The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

From what we know, founder Bill Nguyen has been away from the office for three months, after a period of intense strain between him and the board. Pham left the startup in June 2011 over unknown reasons and went to work at Los Angeles incubator Science. Some of that has come out in stories so far.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This is why it is especially important for startup founders to seek help to guide them through the tedious and often perilous process of starting and growing a company. In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2013

Singapore-based accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator ( JFDI Asia ) has revealed that over 300 digital startup teams have applied for its second accelerator program for this year, competing for just 12 places in this intake. Other nations made up less than 1% of applications each.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Since Eric Ries wrote The Lean Startup in 2011 smart founders have understood that the best way to progress is to get onto the ‘build-measure-learn’ loop and iterate to success. That’s doing rather than planning. That’s a problem startups don’t have. At least not to the same degree.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. At the end of the day, we sealed a partnership between 1M/1M and TiE Chennai whereby TiE Chennai members can receive a discount of 25% off the annual membership fee for the 1M/1M premium program until June 16, 2011, and a 15% discount thereafter. At 11 a.m.,

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SiliconHills

JULY 6, 2013

Before that Bohn served as director of wireless and information technology at the Austin Technology Incubator from 2007 to 2011. The post Spotlight on Bart Bohn, co-founder of AuManil in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. Ravel applied analysis to big data sets like Reddit and Tumblr to create social graphs. He’s been [.]

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

announced this evening at its annual Pitch Night , that it has received sponsorship by the Kauffman Foundation to support its "Founder Labs," a pre-incubator program whose mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. CEO and co-founder, "Founder Labs and Women 2.0

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Forming a corporation or limited liability company not only protects founders by limiting personal liability for activities related to the business, it also defines the rights of founders relative to each other and to the business, which is important in case there is ever a falling-out among the founders. October 2011. (1)

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

So I thought I’d jot down some of the highlights I have seen from my vantage point in this 2011 Boston Consumer Web Year in Review. Still led by its founder, Steve Kaufer. The company is expected to do around $500M in revenue in 2011 and has seen 50%+ growth YoY the past two years. IPO’s/Exits. market cap.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Can you become a founder by watching videos? Perhaps, but founders are closer to artists than any other profession. Can it be self-directed?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

by Blair Thomas , co-founder of eMerchantBroker.com. On the other hand, many young startup founders believe they wouldn’t be able to do without the skills they learned in college. On the other hand, many young startup founders believe they wouldn’t be able to do without the skills they learned in college.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. Fellow co-founder Dixon Chan believes that the application taps on existing consumer habit of taking a picture of their meal before digging in. Burping An Idea.

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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. billion today as a public company (it went public in 2011). But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. It is worth $3.4 or break?—?the

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2012

The founders of local startup company PayWhere believes there’s an opportunity in this gap, and that’s why they’re introducing TackThis. “Social commerce is rapidly becoming the preferred way to do business online,” says Dickson Gregory, CEO and co-founder PayWhere. TackThis is incubated by NUS Enterprise.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

For example, according to CBInsights nearly 140 machine intelligence have been acquired since 2011, with over 40 being bought so far in 2016. Before this class this team had spent three months in an incubator building the product after talking to only one customer. a customer segment that was grabbing the product out of their hands.).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. Fellow co-founder Dixon Chan believes that the application taps on existing consumer habit of taking a picture of their meal before digging in. Burping An Idea.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Cases and plans are useful for teaching managers of process, not founders. Founders of startups (and new ventures inside existing companies) are searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. Launched in 2011, the Lean LaunchPad capstone entrepreneurship class was unique in that it was: team-based.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

19, 2011: At 19, an enterprising young Georgetown University Chinese language major launched Nightly Noms, a bakery with delivery service catering to hungry students up late working. Watch this video with the site’s founder and CEO where he talks about how he launched everything solo and wound up with an entire company built around one idea.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Or Yale could develop a legaltech incubation program and to help improve lawyers’ productivity, a profession whose primary tech tool is Microsoft Word. In 2011, Yale launched Yale-NUS, a sister university based in Singapore. Incubate non-Yalies. Founder community. the world’s largest country, Facebook).

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. 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. New York ›.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Incubators are designed for teams with an idea. The life sciences community is still warming-up to the value of customer development in the early stages of building new ventures”, says David Schonthal , MATTER Co-founder and Clinical Assistant Professor of entrepreneurship & innovation at the Kellogg School of Management.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. spray-and-pray?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. Every once in awhile a team ignores my advice and builds a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2013

But co-founders Adrian Lee and Paul Tan – who saw their service as a way to connect car rental providers with rental drivers – believed they were on to a good idea anyway. That revelation finally drove them to launch a mobile app last month – on iOS and Android – to serve the surging growth in customers on mobile.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

In what's bound to be a boost for an already thriving tech startup scene, the Boulder-based incubator TechStars announced today that it is opening a program in a new location, New York City. TechStars is accepting applications now for the NYC Class of 2011.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

As a result of this risk, some people like Adeo Ressi, have declared that 2011 will be the “ year of the startup default.” There are likely thousands of startup companies (especially coming from incubators or accelerators) that have raised money using convertible debt — and many of these companies may default on payment.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

Incubators and Accelerators : Incubators and accelerators have to a large extent replaced the funding from friends and family. The incubators and accelerators are investing $15-$50K in a large number of early stage teams (the current YC class has 60+ teams !). Incubator / Accelerator. First Round was the first uVC fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. She joined Launchpad as a very non-traditional founder and defied every conventional expectation to build one of LA’s fastest growing companies. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 16, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 28, 2011: Register Here. And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

For example, according to CBInsights nearly 140 machine intelligence have been acquired since 2011, with over 40 being bought so far in 2016. Before this class this team had spent three months in an incubator building the product after talking to only one customer. a customer segment that was grabbing the product out of their hands.).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

billion was invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2011. According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. Today, venture capital deal flow has slowed to a relative trickle, just $28.4

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2012

Organized by technology startup accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator – better known locally as JFDI Asia – the recent JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp saw some 11 local and regional technology startups undergo a tough 100-day program that saw them attempt to turn a prospective idea into a potentially sustainable digital business.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Richard Witten , special advisor on entrepreneurship to the President of Columbia University ; and Kathryn Minshew , co-founder of the popular online career platform TheMuse.com both joined me in Sirius’ New York studio and shared their version of being knocked down and coming back stronger. It has been phenomenally successful.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

In May 2011, I wrote the post: Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral. The party rounds , which were the range in late 2010 and early 2011, became less common and we started to see the smaller funds begin to lead rounds. That post got a lot of attention because back then all the buzz was about “Super Angels.”

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2011

The Lightspeed Summer Program is NOT an incubator, nor was it ever intended to be. Example 2: I learned that what is most helpful to the Fellowship winners in terms of guest speakers and introductions is other young founders who have successfully raised money and angel investors. I promise. Application. We one round for 2012.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

5- WhatsApp founders. One of my favorite business turnarounds is the story of the founders of WhatsApp. Airbnb struggled to attract investors when it first began in 2008, requiring founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia to manufacture bespoke cereal boxes to earn money. Ron Wayne, the third Apple founder, was also an Atari alumni.

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