California, Cofounder, Community and Partner

Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

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."

Cofounder

Cofounder Security Founder Entrepreneur

The Perils of Founder Fighting

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

Nowhere is the politics more difficult than with co-founders, which is why for years I’ve spoken publicly about “ the co-founder mythology.” ” Of course we all go into businesses expecting to be aligned with our co-founders but over time life changes. Equity for the future?

Founder

Founder Sacramento Cofounder Technical Review

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

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise.

Fresno

Fresno Community Technology California

The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

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.

Cofounder

Cofounder Technical Review Social Media PR

Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

00:00:06] DEREK: Tell us about growing up in Northern California, tell us about what your dad did, what your mom did, and your family a little bit. [00:00:52] I grew up in Northern California. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

Cofounder

Cofounder Technical Cofounder San Diego Startup

The One Video Every Silicon Valley Investor Should Watch

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

There was so much great content at the Upfront Summit but I think one held a special place in minds of most people I talked to – our panel on diversity led by my partner Hamet Watt (<– what? We want to partner with you to make money.” you’re not following him?). ” – Earvin Magic Johnson.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Video Los Angeles Philadelphia

How User Input Helped Course Selling Platform Kajabi Relaunch Page Builder

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

We developed Pages based on actual conversations we had with our customers,” explains Kenny Rueter, Kajabi co-founder and CEO. “We We are thrilled to be partnering with the team at Kajabi. A recent user community meetup at Kajabi’s offices in Irvine, California.

Software Developers

Software Developers Software Development Equity Software

What it’s like to found a startup in Estonia

The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Timo Rein is the cofounder & CEO of Pipedrive , and was previously the cofounder of Vain & Partners - the leading Sales Training company in the Baltics. In Estonia, people who set out to build a great business can’t expect to be greeted with encouragement and support from the broader community. With just 1.34

Estonia

Estonia Software Review Europe San Francisco

Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. If you think I’ve missed any, please contact me. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The

Technical Review

Technical Review SBIR Dilution Silicon Valley

30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

Entrepreneur

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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

This week I sat down with Chris Dixon, co-founder / CEO of Hunch and Partner at Founder Collective in the most recent installment of This Week in Venture Capital. 2. Chris then discussed his time as founder and CEO of SiteAdvisor, his first venture-backed startup.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again. Capital Factory focuses on hosting community programming that educates and inspires entrepreneurs, programmers, designers, and community leaders. Texas exports more than California and New York combined.

Texas

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas

30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

I lived in Düsseldorf for some time, and there I came up with the company name idea: “one (idea) for one (client)”, “each custom product for each client”, and “one and only solution for each business partner. 3- After the special feature of our community. We picked up this name because I, as the founder, consider myself a nerd.

Naming

Naming SEO Entrepreneur CPA

Trump Would Hurt Innovation (& I’m With Her)

Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

Personally, I’m committing time and dollars for the next four months to campaign for Hillary but also speak with and learn more about the local and national economic challenges many communities face. Adrian Aoun, Founder/CEO, Forward. Greg Badros, Founder, Prepared Mind Innovations; Former Engineering VP, Facebook.

Cofounder

Cofounder Southern California America Artificial Inteligence

Trump Would Hurt Innovation (& I’m With Her)

Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

Personally, I’m committing time and dollars for the next four months to campaign for Hillary but also speak with and learn more about the local and national economic challenges many communities face. Adrian Aoun, Founder/CEO, Forward. Greg Badros, Founder, Prepared Mind Innovations; Former Engineering VP, Facebook.

Cofounder

Cofounder Southern California America Artificial Inteligence

Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. ” That always stuck with me. That seems very Brad to me.

Community

Community Los Angeles Startup Silicon Valley

How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. We typically do this by partnering with graduate student teams.

Government

Government Technical Review New York Offshore

Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. Fred Turner : I'm Fred Turner, CEO and co-founder of Curative.

Curation

Curation Government Los Angeles Partner

Out of the Crisis #15: Lenore Estrada on her SF New Deal, serving the hungry, and civic engagement

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. It's a genuine win-win: people need food, and we have massive unemployment at the same time.

San Francisco

San Francisco Government Technical Review Community

30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

MARCH 23, 2022

I can now give back to my community in ways that would not have been possible earlier. Thanks to Mike Falahee, Marygrove Awnings Co. ! #7- 14- To solve issues in the beauty community. The plan was to solve those issues not only for us but for others in the beauty community. Thanks to Ruben Gamez, Sign Well ! #6-

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Entrepreneur New Jersey Technical Review

TEDx Bay Area Women, quick fire talks

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. Founder of JackCards.com. This year, TEDWomen focuses on the question: How are women and girls reshaping the future? In any case, the valley is small.

Technical Review

Technical Review Las Vegas Software Review Bangladesh

The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., California.

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26 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2020

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. 2- Impact of building a community. My biggest motivation in being an entrepreneur is the impact of building a community to help bring solutions to the problems we face today. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Social Media Community Cofounder

25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Feeling motivated by this realization, I connected with my brilliant Co-Founder Amy Yuan, who then built a massive database consisting of reviews, assessments, and scientific research related to skincare. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

Entrepreneur

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography?

IPO

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Eric Ries : Amen to that.

Artificial Inteligence

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" a communications tool for enterprises.

Social Network

Social Network Networking Los Angeles Fractional CTO

Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

Austin

Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles

Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city.

Texas

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Should founders have anti-dilution rights?

Equity

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Human-Centered AI

Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li. You can listen to the conversation here.

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Human-Centered AI

Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li. You can listen to the conversation here.

Technical Review

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence America Algorithm

TEDx Bay Area Women, quick fire talks

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. Founder of JackCards.com. This year, TEDWomen focuses on the question: How are women and girls reshaping the future? In any case, the valley is small.

Technical Review

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What I Learned from 500 Educators – Build Back Better Summit – Results

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With the theme “Build Back Better” Jerry Engel , Pete Newell , Steve Weinstein and I co-hosted nearly 500 Lean Educators from 63 countries and 235 universities online for a three-hour session to share what we’ve learned about educators on how we can help our communities rebound, adjust, and recover. Students/Teams.

Lean

Lean Community San Jose Africa

How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. She became part of the fabric of her community. And through this industry legitimacy she was able to get the ear of Dany Levy, the co-founder of Daily Candy.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Cofounder Entrepreneur Startup

Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. It’s home to a small but growing tech community that has been developing over the past decade, and that’s what piqued my interest. What’s Different.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital

Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. And one would become my mentor and partner in later companies.) Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder?

Entrepreneur

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic

Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners. Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. Listen to my entire chat with John.

Channel

Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley

From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Find road-trip partners on Zimride. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Car owners on RelayRides make on average about $250 a month, says founder Shelby Clark. Most Popular E-mail Newsletter.

San Francisco

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City

SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

A finalist in Hyper-Connected Communities , which will pitch at 5 pm Saturday, March 9, UbiGro is a nanotech-enabled greenhouse film by UbiQD, Inc. UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. that red-shifts the sun’s spectrum for improved crop yield and quality. Plants love it.

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Technical Review Startup Harvest Advisory Board

Why International Startups Love NY, and NY VCs Love International Startups

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

One of the drivers for that growth is that for European, Israeli, Latin American, and Eastern Canada-linked companies, the East Coast is much closer than California. Founders’ determination. If you want to start selling abroad, an international founder is an advantage. They burnt their ships behind them.

New York City

New York City Cofounder New York Startup

In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. 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. Why Register? Personalize your own news page.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review

[Event][Singapore] 2015 Battlehack

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 17, 2015

The 2015 BattleHack series will culminate in the World Finals in San Jose, California in November, and the Singapore winner will be flown to the finals at PayPal’s headquarters in Silicon Valley to battle it out with teams from 14 cities around the world for the US$100,000 grand prize and a “battle axe” trophy.

Singapore

Singapore San Jose Los Angeles Silicon Valley

Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

The Perils of Founder Fighting

Trending Sources

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

The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

The One Video Every Silicon Valley Investor Should Watch

How User Input Helped Course Selling Platform Kajabi Relaunch Page Builder

What it’s like to found a startup in Estonia

Free money for your impact tech startup

30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

The Texas Startup Manifesto

30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Trump Would Hurt Innovation (& I’m With Her)

Trump Would Hurt Innovation (& I’m With Her)

Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Out of the Crisis #15: Lenore Estrada on her SF New Deal, serving the hungry, and civic engagement

30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

TEDx Bay Area Women, quick fire talks

The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

26 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Social Networking and Business Value

Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

Human-Centered AI

Human-Centered AI

TEDx Bay Area Women, quick fire talks

What I Learned from 500 Educators – Build Back Better Summit – Results

How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Why International Startups Love NY, and NY VCs Love International Startups

In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

[Event][Singapore] 2015 Battlehack

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