Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. You need close partners in that journey and you get many sorts of partners - investors, employees etc. - The co-founder / marriage analogy is apt.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Claudia Freed, CEO of the Wheaton Illinois-based nonprofit EALgreen. In 2021, EAL helped corporate partners keep 5,056 mt of products out of landfills. As an immigrant student from Argentina, Ms. and North Park University. TSM: Fantastic!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

I have been evangelizing to founders for years to be more thoughtful about how startups update investors and run board meetings so I would be pretty hypocritical if I wasn’t willing to try and be more effective myself. In Los Angeles the venture community is very collaborative. I had a few objectives in mind.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

Jonathon Karelse is co-founder and a partner at NorthFind Partners, a Canadian-based, global consultancy that helps businesses transform through the use of data driven analytics, forecasting and planning, and change management strategies. But Jonathon Karelse says they couldn’t be more wrong.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

We are looking to bring on board a versatile new team member to support the varied internal operations of the firm as well as collaborate with the partners on our external programs and communications with the broader entrepreneurial community. We have a high-conviction, hands-on approach to seed investing. A Final Note.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A new option for founders who care about control.

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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."

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2023

In the entrepreneur world, your perception is equally critical, except the “managers” in this world are your investors, customers, vendors, business partners, and team members. Everyone needs to realize that whether it’s in the workplace or in the startup community, business is a new world today with new rules.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. – SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks. Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2020

I’ve been involved with a number of leaders in the Colorado tech community since Wednesday morning as we’ve aggressively mobilized to address the Covid-19 crisis. wherever possible we are strongly encouraging our vendors, service providers and partner businesses to take similar precautions. Every hour counts.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. Hang out in tech entrepreneur rich communities. New Web Order. 5th November 2010. #.

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Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2015

A business in its early stages can often use a leg up, whether in the form of wise words from a mentor or an introduction to a strategic partner. Incubators provide that very important sense of community. Q&A with Joe Maruschak, co-founder of Fertilab Thinkubator . This is where incubators come in. Where do we go?

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# So, why should they pick you?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Small retailers are the bedrock of our communities, and consumers will still choose to shop retail when the experience is worth it. Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot. Local delivery has also been a saving grace for a lot of retailers with close ties to their community. Community is everything, especially during hard times.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Pre-swag surf group photo of HBCU@SXSW students and Spike Lee at Capital One House Over the past several years, tech communities across the United States have attempted to make significant progress towards increasing diversity and inclusion in their industries. Placement is 90%!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills. Investors worry about a single entrepreneur getting overloaded, disabled or led astray, with no balancing and supporting partner. The challenge is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner. The challenge is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Fifteen had co-founders over 40. Five have LGBTQ+ founders. Three teams have African-American founders. All were backed based on the sole criteria that they had the potential to make my limited partners a lot of money.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

medical community. The enterprise focuses on bringing the best global medical partners to the U.S. market and partners with medical device dealers across the U.S. IML’s expansion success also includes planned educational resources for the U.S. market while offering expanded educational opportunities and resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

In the entrepreneur world, your perception is equally critical, except the “managers” in this world are your investors, customers, vendors, business partners, and team members. Everyone needs to realize that whether it’s in the workplace or in the startup community, business is a new world today with new rules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills. Investors worry about a single entrepreneur getting overloaded, disabled or led astray, with no balancing and supporting partner. The challenge is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner. The challenge is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

You’re spending much of your time selling: the vision to employees, the opportunity to investors, the story to the press, the offering to the customers, the relationship to partners. Can your lack of interest or skill in “selling” be counter-balanced by a cofounder or team that’s great at it? Yes and No. Notes and More.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Brian Balfour, Founder & CEO of Reforge.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 23, 2023

Our participation in Anchor ( later acquired by Spotify ) generated both a return and a friendship between us and the founders. Specifically I’ve had the chance to spend meaningful time over the years with Michael Mignano as he went from startup CEO to Executive/Angel Investor and now VC Partner at Lightspeed. Was I right?

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

My partner ( Steve Schlafman ) and I recently launched Tapestry , an exercise for founders to invest in their relationships, and it was met with an incredible reaction. I had done a lot of this work in the past with founding teams and co-founders and never had a great catch all way of explaining it. to launch Tapestry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 7, 2021

He’s the founder of the pioneering content marketing website Copyblogger , the midlife personal growth newsletter Further , and Unemployable , an educational community that provides smart strategies for freelancers and entrepreneurs. 17:25] Should I be looking at developing my own currency if I am a content creator with a community? [21:37]

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Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

Mission-driven organizations strive to serve their communities and constituents with integrity and purpose. Consider this: When boards embrace diversity, the pulse of our communities strengthens, and our impact magnifies. Far beyond corporate strategy; it’s about fulfilling missions effectively.

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Up and Running

JUNE 29, 2015

You don’t have to do everything yourself—a partner can be an asset to your business. For this reason, you might consider working with a business partner. But, how can you find and cultivate a business partner relationship like that? Here are several places to find the perfect partner for your business.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. This investment will accelerate our work to build the metaverse and create spaces where players can have fun with friends, brands can build creative and immersive experiences and creators can build a community and thrive.”

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

GrabCAD & Professional Communities. Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. January 4, 2012.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Feenix Venture Partners has a unique investment model that couples investment capital with payment processing services.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate.

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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.

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