crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M We champion founders redesigning the Everyday Economy , and to many, that brings to mind consumer businesses in particular. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M We champion founders redesigning the Everyday Economy , and to many, that brings to mind consumer businesses in particular. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn’t be about the money.”

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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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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M We champion founders redesigning the Everyday Economy , and to many, that brings to mind consumer businesses in particular. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

And over time, I envision that eco-system after eco-system around the world would learn how to use this program to do effective and precise entrepreneurship development, not spray and pray, which is largely what goes on today, with huge amount of resources being wasted. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Midwest.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We needed routers, switches, databases, caching software, load balancers, application servers, browsers, compression algortyhms, streaming technology, low-cost storage, management consoles, programming libraries and on and on. We see improvements in wireless transmission and in real-time programming languages.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Create a stream of translational entrepreneurship literature for practitioners (founders and VC’s.) . Innovation and entrepreneurship programs in most schools use experienced business practitioners as lecturers or adjunct faculty to teach some or all of their classes. Expose faculty to current industry practices.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

We picked up this name because I, as the founder, consider myself a nerd. I’m so much into math and programming, so I decided that this type of wordplay would be a great fit for the name of a digital marketing agency. When we were searching for business ideas, my co-founder had an idea to use a Google translator.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Howard Marks, the co-founder of game giant Activision, and the current co-chair at the Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine , was born in Santa Monica to European parents, grew up in France and came back to the states for college. . For Tint, founder and chief executive Tim Sae Koo says his focus is building a strong team.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In junior high and high school, I did a bunch of programming, mostly self-taught. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 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. Sunny Shah , assistant director and faculty of the ESTEEM Graduate Program at the University of Notre Dame. Sunny Shah. Curt Haselton. Sunny received his Ph.D.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Dakin Sloss , co-founder of Tachyus , which offers predictive analytics and quantitative optimization for the petroleum industry.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Dakin Sloss , co-founder of Tachyus , which offers predictive analytics and quantitative optimization for the petroleum industry.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 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. Peter Arvai , co-founder of Prezi , an interactive presentation platform. Jim Semick. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were. Peter Arvai.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

That evening, there will be a casual talk followed by a book signing at Town Hall Seattle (co-sponsored with Lean Startup Seattle). Co-sponsored by the Rock Center & the Harvard innovation lab. I'm honored to be hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California, who I've spent many hours listening to on public radio.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 26, 2017

In this episode of Ideas to Invoices, Will Mitchell, co-founder of Contract Simply, discusses how his startup pivoted from a consumer marketplace called Renovate Simply to a business to business enterprise software company for the construction and banking industry.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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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. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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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.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Read about Pei’s experience going through the application process to Sputnik ATX and moving from California to Texas on the fly. With less than 2 days between being accepted and starting the program , we packed up our bags and took Pei to Austin, Texas. But… that was easier said than done. SHOWTIME Time came and went.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 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. Sunny Shah , assistant director and faculty of the ESTEEM Graduate Program at the University of Notre Dame. Sunny Shah. Curt Haselton. Sunny received his Ph.D.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 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. Michael Mondavi , founder and coach of Folio Fine Wine Partners. Magdalena Yesil. Joining me in from the studio at Stanford University were. Michael Mondavi.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

Digital Response (USDR) CalFresh Onward California Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1935-1944" SF New Deal donation/volunteer page Transcript for Out of the Crisis #15: SF New Deal Eric Ries : This is Out of the Crisis, I'm Eric Ries.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

It also made me understand what kind of support sales people needed from marketing and what marketing programs were wasted motion. If you hire a VP of Sales with the idea that they can do customer discovery you violated the first principle of Customer Development – this isn’t a step the can be outsourced to a non-founder.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 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. Michael Mondavi , founder and coach of Folio Fine Wine Partners. Magdalena Yesil. Joining me in from the studio at Stanford University were. Michael Mondavi.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2016

.’ I will graduate January 12, 2016 from Cicville.com, a local startup program for entrepreneurs, and an affiliate of WIBO (Workshop in Business Opportunities), founded in the 60s to help the homeless and impoverished start their businesses. One of Adam’s favorite vacation destinations: Big Sur, California. “

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

As part of the National Science Foundation I-Corps program, NYU was responsible for training our country’s top scientists – and they’ve taught 170 of them so far. Over the last two years they used part of the National Science Foundation funds to send eight NYU faculty to California attend the Lean LaunchPad Educators program.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. Leo Beranek led the EAL and went on to co-found BBN.

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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.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce. I might have pursued a humanities education at a “ kumbaya college ” in California, but it’s only human to be at least a little bit selfish!

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As the CEO of Hera Hub , the global co-working space, Felena recognized an opportunity to build a female-focused coworking space largely because she couldn’t find one that catered to her needs. Nichole MacDonald, founder of The Sash Bag secured multiple rounds of funding and advisors through the Hera Hub community.

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