Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. His blog is full of personal stories, gentle advice, and guidance that will be useful to any startup founder. David Cohen is the founder and Managing Partner of Techstars, the #1 ranked internet startup accelerator in the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

Jokes aside, it is clear Walmart is eager to play after its moves with Jet.com and Bonobos, but it’s hard to keep up with the strategic moves of Amazon, most recently with Ring (around home security and automation) and now with a foray into pharmacies. So, I met TJ once just to hang out, and I loved the kid. Well done!

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

” Transitioning from partners in an informal collaboration to co-owners of an actual business may seem like a big step, but it is a necessary one that every successful startup eventually must take. As soon as valuable IP is developed, founders should assign their rights in the IP to a company in exchange for an ownership stake.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Our Events ▾ 6/14/12 · Boston. Boston Events ›. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. New York ›.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Being a co-founder of a real estate investment company allows me to set my own objectives, determine my work hours, and reap the rewards of my actions. Thanks to Dave Munson, Saddleback Leather Co. ! #16- Thanks to Katie Horgan, Giving Assistant ! #2- 2- Lot’s of fun. Photo Credit: Alex Romanov. 16- Freedom to think BIG.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now. This is the typical way that a founder determines sweat equity: foregone wages. Employees and founders are motivated by different things.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Editor’s note: Local tech media company BostInno (a division of the American City Business Journals) hosts an annual Boston State of Innovation conference. I was recently asked to sit on panel with my fellow VC peers and some top entrepreneurs from the Boston tech community.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Computer Security. Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Dont overlook federal and state securities laws. Employee Benefits. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. Advertising. TECHNOLOGY.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Their idea was to build a next-generation autonomous robot, that could be used by defense and security agencies around the world. Most important slide: about the founders In a pitch meeting, try to spend as much time as possible talking about the key questions for your pitch. They even included a slide with The Transformers on it.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. Senior executives have never been harder to secure. After all, it was my job to secure the best and brightest talent through my own efforts and my own network.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The later gives them ultimate security and control over their data. Since 2014, when co-founders Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline launched SERVIZ, we have expanded from serving Los Angeles County to four markets now, including Orange County, San Diego County, and our newest addition in Phoenix, which just launched this summer in July.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Co-founder Anum Hussain talked about her company’s mission. I grew with the Boston tech ecosystem during five years at HubSpot. Co-founder Vivian Diep and I met in Los Angeles in summer 2017. I formerly worked as a journalist and Vivian was the co-founder at a startup focusing on contextualizing video news.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR – disclaimer, I represent the Founders Institute and was involved in drafting this document). Co-sale rights. These rights are missing, which is probably okay since I have never heard of a co-sale right being used before. Name of security. Series Seed.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. With KOYA, you can easily treat your co-worker to a class at their favorite yoga studio in New York or surprise your partner with a personal message at the park where you first met. Thanks to David Tile, Article-Writing Co ! #23- That’s what we do.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was visiting his and my alma mater in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, where I had just graduated a few months prior and was bumming around getting my own startup off the ground. GOOGLE GLASS COULD HAVE IDENTIFIED THE BOSTON BOMBER.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

@jack : Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is on Twitter as well, sharing updates from his work as the CEO of Square. dens : Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley gets personal on his Twitter account, sharing his interests in soccer and hidden urban art. MichaelDell : Follow Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s why Chelsea Baldwin of Business B h uses the platform: I use Vimeo for paid-access content, and I love it because its security and privacy settings are really malleable and let you do a lot as far as who can view, password access, and select embedding. Here’s a demo featuring my name: Who is personalized video right for?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. is inextricably linked with our own national security and sovereignty.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

All cash in most secure possible instruments. ► 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. Everyone from the receptionist to engineers is selling. Offer equity instead of cash.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Most enterprise customers do NOT want frequent releases for two main reasons (1)They have heavy internal release processes: long QA cycle, security reviews, etc; and (2) It is costly to communicate and educate their own customers about a new set of features. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Amazon PostRank

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

CyPhy Works in Boston is a good example that DOES refer to robots and robotics for instance. We’ve seen two camps of founder types, and their converge or not will also be interest. JAY: Are there distinct pros or cons with either type, or are you watching the two combine to have a co-founder from each world maybe?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Its an academic treatise that tries to answer a seemingly straightforward question: after World War II, why did Silicon Valley become the undisputed leader of the technology world, while Bostons Route 128 corridor did not. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

I remember once being asked in a Microsoft group interview (and dinner) about the ActiveX security model. I remember answering "What security model?" Turns out, I had been lecturing the creator of the ActiveX security model. I was wondering if you could expand on finding a technical co-founder. Amazon PostRank

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

So when we were coming up with business names for it, we tried all of the startup tricks- removing vowels at weird places, (Nsights) replacing similar sounding letters (Kontentmetriks, Serendipiti, Metrix), or even combining parts of my and my co-founder’s names (Brato, which was short for Brandon and Tony).

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

If you were funded by VCs in Silicon Valley, Boston, or Bombay, it still paid to have your CEO and sales team have eyes and ears in NYC for two main reasons. Last night, I was at a dinner with the founder of one of the most promising cleantech companies in the country and he observed that in 2008, he visited China and NYC ten times each.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Cybersecurity unicorn Snyk was founded in 2015 with the mission to help developers make their code secure. Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Most of this was code that not scalable, not secure, and not particularly extensible. ► 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. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

This panel will bring together experts to discuss how we secure data, yet remain productive and take advantage of new innovative technologies? Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. Date: Sat March 10, 2018 Time: 5:00 PM?—?6:00

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. Like a parent, Y Combinator protected and guided a group of eight applicants who were chosen to be part of the Y Combinator Summer Founders Program.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Both are building on top of the existing credit card infrastructure because as Swipely Founder/CEO Angus Davis points out, millions of people are walking around with a mobile payment device in their pocket… it’s called a credit card. I’d be happy to co-author with you. Any thoughts? link] leehower. Read More ».

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Christian Holst Christian Holst is the co-author of the research report E-Commerce Checkout Usability , as well as founder of Baymard Institute , where he writes bi-weekly articles about web usability and conversion rate optimization. Related Articles. Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices. Lets grab a beer ! Navigation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A more rational career path for money-making is one that rewards effort, in the form of promotions, increased security, salary and status. Now they hate their jobs and have no job security or path to becoming really wealthy. Now they hate their jobs and have no job security or path to becoming really wealthy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Once we secured a meeting, we told our potential customers that we were actively developing our web app (implying that code was being written) and wanted to get potential user input into the development process early on. Rich Collins , founder of the Lean Startup Circle , responded to the poster with some Q&A.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

But many more are true American success stories, out of the limelight, quietly creating jobs and securing our future. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Similarly, 24% of all the patents filed in the US in 2006 had a foreign resident as inventor or co-inventor.

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