YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue. Many would argue that even the most theoretically scalable products in healthcare, i.e

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Stephanie is someone that we have known for almost a decade and have respected deeply as a co-investor and collaborator at Uncork. Through all of this, what has been obvious is her hunger to serve founders and desire to work with entrepreneurs to bring about the kind of world changing impact we seek to be a part of at NextView.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Toronto’s Mark Attanasio , co-founder of Hillcrest Merchant Partners, has years of significant experience with advising clients on mergers and acquisitions raising capital and navigating the landscape of general capital markets. In 2017, he embarked on a new venture, founding. Hillcrest Merchant Partners with Donato Sferra.

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VC Cafe

MAY 17, 2023

But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains” Steve Jobs (from Chapter 8) I got to meet Uri Levine, the founder of Waze and Moovit, through his involvement in the Zell Entrepreneurship program at Reichman University. It starts from how founders pitch their startups.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Founders laud their own “end-to-end” thinking. Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. Why doesn’t everyone do this?”

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

I previously touched upon the Passion/Product Fit of an aspiring entrepreneur. Product/Market Fit. The startup will then look outwards in the region to expand into, either organically or via a partnership, joint venture or acquisition. In this case, I urge founders to start in the US first (i.e. This is by no means easy.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

” – Marc Andreessen In the book “ Super Founders “, author Ali Tamaseb, studied 200 Unicorns, aka startups valued at over $1 billion, started between 2005 to 2018. The 7 Traits of “Super Founders” 1. They are able to articulate this vision in a way that inspires others and generates excitement.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# So, why should they pick you?

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

Funding Follows Growth and Acquisitions The big fundraising event in this space in the first part of 2021 was Camunda and their $100 million series B round. Acquisitions like this start to make the math for Camunda’s fundraise make a lot of sense. Some of these firms spend most of their effort targeting other market segments (e.g.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

To succeed in today’s crowded market, you need to harmonize product marketing and brand marketing. In this article, you’ll learn the difference between brand marketing and product marketing, and how to balance both to stand out above the crowd. Brand vs product marketing: Friends or foe? They rely on each other for success.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. Growth hacking is about caring for and optimizing the user experience to build trust and keep customers using your product. Acquisition. SEO, email marketing, Facebook advertising).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

The report was co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members along with other contributors including Steve Blank , the Sandbox Network and blackbox teams. Founders that learn are more successful. Solo founders take 3.6x more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. billion acquisition of Weta Digital, Peter Jackson’s VFX company, gives Unity capabilities in creating hyper realistic virtual environments using RT3D (real-time 3D) technology.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Some of these folks are founders and CEOs, but not at high-growth tech startups. Plus, we agree that we should have this type of meeting and try to make it productive for all parties. Role When I was a lowly Analyst at Union Square Ventures, I had so many ideas for the founders we worked with. Perhaps they inherited it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus. He’s a founder of Andreessen Horowitz, which has backed Facebook, Skype, Jawbone, and dozens of other companies whose products you use. Max Ventilla took Aardvark from startup to Google acquisition, a case study Eric described in The Lean Startup.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. From a customer standpoint, there are nuances that go into buying a product, and then using the product. However, particularly in the A-B series interim an independent third party can uncover product or market blind spots. Series A to C: Automation.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. The traditional advantages of small businesses over corporations are personalized service and an inventory of niche products tailored to their local market. The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

. + 1,000 startup founders, investors, and press! Vinod Khosla Founder Dave McClure Founding Partner Eric Ries Author Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur & Professor Todd Park CTO Travis Kalanick CEO & Co-Founder Joe Zadeh Director of Product Sam Shank Co-Founder & CEO NEW!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah and Steven Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. Mike Baker – CEO of DataXu. But … Stay Tuned.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM.

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Software By Rob

MAY 24, 2010

Late Stage Co-Founder Wanted – [Filled] I’ve been contacted by a colleague who has been working on a SaaS application in a fairly large market. No obligation; the current founder will not know who you are unless you decide to contact him. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Toronto’s Mark Attanasio has spent some 20 years advising businesses at various stages in their development on what it takes to position themselves for growth – whether it’s through traditional transactional activities like management buyouts and mergers and acquisitions or via a public listing on a Canadian stock exchange.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

They make money by starting a product from scratch and then selling it in thousands of dollars. In most cases, they hit the jackpot when their products are sold for millions. You don’t have a product and most of your meetings will not bring any fruit. You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

This post originally appeared in TechCrunch back in 2015, written by our co-founder and managing partner Erik Rannala. Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity crisis, a startup with too much capital and no product-market fit will become capable of making larger mistakes. How do you know you have it?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, 8 have been pre-product or pre-seed style rounds. And by early, we mean pre-traction.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. advice and mentorship to founders in the NextView portfolio.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

times more likely to spend more than one standard deviation above the average on customer acquisition. Inconsistent startup outsource 4-5 times as much of their product development than consistent startups. In the validation phase, where startups should be testing demand for a functional product, inconsistent startups are 2.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. Thus it’s a waste of time for most entrepreneurs to be looking for investors until they have a product and some customer revenue. Most founders bootstrap product development.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Peep mentioned three ways to get inside the limited consideration set : Innovation : create an objectively better product and you’ll achieve a transient advantage, just the way other category kings such as Tinder or Tesla did. Marketing : get a larger share of voice.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

This is a guest post by my Startup Owner’s Manual co-author Bob Dorf. Either way, the “hurdle” for successful, scalable startups is high, and it gets higher every day as customer acquisition challenges continue to increase. The “it” is a physical or web product they’ve often been locked-down, pounding away at, for many weeks.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A great product is always the foundation but a clear distribution strategy becomes essential to cut through the noise. Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

by Hannah Sieber, co-founder and COO of EcoFlow Tech. Crowdfunding has become common place for new products and new brands. With that number in mind, think strategically about the costs for website and campaign development, PR, digital marketing and all aspects of product costs, even the “hidden” ones.

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