NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 12, 2019

One of the questions we’re often asked is, “What Government funding is available for startups in New Zealand?” You know exactly what problem you want to solve, and how you’re going to solve it. ” shortly followed by, “I wonder if there’s any funding for startups from the Government?”

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? Did I mention it only took the founder a month? Most founders that get funded know their backers or have close connections to them well before they officially "pitch.".

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

Brant Barton, my co-founder, and I had left Coremetrics to start it together. Brant, as my skeptical co-founder (a trait that I really valued as his business partner), asked, “But what if this is a biased population?” Governments began to sign up. The journey for Bazaarvoice was similar?—?it and measurement.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

For instance, to simulate an Uber-like experience, you could create a Facebook ride sharing page that matches riders with drivers on demand, by simply asking members to post their ride requests, then privately chatting with drivers. They matched buyers with these businesses manually on-demand.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Role models” haven’t made it quite as far the heroes, but as practising entrepreneurs they are fully up-to-date with the on-the-ground realities of fundraising, hiring, and interfacing with government. Some founders stay at hostels. Fundraising isn’t easy.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sridhar Ramaswamy, my fellow investor at Greylock and the co-founder of Neeva , released a demo video last month about how Neeva has been working intensely on exactly that. It will also demonstrate some of where you match and deviate from the Turing Test. Of course, there’s still a lot of work to do to make that real.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Often the cause is the inability to grow the startup past the worldview of its founders. One of my ex-engineering students helped start a six-year old company headquartered in Los Angeles that sells to government agencies. We usually catch up when he’s in town, but this time he said he was bringing his co-founder.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., Founder community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2015

The same considerations apply to every constituent inside and outside your team, including co-founders, investors, strategic partners and every team member. Do advisor ethics match your own expectations and culture? You will not be well served by an advisor whose ethical rules do not match your business area or government rules.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Smarter Sorting already has a live pilot here in Austin, working with Austin Resource Recovery, and has commitments to begin pilots with Portland, OR, Mesa County, CO, and Salt Lake City, UT. Austin Mayor Steve Adler The event was kicked off by Austin Mayor Steve Adler and MCed by Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. And many of them view the local government as an irrelevant factor in their business.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs. Co-operation and Synergy. While Uber has had several problems with both, governments and passenger based complaints, Grab decided to improve on both fronts. A simple glance through their website gives dedicated focus to safety and security for consumers.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2013

Government: Joining the party. She is currently the CEO and co-founder of Talk Session , an online counseling platform in beta mode, that will connect users with highly credible professionals for on-demand, mobile therapy and counseling sessions using proprietary algorithm matching and artificial intelligence.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Once you do that, Tim Frie, co-founder of Norman & Page Real Estate says, “You have just as much opportunity as any other agent at any other firm. Each home comes with a nutrition label, is quality verified by an independent third party, and is guaranteed to have a design that matches actual performance.”.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2017

Posted originally in the Austin Business Journal on March 3, 2017 There’s no shortage of clichés about the speed contrast between fast-moving tech innovation and the slower pace of government. That doesn’t match with the Austin I know, which is fast-moving, entrepreneurial, creative and thrives on tech innovation.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. I [Reid] remember when Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky told me about the offer.). They’ll probably kill you,” he said.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. Governments are prioritizing healthcare projects now, more than ever. David Harper.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. Broadband.tv com for $575 million.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

It’s hard to fire a developer with 10,000 podcast listeners, not because she might say bad things about the company, but because co-workers look up to her as an alpha-geek. Check out one of these directories for a magazine that matches your skillset. Fire her and morale will take a big hit. Boring programming jobs?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

These two buses represented billions of dollars in capital that is interested in investing in the Texas region and we matched them up with local investors, entrepreneurs, and community leaders in each city that we visited. Then we headed to Capital Factory in Uptown Dallas to hear from Mance Harmon, the CEO and co-founder of Hedera Hashgraph.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. Broadband.tv com for $575 million.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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David Cohen

APRIL 3, 2013

Inspired by Mark Solon , and organized through Globe Aware , we worked in a school for the children of migrant workers who have no government services. the school is an old factory that is a labor of love of the founder and principal. he had a shouting match with the hotel people and apparantly he won. Mission accomplished.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2022

As a relatively small business looking to compete in a highly saturated market, it was important for us to ensure that our business name and website URL matched to provide potential clients with the best possible chance to find us. It took a lot of creative meetings between my co-founder and I before we came up with meaningful names.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Many describe DApps (Decentralized Applications) as being “trustless,” in that users don’t need to exhibit trust in each other since the laws of the DApp itself govern every interaction. Our CEO, Peter Kieltyka, co-founded and built two successful tech startups: Nulayer and Pressly. How did your team come together? He has an Erd?s

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

How can other regions will ever match the MACHINE: Stanford, Andreesen, Draper, Valentine, Doerr, Facebook/Apple/Google Millionaires, 4 Generation VC firms, Hardware/Software partnerships, over 100 Billon $ market cap cos. [contact-form] Can any other region “catch up” to Silicon Valley, or be the next Silicon Valley?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. The Canadian government matched the investment, and the 15-year plan kicked off.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Our platform’s ‘EQ’ is higher than mine”, as Ori Manor, Co-founder and CEO, once stated. Sporting more than 99 percent accuracy (a rate that even human transcribers can’t match), Verbit employs AI to consistently improve. As the name suggests, LawGeex is all about making legal practice easier.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. Many of you will know Robert as the founder of Soylent, which he started out of his kitchen and then grew into a nationwide phenomenon. We can't change the past, but we do have a say in the future if we're willing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 29, 2020

He's also one of the people building HelpWithCovid.com, a clearinghouse for matching volunteers with all kinds of COVID relief and COVID-related projects. It's no surprise that matching volunteers with opportunities isn't something that Radu had experience with. 24:44) The numbers on helpwithcovid's projects, volunteers, and matches.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Businesses start from scratch with invention, but simply adding on to that foundation with invention alone ultimately results in failure: whether by inability to adapt to changes in the market, competition, or technological foundations, to a potentially unfocused Frankenstein’s monster of mis-matched elements. SO WHAT IS A PIVOT ANYWAY?

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer. Have amazing co-founders who are better at what they do than you could ever be. Founders need to personally own something big themselves. Work with people you love.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Teams that just two or three weeks ago seemed to be foundering pulled off some amazing comebacks. This post is a continuation of a series. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Teams that just two or three weeks ago seemed to be foundering pulled off some amazing comebacks. This post is a continuation of a series. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day.

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