SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. But startups can shoot themselves in the foot when founders use consultants at the wrong time or in the wrong way.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. Commencement Speeches Teaching Venture Capital' And successfully.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Boulder, CO. Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. New York ›. View More in New York › ›. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

And know that just because a venture failed doesn’t mean that you’re a failure. 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. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were.

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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. how & when to raise capital.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Attention founders: Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company - [link]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. What Makes People Happy?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

Another portfolio company of ff Venture Capital that targets this market is Voxy , a mobile app that creates an immersive experience in teaching English as a second language. Endeavor recognizes that although entrepreneurial activity already exists in Miami, it remains difficult for founders to reach scale.

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Miami Private Equity Florida Technical Review 114

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. Check out his website if you live in or are visiting New York! With three co-founders, what was decision making and roles and responsibilities like?

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Engineering Serendipity Making real connections starts with having the right people in the room. Intro to the Austin EdTech Startup Scene Come meet Sean Duffy , founder of EdTech Austin and let him tell about everything going on in EdTech in Austin! You never know who you might bump into and how that might change your life!

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. 3:00PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon as in pro wrestling?—?you’re

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Founders Pad.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. It would be the company where I actually earned the title. We were going to be guessing.

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

ff Venture Capital is creating a new, spin-off business from an existing company, and we need a team to take the reins. Initially you will likely be working out of our co-working space on West 36th St., You should live in the New York tri-state area or be able to relocate and start working in a matter of weeks.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

David Teten

MAY 13, 2012

I hope you’ll join us at: The Power of “Social,” Venture Capital & Financial Engineering: How Tech Startups Are Challenging The Titans of Finance . Hear from venture capitalist Matt Harris of Bain Capital Ventures and New York City Investment Fund’s Maria Gotsch.

Technology 128

Technology New York City New York Cofounder 128

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2019

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Mr. Felix Shipkevich. Consumers rely on search engines and pay-to-play rating sites to find legal counsel. We are currently gearing up for our Series A round of financing, the first round from venture capital.

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Founder New York City Cofounder Bankruptcy 90

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem. The difference?

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. WHATS HOT: EVENTS NEWS LEARN CAREER VIDEOS ESPAÑOL. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Scoring Founder “Dates” On My Own.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

And Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture is a huge help to startup founders. Gary Marcus , one of the country’s best-known cognitive psychologists, is a professor of psychology and neural science at NYU and founder of Geometric Intelligence. Growing interest in entrepreneurship is driving a culture change across Columbia University.

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Silicon Valley New York 120

Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

to New York; Second, I caught the recent live stream of the Disrupt NYC Hackathon; Third, A New York Times article about how NYC’s “allure” is increasing. Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. These people abound in New York.

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Silicon Valley New York Startup Software Engineering 22

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

I sat down (virtually) with Chainalysis co-founder and CEO Michael Gronager to discuss his learnings from almost seven years at the helm of a high-growth company. I saw Bitcoin as a new paradigm in computing, creating digital scarcity where something digital couldn't be copied and you could only transfer its value or symbolic value.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Now, these mindless corporate careers live in a world where the light of the sky has been blotted out, where the dead hopes and dreams of those before you are liquefied and fed shamelessly to new recruits, and control reigns supreme. As my friend once said, “I never hugged a co-worker until I worked at a startup.”

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Bessemer was also heavily represented with David Cowan , managing partner and co-founder of VeriSign ( see his post about the event ), Rob Stavis , BVP’s New York-based managing partner who led our investment in Skype, Byron Deeter , partner and founder of Trigo and our COO/managing partner Ed Colloton.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft. They’ll probably kill you,” he said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. Does anyone really watch the full NBC lineup anymore?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Amazon and Microsoft have large engineering offices in Vancouver and Toronto. of partners at venture capital firms in Canada are women , which more than double the US rate of 6%. Waterloo is home to the University of Waterloo, which has been an outstanding resource for startup ecosystems looking to attract new talent.

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