SiliconHills

MARCH 21, 2013

Last year’s winner, CallGrader went on to land a spot on DreamIt Ventures’ Philadelphia incubator program. This year, Nicholas Longo, co-founder and director of Geekdom, a collaborative coworking space at the Weston Centre downtown, will moderate the event. Silicon Hills [.]

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2014

Consider Paul Graham (pictured right), the man who is known for helming startup incubator Y Combinator - whose startups have a combined value of $13.7 Forget about Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, there are some far lesser known geeks who are quietly working behind the scenes but holding on to the reigns of the tech world.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising.

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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 This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on December 7, 2013. For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. and I bet he’ll be back. This wasn’t his first rodeo, as we say in Texas.

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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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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 29, 2013

I was just down at Demo Day for the USC Incubator. The SBAs are a key part of the [link] event which is co-sponsored by USC’s Marshall School of Business, School of Cinematic Arts, and Viterbi School of Engineering. To join us, register at https://siliconbeachusc-2013.eventbrite.com/ Go to https://siliconbeachusc-2013.eventbrite.com/

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The Telefonica-backed Wayra London incubator officially opened its doors last year, but its current intake of startups have only called it home for around seven months. Last night it was finally time for Wayra demoDay 2013 – a chance for the fledgling startups to draw interest and offers of cash from a crowd of more than 200 investors.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Some founders stay at hostels. Each founder who owns shares in the startup and has attended JFDI will be invited. Each founder who is part of the team and has attended JFDI will be expected to be there to man your startup’s booth.

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Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator 207

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. In early 2013, Lee and Tan noticed that whenever they received rental requests, many email addresses started with a capitalized letter.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. Pete Newell retired from the US Army in 2013 as the director of the Rapid Equipping Force (REF), responsible for rapidly understanding problems of soldiers in combat and rapidly providing solutions. Pete directed the investment of over $1.4B

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The Next Web

MARCH 23, 2015

This is the first episode in a video series profiling startups and their founders. In our pilot, host Julian Shapiro (@Shapiro) interviews Sergie Magdalin, co-founder and creative director of site building tool Webflow. Entrepreneur Videos webflow Y Combinator'

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ithacaVC

JULY 30, 2014

In June 2013 I was appointed the head of the Entrepreneurship at Cornell program office (EaC) at Cornell University. The Forbes ranking was based on ratio of (x) the number of alums and students that identify themselves as business founders and owners on LinkedIn to (y) the total student body. Go Big Red!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. 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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival. both as an input and as a desired outcome?—?seems

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers. Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram (great interview with them here ). This interview with Ami sheds more light on the company.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

It is the innate power of a good founder’s network that will turn napkins into products and products into successful businesses. Recently, I was honored to attend StartUp Health ’s Healthcare Transformer Summit, co-located with Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Innovation Summit. I heard “I’ve been there,” echoing across the room regularly.

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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. billion in 2013. The founders have started companies before. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.”

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Mentor programs, co-working spaces and meetup events over the past few years have increased at an exciting rate. Wednesday November 7th, 2013. There was no Brad Pitt, broken ribs or bars of soap but The Founder’s Fight Club was just as entertaining as the Hollywood film. John Girard, Advisor, Founder, Mentor.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 21, 2018

There are many gems in there, including a screen capture of the texts I sent to Matt Laessig and Jon Loyens asking them if they would like to brainstorm ideas with me (thankfully they said yes, and then Bryon Jacob, our fourth co-founder, got involved pretty quickly after and has been an amazing addition to our founding team).

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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. This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on April 18, 2013, and I wove together three related but seemingly distinct threads: Steve Jobs, our founding fathers, and the Israel’s DNA.

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Professor VC

MARCH 11, 2013

The founding duo of SocialParent (Reza Raji and Gerry Gutt) were also co-founders of iControl Networks , where I was also an investor and part-time CFO. In 2005, incubators were thought of as either bubble era disasters or university science projects.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. You then came back to Europe and joined a venture firm before co-founding BlaBlaCar. How did you go from VC to founder? The same is true of investors.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? About VC Cafe.

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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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