www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Tutorial Day At #RailsConf » Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail. Last night, I went to a local “find a co-founder” meetup for RE. It can be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff when you’re talking to a marketing person (‘Ah, you do internet marketing?

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. Bringing Innovation to Market. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? a 50-employee provider of e-marketing solutions to small and midsize businesses, based in Needham, Mass. But sharing equity can have pitfalls, too. Newsletters.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

On October 15, Capital Factory hosted the Latinx in Tech Summit, where over 100 founders, investors, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the city gathered together for an inspiring and insightful afternoon. Despite not having formal coding skills or startup experience, Pamela became a founder by using Facebook as her platform.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link]. The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. 10 adjustments to make when working for a Big Co.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Clavier began his presentation at the beginning of a company's lifecycle, asking how many co-founders a startup ought to have. He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. Are all co-founders equal, Clavier asked?

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

She is passionate about issues surrounding equal pay, employee wellness, and equity at work. Prior to joining Syndio, Colacurcio co-founded Smartsheet.com , a work collaboration tool for companies of all sizes. To help companies resolve pay equity and the pay gap. Pay equity addresses equal pay for equal work.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Tech stack.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What Happens When TikTok Is Your Marketing Department [David Segal/New York Times] – Was it organic? Here the focus is on Pink Stuff, a British cleaning paste, which was #CleanTok mainstreamed to a quadrupling of revenue ($125m annually) and distribution to 55 countries. Was it spon con? Was it both? That sucks for everyone.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2021

It is the first senior appointment to Chargify’s C-suite level team since it was first announced in April 2021 that Battery Ventures led a combined majority growth-equity investment of more than $150 million in Chargify and SaaSOptics.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

Once the product or service has withstood this period of stress testing, your business can put more resources into making it work and distributing it to the broader market. . You can search for co-founders who will contribute with capital, or skills, and share profits and equity with them.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? Nearly half of the teams I’ve backed have female founders.

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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. Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Neil Rimer is a Partner and co-founder of Index Ventures. Yet, surprisingly, we continue to come across founders who have made significant mistakes in their early capital raises that we suspect go against their own instincts and jeopardize the foundations of the businesses they are building.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . That’s not what we do.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 14, 2012

The entrepreneur is seeking not just money, but primarily contacts with buyers at big retailers to get wider distribution. Instead of taking equity, he asked for a $2 per dress royalty until he recovered his capital, then $1 per dress thereafter. They argue over who can help Cozy Bug with distribution more. Kevin offered $50k.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. 2) Market . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I once mentioned this idea to a fellow SoCal VC when I told him I wanted a CIC in LA and he said, “Co-location is dead. We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. Uh, I guess he won’t be co-sponsoring a technology lab in LA with me then? We don’t believe in it anymore.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the rise of startups and growing businesses , it has become more critical for investors to have a thorough understanding of equity to be aware of all of the advantages they are receiving from the companies they have invested in. What is Company Equity? Types of equity. Common stock. Preferred shares.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Consider Bob Parsons , the founder of GoDaddy Hosting. You may believe to have a great idea, but the market may not agree to that. How will you distribute your product? Look for a co-founder. Of course, there are many examples of solo founders , and sometimes it’s easier and makes financial sense do go alone.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Marketing Intern. How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 29, 2013

If the product is great and the value proposition strong distribution problems can be solved. Enough customers who will pay enough to make this a large market. Have a product picker as a co-founder. The reverse is rarely true. The Quora post has some tactical advice too: 1. A clear way to monetize.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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www.copelandfirm.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Home About Fee Arrangements Location Referrals Testimonials Business Law HUB Certification Mergers & Acquisitions Startup Advice Intellectual Property Copyrights Trademarks Securities Law Debt and Bridge Financing Series A Startup Law Entity Formation Corporation LLC Series LLC RSS Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Two-time entrepreneur Jordan Eisenberg, founder of UrgentRX warns that, “Few things in a start up are more important than carefully managing cash. Do whatever it takes to build your product and get it to market.”. That’s why so many entrepreneurs try to leverage equity. Non-Monetary Incentives.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Furthermore, when faced with adversity only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc. Don’t make everyone a founder.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The smart city industry is projected to be a $400 billion market by 2020, with 600 cities worldwide, TechRepublic reports. Improving grid management and optimizing power production through different sources and distributed energy production are critical to cost management. The Business of Smart Cities. Examples of Urban Tech.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

A description of your target market or the different market segments you’re targeting. If you don’t know how to define your target market, read Tim Berry’s article on how to do it, or read this article that explains what target marketing is and how to use it to your advantage. “If Solve a problem you can relate to.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 26, 2013

Bushnell uses Jobs as a symbol of creativity at tech companies: “Steve Jobs showed that an innovative company can create the highest market cap company in the world.” According to co-founder Tim Sanders , Net Minds has 17 more books in the pipeline – not all of them attached to well-known names like Bushnell.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. But there are others - many others - who are looking for smaller opportunities, playing in the sweet spot of $50-$100 million market opportunities. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. But there are others - many others - who are looking for smaller opportunities, playing in the sweet spot of $50-$100 million market opportunities. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market?

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