The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. Governments are prioritizing healthcare projects now, more than ever. David Harper.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 28, 2015

In the 1960s and 70s, youth culture was counter culture, fighting big business and big government in an effort to be heard. Here are a few modest suggestions: Change the way you consume news: Curate your news from those who you respect, using tools like Nuzzle, which aggregate the headlines that are shared by the people you follow.

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers. So how do you invest behind that?

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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. The 5 years that I spent working in the US were majorly governed by 2 things: Work and Cooking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

He was president of the startup accelerator YCombinator from 2014-2019, and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded. SA : I want to echo again that in a perfect world, this response would be led by the government, not the private sector. SA : I think this is the kind of thing the government's supposed to be good at.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. As an example, Team Aggregate DB was working with the State Department Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO). This post is a continuation of a series.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer. Have amazing co-founders who are better at what they do than you could ever be. Founders need to personally own something big themselves. It’s that important.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. As an example, Team Aggregate DB was working with the State Department Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO). This post is a continuation of a series.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

But IMO it’ll take a “big bang” multi-party effort rather than an incremental innovation, so it’ll favor large organizations (big companies and/or governments) rather than startups. Government fiat. I’d be happy to co-author with you. Or Google may be one of the new winners in scenario #1 (e.g.

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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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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A huge cleantech boom occurred and battery companies like A123 went public along with biofuels companies like Amyris, Gevo, and others, though in retrospect this was more of a bubble driven by unsustainable government subsidies (A123 is bankrupt and the biofuels companies trade at a fraction of their IPO valuation). So at a fund level (e.g.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In the UK, the theme this year is Make a Job, Don’t take a Job and the events enjoy heavy government support. Research conducted by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK team in a survey of over 1,000 entrepreneurs shows the following key findings: SUPPORT - 77% want the government to play a key role in supporting entrepreneurs.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In the UK, the theme this year is Make a Job, Don’t take a Job and the events enjoy heavy government support. Research conducted by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK team in a survey of over 1,000 entrepreneurs shows the following key findings: SUPPORT - 77% want the government to play a key role in supporting entrepreneurs.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

The fund is backed by David Moche, a Florida based real estate investor, and one of the co-founders of About.com. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates. The founders Ido Volff and Barak Abraham put an emphasis on gamification, rewarding activities in the system with virtual points for contribution.

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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. What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 2, 2021

But we soon learned that these social media tools are also virtual panopticons, allowing authoritative governments or harassers to observe your behavior wherever you are, and to more accurately identify you. However, in aggregate, the more automation we have introduced, the more jobs we have created?—?this as an individual?—?is

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In the UK, the theme this year is Make a Job, Don’t take a Job and the events enjoy heavy government support. Research conducted by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK team in a survey of over 1,000 entrepreneurs shows the following key findings: SUPPORT - 77% want the government to play a key role in supporting entrepreneurs.

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Advisory Board Europe Aggregator Startup 74

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?

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