SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Part of the discussion around this is the talk about the founder who only got $83M (as compared to $3xxM for the other founders) who bailed out early and choose to go back to school. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. ShoeDazzle has Kim Kardashian as a co-founder / company as a spokesperson as well as Brian Lee who was a co-founder at Legal Zoom. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Some items from the pod cast: 100,000 - babies born as a result of relationships started on eHarmony 15M registered 1% of marriages in US this year resulting from eHarmony I dont know if these are true, but still, the impact of the vision of the original founders Neil Clark Warren and Greg Forgatch is amazing.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Chennai and TiE Mumbai. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. You can register for the next roundtable here. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Since the financial crisis of 2008, policy makers have kept interest rates at near zero, flooding the market with cheap money in an attempt to restart growth. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. But they have also stacked the deck against investment in long-term innovation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Midwest. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. As usual, Id like to post the slides and then offer some additional commentary. Yet, I think this definition is too important to leave out. Iterating at whiteboard !=

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. View More in Detroit ›.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. This was an obstacle I encountered while at Roozt.com, the Etsy-style platform for social entrepreneurs we launched in 2008. Despite what many entrepreneurs may think, know this: Not all growth is good growth.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

Here, the 40-person Summit Series team, led by co-founders Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal and Jeremy Schwartz, is anything but “settling down.” They connected Founders Fund to Spotify, which catalyzed the music service’s North American launch. There are no streetlights or stop lights in town.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

& Founder Institute UAE Abu Dhabi Virtual 2020. Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. 50/50 Startups – “We’re an incubator for equally owned tech ventures by Palestinian and Israeli entrepreneurs.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). Their model looks like a key ingredient in the startup brew there. They dont invest a lot of money; just enough to keep them going through the summer.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Raj presented a 3 million total available market of Google App users as his target audience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt. Meetup groups, universities, incubators, and anyone else who wants to get together to watch is welcome to do so. Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt. Congratulations.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

For more page-turning corporate drama, including the feud between Intermix co-founders and UCLA college buddies Brett Brewer and Brad Greenspan, Nasdaq delisting, proxy contest and lawsuits by Greenspan after he was fired as CEO, see Stealing MySpace by WSJ reporter Julia Angwin. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc.,

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

We discussed the possibility of recruiting a couple of cofounders who can help him build out the core skill-set needed on his team right now. And audience members were suggesting local incubators that they want to bring in to the 1M/1M program, which was also great! From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

How do you find co-founders who are willing to work for 18 months without getting paid? Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Jacob went from intern to our head of marketing in Europe and today he is the co-founder and CEO of Wisecrack , a company we are proud to be backers of. I wrote this letter to our clients in October of 2008. It’s track that I hired one of our best-ever team members at Bazaarvoice out of: Jacob Salamon. But I digress.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

02:00 PM: Valerie Casey Keynote ACC L1, Exhibit Hall 1 – Casey, founder and Executive Director of the Designers Accord, works with organizations all over the world to create positive social and environmental impact. 03:30 PM: ‘Seed Combinators’: Startup Incubators 2.0 Monday, March 15th. Tuesday, March 16th.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

First up, Manoj Dharap presented EzeeBank , a core banking solution for credit co-operative societies. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

David Daneshgar, Gregg Weisstein, and Farbod Shoraka, the founders of BloomNation.com. But, of course, they need funding—and wouldn’t you know it, one of the founders is a world class poker player. So, from the consumer end, the founders believed they could do better. Creating a better experience for both florists and consumers.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Some have made the model work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday I recently agreed to join Facebook s fbFund incubator as a mentor. Part of that includes giving a presentation for the fbFund companies on the lean startup methodology. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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