David Teten

JANUARY 17, 2013

The panel includes: * The light bulb moment: Now you have an idea—how to get started, early stages, and testing the idea. Vanessa Liu ’96, JD ’03—Chief Operating Officer, Trigger Media. * REGISTER NOW -via your post.harvard.edu log in: https://secure.post.harvard. edu/olc/membersonly/HAA/event/ showEventForm.jsp?form_id=

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We did that for six years, and then we decided we would move to Boston because … This is where my marketer brain kicked in. I was like, “There are not a lot of the type of church that we are at out there in Boston. ” Lance Cummins: So I literally moved my family, my three kids and my wife and I, to Boston.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Marketing Sales & Marketing Home Marketing Basics Sales Online Marketing Finding Customers Social Media Branding Social Media Does Your Companys Social Personality Need a Makeover? Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation. Coming soon to Dallas, Boston and Philadelphia.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

We wanted to educated nonprofits about the importance of social media. We created ‘learn & do” sections where people can learn how to use social media for social good. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley. Early stage startups are <5 yrs old. 5-10 years is typically the rampup stage.

America 144

America DC Startup Aggregator 144

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney. Start a blog.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. Frighteningly Early.

San Francisco 48

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

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. Edelman’s annual study on the state of trust in institutions, industries and media. We will discuss how the networks are creating the social media airbag. Time: 12:30PM?—?

Technical Review 58

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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.

Boston 120

Boston Syndicate Syndication eCommerce 120

David Teten

MARCH 8, 2013

Prior to Commerce Ventures, Dan spent 6 years at Highland Capital Partners, where he invested in several early-stage mobile, payments and consumer media startups. Today he resides in San Francisco, but is a Boston native and still holds out hope for another Brady Superbowl win.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

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. 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.

Technical Review 89

Technical Review Austin Texas Cofounder 89

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. 6:00 – 7:30).

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 17, 2011

And given dynamics in the digital media space, we think that (especially along the Boston to New York corridor) there is a market need for a funding source like ours for early stage entrepreneurs. The three of us are looking to work with entrepreneurs to build industry-changing transformative businesses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2023

Key Takeaway: While significant progress has been made in AI, we are still at the early stages of it’s development. It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. Kenneth Wenger (04:32): You know, that's a great question because I think we are actually very early on. That's right.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Algorithm Networking 65

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

Salesforce recently conducted research , which found nearly 25 per cent of millennials expect to get a response within 10 minutes of reaching out for customer service via social media and nearly one quarter will boycott a company after one bad experience. According to our research, millennials ardently avoid calling customer service.

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View from Seed

MARCH 31, 2015

Editor’s note: Unlike the Ubers and Airbnbs of the tech startup world, seed-stage companies don’t typically have the valuations, awareness, or traction typically associated with press coverage. That said, coverage is important, and early-stage companies would be wise to work with local press in addition to national.

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David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

In my research on how private equity and VC funds source investments , one of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the Bay Area. HOF Capital – an internationally-focused early-stage VC backed by leading corporations in 8 countries.

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New York Africa Cofounder Egypt 60

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Nikhil Kalghatgi is an early-stage Venture Capitalist at SoftBank Capital and is based in NYC.

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Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

I’d start by trying to follow them on social media to get to know them a bit, and then reach out with a relevant intro request through LinkedIn. Bob invented Ethernet, founded 3Com (revenues of $5.7B), was the Editor of InfoWorld magazine, and was a venture capitalist at Polaris in Boston. How do you meet them?

Austin 110

Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

OK, I may be biased having been an early stage VC based out of New York since 1996, but I must say that the vibe, energy, and people at the Techstars NYC Demo Day event yesterday was simply awesome. In addition, over 750 investors came in from all over including London, California, Boston, and DC to network and participate.

New York 129

New York Sweat Equity Marketing Startup 129

BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

OK, I may be biased having been an early stage VC based out of New York since 1996, but I must say that the vibe, energy, and people at the Techstars NYC Demo Day event yesterday was simply awesome. In addition, over 750 investors came in from all over including London, California, Boston, and DC to network and participate.

New York 129

New York Sweat Equity Marketing Startup 129

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women. Bantuveris is a recognized national expert in boosting parent involvement in school and using social media for social good. She is also an Angel Investor in early stage businesses.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US. they generate $400M in proceeds from that $100M).

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

I''ve closed on about 20 early stage investments and, by comparison, 5 of my investments are now worth $40 million or more either via financing or exit (with three more over $25 million). All of the companies but one were funded in NYC, with the other in Boston. The media needs to do it''s part, too. That''s 25%.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

This is for the early-stage companies — the entrepreneurs with great ideas and tireless work ethics who feel like they’ve emailed half of the country’s news outlets with nothing but the rare “thanks, but not interested” reply to show for it. And don’t pitch a Boston newspaper on your San Francisco startup. The irony hurts.

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Seed Stage San Francisco Startup CTO Hire 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In addition, Orin has served on boards or as the Principal Investigator for the NYC Media Lab , PowerBridgeNY , and the Columbia Coulter Translational Partnership. Prior to joining Columbia, Orin spent seven years with the Boston Consulting Group’s New York office.

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Government Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Silicon Valley 120

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

But whether you are trying to build daily, habitual products for business users like Slack or InVision or trying to reach truly mass market consumers like Wayfair, Jet, or Chewy, there is someone in the Guild who has faced this challenge at the early stages of a business and at scale. Mike Volpe, CMO at Cybereason. Back to Top).

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 18, 2012

Buddy Media, Demandware, Endeca, Millenial Media) have been in the $500 million - $1 billion range. Founder Collective, Lehrer Ventures, NextView), and are seeing early promise, but the results of that strategy is still too early to call. Similarly, 10gen was at a very early stage when we and Union Square invested.

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Silicon Valley Colorado Boston Early Stage 42

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Jason: Because you said premium digital media, so I didn’t get selling music out of that. And that’s really important for an early stage start-up to be able to move as fast as possible etc., Dan: Because you’re not giving it away for free. You want people to pay for it. Jason: Premium means for money.

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Cofounder Technical Review Chicago Technical Cofounder 199

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). What’s the impact for early-stage startups? Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I liked the flattering Venture Hacks commentary so much Ill just quote it: Many founders believe that early stage startups are endeavors of execution. He believes that many early stage startups are labors of learning. It represents the triumph of learning, over the naive startup creation myths we read about in the media.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 74

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion ” that the best performing VC funds are based in the major venture centers (Silicon Valley, Boston, and the New York area), but their best investments are outside of those geographies. Take advantage of social media and emerging platforms such as AngelList.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Boston Is Sinking in the East. ” Boston, which ranked Number 6 in the Ecosystem Index, “is declining dramatically,” Hermann notes. “Boston has lost its previous leading position as the innovation and high-technology entrepreneurship center on the East Coast.” Boston, Massachusetts.

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Chile Silicon Valley Los Angeles Video 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. My answer is almost always the same: dont.

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San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

View from Seed

MAY 27, 2015

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. We find that these are great, and I personally listen to many of them. Thanks for listening!

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Early Stage Non-Compete Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Do we believe “startup-driven” innovation (innovation that comes from relationships with external, early-stage companies) should be part of the corporate innovation portfolio? Acquiring a growth-stage private startup can provide a faster ROI at lower risk than the acquisition of an early- stage startup.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds who have a history of giving $20 million to early-stage technology companies hoping to swing for the fences and become the next Google, Facebook or Twitter. million in SF Bay Area ).

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Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

A panel of hand-picked judges, comprised of technology industry experts, venture capitalists, and high-profile media, will select the product or service most likely to succeed in the marketplace. The Food+City Challenge Prize is an international competition among early stage business startups encouraging innovation in the urban food system.

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