Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

” Bill Gross, who is one of the Godfathers of the Internet, once told me, “ If you don’t design a product that is 10x better than the competition then you’ll never build anything truly big or amazing.” And for the next several months the founders literally ran the business. 10x the experience.

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Technical Review Software Review Cofounder CTO Hire 380

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Depending on the composition of the founding team, you might or might not have near-term holes in certain functions at the exec level – e.g. you’ll most likely need to bring on a CTO/VP of Engineering shortly after the seed round if you don’t have a technical co-founder.

Part-Time VPE 195

Part-Time VPE Seed Stage CTO Hire Forecast 195

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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Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. They have raised $14 million to date.

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Cofounder Differentiation Hosting Design 207

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Design Articles and Tutorials. Graphic Design Theory. Design Downloads. Web Design. Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder. Privacy Policy. Terms of Use.

Technical Cofounder 41

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41

David Teten

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The design DNA of the founding team is obvious the first time you visit the beautiful, super-simple-to-use site. I had a chance to interview Kyle Stalzer , President of Tackk, about an issue that’s top of mind for a lot of our companies: how to recruit an A-quality designer for their company.

Design 114

Design Venture Capital Startup HTML 114

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Warby Parker Co-Founder: Creating A Strong Brand Without Marketing | PSFK – [link]. 7 Design Principles, Inspired By Zen Wisdom | Co.Design – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

New York City 202

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 202

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The most important factor for differentiation in CXL Live is its unique format. It’s like they thought about the attendees and what they need and then designed a format focused on them. Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Strong messaging, on the other hand, is differentiating and easier to sell and market.

B2B 94

B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. AskAnything.VC Is the service scaleable? Advantages.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

New York City 254

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 254

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

The key to successful marketing is attracting customers and investors to your business through a variety of means, including print ads, website design, public relations efforts, and many other techniques that can attract customers to your business. Startups that are named after their founders sometimes do not succeed.

Startup 173

Startup Early Stage Naming Public Relations 173

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

7:30] Would you say self-publishing is seen as a differentiator for businesses? [11:42] We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. [2:25] Is self-publishing a more profitable way to publish today? [5:12] John Jantsch (10:45): Yeah.

Audience 88

Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 88

Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Talk with other entrepreneurs, not just famous entrepreneurs,” the Dropbox cofounder Drew Houston told Reid on the Masters of Scale podcast. Chris’s teenage son takes online courses to develop his computer animation and video game design skills and finds them highly convenient and effective—he can learn on demand, without leaving his bedroom.

Japan 78

Japan Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Houston 78

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

New York City 120

New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping 120

mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Or maybe the co-founders have a poisonous relationship that will hinder the companys growth. Check out the tips below from founders, CEOs and investors alike. Then remove half." — Jonathan Wegener , Founder, Timehop and ExitStrategy. ." — Jonathan Wegener , Founder, Timehop and ExitStrategy.

Cofounder 111

Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 15, 2021

5-My co-founders’ wife came up with it. As much as I would like to take credit for the name it was my co-founders’ wife that thought of it. The thoughts were LI Shades Co, Island Shades, things like that. I named my business, ReCreate—a transformation company focused on optimizing business and leader.

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Naming Entrepreneur Mexico Cofounder 127

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In some cases, they are also the only plan design that an employer can afford to offer. As employers grapple with objectives, such as attracting, and retaining talent and balancing costs, a financial security benefit not only addresses a major employee concern, but also can help organizations differentiate themselves from their competitors.

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Security Employee Michigan Cofounder 246

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 13, 2021

However, too many people approach it by just copying what it seems like everyone else is doing without taking a hard look at what your actual goals are and really learning how to go about the job of Founder and CEO. They’re “playing startup” as opposed to actually building a company. How do you know which is which?

Startup 156

Startup Term Sheet Differentiation Cofounder 156

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

I was required to design the logos for each of the companies. I also inquired with a professor at a university that provided design about accepting the assignment as a practical. Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined.

Naming 151

Naming Entrepreneur Jordan Merger 151

Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2020

For John Rood, the founder and President of Next Step Test Preparation, keeping more regimented work hours is key to staying on track. Hubstaff co-founder Jared Brown has figured out a workaround that works for him and his family. “My Brett Farmiloe is the founder of Markitors, a digital marketing agency in Phoenix, Arizona.

Product 120

Product Video Phoenix Cofounder 120

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Brett is cofounder of Kumospace, the virtual HQ for remote teams, and Charge Ventures, a pre/seed VC based in Brooklyn, NY. 17:34] One of the things I’m guessing was a visual or design decision is the way the graphics appear – is that a technology choice or a design choice? [18:51] This is the design and product pod.

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Audio Cofounder Jordan Video 86

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. As a revenue-driven founder specializing in sales and business development, Melissa has learned how to build companies with very few resources — by automating what she could, outsourcing wherever possible, and inspiring talented people to join her team with shared focus and enthusiasm.

Technical Review 83

Technical Review Demand Cofounder Video 83

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders. When one designer raised over $900,000 for his Kickstarter project, Su says, “Seeing that, it was sort of like a light bulb moment. “The way we differentiate ourselves is that we’re much more than a platform. We said, we should be doing this for nonprofits.”

Small Business 142

Small Business Advisory Board Employee Entrepreneur 142

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As a co-founder of the company, my main goal for 2023 is to build a successful and sustainable business that will bring value to our customers, team members, and investors. As a start-up company with an app designed to assist those with addiction, our goal is to expand to reach more individuals. Photo Credit: Danny Trichter.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Retention SEO Employee 112

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Jamie is the founder and managing director of Bottleneck Distant Assistants. Founded in 2016, Bottleneck is an outsourcing agency that helps businesses identify, hire, and cultivate their workforce through a carefully designed systematic approach to growth. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jamie Jay.

Hiring 92

Hiring Social Media Technical Review San Francisco 92

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2022

Gail Doby is the cofounder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting. Gail’s firm has helped designers, architects, and other creatives increase their profitability by up to 512%.

Cofounder 75

Cofounder Differentiation Hosting Design 75

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

If you seek to win in the marketplace through differentiated products or service offerings, you may very well be a coffee, automotive, or travel business. It was founded in 2008 by two design students and a web designer with three air mattresses and a rudimentary web platform.

Differentiation 113

Differentiation Hosting Cofounder New York 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. They literally can’t respond to our core differentiator. Know your planned sources of differentiation and adjust as you learn. You need a wedge.

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

Gust

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It’s the result of several decades in high tech, three years as an investor in a local Oregon angel investment group , some consulting in due diligence for venture capital, and my experience as founder and co-founder of successful ventures. I want the founders to know that’s important, talk about it, and think about it.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Software Review Angel Investor Exit Strategy 70

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Picking a term with a well-understood foil (“outbound marketing”) makes it easier to understand and differentiate. Historically, both terms had narrower definitions related to telemarketing, which differentiated outbound versus inbound calls.) From there, more years passed until: HubSpot’s founders translated an idea into a book.

Naming 119

Naming Conversion Flash Cofounder 119

Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

There’s been a lot written about the individual characteristics of what makes a great founder , but a lot less about what makes a great founding team and how that’s different from a great founding CEO. In doing so we’ve failed to help founders understand what it takes to build a great founding team. Founders – the idea.

Cofounder 335

Cofounder Advisory Board Customer Development Leadership 335

VC Cafe

JUNE 3, 2010

VC Cafe: How is Tvinci differentiating itself from players like Brightcove with this launch? Brightcove simply works under a different model, and has a product which is not designed for this type of operation. The Tvinci platform works across Internet enabled devices including connected TV and the Apple iPad.

Cofounder 119

Cofounder Founder Flash Video 119

YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2016

by Yali Saar, CEO and co-founder of Tailor Brands. As brand designers, this means we have to rethink our approach towards branding. Regardless of how big your company is, or how much you pay, no designer could ever promise you a “one-of-a-kind” logo. These are the competitors you’d like to differentiate yourself from.

Differentiation 100

Differentiation Due Diligence Cofounder Artificial Inteligence 100

Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Talk with other entrepreneurs, not just famous entrepreneurs,” the Dropbox cofounder Drew Houston told Reid on the Masters of Scale podcast. Chris’s teenage son takes online courses to develop his computer animation and video game design skills and finds them highly convenient and effective—he can learn on demand, without leaving his bedroom.

Japan 28

Japan Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Houston 28

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Kent, a veteran programmer, a founder of the Agile method and the creator of Extreme Programming, came armed with anecdotes and lessons from his own experience, as well as a few questions for Eric. So I get to see this hothouse of software design. It''s really smart people working on unprecedented problems at ridiculous speed.

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Lean San Francisco Cofounder Programming 165