article thumbnail

How New Technologies Enabled These Young Entrepreneurs To Threaten The Traditional Retail Landscape

YoungUpstarts

Why are there so many digital commerce companies which can challenge large traditional retailers and even force them into bankruptcy? One of the cofounders explains how he witnessed first-hand while working at a bank that a lot of traditional retailers were in trouble as internet retailers ate away their margins.

Cofounder 113
article thumbnail

The Austinpreneur’s Guide to SXSW 2018 Panels & Parties

Austin Startup

Intro to the Austin EdTech Startup Scene Come meet Sean Duffy , founder of EdTech Austin and let him tell about everything going on in EdTech in Austin! Join us at this interview and hear how WWE co-founder Linda McMahon fought back from bankruptcy to build her company into a publicly traded entertainment and media powerhouse.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

7 Lessons On How To Avoid A Quick Business Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

In this age of information overload and the Internet, even the best solution needs marketing to get noticed. Find co-founders to complement your expertise. Successes via a single dictatorial founder are even more rare than billion dollar valuations.

Valuation 164
article thumbnail

VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often.

article thumbnail

In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products.

article thumbnail

Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

We are still reeling from the first order of consequences of the pandemic, but we are also starting to see the second and third order effects, unemployment, hunger, mass bankruptcy, and the inequity and injustice of this crisis. Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. So what are we going to do?

Fresno 60
article thumbnail

Zayo Group – One of Boulder’s Amazing Startup Stories

Feld Thoughts

Dan Caruso, the co-founder/CEO of Zayo Group , is one of them. Two years prior, ICG was a public company preparing for its second bankruptcy. Fiber was the workhorse of the Internet — and nothing would alter its importance for as far as the eye could see. The ICG team went to Level 3 as part of the transaction.

Bandwidth 147