David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. In its first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants. Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Are you politically active? Why is that?

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Partner Technical Review Cofounder 60

The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Claudia Freed, CEO of the Wheaton Illinois-based nonprofit EALgreen. Freed is a global thinker and living proof that purpose-driven businesses transform lives. In 2021, EAL helped corporate partners keep 5,056 mt of products out of landfills.

Founder 117

Founder Argentina Chicago Switzerland 117

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

by Nick Candito, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly. Your prospects, customers and partners (and employees for that matter) do not see you as a series of disparate organizations. Success today no longer guarantees success tomorrow.

Cofounder 174

Cofounder Technical Review Operations Employee 174

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Security Founder Entrepreneur 60

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

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. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally.

Technical Cofounder 48

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

these solutions can be paired with the cultural adoption of process and operational excellence at companies looking to improve the way their business performs. The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Highland Europe. It is hard to find narrowly defined or walled-garden applications that do this effectively.

Cofounder 94

Cofounder Marketing North America Acquisition 94

Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

My partner ( Steve Schlafman ) and I recently launched Tapestry , an exercise for founders to invest in their relationships, and it was met with an incredible reaction. No code and a global workforce make it possible. Its an easy reference to “tap” into the work later for partners and teams.

Software Review 103

Software Review Cost Cofounder New Zealand 103

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. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. Mentorship. Experience.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

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?

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves. We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Fractional CTO Cofounder Early Stage 150

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. 9:14] How do I find partners? [12:58] 12:58] Is there an example case on finding partners that you’d like to go through with us? [15:43]

Marketing 89

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 89

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. You need close partners in that journey and you get many sorts of partners - investors, employees etc. - The co-founder / marriage analogy is apt.

Community 62

Community Cofounder Security Open Source 62

Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

We asked a team of global experts from various areas to share insights on the benefits of DE&I in their organizations and on boards. The upsides — from more donor support and operational efficiency to strong organizational cultures and board member collaboration — are many.

Ireland 52

Ireland Ohio Government Equity 52

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

Australia 146

Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Kurt Olender, managing partner at OlenderFeldman LLP, believes an entrepreneur must be flexible and adept at problem solving. Steven Raz, co-founder and managing partner of Cornerstone Search Group, LLC, believes successful entrepreneurs need the ability to “operate and make decisions with incomplete information.”

New Jersey 195

New Jersey Entrepreneur Cofounder LLC 195

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The chatter of the “Retail Apocalypse” began long before the recent events of a global pandemic. Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot. Within a few weeks, the Great Lakes Brewing team transitioned their operations to meet the needs of their community by offering free delivery on orders over $50. We did them.

eCommerce 155

eCommerce Cofounder Community Channel 155

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

“We developed Pages based on actual conversations we had with our customers,” explains Kenny Rueter, Kajabi co-founder and CEO. “We Next, we had to figure out how we could deliver that while staying drop dead simple to operate. We are thrilled to be partnering with the team at Kajabi.

Software Developers 81

Software Developers Software Development Equity Software 81

VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund. The key global trends that are currently shaping the metaverse, blockchain gaming, and NFT space (Source: Newzoo). We’re excited to partner with early stage founders who see the future in the same way, and are working on the technologies that will help bring this vision forward.

Cloud 200

Cloud Venture Capital Cofounder Non-Compete 200

Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

We’re proud to share that our members, startups, entrepreneurs and Innovation Council partners submitted a total of 17 proposals to the SXSW PanelPicker this year! This past month, SXSW called on the community to enter proposals for conference sessions at all SXSW 2020 events— and so the buzz begins. FDA BLOCKCHAIN PILOT?—?WHAT

Cofounder 51

Cofounder Entrepreneur Technical Cofounder Artificial Inteligence 51

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Although it’s tempting to blame it all on the coronavirus situation and its formidable ripples, the pandemic only accelerated the processes of globalization and digitization that have been underway for decades. Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model. The world of work is transforming.

Distribution 145

Distribution Global Agile Startup 145

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

WeVue co-founder Taylor Wallace told me he doesn’t have a lot of time for training in the competitive software development industry, so he hires the “naturally curious” to fit with the company’s product-oriented business model. What do you value most about your employees? Does your budget reflect that? Prioritize your needs.

Startup 100

Startup Burn Rate Cofounder Salary 100

Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group. Funding 101 Panel at 3DS Global Roundup w/ myself, Bart Bohn and May Samali.

Austin 57

Austin Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 57

Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

As cloud computing and applications have become more prevalent in every size and type of company, configuring these applications remains a pain point that business operations and IT departments know all too well. The answer is the cloud. Enter Salto. Salesforce + Workday) and managing very complex tools such as CPQ.

Cloud 62

Cloud API Software Engineering Software 62

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. In addition, as part of the program, I’ll be making my first public presentation of our research study on VC portfolio operations value creation.

Tunisia 114

Tunisia Libya Algeria Mauritania 114

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.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Find out how startups and corporations can partner to achieve results that truly benefit both sides. Four successful female company founders?—?Shayna Shayna Brown, Founder of Chez Boom Audio, Jan Ryan, Exec. Vote ] 2. Learn how to focus your data objectives and build a data-rich culture based on applied use cases.

Austin 48

Austin Technical Review Cofounder Texas 48

View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. Still others point to the collective sensibility and logic of New Englanders as an operating philosophy.

Boston 120

Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 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. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. Srivastava , chief data scientist at Verizon. Ashok Srivastava.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 11, 2020

My Blitzscaling co-author and friend Chris Yeh helped me record a Greymatter podcast episode where I share some of the great memories of and learnings from working with Jeff. I met Jeff through one of my other partners at Greylock , James Slavet , who had worked for him at Yahoo. How did Jeff become CEO at LinkedIn?

Cofounder 36

Cofounder Leadership Metrics Later Stage 36

Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

After seeing the negative effects of dehydration, both me and my co-founder, Ming, decided that we want to spread knowledge about hydration and create a product that could help with this problem. Hi my name is Raja Sahi, co-founder of Escapedom. My name is Zoltán Honti, co-founder of Escapedom.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Hungary Software Review Cofounder 100

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. 1) Manage the firm .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Up and Running

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Dan Brown, the inventor of Bionic Wrench and founder of Logger Head Tools, is a prime example. It partners with many companies/inventors and splits the licensing revenue 50-50. Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures. You can read the bright side of Dan’s story here. Conclusion.

Intellectual Property 93

Intellectual Property Technical Review Due Diligence Cofounder 93

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, went public. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. Twilio became a popular perk for Techstars companies globally over the years and many other Techstars portfolio companies use the product extensively. 1: SendGrid (2009).

San Antonio 171

San Antonio New York City Seattle Los Angeles 171

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Now nearly a “double unicorn,” the company plans to use the new investment to further grow its business operations and expand its current suite of mobile applications. The $130 million Series D investment round was co-led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital.

Private Equity 142

Private Equity Developer Venture Capital Merger 142

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

trillion dollar global phenomenon , generating $768 billion in U.S. For even the largest global brands, it’s been a challenge to overcome barriers to premium mobile commerce entry, including speed, cost, and the technical talent to meet demand for a heightened experience. By: Ryan Terry, co-founder and president, BILDIT.

Analytics 145

Analytics Mobile Japan eCommerce 145