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. Henrique co-founded Brex, a financial service and tech company based in San Francisco, California.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

In the US, San Francisco is synonymous with startups, and the attitudes and opinions that permeate the tech space, from New York to Austin to Silicon Valley, is largely derived from what’s considered the norm in the 415 area code. In California, you are admired, rather than shamed, for your failure. The startup attitude.

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Estonia Software Review Europe San Francisco 143

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

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. When we first moved to San Francisco, they helped us find office space, introduced us to investors and worked with us on architecting a successful Series A.”

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

But I had an hour to kill before lunch and I was on California Street in Palo Alto. I generally try not to stalk people I don’t know when they announce they’re in town, but as a fellow VC (and a partner in Southern California’s largest fund), I felt we had a legitimate reason to connect.

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Social Network Networking Southern California Term Sheet 347

techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

This is where a lot of founders get stuck. Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements.

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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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Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Cofounder Cram Down 284

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. San Francisco.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Let’s have a look at what early stage founders can expect in terms of oxygen. Paying 0% in state income tax in Texas versus up to ~10% in California or ~6.5% You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

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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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San Diego San Francisco Alabama Valuation 156

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

In the US, places like San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, and Washington, DC get the lion’s share of attention as startup sweet spots. In the past, large numbers of Philly’s top students flocked to California, New York, and Chicago after graduation. To locals, Pennsylvania’s largest metro area is simply “Philly”.

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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. Within a year, Freja hopes to be selling VegiMeat in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Tuesday, September 13 - San Francisco TechCrunch Disrupt It all begins at TechCrunch Disrupt. Tuesday, September 27 - San Francisco Home, home again. I'm honored to be hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California, who I've spent many hours listening to on public radio. I'd really appreciate it. It'll be fun.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

MyTab Next, Heddi Cundle from San Francisco, California, discussed MyTab , an online gift-registry of sorts to raise money for travel. In it, I have mapped out a similar project, but with a clear delineation of the segmentation and positioning as well as a go-to-market strategy. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Adam Hertz, a cable company executive in San Francisco , and his wife, Joan, have enthusiastically embraced the movement. 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. Thats real money."

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San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Nevertheless, there are literally thousands of other examples scattered around the country, each of which grew from a founder or two with an idea to a successful growth company employing scores, hundreds or even thousands of skilled employees, with the attendant benefits to the local and national economy.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Hypemarks was a Los Angeles social sharing startup that after about a year of failing to gain traction and turn a profit, changed course, moved to San Francisco and became Tint , an embeddable social-feed service. For Tint, founder and chief executive Tim Sae Koo says his focus is building a strong team. start-up world.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 19, 2015

Co-hosted by First Ascent Associates and Runway Incubator, “Cannabis Startups: Exploring the Opportunities & Challenges” will take place on May 26, 2015 at Runway Incubator in San Francisco, California. Founder and CEO … Continue reading →

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San Francisco San Jose Silicon Valley Incubator 28

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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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. MapWide.com. Next, Dr. S.

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? To some extent – of course they are. But this time there really is something happening in LA. It is different. Structural.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 10, 2011

You can click on the filters such as Founder Status (#3) and Job Title (#4) to filter to that particular data. For example, if you hover over the big circle in California you can see that there were 303 responses for the San Francisco Bay Area. Most non-founders have less than 2%.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 10, 2011

You can click on the filters such as Founder Status (#3) and Job Title (#4) to filter to that particular data. For example, if you hover over the big circle in California you can see that there were 303 responses for the San Francisco Bay Area. Most non-founders have less than 2%.

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Salary Equity San Francisco Dilution 175

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2020

The founders of Hewlett Packard. This place in California is the center of technology. Major cities in the region are San Jose, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View. San Jose is the biggest city. But the ambiance in the San Francisco Bay Area looked a lot more sci fi-ish than spy-ish.

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Silicon Valley San Jose San Francisco Entrepreneur 160

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

Over the past 20 years in San Francisco I went from negative net-worth grad student to Silicon Valley “Middle Class” (the 2%) to running a venture fund that, if we do our job, will ultimately put me in the 1% or better (in California the average annual household income of the 1% is an astounding $1.4m+).

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Vesting .Net 195

keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The founders had been dropping hints that they wanted me to join them. This book was written to help founders negotiate financing with investors, but it really helped me understand Keen’s financial situation, and I highly recommend it to anyone joining a startup. So I knew a little bit. I knew enough to know I wanted to join a startup.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2013

By Ali Behnam, co-founder of Riviera Partners. Ali is a graduate of the University of California at Irvine with a BA in Economics. He and his wife and their two children currently reside in San Francisco, CA. The new hire process, particularly at the executive level, is a significant decision and can be quite involved.

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Hiring San Francisco Due Diligence Cofounder 191

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Eliqs is a Southern California based start-up who creates custom-designed craft beverage cans for any occasion worth celebrating. We had a chance to interview the founders: Dave Goldman, Max Berg, and Joe Schwappach and asked about their story, how they started their business and the future of Eliqs.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

After several visits skiing here, I had become smitten with the “mojo” of Bend – its superb quality of life, recreational opportunities and proximity to the San Francisco Bay Area. Founders Pad. Bend needed its own venture firm. Bend needs to attract more entrepreneurs.

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Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital 312

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke. Last year’s winner was San Francisco-based DODOcase , which retails beautiful hand-crafted iPad cases, which was founded by Patrick Buckley and Craig Dalton and has projected annual earnings of US$5 million a year. That’s one awesome package, and that’s not even the grand prize.

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San Francisco New York City Entrepreneur Singapore 176

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco. Extra credit if you know the back-story of slide 1 and why it’s appropriate for founders and their team. The video below was my presentation to the group. sgblank Lean Startup Cirle 111909 This movie requires Adobe Flash for playback.

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Customer Development Developer Silicon Valley Customer 212

Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

A company that’s not going to grow much beyond a sole proprietorship or a side gig has vastly different software needs than a tech startup whose founders are planning on an eventual IPO. Adam holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Entrepreneurship and a Master’s Degree in Accounting from University of Southern California.

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Software Small Business Southern California San Francisco 59

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Where as most start-up founders start with the conviction that they know success looks like and [.] Reply Best books for the lean product managers — Justin Gibbs , on April 28, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said: [.] familiar with Customer Development you should be. It’s very different than the traditional product development model.

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Product Development Developer Silicon Valley Product 143

Scalable Startup

JUNE 7, 2012

Southern California Angels on Twitter and Facebook. Are you a southern California angel (or do you know one) who’d like to be on our list? Thomas McInerney (Los Angeles & San Francisco). Click here to add an angel. Jason Calacanis (Los Angeles). Sample Investments: [link]. Matt Coffin (Los Angeles).

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Founder Nick Woodman had recently been on a surfing trip to Indonesia, and was unable to find amateur photographers who could get close enough to get good action-shot pictures of him surfing, or who could obtain quality equipment at an affordable price. And, there’s the added bonus of encouraging people to drive better. Very clever.

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San Francisco Software Review Indonesia Product 134

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

Co-located in Shanghai and San Francisco, the AirPop product brand is a line of sensing, high-efficiency air pollution accessories for 4 billion+ people breathing pervasive ambient air pollution. AirPop’s co-founder Chris Hosmer (pictured above) answered our questions for this interview. How does that split in cities work?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. Raylene Yung : I live in San Francisco. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. We're looking at the city of San Francisco's website or the state of New Jersey's websites and the resources that are made available.

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