Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2011

In this exclusive Caplinked interview with Peter Thiel – co-founder of PayPal and managing partner of Founders Fund – discusses why he invested in Facebook, the differences between Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and why he would not start PayPal today knowing what he now knows.

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MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). He knows the ad management and ad network businesses.

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View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2022

Founders: Anita Broellochs & Alex Shirazi. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . She has previously co-founded the SVCMS group, an organization hosting the Cultured Meat Symposium and the Cultured Meat and Future Food Show. Company: Balletic Foods. ” – David Beisel.

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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. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. Technical founder.

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MARCH 1, 2007

The articles I cited there around finding co-founders suggests that Ben is on the money. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. No small task Ben. in Computer Science.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2017

by Robert Schulte, founder and CEO of LumaTax . To contrast, in California, affiliate nexus dictates that out-of-state retailers related to any entity located in California – including those with similar patents or trademark – must collect sales tax. Confused yet?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. A big thank you to my friend Josh Webb who provided the transcription for This Week in Venture Capital with Tige Savage , Managing Director and co-founder of Revolution.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. I was in California at that point, where there were a handful of women, which to me was already really inspirational. Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. Let’s move to Floodgate now.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Rossanna Ceccato is the founder of Redress, a disruptive clothing platform that helps women renew and refresh their wardrobes through dress swaps. I have been continually impressed by Sarah Hawley, the founder of Growmotely. As a ‘virgin' entrepreneur he managed to power through several sectors to become the king of his castle.

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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 A recent user community meetup at Kajabi’s offices in Irvine, California. Next, we had to figure out how we could deliver that while staying drop dead simple to operate. User Influence.

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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. Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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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. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Part of the discussion around this is the talk about the founder who only got $83M (as compared to $3xxM for the other founders) who bailed out early and choose to go back to school. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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MARCH 9, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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MARCH 13, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

Adrian Aoun, Founder/CEO, Forward. Greg Badros, Founder, Prepared Mind Innovations; Former Engineering VP, Facebook. Clayton Banks, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem. John Battelle, Founder/CEO, NewCo, Inc. Ayah Bdeir, Founder/CEO, Little Bits. Piraye Beim, Founder/CEO, Celmatix. Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

Adrian Aoun, Founder/CEO, Forward. Greg Badros, Founder, Prepared Mind Innovations; Former Engineering VP, Facebook. Clayton Banks, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem. John Battelle, Founder/CEO, NewCo, Inc. Ayah Bdeir, Founder/CEO, Little Bits. Piraye Beim, Founder/CEO, Celmatix. Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Some items from the pod cast: 100,000 - babies born as a result of relationships started on eHarmony 15M registered 1% of marriages in US this year resulting from eHarmony I dont know if these are true, but still, the impact of the vision of the original founders Neil Clark Warren and Greg Forgatch is amazing. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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MARCH 12, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. San Francisco, California. Alexia Tsotsis. Thursday, August 9th, 2012. View Staff Page. Gift Guide.

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