Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” How valuation multiples work Why did multiples become a shortcut-heuristic for estimating valuations in the first place?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Almost by accident. A patient asked to have some to try, and came back the following week asking for a huge amount–more than a few year's worth, literally! Thanks to Robert Harbauer, Laser Bonding Tech, Inc. ! So Bondic was born!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 8, 2023

He is the co-founder of Time Doctor and has been working remotely for over 20 years; working with thousands of companies looking to adopt a remote working model. Remote companies that prioritize asynchronous management operate without constant real-time communication, focusing on outcomes rather than micromanagement. Like this show?

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

It’s because you don’t need to put up a company and get billion-dollar funding to be the boss. If you have the skills, expertise and competencies the employers are looking for, you'll have more opportunities to thrive and excel on your own than working under someone. All you need is the right skillset.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

At the beginning of this year, Fred Turner was building a biotech company in the Bay Area to work on sepsis detection. When he realized that the technology the company had built could potentially be used to test for COVID-19, he jumped in feet first. In one weekend, his assumption was proved correct. A full transcript is below.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. However, two days later they called me back and said we made a mistake – we need to do some rebranding and we need you to come back.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

When the coronavirus began to shut down schools, a major source of food for kids all across the country, the company's mission took on new urgency. When the coronavirus began to shut down schools, a major source of food for kids all across the country, the company's mission took on new urgency.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In 200 technology companies have chosen to locate in the city's downtown, occupying 250,000 square feet of space. It feels really, really obvious."

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

We’ve been allies and comrades-in-arms in trying to lay out what it means to be a 21st century company. He also has strongly held ideas about structuring a company to institutionalize these intentions to make sure the next leader, future employees, and the next board will be true to that philosophy. 37:30) Compassion in layoffs. (39:37)

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it. Having a brand behind a strong title can make all the difference in the world. #1 So I was thinking to name my company something along the lines of great grain, but buckwheat is not a grain, and so the next options was greater groat.

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

Some content marketers have it “easy,” working in highly visual industries (e.g. To find out, I ran a study to benchmark content marketing performance for 500 SaaS companies. My initial research found that, on average, the top-performing articles by major SaaS companies generated backlinks from just 9 referring domains.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2020

In our societies and business, there’re leaders who have demonstrated exceptionalities personalities and traits. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners their inspirational leaders and here’s what they had to say; #1- Martin Luther King Jr. When you mention the greatest leaders of all time, you have to mention Martin Luther King Jr.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

Out of the Crisis #5 is a conversation with three people who pivoted their biotech company to help fight the coronavirus. From that moment, especially since they were the only biotech company with access to clinical-grade niclomaside, they were determined to get the drug into a phase III trial. That became their new mission.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. He spent a few years working at the tech startup SpeedDate before following through with his original plan, after which Udemy went on to be enormously successful. Then he realized that somebody was him.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. For modifications, please edit the original document here. Seed Startups. Updated Business tools for Startups. Wireframes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." In mid-March, as the coronavirus was sweeping through Asia and Europe, Tomas Pueyo published a piece on Medium titled "The Hammer and the Dance: What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like if Leaders Buy Us Time."

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