Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I started thinking about my company’s name by being honest about the criticism in my industry. 1 – Clear Company Value.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Today, we are excited to re-release an updated Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech ! I wanted to point out a couple things in the updated guide, but the general theme is that we are simply seeing more, bigger, and better things happening here in Boston. To name a few: 1. Thought leadership originating in Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. Our portfolio companies value us as sparring partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

Know the firm but also know the partnership So by now you have 50 names on a spreadsheet with 8–10 A’s, 8–10 B’s, 10–20 C’s and 10 D’s. Next up you need to now find which partners in which firms have led deals that look like yours. Investment professionals tend to fall into the following categories: Not an investment partner.

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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.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Here is who will be joining the NextView Operator Guilds (for full bios, click the link in their name): Product Guild. For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. Sara Wajnberg, SVP of Product at Oscar. Back to Top).

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud).

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

And while the NextView partners served as the editors and directors of the project to ensure its usefulness to founders, I wanted to share a few of the more surprising or alarming lessons and trends I witnessed after spending weeks of my life staring at actual pitch decks from dozens of startups to inform our templates.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the first stage the Outpost focusses on networking and partnering in the Innovation Cluster in which it is based (i.e. Silicon Valley, Boston). Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. In addition to getting plugged into the ecosystem’s network, the first role of the Outpost is to partner.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

More About Tony Martignetti : Connect with Tony on LinkedIn Check out Inspired Purpose Partners Grab a copy of Campfire Lessons For Leaders: How Uncovering our Past Can Propel Us Forward Like this show? John (00:45): So I see your very Italian last name. [14:20] What is a great medium to cultivate and share campfire stories? [16:24]

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

You need close partners in that journey and you get many sorts of partners - investors, employees etc. - Starting in three cities - Tel Aviv, London and Boston - at almost the same time helped, but can you walk us through how you thought about building a global company from day one? What have you learned from it?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they came up with their business name. #1- 1- Suggestive and evocative name.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

I served on the board of directors until the IPO, and during that time we were able to recruit great firms like Foundry Group, SoftTech VC (now Uncork Capital), Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures. They were originally called BeamIt Mobile (yep – lots of companies change their names during the accelerator program).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I also made several trips to New York & Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I also made several trips to New York & Boston.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor. There were none in the firm, so I remember asking him if he knew of any general partners who were women in the Boston area.

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David Cohen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This leads to the second most common thing I heard, namely that people didn’t really like the messaging, partly because it didn’t satisfactorily address the “why.” The separately funded partner accelerator programs which operate in more than 30 locations worldwide are unchanged.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2023

She is the founder of Sleek Marketing, which offers hands-on education on digital marketing in the Boston area. If you want to find out more about me, you can go to my, the website of the agency that I founded here in Boston in 2014. So Christina, welcome to the show. Or chain mail or whatever. That's just marketing assessment.co.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Name representing a docking station. Once I had a name, CompareNewTyres, I then checked social media and web domains.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

She approached the twins, and, invited up to Boston, met with Cameron at the Fairmont Hotel on a few occasions to discuss how they could leverage the app with this new platform they had named ConnectU.com. Young Upstarts is a media partner of e27 and Echelon 2011.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

After Jim’s company was acquired, Len asked him who else he should talk to in the Boston area. Jim introduced us, and that led to lunch near our office in downtown Boston. It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. Under the terms, he signed his name.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

Our program goes back to basics in the most important, effective, and meaningful ways : weekly one-on-one time with partners, hands-on mentorship from experienced advisors, small and selective cohort sizes, and zero demo days or distracting demo day prep involved. Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts . ” – Rob Go, Partner . ~~~.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 8, 2019

MASSCHALLENGE TEXAS NAMES TOP 14 FINALIST STARTUPS FROM AUSTIN-BASED ACCELERATOR International accelerator to award up to $500,000 in equity-free cash prizes to select top startups from the region’s third startup accelerator program at Oct. Brand, general partner at True Wealth Ventures. 17 awards ceremony (AUSTIN, Texas?—?Sept.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

She is the CEO & General Partner of the investment firm Street Global. 07:20] Can you name a particular instance in your career where you felt like “This is going to work, this is like what I should be doing”? [08:58] Does your superpower have a name? [10:00] I'm curious, does your superpower have a name?

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

As with item 17, Jay Batson , a long-time Techstars Boston mentor, nudged me several times to finish this up and wrote a draft from his perspective. This new hire was a commercial hustler (code named Scott), moving quickly and broadly to try to secure customers and partners, including some of the tech industry’s largest companies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

He and his wife Gwen would found the Computer Museum, first in the lobby of DEC headquarters, then in Boston (and now as the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.) My first inkling that computing had a history (with deep military connections) was looking at the SAGE air defense computer at the Boston Computer Museum.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Outreach and Shippo were both named 2022 Cloud 100 honorees for the second year in a row! . Filebase announced upcoming changes to their platform, namely removing Skynet and Storj integrations permanently. Boston, and Philly. Boston, and Philly. Product Updates & Partnerships. You can read more about the changes here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Local : many entrepreneurs like to use their old friend from Boston even though they’re now living in Boulder. Focus on the partner you would be working with. One issue he talked about was working with partners. I also like to work with partners. How to choose a lawyer -First, you need to pick a firm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. In fact, it’s quite the opposite - making sure you have the same goals as your financing partner is probably the best thing you can do as an entrepreneur to maximize your chances for success.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

According to the National Venture Capital Association/Dow Jones VentureSource, the VC industry is dominated by men (89% of VC Partners), specifically white men (76% of the total). Of all VC Partners studied, just 10% identified as Asian, 1% as African-American, and less than 1% as Latino. the America that is not just white men.).

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Dave Jilk was my first business partner (we co-founded Feld Technologies). Well, at least the “Technologies” survived that naming transition … Dave recently published a book of poetry titled Distilled Moments. The photo above is from Dave’s office at 155 Federal Street around 1991.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

We chose the name CODE2040 as a call to action: the year 2040 is the year that people of color will be the majority in the United States, and we want to see a tech industry that reflects the country by that time. That lead to TAP (Technical Applicant Prep Program), the pilot of which was funded by Google.org.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Mutual Funds.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2018

Empower Cocktails CEO, Tiffany Hall has not only begun to fill that space in beverages, but she has also utilized the Empower Cocktails platform to partner with several non-profits that champion women’s initiatives including the Voss Foundation, Dress for Success Boston, Kicked it in Heels and the Metro-Manhattan Community Foundation to name a few.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

One of the earliest things we did at NextView when my partners and I started working together was go away as a team to the New Hampshire mountains. At the time, I think we didn’t even had a name for the fund. It’s commonly said that the biggest risk facing a new VC firm is disharmony among the partners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. Still, I thought Id share this email that happened to arrive during class. Ive been talking to the folks at [a very good VC firm] about helping them with a new venture. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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