The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Few people like talking about their mistakes, but thankfully nine founders took some time to share some of their hard-earned knowledge with you. Find your niche.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

by Emmanuel de Watteville, co-founder of Blue Ocean Ventures. There’s a trick or two that most seasoned investors keep tucked away for when they want or need to feel secure in a project they plan on investing in, which hopefully has some chance of achieving success down the line. Secure the financial investment plan.

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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. Hang out in tech entrepreneur rich communities. Ask former co-workers. New Web Order.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2019

by Caroline Pegden, co-founder of TempaGoGo. One of the biggest problems facing any entrepreneur is how to convince people that your idea, product or service is as great as you personally believe it to be. As a young startup, you may not be generating revenue, or would rather not share your financials.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Internet Security. 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. Business Articles. Accounting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Carolyn serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn launched Hello Alice with the goal of helping entrepreneurs thrive with access to funding, resources, mentorship, and more.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Networking Community 81

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Buy And Sell Their Agencies written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Amanda is the Co-founder at Barney an M&A firm that specializes in the digital marketing space. In this episode, she’s sharing how she’s helped many entrepreneurs buy and sell businesses. Exactly.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Timo Rein is the cofounder & CEO of Pipedrive , and was previously the cofounder of Vain & Partners - the leading Sales Training company in the Baltics. Nowhere in the world offers the kind of business climate that is so conducive to innovation, creativity and success for the aspiring entrepreneur. With just 1.34

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and community builder. 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. Let's get started.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

L to R: Tiara Zolniez (Co-Founder & Sales), Dr. Roshawnna Novellus (Co-Founder & CEO), Alisha Griffey (COO) The Forrest Four-Cast: February 4, 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.

Startup 50

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2022

Like Paul Graham , founder of Y-Combinator, said a long time ago, I see startups succeed or fail every day based primarily on the qualities of the founders. The economy has some effect, but as a predictor of success it’s a rounding error compared to the founders. As a founder, you're buying stock with work.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Besides the loss of potential future revenue, any sunk costs (costs you initially incur to gain the customer) are unrecoverable. Many entrepreneurs use the phrase “It’s not personal; it’s business” to justify keeping their customers at arm’s length. This made it relatively easy for entrepreneurs to stay aloof.

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Customer Technical Review Florida Cofounder 170

NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Sadness for the loss of a bright young New Zealander who had so much going for him, for the terrible loss for Jake’s mother and his whanau and friends, and for the loss of an up and coming innovator and entrepreneur to our business community. It also made me angry.

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New Zealand Founder Technical Cofounder Kenya 109

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it.

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Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Founder Nathan Barry launched in 2013 to help creators sell their books and courses but failed to meet revenue goals and eventually stalled.

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Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They found ways to support longterm care facilities, homeless shelters, and other locations serving those most at risk, all while schools, their main source of revenue, were closed. Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. They are doing tens, hundreds or even thousands of code deploys per day, while delivering world-class stability, reliability and security. That moment is now.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Numbers that high are probably leaving entrepreneurs everywhere wondering what they need to do to get a bigger slice of that pie. Generating solid revenue streams early on will make many of the fundraising problems much easier to handle later on. 4 Reasons to Focus on Revenue Before Fundraising. More Independence. More Leverage.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

While many were going on vacations and traveling, business was still being completed for many entrepreneurs and business owners. The later gives them ultimate security and control over their data. So for this year we try increase our revenue and launch a social campaign to get our customers to be more involved. Summer is over.

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Los Angeles Las Vegas Entrepreneur Phoenix 48

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Many successful entrepreneurs learned how to run a business as they built one, and they had the educational benefit of being able to make mistakes and learn from them as they went along. These nine websites will help you track down the appropriate entrepreneurs. Small Business Administration, SCORE gives free advice to entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

Husband and wife co-founders, Todd and Laure Fisher founded CallTrackingMetrics in 2011 in their basement and together have grown it into an Inc. My guests today are Todd and Laure Fisher, their husband and wife co-founders of Call Tracking Metrics company. Marketing Podcast with Todd and Laure Fisher.

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Metrics Marketing Software Review Cofounder 85

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Of the NextView-backed founders have have tried to raise this round, over 70% have done so (compared to a mean success rate in the industry of around 27%, according to some sources ). Higher founder salaries, which some investors view as a sign of being less hungry or aggressive, did not affect how quickly a startup raised its Series A.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Startup 333

Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Almost on a weekly basis, I meet new aspiring entrepreneurs looking to execute on their ideas. An entrepreneur can quantitatively test potential buyers’ real intentions and develop a genuine understanding their needs before building out the product (app). The best entrepreneurs are able to get at interviewees’ real intentions.

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Technical Review Distribution Redemption Demand 96

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. .”

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

These might include, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. . As a VC, I’m interested in working with companies with large-scale revenue potential, and that’s the company we envision. Q: Is this civic tech?

America 60

America Technical Review Advisory Board Due Diligence 60

David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Our initial test market: We want to make America functional again by helping our users, such as major advocacy organizations and corporations, promote majoritarian-supported policies, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. .

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America Technical Review Advisory Board Due Diligence 60

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Numbers that high are probably leaving entrepreneurs everywhere wondering what they need to do to get a bigger slice of that pie. Generating solid revenue streams early on will make many of the fundraising problems much easier to handle later on. 4 Reasons to Focus on Revenue Before Fundraising. More Independence. More Leverage.

Startup 78

Startup Revenue Cofounder Angel Investor 78

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I like the guy because he’s credited with coining the word entrepreneur. Disruptive innovation leads to the creative destruction of businesses that once seemed pre-eminent and secure. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. I’m sure many of you have heard his name. Apple owned 0%.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 326

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2019

Like Paul Graham , founder of Y-Combinator, said a long time ago, I see startups succeed or fail every day based primarily on the qualities of the founders. The economy has some effect, but as a predictor of success it’s a rounding error compared to the founders. As a founder, you're buying stock with work.

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Cofounder Washington Salary Advertising 200

Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To grow a business, most entrepreneurs know that they should be implementing PR strategies. But where do you start, and what are the best approaches to public relations for an entrepreneur? ” We recently featured an excerpt from her book, which offers even more great tips on networking for entrepreneurs. .”

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2017

Last week I had the honor of speaking at the “Engineers turned Entrepreneurs” panel at the 3 Day Startup Global Roundup. Of course, seeing revenue, growth, every metric pointing up gives you the sense of satisfaction that keeps stoking the fire. Note that got left by a customer. For most people, doing a startup is not easy.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all can intuit the benefits to founders of these trends so there’s little reason to elaborate. How founders get screwed on convertible notes. I couldn’t believe my eyes since the entire thing was such a fabrication and felt like it was bordering on securities fraud. Is this investor on AngelList? You betcha.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. What you don’t realize is these famous investors only deal with entrepreneurs who sold their last company for a $100M dollars or more. Budget time and dollars for each.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2023

Joe Flanagan, Founder, 90s Fashion World No, Too Many Lenders While the idea of sourcing capital from multiple smaller sources is an enticing one, the reality is far less pleasant. It also allows entrepreneurs to create awareness around their product or service and provides an opportunity to engage a larger audience of potential customers.

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Startup Campaign Cofounder Venture Capital 141

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We are heavy users of DocSend , a secure content sharing and tracking platform that can be used to seamlessly share recurring materials with potential LPs. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . is an AI bot which helps companies refine their sales pitch to VCs.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2017

by Edmund Buckley , co-founder & CEO of CampusSafe. While nobody might care about the 128-bit encryption, they will care when you tell them it means super secure phone calls for companies that deal with highly sensitive information. Include projected prospect and customer numbers, revenue, costs, and profits for years 1-3.

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Cofounder Silicon Valley Forecast Business Plan 185