Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

One of the first tough decisions that startup founders have to make is how to allocate or split the equity among co-founders. Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. In many cases, one founder has started earlier and brings an important completed piece of work to the table, and that can have great value.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

This difficulty is something that Jatin Mehta, one of the co-founders of SpeedyBrand, is aware of. Before being distributed through a variety of channels, the automatically generated content can undergo additional personalization via SpeedyBrand’s user-friendly dashboard and be edited.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. were more distributed. Seriously, this happens.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

To be fair, many businesses had distributed teams even before COVID-19 blindsided us. In fact, according to Founders Forum’s survey of 400+ startup owners, 94% of the respondents were already working from home before the pandemic. Out-of-sync teams: The communication gap between co-workers can throw the entire team off-track.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Now, cofounders Paul Simpson and Dominic Sutton are sharing what they learned during the ups and downs of the journey. That’s where the founder thing comes in, whereas the Angels are more focused on growth projections and risk.”. A company is more than the CEO / founder, so tell your angel investors who’s in your team.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. Usually it’s starvation — can’t get enough customers (distribution) to pay enough money for long enough (product/market fit).

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For the next entry in The Startup Magazine’s founder interview series , we are featuring Alejandro Russo, founder of Candela Mamajuana. TSM: How do you handle the challenge of balancing the demands of entrepreneurship with personal life responsibilities and parenthood? Alejandro: It’s not easy! That’s for sure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. What I was interested in seeing was that a lot of these founders believe that they’re not just creating technology, they're creating change and culture. Let’s move to Floodgate now.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer. Step 1: Test your demand. It may surprise you to learn that the technology itself takes a back seat to market demand.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Neil Blumenthal , the youthful cofounder of Warby Parker, a disruptive company that transformed the conservative eyewear industry by creating affordable, stylish glasses for people across the world, defined a startup as “ a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed. “

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2015

My cofounder, Jason Keck, heads up our tech and runs everything related to our app. As a distributed team, our 2X/week team calls were crucial and the free services like Google Hangouts, Skype and FreeConferenceCall.com seemed to always have some kind of call quality problem. We say it’s like having a fitness class in your earbuds.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. Of course, with Wisita, you must create the audience for your videos—there’s no inherent distribution network (unlike YouTube). DailyMotion reports 300 million active users; they watch more than 3.5 billion videos per month.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As Jerry Chu , CEO and one of the Lofty AI Founders, explains, “our results speak for themselves. We’re actually a distributed team, so we’re in both SF and LA. But my personal favorite part about San Francisco is the energy of the startup founders and the investor network. If you had bought one of our A.I.’s

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Others believe in the start small, grow strong approach: build a small version of the app, test user demand, and then take it from there. Then, about two weeks before launch, I distributed a survey to those 256 partners. This could have validated their interest and provided me with a tangible proof of demand.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Personal Technology. What They Know.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography?

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

The demand for top talent is monumental, and the process of finding and hiring the best workers can be excruciating. I spoke with Toptal Co-founder and CEO Taso Du Val to find out more about how Toptal got started and his predictions for the future of the talent economy. How did you come up with the idea for Toptal?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. There continues to be an incredible demand out there for actionable, practical lessons in how to apply this emerging set of ideas. You can order it on Amazon.

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View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

However … An unfortunate side effect of this particular POTAJ is that, in many startup pitches, entrepreneurs focus so much on product or tech that they leave out one crucial, deal-making-or-breaking detail: distribution. As NextView’s David Beisel likes to say, “We live in a demand-constrained world.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Distribution. A good product with great distribution is more likely to win a Glengarry Glen Ross market than a great product with poor distribution. Designing a scalable economic model isn’t enough if the company can’t scale up operations to meet demand. Distribution. High Gross Margins. Operational Scalability.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The company was started six weeks ago, had no sales and no retail distribution yet. The founder, Shelton Wilder (in the middle below), sought to raise $60,000 for 20% of the company to build inventory. Shelton came under intense questioning about how she justified her valuation given no proof of demand.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Prior to joining Syndio, Colacurcio co-founded Smartsheet.com , a work collaboration tool for companies of all sizes. The pay gap speaks to the distribution of women and minorities in a company. Millennials now outnumber any other generation in the workforce, and they are demanding transparency around pay.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. To stand out and demand a premium, media companies will have to go back to doing actual journalistic work.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. What are the customer’s alternatives?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? On Sushi and VC. Everything we do.

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Transformify

MARCH 24, 2020

Even before coronavirus pandemic, investors were already asking tech startup founders ‘’What is your remote work strategy?’’ Many companies provide co-working office subscriptions and co-living arrangements as part of the package. Remote jobs are highly competitive as demand is much higher than supply.

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View from Seed

MAY 28, 2020

Advances in technology and changing consumer preferences have long been transforming the way food is created, distributed, and consumed. The food supply chain has been rattled with distribution shifting from restaurants to grocery and with food production bottlenecks resulting from fewer employees at work.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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