YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

by Pabla Ayala, cofounder of pFunk Media Is your holiday gift-giving list becoming longer and pricier than your current wallet can handle? Paul, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. Requirements: The only requirement is having the time to fulfill your orders in a timely manner to your customers.

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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 And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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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 And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis.

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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 And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. Here’s why that is important: when users are on your website you want to convert them to become paying customers. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Communication Secrets Of The World’s Greatest Salesman written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Carmine Gallo. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Carmine Gallo. Bezos reimagined the way leaders write, speak, and motivate teams and customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. Marketing materials.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

by Whitney Keyes , author of “ Propel: Five Ways to Amp Up Your Marketing and Accelerate Business “ In the United States, one thing the city of Seattle, WA, is best known for is its coffee, but there’s an innovative partnership happening around another source of caffeine and that’s the cocoa bean. The result?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

For anyone who is thinking of starting a new business, entering a niche market makes a lot of sense. The mainstream markets are typically over-saturated and it’s a lot harder to get noticed or to offer something that isn’t already available. The start-up now has over 15,000 customers and a deal with Urban Outfitters.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We tend to stick by founders in tough times and often roll up our sleeves in the darkest hours. A Sense of Purpose. Conviction.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Home About Contact Make It Happen: How to find a Programmer My weekly post on Seattle 2.0. The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2019

Frank and Oak stylists pick out what you need (there’s plenty of room for customization). Gencove raised $3M to expand its genome sequencing platform, including developing new applications for agricultural markets, as well as expanding Gencove’s commercial operations in human genetics. You can read the press release here.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Each day some new story comes out about some creative marketing plan that takes the cake and drives huge traffic to a business. Whether you pull off unique marketing stunts, have products which need no introduction or style yourself as an innovative CEO, having a defining quality is what customers will notice. #1

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

” For Lindsay Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Theme Dragon, Inc that opportunity was founding a tech company. She and original cofounder Megan Bradford poured their proverbial blood, sweat and tears into this enterprise. Keep customers at the forefront, and listen to them. You can check out further details here. .

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

When John Brockman ,founder of Edge , interviewed NathanMyhrvold his first question was “ What’s a CTO ”,to which Nathan replied: “Hell if I know. In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires. I am posting it here as it might be of generalinterest.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

CEO Don Bunnell answered some questions about the Seattle, Wash.-based we will tell our customers. In 2003, I co-founded Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc., I also have been on the boards of other companies and co-founded a non-profit focused on bringing market-based solutions to refuges in situations of long-term confinement.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

We sell the winning designs to customers in the form of personalized wedding invitations, Christmas cards , and other stationery and photo card products. I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And if you look elsewhere at places like Seattle you see the same pattern; Microsoft may have been built in Redmond, but Amazon and many of the more recent startups like Zillow, Redfin, Zulily, etc are all in Seattle’s downtown core. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago?

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Austin Startup

JULY 15, 2017

Every founder screws up at some point; almost none of them do so on purpose. Starting with my broad arguments he appropriated: Prop 1's small turnout not representing sentiments of actual TNC users , as clearly evidenced by Uber’s and Lyft’s rapid recapture of a majority of RideAustin’s market share.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

They can’t rely on existing markets or customer awareness to help generate interest. Customers can be reluctant to try something they don’t understand or they haven’t seen before. This means that products in this category need to launch with a robust marketing plan. Myth #7: All customers have the same wants and needs.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. I'm the founder and executive director of SF New Deal. Prior to COVID, I was and still am the founder and owner of Three Babes Bakeshop, a small bakery business here in San Francisco. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Who’s next?

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 27, 2018

Congratulations to the past and present DocuSign team for their incredible achievements, as the company makes its public market debut. It’s rare to see any type of technology reach such a range of customers - from very large companies to individual users across all industries. And this is just the beginning!

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Version One Ventures

MAY 15, 2019

Dolly gives retailers the ability to offer same day or scheduled delivery, while providing an elevated experience that allows the customer to pick the delivery time. Dolly is also an easy way to move furniture from one apartment to another, bring a dresser home from the flea market, or haul bulky items to Goodwill.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The report details some of the high profile success stories in Vancouver: In the early days Slack’s founder estimated the market for the software to be $100 million, which they exceeded in just three years—and have now become the fastest growing business software of all time. Broadband.tv com for $575 million.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Scarborough, the co-founder of Tourism Currents, will speak at the Austin Innotech eMarketing Summit Oct. You will see results even from people who aren’t connected to you, which is horrible for privacy considerations but useful in market research. It’s just customer service, folks. 28 at 1 p.m.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. Like a parent, Y Combinator protected and guided a group of eight applicants who were chosen to be part of the Y Combinator Summer Founders Program.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The report details some of the high profile success stories in Vancouver: In the early days Slack’s founder estimated the market for the software to be $100 million, which they exceeded in just three years—and have now become the fastest growing business software of all time. Broadband.tv com for $575 million.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Other factors such as your team, the market you are in, your ability to execute, and in fact other terms in your term sheet are much, much more important to your outcome and financial outcome than is the valuation of your company at the time of financing. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Seek customer / market validation early. Posted by: Heather Plude | February 21, 2010 7:19 AM @John Yeng Kevin Rose is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur and the Founder of Digg and WeFollow. Rose also co-founded Revision3, and Pownce (acquired by Six Apart). This gives you upfront money from a customer.

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