YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2017

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , and author of “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: In February, 1869, a letter to the editor of the New York Times questioned why female government employees were not paid the same as male counterparts.

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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. Instead, it’s more of a Manifesto about the core beliefs that shape our strategy. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Today on the podcast, I speak with author, keynote speaker, and founder of Unthinkable Media , Jay Acunzo. Acunzo began his career at tech giants, including Google and HubSpot, and he now travels the world as a public speaker and the creator of documentary series about people who do great work, which he builds with B2B brand clients.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. Our founders realized that investors needed to learn interactively, on-demand, on very specific topics, and in an atmosphere of trust.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

I’ve spent over a decade investing in consumer and B2B companies that do things like expand access to reproductive care and childcare , support the circular economy , enable more seamless payments for small businesses and individuals, rethink mindfulness for the modern world , and champion learners from the classroom to the metaverse.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 In terms of access to capital, Austin is not Silicon Valley or New York — but it is Austin. Let’s have a look at what early stage founders can expect in terms of oxygen. in New York helps put out some of that monthly burn.

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View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

The good news is that just as companies are getting more and more comfortable with remote communications, I find that investors are also getting more and more comfortable supporting companies from a distance. How should a founder go about it? But doing this takes extra work. But this typically takes a fair bit of time to marinate.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’ve also proven that giving new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a dedicated, hands-on chance leads to follow-on funding and additional accelerator success across the board. We chatted with some NextView founders to get a sense of how this distilled design worked for their teams.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 23, 2012

25, in the Enterprise Tech Meetup, where we’ll discuss best practices in B2B startup hiring. Daniel Chait, Co-founder, Greenhouse. I’m participating this Thursday, Oct. We’ll also cover how can a candidate make themselves more attractive for a quickly growing enterprise company.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. Decathlon Capital.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2020

by Victoria Usher, CEO & Founder of GingerMay. Victoria Usher is Founder and CEO of GingerMay , a multi-award winning strategic marketing and PR consultancy with offices in London, New York and Berlin. But alongside these efforts they mustn’t neglect their own personal brand or profile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As startup founders ask themselves this question, some of the answers might be specific to their product: i.e. we should improve our onboarding, change our freemium model, etc. Or Briga, Co-founder and CEO of Novos.gg. Anat Shperling, founder and CEO of Toya , a Roblox gaming studio. David Stiff, Co-founder and CEO of Vault AI.

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Rob Go

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. Instead, it’s more of a Manifesto about the core beliefs that shape our strategy. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

” Melanie is also the Co-Founder of The Convoy and GroupUps, B2B marketplaces that help small businesses save money so they can invest more in themselves and their communities. That's true in like the B2B space. Key Takeaway: You say your company is amazing. So you know, that may not, that's a little catchy.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

We’ve found some of the best minds in personal branding, B2B branding, corporate branding, and even career branding on Twitter, and we hope you’ll check them out. Read on to find 25 incredible people, listed in no particular order, that are full of news, knowledge, and resources that can help you make the most of the brands you represent.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 12, 2017

I started in New York at large, elite national PR firms. Complex, B2B companies are struggling with social media. Midmarket, complex B2B companies are struggling with their social media. I’m in PR, so I am a natural born news junky and am non-stop engaged in news, taking in everything from NPR toInc.,

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

My company is named MARQETED and is a marketing consulting and services company for small businesses in the B2B sector. EightSixtySouth is the rebrand of Post+Beam, an innovation and communication agency that opened over 10 years ago in New York. My business niche is “entrepreneurs” and “founders”. 11- Four key words.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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. New York City. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

Can upstart ecosystems in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, or Seattle churn out tomorrow’s billion dollar tech companies? B2B start-ups need to have at least sales and marketing based in the valley, if not their entire operation. In many cases, success comes down to the founder’s ambition and mindset.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments. With Remitr I saw that opportunity to solve a problem in international B2B payments that was crying for a technology-enabled solution and decided to plunge into it with my co-founding team. My very first job I was working as a jewelry designer in the diamond district in New York.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

But when you think of hip, innovative new consumer brands, well, you don’t really think of this town. Even ignoring Silicon Valley, places like New York and LA seem to have an edge relative to Boston because of its proximity to media outlets and the prevalence of marketers from big and exciting consumer brands or entertainment companies.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

Frank + Oak (who was named innovator of the year by Canadian Business) announced the launch of its 50/50 Founders’ Fund , in partnership with General Assembly. And last but not least: in exit news, Julep was acquired by the newly formed Glansaol (who’s also acquiring Laura Geller and Clark’s Botanicals). Catch up on our blog.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. The New York Times, January 2001. Kamen assembled an It for him [.] That was all most people knew.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

I’m thrilled by the companies we are investors in, as well as the founders that lead them. It’s commonly said that the biggest risk facing a new VC firm is disharmony among the partners. This is of particular risk if the founders of the firm never really worked together before, as was the case for us at NextView.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. The New York Times, January 2001. Kamen assembled an It for him [.] That was all most people knew.

Customer 101

Customer Differentiation West Virginia Campaign 101

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

We had a chance to interview the founders: Dave Goldman, Max Berg, and Joe Schwappach and asked about their story, how they started their business and the future of Eliqs. Our three founders all came from industries outside of the alcohol space. Tell us your story. Why did you start Eliqs?

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David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures. Adam is a brilliant technologist, who was astute enough to know that he didn’t have the background to be the solo leader of a scale B2B technology company. Adam and team proceeded to do exactly that.

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Venture Capital Security Operations Atlanta 114

Rob Go

JULY 18, 2019

The good news is that just as companies are getting more and more comfortable with remote communications, I find that investors are also getting more and more comfortable supporting companies from a distance. How should a founder go about it? But doing this takes extra work. But this typically takes a fair bit of time to marinate.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Cofounder B2B Seed Stage 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

He is the founder of Backlinko.com a place where you can get actionable SEO advice. I lived in a little apartment in New York. So for example, a B2B national company that sells say like software as opposed to a B2C local company that does I don’t know, basement waterproofing. I was there. Brian Dean: Plenty.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

Improbably, founder and CEO Adam Miller and his partners soldiered on to eventually build a $2 billion+ cloud company. Miller did, however, note that Cornerstone had to adapt to hiring based on potential, rather than experience, because it was hard to find candidates with B2B software experience in LA.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. Fintech stack shifting to the cloud From the outset, Melio’s broader platform vision of enabling B2B payments in a contextual way has been key.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

If you are in B2B, you’ve certainly heard of account-based marketing by now. As Des Traynor , co-founder of Intercom put it in the Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done book : Des Traynor: Some products are better defined by the job they do than the customers they serve. Which campaigns specifically? Firmographics. Behavioral segments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. It was a disaster.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Their marketing strategy has two related strands, firstly assume a position of thought leadership centred around the founder and CEO, Josh March, and secondly generate press coverage by intelligent use of data. Coverage in the quality press can be featured in sales and marketing materials and does a lot for the credibility of B2B companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" I would posit that those same people have never been on the receiving end of a phone call from a sixteen-year-old girl complaining that your new release ruined their birthday party.

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