growing very fast. As you can see from the charts below the mobile share of internet traffic share is up over 3x in under a year and time spent on social media is up 37% year on year to 121.1bn minutes in the month of July – I think that is a US figure.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

Entrepreneurship is known for the high risks involved in launching a startup. The Theory of Kirzner (1973-2005) about entrepreneurship explains how the improvement of economic health affects individuals in the first world. They explore and exploit various possibilities encouraging the active mobilization of funds and skills.

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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. Experience with Startups! Don’t hire someone who has never worked with a startup before, because the environment is totally different. Have an account?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. The essay follows. I think he totally nails it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 New Years Resolutions For Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Small Businesses and Startups: Worst. Small Businesses and Startups: Worst. – [link].

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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.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

6- Representation of a mobile and maternal mammal. Our whole startup team brainstormed for days before coming up with ideas. We eventually settled on the kangaroo, which is both mobile and maternal, literally transporting its young in its pouch. (An Thanks to Danh Tran, Buttercloth ! #6- Photo Credit: Sara Schaer.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

home Breaux Capital Breaux and Company is a creative agency and social justice startup incubator. We focus on 5 key areas — mobile, e-commerce, enterprise, education and health — and on what we believe to be new groundbreaking technologies, such as AI, 3D imaging, bio informatics, and connected devices.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). round closed Feb 2005. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak. April 17, 2011. In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. What kind of startup outsources everything? Well, you’re right, most don’t, but one example of a startup that does is PlentyOfFish. Also, most startup attorneys will do deferred payment plans.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. May 26, 2011.

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

ATI is a traditional incubator that helps form and grow up to 30 startup companies at any given time and counts over 200 successful launches over its 20+ years. Wi-Fi Alliance moved from ATI in December 2010 to expanded office space, allowing room for another startup company to join the incubator.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I have some limited experience in dealing with patents though, both from my time as a VC and also back in my own startup days. It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 31, 2015

Almalence, a computational imaging startup, announced Monday it has received an investment from Intel Capital. The amount of investment and terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. Startups intuitively get the idea of creating new business models as part of their mission. In the U.S. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors. Bet on them.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2010

I know it sounds crazy but it’s time the wild wild West looked beyond what the mobile giants are pedaling today and ask themselves, “Why haven’t we done this yet?”. Square allows merchants anywhere there is internet access to accept payments from credit cards via any mobile device that has a headphone input jack. 1 spenders in the U.S.,

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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. An all-round mobile education.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. They said I don’t understand mobile. And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Medical tech startups are regulated by the FDA and must abide by strict regulations at all times. Whether your medical tech startup produces low-risk or high-risk devices, compliance is a crucial and complex necessity. The post Regulatory Tips for Medical Tech Startups Regulated by the FDA appeared first on ReadWrite.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But the other archetype is a thirty-something entrepreneur who, taking his experience seeing the playbook of success at larger growing startups or even “established” companies, utilizes that domain and functional expertise as unique insight into founding a company. Instead, they had fled to other industries and those other geographies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

“I would far rather give out my mobile phone number than my email address.” The same kind of tasks that a startup team has. He turned me down for a job in 2005. I met for coffee with one of my favorite “startup advisors” in LA. He has a startup. They just don’t do it. Operations.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

He left traditional media at the top of his game to be the founding CEO of Next New Networks, one of the first digital video startups, backed by Spark Capital and bought by YouTube in 2011. We* are now the mainstream market and we’re bringing more to your mobile phones and living rooms. (We billion to finance US startups.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 27, 2011

The mobile screen has now outpaced screens one and two, the TV and Computer monitor. Focus on the mobile device has really picked up of late in marketing circles and will probably go down as one of this year’s hottest topics. In some cases they are literally searching for a place to shop right now.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

It’s no coincidence we designed 500 Startups with these evolutions in mind, altho none of the required strategies have been easy to execute and we are still refining our approach. In short, we were a lot more geeky than the previous generation of fund managers , and we started blogging a lot about tech startups and best practices.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. With the iPhone, Apple finally broke the hegemony that the telecom carriers had over mobile applications and that has stifled innovation for too many years. Mobile will likely spawn a whole new wave of innovation because it’s pervasive, location aware and always with you.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2013

We built our product at Koral in 2005 with this design philosophy in mind. I have worked with teams who fully embraced the user testing espoused in the Lean Startup movement and they often build much better products by watching feedback earlier in the design cycle. Startup Advice' Hit the user testing. Find out for sure.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

It’s like the plot of a Hollywood movie: Three best friends, with no prior business experience, decide to band together and form a startup business. The startup takes off, raising venture capital funds faster than you can say “storybook ending.”. This was our first stab at a legitimate startup,” says David. “In says David.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 16, 2012

I had a couple of Palm phones, a Windows mobile phone in 2005, and even had a Helio. Testing startup apps. As a VC, I could never advise that a startup launches on Android first--the VCs, media, and key influencers are all on iPhone--which left me at a disadvantage as an early adopter.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2024

I can hardly believe it’s been 18 years since I first launched VC Cafe back in December 2005! During these nearly two decades, I’ve had the extraordinary privilege of being a front-row witness to Israel’s incredible startup scene. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Planning, Startups, Stories. Member since 01/2005. SF Chronicle: Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer. Should You Hire People With Graduate Degrees for Your Startup? If we mention a product or service that we received for free or other considerations, we will note it. Small Business Blogs. OReilly Radar.

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