Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. And here’s the thing.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Funding is not an indicator of success, irrespective of the impression that you might get from the news and media. These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. The seed stage is focused on building the core team, product optimization, exploring avenues for monetization. ?

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Below are six key mobile holiday shopping trends we’re seeing take shape for 2015: 1. Net-net: Customers expect seamless experiences across all channels and devices. Shoppers will still need to peck in sixteen-digit credit card numbers in the 2015 holiday season. App usage accounts for 54% of the time spent using digital media.

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Mobile Software Review eCommerce .Net 100

NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Founded in 2015, Niesh provides an app designed to meet the challenges of the modern university student, and now offers both a suite of services for brands to connect with the youth market and deals to make every student’s life easier. New Zealand startups need to know that the local market is limited by the relatively small population of 4.8

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Global New Zealand Incubator Startup 50

View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Most impressively, there seems to be a thriving startup of every flavor, with many more joining the list of Pillar Startups on the Guide in 2016 compared to 2015. The next big consumer company could be BookBub , with millions of users, a ravenous fan base on social channels, and global reach. More exciting, industry-leading companies.

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Boston Early Stage Artificial Inteligence Semantic 215

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. This is what our hiring landscape looked like over the past year: Pre-2015, we hired three founders: 1x hustler in charge of strategic growth hacking. 1x hacker in charge of product/development.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. I’m particularly interested in how language once used supportively for empowerment by some female CEOs (#girlboss) can then be used negatively by media and detractors later on. It was also one of the hardest.

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IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91