Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

For these LivePlan users, the big break came in March when they finished in the top 5 of the 2012 Miller Coors Urban Entrepreneurs Series, a national business plan competition that has awarded over $1.7 .” By August they had filed their incorporation paperwork and started marketing their new business.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

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. 5) High Productivity: Kayak had 148 employees at the end of 2010. Series A Preferred.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

by Evan Varsamis, Founder/CEO at Gadget Flow Inc. Myself and my co-founders were just a bunch of young upstarts with a big idea. Things began to get serious in an apartment in 2012. Which was the case in 2012. Don’t hide too much of the negative from your employees. The Beginning. It was 2009.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

My talk was about the 7 lessons I’ve learned on the journey from founder to CEO. I started off my talk emphasizing that the journey matters most in your transformation from founder to CEO. investors, employees, clients, and partners. The event was held at the Jewish Contemporary Museum. where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Wayfair - $350M + revenue, 300 employees. University Resources. Founded by recent Babson Alum.

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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? He is a venture partner at True Ventures.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now. TECHNOLOGY.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 9, 2014

He is the founder of online video entertainment platform Pluto.TV, social greeting card company Open Me, and digital marketing agency Ciplex. According to a 2012 Bersin & Associates report, employers spend somewhere… This story continues at The Next Web. Ilya Pozin is a serial entrepreneur, writer, and investor.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2021

Muhummad Mahdi (left) and Arifin Hasan (right), Founders of Nitex In 2012, Bangladeshi computer science student Muhammad Mahdi received a call from an old high school friend, Arifin Hasan. Their vision began as “Life’s Carnival,” a software to help disillusioned employees find their true profession.

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Sydney Spring 2012. Founder Feedback. on Feb 22, 2012. Why a 50/50 Split is Almost Never Right for Co-Founders by @DaveParkerSEA. Founder Feedback gives you insights from the startup trenches. Applications to the Seattle Founder Institute are also due this Sunday, February 26th: click here to apply. "I

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 16, 2012

The concept is hardly to news to countless startup founders who find themselves facing intense pressuresto survive and grow their companies in extraordinarily challenging conditions. One day, one of my employees said, “Wow, you’re really getting a lot of use out of those shoes aren’t you?”

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

No new business is worth starting in these times unless it can go global.” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. As far back as 2012, McKinsey predicted that, by catering to MSMEs in emerging markets, bank reserves could achieve growth of 20 percent per year between 2010 and 2015 [8]. Some will go bust or be bought out.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I was reading the book “Super Founders” by Ali Temaseb in which he breaks down the data behind billion dollar startups. When he asked founders and investors of billion dollar companies what spaces they thought will create the next billion dollar companies, he received a very diverse set of ideas. What changed since 2012.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

Of course your friend’s company raised $50 million and offers it’s employees free kombucha and desk massages. And even this can’t stop their employees from fleeing after two years of vesting to move on to the next hot startup. For investors life is no different. You don’t need to be hot.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2017

Outcomes from a national study conducted by the Center for an Urban Future that reported a dramatic 52 percent growth in woman-owned business formation from 2002 to 2012.( This implies a lack fundamental skills, including leadership and confidence to grow a business and hire multiple employees. Avg # of Employees. 11,313,900.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

On November 28, 2012. Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. November 29, 2012. PandoDigest.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2012 Version – [link]. Why Startup Founders are Always Unhappy | jessblog – [link]. A Startup Founder’s Priorities – [link]. Startup lessons from Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann | VentureBeat – [link]. Should Your Startup Go Freemium?

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? I’ll likely organize a Harvard Business School Angels of NY event on this topic in 2012. - Studying best practices of VCs in supporting portfolio company operational improvement.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. misses an opportunity. Securities Regulation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Also among the new speakers is Keya Dannenbaum, founder and CEO of ElectNext. The problem of vanity metrics seemed to exacerbate itself as we added more employees. Here’s here 2012 talk. She’ll talk in practical terms about how her organization is learning to be one that pivots.

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Lean Startup Metrics Silicon Valley 152

Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

To appeal to the digital natives born between 1996 and 2012 , it’s important to hire a marketer who understands the trends and values that are influencing this generation’s spending habits. After all, it’s a big expense and your employees or consultants will be at least partially depending on you for their income.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Thursday, August 9th, 2012. Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. Disrupt SF 2012.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the 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. Austin has become quite a hotspot.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Imagine this: A startup with a vibrant and successful founder arrives with the vague notion of a good idea. Venture capitalists, knowing the success of this founder, throw a bunch of money at him and his team, even without a tangible product behind it. No one but its investors and employees not going to Apple will shed a single tear.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

Those looking to get into biotech as employees, investors, or entrepreneurs will have plenty of opportunities in the coming years. Companies like Online Optimism, which started in 2012 when Snapchat & Youtube were in their prime, allow non-digital & digital companies alike to enter into the online marketing realm.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review 123

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 1, 2012

In its quarterly filing yesterday Facebook disclosed that it spent $24m on ‘talent focused acquisitions’ in the first half of 2012. Three of the four are mobile companies (which rises to five of the six acquisitions Facebook made in total in H1 2012 if you include the bigger deals Instagram and Face.com ).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Imagine this: A startup with a vibrant and successful founder arrives with the vague notion of a good idea. Venture capitalists, knowing the success of this founder, throw a bunch of money at him and his team, even without a tangible product behind it. No one but its investors and employees not going to Apple will shed a single tear.

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San Francisco Cofounder Social Network Venture Capital 128

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. We’d also like to highlight two notable investors who participated in our first close: David Johnston began investing in Bitcoin in 2012. has about ~40 employees and has raised $9M in venture capital. We were infatuated with tech.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. Nearly all of them were first-time founders when I wrote them their first check and I led most of the deals I was in. No more founder pitch meetings.

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Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2017

Having set up shop in 2012, Platinum Rapid Funding harnesses its technology, manpower, proprietary data and resources, and unique business model to deliver what it currently does. Our company, for sure, doesn’t want an employee who is here only for the salary and other perks, and cares just about his/her growth. And Beyond?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO and co-founder of Twoodo , the hashtag language that lets you organize anything and everything. McKinsey calculated in 2012 that 77 percent of workers gained faster access to information via social collaboration tools (including from internal experts in the companies). This is astounding.

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www.thedailymuse.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

by Rebecca Thorman — September 13, 2012 — No comments. It’s essential to make sure you take reasonable steps to control risk in your interactions with customers, suppliers, users, employees, and the general public. Hiring employees. September 18, 2012 (11:46). September 18, 2012 (10:32). Break Room.

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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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United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 82