Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. Have an account? Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group.

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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. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks.

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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. Although they focus on initiatives that leverage technology, they engage in a wide spectrum of cross-sector collaborations with for-profit, government, and non-profit institutions. are all working together.

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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.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

As a bonus, this same technology will be a boost to the fitness industry as consumers can see their bodies change (for better or worse) from one fitting to the next. I think 3D printing technology will get to the point where well be able to print clothes according to our sizes. Follow @mashable. see more > Search. Social Media.

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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. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link].

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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.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M As I’m fond of saying, startup fundraising isn’t about convincing skeptics but rather finding true believers.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself. Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries. From the middle to 2005 to early 2010 the business was break-even or better every quarter. This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# 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. But everything has intrinsic value.

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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. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. I’m happy to say that in 2006-2008 we has some good exits including BillMeLater, DealerTrack, UGO Networks and PrePay Technologies to name a few.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I joined Facebook in November 2005 and Twitter in November 2009. I have numerous questions about this situation, but of course I’m drawn to the pieces that include social media and technology. As parenting has evolved, it seems we have let technology raise our children to some extent. Why didn’t musical.ly Why does musical.ly

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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 same can happen in the medical tech world. Or, a current regulation might be amended.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Our whole startup team brainstormed for days before coming up with ideas. That’s why I set out to start my own health-tech company, an online pharmacy called Honeybee Health, that used a direct-to-consumer model to give patients access to affordable medications without insurance or middlemen. 21- Communicate creativity.

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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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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. round closed Feb 2005. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. April 17, 2011.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the female startup club, hosted by Doone Roisin and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. Listen to the female startup club, wherever you get your podcasts. It's confusing.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Not only did I have a suggestion, I created a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program and named it, KidGINEER, LLC. I was a developer so I could write code, but not blog posts. The Hacker Chick Blog ended up becoming one of the top agile software development blogs on the Internet. Thanks to Andrea H.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. I’m looking to turn dots into lines over time.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) 28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. Highlights from the show: Carl details his background and experience. (4:22) And look, it was a scary time.

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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? Lets start with finances.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. Since 2005 a second generation of active safety features have appeared. This feature was finally required in 2013.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Waterloo, Canada-based Kik recently passed 80 million users, which was given particular significance from local media who noted that it took the 4-and-a-half year old startup past BlackBerry and its BBM mobile messaging solution. I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. Yet, there was more to come. It was devastating.

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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.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Startup CorkboardMe Takes on Dropbox. It would take an article in itself to fully compare the benefits of these (and other popular ecommerce site providers), but suffice it to say they both offer options for businesses that do not wish to manage the technical aspects of their ecommerce storefront. More Stories in Apps & Software.

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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. Get funded by Y Combinator.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

How To Close The Books on Your Startup. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Tech & Gadgets Highlights. Latest Startups News. January 21, 2012 by Nellie Akalp. All Stories.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

This is how I remember it: It’s September 2005, and I was sitting in my office at Stanford in Gates 382. In walks Ren Ng , introduces himself and says something along the lines of “I hear you do startups, could we chat?” Forbes: Shoot First, Focus Later With Lytro’s New Camera Tech.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. VC funding gets you startup capital and a chance. I could point to countless examples of mediocre software being unleashed upon the general population, after which people like you and me have to help replace it with something decent.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. Who would have known?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

10 Essential PR Tips for Startups. Erica Swallow is a technology and lifestyle writer. 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.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

If you’ve been searching for the perfect business for you, you’ve probably considered many factors such as time commitment, initial startup costs, and competition. The startup investment is minimal. All of this awesome technology has been getting some heavy attention from venture capitalists in recent years.

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