Genuine VC

AUGUST 10, 2007

About two weeks ago, I posted about seven coming digital uber-trends which are ripe for startup opportunity. Of the all the feedback I received from people about this post, it surprised me how much of it was focused and resonated around the second one, the internet’s facilitation of a green lifestyle.

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VC Cafe

MAY 1, 2023

Blockchain Wars: As the potential of blockchain technology becomes increasingly apparent, tech giants and startups alike are racing to develop and implement solutions across various industries. With secure, convenient, and contactless payments, the wallet wars are set to redefine the future of transactions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

Austin, TX Fast forward 4 years later, here I am working for a startup at the South By South West Tech & Music festival in Austin, TX. SXSW brings a huge chunk of the music and tech world together in one city every year in March, and most startups launch their products there every year. How did I get the gig? Okay,” I thought.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Let’s take a look: Start Your Own Green Marketing Consultant. The green economy is taking off right now, thanks to the plummeting price of green technologies, like solar. Right now, thousands of companies are looking for ways to make their businesses green and improve their green credentials.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

May 16, 2009 1:52 PM Todd Green said. You can find out more at: manning.com/sande Many thanks in advance, Todd -- Todd Green Manning Publications Co. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Good Post.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Sometimes even the most dedicated, uber-competent entrepreneur doesn’t have everything it takes to ensure startup success. Finding that ideal startup partner can be as elusive as finding a compatible mate. Harvard i-Labs in Boston, and with New York University’s Stern School of Business. Legendary partners all.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

I’m finally home after three solid weeks on the road which included Austin, Dallas, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. It’s delightful to sit in my green zebra chair in Amy’s upstairs office, with a cup of tea, the Diana Krall channel playing on Pandora, and just catch up on stuff.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Rise New York (good mailing list) – includes the Barclays Accelerator , in partnership with Techstars , and a coworking space for fintech startups. Work-Bench (enterprise startups, sometimes fintech applicable). Green Visor Capital. Vestigo (Boston). Dharmesh Shah – 77 investments (Boston). FTV Capital.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Sometimes even the most dedicated, uber-competent entrepreneur doesn’t have everything it takes to ensure startup success. Finding that ideal startup partner can be as elusive as finding a compatible mate. Kaviani co-founded CoFoundersLab less than two years ago with the aim of bringing entrepreneurs together to launch startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. Its actually part of a lean startup story. Will you join us?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Just like with startups, this is a hybrid question. So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 We use a patented, proprietary ingredient Floralux which is naturally derived from chlorophyll (the green stuff in plants). Floralux is what makes our Restore Gel green. Thanks to Tabitha Jean Naylor, Successful Startup 101 ! #37 It really started in Boston.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Thanks to Shel Horowitz, Green and Profitable ! #7 This summer was a fantastic and wildly successful one for our startup. We managed to sign up over 50 professional mover partners, grew from five to 10 people, and expanded our business beyond Boston. And snagged a $40K assignment from a client. Image Credit: Lisa Chu.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Twittering laughter fills the air at the new Techstars office on the edge of Chinatown in Boston, as dozens of young engineers, designers, and marketers gather to raise a glass to Katie Rae, a startup veteran with short, curly blond hair and unstoppable energy. The toast is an annual rite of passage for Boston’s startup scene.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Fortunately, social impact startups (for-profit and non-profit) are feeling the love, too, thanks to springboard organizations like Skoll Foundation , Scwab Foundation , Echoing Green and Ashoka. Here are three more programs worth considering if you want to accelerate the growth of your social-impact startup.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In addition to supporting local tech startups, BLUE 1647 also strives to be an education center. Coalition has six locations, with two located in Chicago and others in New York and Boston. A place where your body, mind, and fledgling startup are all welcome? 405 W Superior, Floor 5 & 7. 18 South Michigan Avenue, Floor 12.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2016

Despite many companies and startups advertising (and purporting to implement) company cultures that include the required buzzwords of “unlimited vacation time”, “flexible work schedule”, and “ability to work remote”, many business owners still buy into the idea that “time is money”. Small business and startup tips: training day!

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Hippoland

MARCH 2, 2018

B) We made no CAN investments! :( C) Though we did no investments in TO/Waterloo, Atlanta, Boston, and really anywhere in the midwest in 2017, we have done a TON of investments in these locations in the past and will likely look heavily there in 2018. Here in the US, green is always green. And love Lean Startup 101.

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Hippoland

MARCH 2, 2018

B) We made no CAN investments! :( C) Though we did no investments in TO/Waterloo, Atlanta, Boston, and really anywhere in the midwest in 2017, we have done a TON of investments in these locations in the past and will likely look heavily there in 2018. Here in the US, green is always green. And love Lean Startup 101.

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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. Man, was he pissed!

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 19, 2012

To me, there are a couple of basic reasons: 1) If nothing else, it's geographically closer to more startups than midtown firms like RRE, Greycroft, and Firstmark.so, *why not* put my office here? I'm not limited to making events geographically and being here won't stop me from doing deals in Manhattan, Boston, Toronto, DC or even SF.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

From my point of view, you might think that this isn't important to know for a young startup, but it is essential. Don't forget that Facebook started in a Boston dorm room. Building a specialist team for the startup is worth its weight in gold. Photo Credit: Rob Greene. Thanks to Rob Greene, Price of Meat !

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Rob Go

APRIL 24, 2013

I’m lucky that I have always been able to secure H-1B visas to stay here and work, at least prior to getting my green card. And they will use anything, including things like what happened in Boston last week, to kill it. We need everyone in the tech industry and the world of startups to get behind this bill.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, May 5, 2009 More video "what to do if customers dont like your (initial) product" plus full webcast First up is an interview with Mixergy, about lean startups and what to do if customers dont like your (initial) product. Lawrence Green Thanks for reading, listening, and watching. Long pause.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I think that’s one of the reasons that many of the most interesting bay area startups are choosing to locate themselves in the city. Many “tech companies” now have green screens. In Massachusetts companies (and VCs) have migrated from out by Waltham to Back Bay (Boston) or Cambridge. And make-up artists.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

One of the most common questions I get about the lean startup methodology is, "but what about Steve Jobs ?" So how do you reconcile his success with the lean startup, which seems to suggest the opposite?" Plus, the premise of the question misunderstands the lean startup, too. And he doesnt shy away from big-bang launch events.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Generally, if all tests pass, its happy (a green build) and if any tests fail, it will notify you by email. As with many lean startup practices, its getting started thats the hard part. Still, my experience working with startups has been that too much time spent talking about advanced topics can lead to inaction. Expo SF (May.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Here in our innovation hub of Boston, the country’s oldest subway tunnel built in 1897 is still in use as part of the MBTA Green Line. This year, though, a local startup called Bridj has been making headlines by taking a fundamentally new approach to thinking about mass transportation.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem. And the CTO James McElhiney is also a seasoned entrepreneur (cofounder of Boston Compliance Systems, which he later sold to Thomson Financial), bringing over 20 years of large-scale development expertise to the company.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem. And the CTO James McElhiney is also a seasoned entrepreneur (cofounder of Boston Compliance Systems, which he later sold to Thomson Financial), bringing over 20 years of large-scale development expertise to the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2010

Colin moved back to his home town of Boston before I returned to the US and unfortunately he got divorced from his wife, an Egyptian national, in 2008. Watch a short 3 minute video of Colin being interviewed by the Boston news station - this will make Colin’s situation come to life for you rather than just trusting my blog post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

billion to work across 731 financing deals with US startups, a 50% increase over Q1 2009. Angels are also moving up-stage, leaving a bigger and bigger black hole for new startups. In fact, nine of the ten most active investment firms are located there (with one in Boston). Tags: startups venture capital business.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

A few hours before he had told them, during a talk at Harvard Computer Society, not to come to him for funding, but to seek it elsewhere from individual rich people who had been involved in technology startups themselves. It’s a return to the startup world for Mikhail, and a chance again to push innovation forward.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 22, 2010 The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) The Huffington Post published an op-ed on the Startup Visa movement that Ive been working on for some time. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Bring in an expert CEO with outstanding business credentials and startup experience to focus on relentless execution. I had the privilege, and the misfortune, to be involved with a startup that executed this plan flawlessly. I know of at least five former employees that went on to become startup founders. Focus on quality.

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