Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub.

Kenya 45

Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. This raised the company's name, despite all controversies. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood. 9- Howard Schultz.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Southern California South Africa 95

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.

Fresno 60

Fresno Community Technology California 60

NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Rick Kiessig – Cofounder. ” “ Before you have a product, a company or product name, a domain name, business cards, a logo – even before you have a company.

Founder 117

Founder Cofounder New Zealand Incubator 117

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. with their startups growing by 81.2

United States 82

United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 82

Up and Running

OCTOBER 20, 2014

As an entrepreneur, you’ll learn what kind of work you enjoy and start to understand how you can make a difference in your community,” he says. For Will von Bernuth, co-founder of Block Island Organics, a family-run sun care startup, the flexible schedule allows him to help his parents. Reason #7: Fill a void in the community.

Cofounder 165

Cofounder West Virginia Taiwan Virginia 165

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

What’s the name of the company? Dan: The name of the company is Member Desk. So Member Desk is a virtual and yet it can also be physical, literally sitting in the front of the co- working space inexpensive way to do that for pretty much any organization. e.g., “Thanks @TheDaveCollins for sponsoring #SmartBearLive!”

Cofounder 199

Cofounder Technical Review Chicago Technical Cofounder 199

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

You just don't wind up with $25 million to name a dorm unless you've gotten equity upside in something. Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder. Be a community center. They don't have to be big, contrived incubators--just a few couches and maybe a plug or two--and open wifi. Kick the students out.

Incubator 118

Incubator .Net Cofounder Software Developers 118

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks).

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. And that involves processes, structures, feedback loops, analytics and a community.”. Still, a product is nothing without scalability.

Cost 168

Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. with their startups growing by 81.2

United States 48

United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 48

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. Namely, windfall revenue from oil means that the Texas taxman does not collect personal or corporate income taxes (on the state level).

Early Stage 48

Early Stage Austin Silicon Valley Texas 48

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 8, 2018

As a female entrepreneur, I’m constantly blown away by the collaborative energy of female founders. In a space where it’s so easy to be competitive, a lot of the women I meet want to be helpful and support other founder’s visions in a collaborative way. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur United States Software Review Technical Review 101

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2020

He changed the way we perceive parenting by giving prospective parents the chance to meet others who are interested in co-parenting without the hassle of a relationship. Since 1971, Patagonia owner and founder Yvon Chouinard has been a bona fide maverick in the business world. 5- Sara Blakely, the founder and inventor of Spanx.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Cofounder Naming Asia 126

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. another account.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In the summer of 2015, our co-founder/managing editor, Stephanie Choporis, was a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and tasked with the following assignment: develop an idea for a new media product. Team Info: Co-Founder/Managing Editor: Stephanie Choporis. Thank you Happenstance.

Chicago 147

Chicago Illinois New York City Cofounder 147

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Almost immediately, people started to dig what we were doing: Digital Trends named Localeur one of their favorite new apps of SXSW 2013 and other press followed. First, I wrote a post on Christmas Day 2015 sharing what happened to my startup after we were rejected by YCombinator, the renowned startup incubator in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco 48

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. John recently co-founded P360, a business that produces animated training content for the military, and he works for BMNT Partners.

Channel 120

Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

A finalist in Hyper-Connected Communities , which will pitch at 5 pm Saturday, March 9, UbiGro is a nanotech-enabled greenhouse film by UbiQD, Inc. UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. In October, UbiQD was one of the five selected companies for the Wells Fargo Incubator program.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Startup Harvest .Net 54

Hunter Walker

JULY 25, 2017

When I was about 7 years old, my parents told me that if I had been female, my name would have been Heather. So when Joe Marchese introduced me to Heather Hartnett for more information about the NYC startup studio they were cofounding, I was predisposed to feel a kinship. Together we set out on this journey.

Cofounder 72

Cofounder New York City Framework Startup 72

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 23, 2018

They enter the room with big names and leave with an even bigger stack of business cards. Many of these events can be isolating for startup founders or leaders of growing companies; without name recognition or existing relationships, they struggle. But what about entrepreneurs? Building for Entrepreneurs.

Croatia 104

Croatia Utah Cofounder Curation 104

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I see the name of Noel’s company. Why don’t you give Jason the name of your company or your URL? We’re an integrate from that company but we had a lot of regret in hindsight when it came with the name that we picked. The name game. Melissa: OK.

Widget 204

Widget Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 204

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. Immerse yourself in the tech community at Techweek. Below, we at Bizzabo have compiled a list of the 20 upcoming US tech conferences you must attend.

Las Vegas 165

Las Vegas North America Silicon Valley New York City 165

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. A name like 500 Startups says it all.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

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. These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer.

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Earlier this year, Forbes Magazine named Madison the 7th most innovative city in the U.S., With over 60 member companies, the group has helped bring the Madison entrepreneur community together. But over the last few years, the city has gained a reputation as an emerging technology startup hub in the Midwest.

Wisconsin 149

Wisconsin Angel Investor Social Media Incubator 149

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Throughout the pandemic, the company’s community-based model showed strong resilience while the importance of its culture and values shone through. Today, more than 90 million BlaBlaCar community members travel by carpool of long-distance buses across 22 markets. How did you go from VC to founder?

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62

Hearpreneur

JULY 16, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. When choosing a name, we wanted to incorporate the concept of collectiveness that is so important in a world connected by social media.

Naming 48

Naming LLC Entrepreneur Merger 48

Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I come up with this business name with a few ideas that lead to one thing. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. Like a help centre.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur PR Spain 48

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

My name is Crystal Williams, and I maintain a small business blog called Babeofbusiness.com. It is certaintly a great list to motivate me to get reading again. Keep up the great work! Reply Crystal Williams , on April 12, 2009 at 10:38 am said: Hi Steve! … Thanks!

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The Telefonica-backed Wayra London incubator officially opened its doors last year, but its current intake of startups have only called it home for around seven months. Founder, Robyn Exton, explained to TNW that location had to still be included as a relevant factor but exactly how important it was varies from person to person.

Croatia 147

Croatia Bulgaria Startup Cofounder 147

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Besides the financial benefits that sharing space provides, coworking offers access to networking and communities that can be invaluable to any new or growing business. This coworking space gets its name from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but not to commemorate the fire itself. The advantages to coworking are numerous. Canalport Ave.

Chicago 60

Chicago Michigan Harvest Massachusetts 60

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. There are a handful of respected incubators operating in the city, including Startup Edmonton and TEC Edmonton. Broadband.tv com for $575 million.

Silicon Valley 83

Silicon Valley Canada Entrepreneur Startup 83

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder.

Seattle 317

Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317