ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Here is what their founder Leo Mirsky told us in the early beginning of the collaboration: Marketing was a mystery to us.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Company is a great fit: they host, advise, mentor, lend a shoulder, and provide a place to founders and teams. These things are right up my alley because it’s what I love doing and align with my goal to be the best advisor to early-stage founders. And all in the heart of NYC!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

An entrepreneur who brings out innovation and disruption at the same time is highly successful Muhammad Yunus, the founder of microcredit and micro-finance, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize is an excellent example of a successful entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of the famous Huffington Post and the founder of Thrive Global.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Nicole Price of the Chicago-based International Center for Breathwork. The festival brings people together for a specific event, and the ICFB membership program continues the engagement year-round with a monthly membership that costs only $11/month.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2021

Today Lula announced its $18M funding round led by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures. We couldn’t be more thrilled for co-founders Michael and Matthew for this next phase of building the business with substantial additional backing. I first met the Lula co-founders in Boston about 2 1/2 years ago, at the very end of 2018.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2019

As for the top startups that are located in Central Texas, many of these will be honored at the annual Austin A-List Awards , which are co-presented by the Austin Area Chamber of Commerce and by SXSW. Click here to enter your startup for this competition. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

On October 15, Capital Factory hosted the Latinx in Tech Summit, where over 100 founders, investors, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the city gathered together for an inspiring and insightful afternoon. As we head to 2020, Latinx will be the MAJORITY in the US. I've never been around this many Latinx in tech.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

Mrinal Menon is one of my Hacking for Defense students at Stanford where he’s currently in the MBA program. Jeff Decker is a co-instructor of the Hacking for Defense class and the Stanford program director. The military awarded $445 billion in contracts in 2020. He’s a former U.S. Defense Department.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2021

Today Lula announced its $18M funding round led by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures. We couldn’t be more thrilled for co-founders Michael and Matthew for this next phase of building the business with substantial additional backing. I first met the Lula co-founders in Boston about 2 1/2 years ago, at the very end of 2018.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Educators are looking for tools and programs to help facilitate their transition into this new learning environment, making affordable to free software key to this niche industry. The housing demand has far outpaced the supply in 2020 and this will continue into 2021. Thanks to Kurt Bodenstedt, PDAFL LLC ! #3- 3- Two trends.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 Seattle-based Syndio has a bold ambition: to eradicate unlawful pay disparities in the workplace. This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews series , we sat down with entrepreneurs Sam Simon and Nasutsa Mabwa, the co-founders and owners of ServiceMaster By Simons. This philosophy is deeply ingrained in their company culture and helps set this husband and wife co-founder team apart as leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

In my own view, this is awesome news — because I’ve been an investor in Aurora since February 2018 when I co-led its Series A round for Greylock and joined Aurora’s board. Its three co-founders already had deep experience in the nascent AV space, with each of them playing key roles at early leaders in the field.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

by Juan Pablo Segura, President and Co-Founder of Babyscripts. While the outlook may seem bleak, especially for startups counting on 2020 fundraising rounds, there are actually more opportunities for growth in a time of crisis than ever. Of course, you want to make sure that your employees are also feeling financially secure.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

by Ian Pribyl, Founder of StoppingScams.com and author of “ From Nothing: Everything You Need to Profit from Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, Blogging, Online Business, e-Commerce and More… Starting With <$100 “ Now more than ever, people all over the world are considering starting an online business. It’s great!

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

And over time, I envision that eco-system after eco-system around the world would learn how to use this program to do effective and precise entrepreneurship development, not spray and pray, which is largely what goes on today, with huge amount of resources being wasted. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Midwest.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Chennai and TiE Mumbai. This week's One Million by One Million roundtable was our 75th session, and we worked today with three entrepreneurs from the Midwest region of the United States.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2017

Think social media, loyalty programs, discounts and freebies, contests, and so on. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has referred to Warren Buffet as his mentor and credited his success to him. Pratik Dholakiya is the co-founder of E2M , a full-service digital marketing agency, and MoveoApps , a mobile app development company.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Last year I decided to do my first ever public predictions for 2020 and the decade ahead. 8/ Deep Fakes become a huge problem for the 2020 elections. 2020 Prediction Results. Did anyone have global pandemic on their bingo board? Ok lets move on… Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com. What a fun exercise and wow was I wrong!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Based in Amsterdam, Skilllab is co-founded by Azza El Hayek and Ulrich Scharf. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 17, 2020 Skilllab has a clear mission: to develop technology-based solutions to empower employment services to better integrate refugees into local labor markets. What is your top goal for Skilllab for 2020?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Maria Tanjala and Irina Albita , the co-founders of FilmChain. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 16, 2020 Maria Tanjala , co-founder of FilmChain , is passionate about tech solutions that bring transparency and automation to creative industries. What is your top goal for FilmChain for 2020? film and tech?—?and

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Quantstamp is a Y Combinator-backed company building the standard in blockchain cybersecurity.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As I grew my business, I attracted amazing clients and created a group program that brings me great joy everyday, along with insights on how to serve my clients and my audience even better, and grow my business even more. It was a great word to live by. Thanks to Randy VanderVaate, Funeral Funds ! #7- 7- Focused. Photo Credit: Kyla L.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Stine Mølgaard Sørensen, co-founder and COO for Radiobiotics, based in Copenhagen. The Forrest Four-Cast: January 29, 2020 Here’s a problem: worldwide, there aren’t enough radiologists to meet patient needs. What is your top goal for Radiobotics in 2020? All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Quicc co-founders Jason Toevs and Mike Mathia. The Forrest Four-Cast: January 31, 2020 Make video captioning easier and better in a world where audiences now watch extensively without sound. What is your top goal for Quicc for 2020? That’s the mission of Quicc , launched in 2019, in Wichita, Kansas.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Flugauto Co-Founders (left to right): Frank Noppel , CEO, Gerrit Becker , CCO, and Alexander Xydas , COO. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 A B2B tech company, Flugauto is developing a world-class UAV platform for aerial delivery of industrial cargo for the energy industry. What is your top goal for Flugauto for 2020?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Ed Yu , CEO and co-founder of StrongSalt The Forrest Four-Cast: February 3, 2020 Is it possible for companies to protect their customers with data privacy that complies with regulations and is easy for developers to use? StrongSalt Co-Founder and CEO Ed Yu says yes it is. “Encryption sucks and we fix that.”?—?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 10, 2020 Here’s the problem Arist set out to solve: too often video-based learning and training is ineffective, inaccessible, and expensive. What is your top goal for Arist for 2020? Lately, I’ve been a big fan of Patrick Collison (co-founder of Stripe). Tell us about something you love.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 10, 2020 Here’s the problem Arist set out to solve: too often video-based learning and training is ineffective, inaccessible, and expensive. What is your top goal for Arist for 2020? Lately, I’ve been a big fan of Patrick Collison (co-founder of Stripe). Tell us about something you love.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Virsix Games reimagines how people play together by remixing analogue play with cutting-edge emerging technologies such as AI, voice-activated smart speakers, augmented reality, near field communication, machine learning techniques and more.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Left to right: Heather Shen , CTO; Melina Lopez , CPO; and Elise Smith , CEO The Forrest Four-Cast: February 25, 2020 As the saying goes: Before you judge a person, walk a mile in their shoes. My co-founders and I all met at Stanford so Palo Alto is really where it all began. We joke that we were always running somewhere?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 Winding Tree has created the world’s first open marketplace for travel. Winding Tree Co-Founders: CEO Maksim Izmaylov (left) and COO Pedro Anderson (right). What is your top goal for Winding Tree for 2020? How Winding Tree works to improve travel bookings.

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