YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Here are 4 reasons why employers need to provide a financial security benefit to their employees as part of their offering. And, when an employer’s price tag to purchase that insurance for a family now exceeds $20,000 a year, it is painful for employers to witness their employee “benefit” suddenly become an employee “liability.”

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Another affinity-based co-working space? And it’s amazed me how many times I’ve seen two or more entirely separate groups of founders?—?without Rather than just a harmless, misplaced attitude, this copycat fallacy can be a detriment to seed stage founders for two reasons. Another d2c gourmet pet food company ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Most entrepreneurs start from a base of one or two co-founders, and their vision and focus is on developing an innovative solution, rather than developing people. When they need more team members, they tend to assume that these will come with the same passion and motivation that the founders feel.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

these solutions can more accurately represent the journeys that customers and employees follow to get their work done?—?rather Look to build solutions with IPA when you need a highly tailored customer journey or process to differentiate from your competition. rather than simply being screens to edit data from a database.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most entrepreneurs start from a base of one or two co-founders, and their vision and focus is on developing an innovative solution, rather than developing people. When they need more team members, they tend to assume that these will come with the same passion and motivation that the founders feel.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders. “The way we differentiate ourselves is that we’re much more than a platform. ” The founders of WeDidIt saw an opportunity and a need, and put aside the fears everyone who’s ever struck out on their own faces. And they’re happy they did it.

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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. 4- Better customer (and employee) retention. Lack of them is one of the main reasons why employees leave companies. Photo Credit: Danny Trichter.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2016

I've heard a lot of VCs tell founders they need co-founders--and that they wouldn't look at a business at a very early stage without a co-founder. A lot of accelerators treat solo founders the same way--making it an implied requirement to participate. The same holds true for VC funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

Startups that are named after their founders sometimes do not succeed. If the name is already taken, add an adjective or verb to differentiate it from other similar names. If you are honest with your customers, clients, partners, and employees, you will earn their respect and trust. Choose a unique brand name.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types. 17- Employee burnout and productivity loss. I think it is natural for employees to start experiencing burnout, especially at this time while working remotely. 9-More precise algorithms to match couples.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai This is John Jansen.

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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?

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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.

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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. 18:51] Do you get pushback from people who work from home that think this is another way for employers to watch over their employees? [21:41] You can have visibility and accountability to your employees.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Debbie is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living SMART, a full-service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry. Marketing Podcast with Debbie Howard.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs wireless power company.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2022

Sara is the COO at Duct Tape Marketing, Co-Founder at Spark Lab Consulting, and host of the Agency Spark Podcast. And that's the idea of retention of internal team members, internal customers, whatever you wanna call them, employees, staff, team members. 89% of employers think employees leave for more money.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

CEO and co-founder of InvGate Ariel Gesto says the company will continue to expand this year. InvGate’s products are made to simplify IT management for businesses with 50-50,000 employees. Products offered by the business consist of a help desk for employees, security compliance tools, and budgeting software.

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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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

He i s a renowned digital marketing expert, digital marketing consultant, speaker, and co-author of Digital Marketing for Dummies. He’s the Founder of theCLIKK, an email newsletter about digital marketing. Russ also consults and trains employees of companies through his Digital Advisor program. This is John Jantsch.

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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.

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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.

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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. As Airbnb scaled, the founders became increasingly thoughtful about their brand and Airbnb’s optimal branded experience.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Andy Cunningham , founder and CEO of Cunningham Collective. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were. Andy Cunningham.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 3, 2010

VC Cafe: How is Tvinci differentiating itself from players like Brightcove with this launch? M in Round A, and enjoy a solid cash flow, which enables Tvinci constant growth (currently 25 employees). The Tvinci platform works across Internet enabled devices including connected TV and the Apple iPad.

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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 met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson. Smart, capable managers would not hesitate to make decisions instead of allowing their employees to make them.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2019

You can crash and burn or you can get the right tools and information now and change your life, your business and the lives of your employees. In this episode of How to CEO , I welcome Han Jin, the co-founder, and CEO of Lucid. As the founder, co-founder and CEO you have to have more trust in your employees as each year goes by.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Volo co-founders Nicola Donadini, Melissa Mitchell and Lotis Bautista The Forrest Four-Cast: February 18, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. What is your competitive advantage?

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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. And the same employees who were so disgruntled before became powerful advocates for the system, for this way of working.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2017

by Edmund Buckley , co-founder & CEO of CampusSafe. Address your competitors, and explain what differentiates you from them that helps you dominate in your market. Edmund Buckley , co-founder & CEO of CampusSafe ™, is a 20+ year Austin veteran entrepreneur, having founded and built 2 successful startups.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2014

There are many steps to take when onboarding new employees. You have to differentiate between hiring just to fill a seat and building a team that will help define and grow the company. When welcoming a new employee it is essential to clearly define the role and requirements of that position. Include Others In the Hiring Process.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

By Kevin Sproles, founder and CEO of Austin’s Volusion “The best companies are deliberate about culture. The co-founder of Hubspot hit it on the head with this quote. And I want to clarify this important differentiator. They design it and defend it.”

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