www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. It's one of those things that founders can do sometimes where other employees are afraid to do it.

IPO 113

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2016

by Amit Damani , cofounder of Vista Rooms. This article probably makes the idea of finding lessons everywhere self-evident. Amit Damani, cofounder of Vista Rooms , when not having quintessential talks on anything entrepreneurial, runs one of the fastest growing online aggregator for budget hotels in India.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Their recent article suggests that startups led by women are actually more successful, on average, than those led by men. Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. So why is demographic diversity important?

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Sweden Continuous Deployment 167

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”.

Illinois 165

Illinois Aggregator Chicago Widget 165

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

My co founder Jonathan Hill realised how important good food was due to his father passing away from eating poorly. I co-founded reel paper, which produces bamboo toilet tissue emphasizing environmental and social responsibility. Thanks to Julie Ann Dokowicz, Girl In Heels Travels ! #6- Photo Credit: Michelle Sievwright.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2016

by Amit Damani , cofounder of Vista Rooms. In an earlier article, we had suggested not to get into a startup venture, unless your product or solution is 10 X better, 10 X cheaper or faster. Anyone who watches Shark Tank would swear that it is by far the best reality show ever. We bring you a lowdown of lessons from Shark Tank: 1.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. I’d expect a similar shift in venture over the next decade or two.”.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

There is much more to say about registration processes than I have space for in this article, but you can read more here: Why user registration sucks and how it hurts your business. This data from the Blue research study reflects other research we cited in the “ Why You Should Be Investing Testimonials ” article.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. The aggregate value of the 67 public cloud companies have surpassed $1T in February 2020 to reach $1.4T The Accel 2020 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October. at the time of this post.

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Europe Cloud Valuation 71

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

Entrepreneur 231

Entrepreneur Cofounder Washington Bangladesh 231

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. But the best MCNs are so much more. Having business models that aren’t only ad-based.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Sean Fanning developed Napster, one of the first aggregated and user-friendly peer-to-peer music file sharing platforms, when he was just a freshman at Boston’s Northeastern University. In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime.

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Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

It doesn’t help that the original HBR article on NPS called it “the one number you need to grow.”. But that’s just aggregate information, not totally useful because it’s not your specific industry. Seeing an improvement in your aggregate NPS is nice, but the real value comes in the feedback from follow up questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. An excellent article and responses. June 8, 2009 6:11 AM Jason said.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs. Countless articles on the ‘Uber for X’ model plague opinion websites the world over, and why shouldn’t they? Co-operation and Synergy. For several different versions of the on-demand economy in other parts of the world, the term itself may be alien, its implications unknown.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. Company : Wesabe.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2013

By aggregating open datasets from across the web, Exversion allows you to find the usable data you need, which you can then instantly access, integrate and share via a single API. These three co-founders even headed out west when they scored an interview with Y-Combinator.

New York 72

New York API Silicon Valley Aggregator 72

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding? Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. Third, you market it far and wide. Good Post.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. I think every founder, every CEO, every leader, could learn something, could take heart from Brian's example and I hope they will. Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Over the weekend, I read Sarah Lacy’s PandoDaily article that the VC shakeout is taking too long. For those who aren’t familiar, Mobius was a VC fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Boulder CO and at it’s peak Mobius had $2B+ under management. A16Z today or Founders Fund or General Catalyst a few years ago).

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

September 27, 2010 | View Comments This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. Advice: I wrote a gude to finding a technical co-founder.

Cofounder 41

Cofounder Hiring Ruby Founder 41

Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Most small business and Startup founders are talking about customer engagement and social presence beyond the customary likes and one-post-a-month schedules. Niraj Ranjan Rout is the founder of Hiver (formerly GrexIt). Martin Harrison , Co-founder, Copify. Martin Harrison is co-founder of online content service Copify .

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. It seems to be taken as a given in this article that youre going to be using relational databases. Check out the BigTable paper.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. Finally, Ryan Farley , co-founder of LawnStarter , mentioned that his favorite cohort to track is measured by acquisition channel. These insights can fuel better tests, because you can hone in on trends from specific groups over time.

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Conversion Retention Acquisition Metrics 48

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. the article here. Add to this that 72.7%

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I believe in the new world you describe, but I think you forget the role that the distributors play in aggregating content for a self-selecting consumer "type" The easiest place to see this in newspapers, where consumers normally buy a newspaper that shares their political viewpoint. [link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. Disclaimer: If you know a great technical co-founder that wants to work with you, join them.

Hiring 41

Hiring Cofounder API Aggregator 41

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. Next up: Joe Andrieu CEO/Founder, SwitchBook Chair, Project VRM Standards Committee Key questions - Will it accomplish what you need? Will it survive as long as you need?

Internet 150

Internet EC2 Java API 150

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

The 23rd started with a quick overview of the achievement of our Software and SaaS portfolio in 2007 presented by Byron Deeter, the co-head of our West Coast SaaS practice. This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. Here’s a good tweet by Mark Scully that sheds some light on why outreach must be genuine: The problem with 99% of link-building emails is that they don't explain the benefits for me if I block out a few minutes to update an old article.

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