Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

While the standard is that ownership is determined based on each owner’s contribution to the LLC, the Articles of Organization or the company’s Operating Agreement can change this, so the amount any owner invests does not necessarily determine the member’s share in profits (or losses) of the company. Verdict : It’s a tie! Verdict : LLC.

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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. He was the CEO of two startups.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’ve also proven that giving new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a dedicated, hands-on chance leads to follow-on funding and additional accelerator success across the board. What happens when you give new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a real chance during a time of economic uncertainty? .

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Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Having taken stock of the main legal documents and actions involved in forming and operating a new startup, let’s crack open the “case” (disregarding the warnings about voiding your warranty) and examine a few of the steps, documents and key decisions to be made in getting a new startup ready for business.

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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. Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California!

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2022

The California-based NatureBox, which had previously raised close to $60 million in funding, offers better-for-you snacks like sugar-free Stryve Beef Biltong and Peanut Butter Maca Cookies delivered direct to homes and offices. The HUNGRY x NatureBox advantage . The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C.,

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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 Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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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 Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2017

The entrepreneur must have a clear vision & focus, must operate in an optimized environment and, most importantly, must work with good people who share the vision. Second, they operate in the flourishing Parisian tech scene. He is the Founder and former CEO of Wind Energy Holdings in Thailand.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

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. Details coming soon!) It sounds interesting. How did it help you?

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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 Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2017

TL;DR : “Founder friendliness” should mean not being hostile, but also not being submissive, to founders. Common Stock Ask the Users Because we’re known as Startup/VC lawyers who don’t represent VCs (just companies), I often get asked about my thoughts on “founder friendliness.” This dynamic is strongest in California.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2013

” Michelle and her business partner Andrew Ekelem are the founders of Chariot Mobility, a company dedicated to updating the manual wheelchair to a low-profile, efficient and ergonomic chair that better serves the needs of its users. “We thought we could use this opportunity to learn efficiently and write a better plan.”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Yet in our case the product, the machine as delivered from engineering, was a blank, featureless computer with just an operating system and compilers. He would go on to be a co-founder of two mechanical engineering software companies.) Years later he would become a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital.)

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Up and Running

JULY 18, 2014

Recently our Bplans audience had the chance to attend a free webinar on Small Business Taxes, hosted by the CEO and founder of TaxAlli.com, Zach Olson. First, let me start off by giving you some more background so again my name is Zach Olson and I’m the founder and CEO of TaxAlli.com. Understanding your cash-flow is just good business.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

Currently this structure is available in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., Maryland was the first U.S. state to adopt this structure in 2010. Bcorporation.net.

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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. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

The early days of a business’ journey require the founders to pour their energy into focusing on getting their product or service perfected and out to customers in the marketplace. If your startup business has more than one founder, a Partnership Agreement, which is an operating agreement, is essential. Partnership Agreements.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Chris Cera, the founder of Vuzit, said that these new customers enabled his company to repay the majority of its investors. Managing a Business Operations Strategy' The bank wanted to develop mobile deposit technology quickly so that it could keep pace with its competitors. 7 Quotes About the Value and Risk of Innovation.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 29, 2023

A well-detailed business plan, a launch plan, early funding, and the right talent and equity from founders are all among the basic ingredients that can help get a startup off the ground. Look for banks that have a longstanding track record of operations, and have provided customers with the right services to get their business going.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money. “Oh

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. The founders, Sunil Guttula and Abinasha Karana, are experienced IT professional with 15 years of experience between them solving various enterprise IT problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. And there you have it. Not a chance.

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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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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

We picked up this name because I, as the founder, consider myself a nerd. When we were searching for business ideas, my co-founder had an idea to use a Google translator. And I came up with the name by discussing it with my co-founders and the reason behind the name stock is With stocks you can get the best of the world.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.”

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC., and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc. He is a former chairman of the Business Software Alliance, and currently is Chair of the LA Chapter of the Technology Council of Southern California.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

As the founder of a company that builds products, it’s important to Aidan that he monetizes their own products sustainably, and without relying on capture of user data. So how does this work in the realm of technology and the ubiquitous “free” app offerings? Slowly, policies are changing to protect users. Paid email services such as HEY!

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. 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. No hassles. No regrets.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I don’t think you need operational experience to be a good VC but Mark Suster’s great new post illustrates the difference. [.] So founders might be tempted to first shoot the arrow and then draw the target around it, by choosing the ‘soft’ metrics that puts them in the best light.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The seeds planted by those who came in the 90′s have begun to blossom 15 years later literally into seed capital, blossoming new entrepreneurs and an ecosystem of experienced operators that powered LA 1.0 and are guiding LA 2.0. But Is This Really That Surprising? Isn’t the Overall Market Just Booming Now? .

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Starting out we really wanted to ensure we got our offering correct – could we effectively deploy capital + sweat + reputation to work with great seed stage founders for the first 3-5 years of their company. Phase 2 California + NYC (2015-2017). ” Phase 1 Bay Area + NYC (2013-14).

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