Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. We once thought Microsoft was a monopoly on the Internet due to IE. billion less than 5 years after it was created.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2020

As part of our ongoing Female Founders series , The Startup Magazine asked Terry Foudray, CEO and co-founder of IoT solutions provider, RUMBLE, for her views on the continued digitization of our physical world. The promise of the Internet of Things, or “IoT” was one of connection. Founder and CEO, RUMBLE.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

But with the speed of the Internet, these have become as old-fashioned as museum curators. Modern digital curators for early-stage entrepreneurs are the expert bloggers who put “content into context.” Mark is a serial entrepreneur who is now active in the venture capital community for early-stage startups.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

A long-time entrepreneur, Joseph founded/co-founded many technological companies throughout the years. Joseph has more than 20 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in business ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. Ask former co-workers. New Web Order. 5th November 2010. #. Ideas alone are not worth a lot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners. New products emerge, as diverse as networked-art installations, Internet-of-Things innovations, and many other hybrid software-hardware solutions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

He and I once took different sides of an debate about whether “VC signaling&# in early-stage deals is a serious problem or not. This week I sat down with Chris Dixon, co-founder / CEO of Hunch and Partner at Founder Collective in the most recent installment of This Week in Venture Capital.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Network with potential cofounders and strategic partners. New products emerge, as diverse as networked-art installations, Internet-of-Things innovations, and many other hybrid software-hardware solutions.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

In comparison to traditional business ventures, startups are expected to grow rapidly, at a rate of between 5% and 7% per week in their initial stage – Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator. As the cofounder of Y-Combinator – an American seed fund accelerator – he’s a great source of information.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. .

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Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

This post originally appeared in TechCrunch back in 2015, written by our co-founder and managing partner Erik Rannala. Compass.co, a benchmarking and research service, analyzed 3,200 internet startups and found that 74 percent “fail due to premature scaling.” Sometimes founders misapply lean startup methodology.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

The Open Metaverse is described as the New Internet, but it’s yet to be built yet. It forces the founders and investors to understand where the technology can play a pivotal role in shifting control from the big tech companies to the user, and where it needs to improve, such as the negative environmental impact of mining etc.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Why does this hurt, well I was just reading a few blog posts yesterday on finding startup co-founders: Where do you Find Cofounders? Startup Co-Founders: If You Cant Recruit Em, Should You Join Em? Finding Startup Co-Founders You would hope that networking events would be a good way to find suitable folks.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

The most pressing advantage for startups, in this, is an increased number of options when it comes to staying alive in the early days of the company. This can even include angel investing, and platforms like AngelList and Crowdfunder have put new vigor – and hope – into early stage startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Very few founder CEOs go into the job ever expecting to give up their seat. We set out to find Jonathan’s “co-founder.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group. Technical founder. I was like, “Hang on a second.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And despite not going to University, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of the Unicorn Startup Just Eat. Well, you're going to judge it by the team, by the co-founders. These are the kind of decisions we wanted to help people with at that early stage. It's the founders themselves.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

The articles I cited there around finding co-founders suggests that Ben is on the money. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. Accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces have proliferated in Cambridge and Boston. The origins of WebInno are humble.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. You can find a good start-up lawyer to help or if you want to do it on the cheap there are tons of websites you can find on the Internet to help. That’s the difference between a founder and a non-founder. Start building your team early.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Some disgruntled younger partners left in the mid-90s… two co-founded Benchmark Capital (Bruce Dunlevie & Andy Rachleff). But eventually some disgruntled younger partners left and two started August Capital (Dave Marquardt & John Johnson) and one co-founded Benchmark (Bob Kagle). But it’s not quite that simple.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. You’re not going to be able to blanket the entire Internet with your message – nor should you want to. Starting out, you can’t hit every network and outlet full-force.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

In addition, 83% of companies had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian, while only 12% of founders were Asian and less than 1% of founders were African-American. Conventional Founder Background. Quadrant I : Most VC-backed companies, e.g., Mark Zuckerberg, Founder/CEO, Facebook. Non-Majority Markets.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat). I I of course, it's so cliche now, but you know, I like to tell even 30 year olds, you know, about uh, dial up, um, internet and, uh, Yeah. Well, you're gonna judge it by the team, by the co-founders.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

The company was one of the five winners at Seedcamp Tel Aviv 2011 , an early-stage micro seed investment and mentoring programme. Startup Intelligence caught up with co-founders Zohar Dayan (CEO) and Yotam Cohen (VP Business Development) to find out more.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

This means that private keys — the keys that literally control the money — never touch the Internet. He co-founded the first angel investor group in the Bitcoin space, BitAngels , in 2013, which grew to over 500 members globally. We monitor the market and adjust our holdings as new information emerges and market conditions change.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

So most early-stage VCs have started to evaluate investment opportunities with an imaginary benchmark in mind: can this company become a $100 million opportunity? Many businesses built in the early days of the Facebook platform (like Zynga ) benefitted from a huge viral co-efficient and scaled very rapidly. (As

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Optimize your advisers and investors. Advisors and mentors are busy people.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. Anthemos Georgiades , Co-Founder and CEO, Zumper (Real-time home and apartment rental platform; $8.2

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