View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Key Insights. Red Ventures (HBS, Wharton).

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Ben is the Chief Executive Olarker (CEO) and co-founder of Olark Live Chat. In this episode, CEO and co-founder of Olark, Ben Congleton, talks about the building of Olark and how they’ve differentiated themself in such a competitive industry. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Aside from needing to be conveniently located for your employees to get to (and potential clients to visit for meetings), Ori Goshen, co-founder and vice president of research and development at Tawkon , says staying close to good bars and restaurant options also give employees a sense of life outside the work space.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The median VC reviews 87 opportunities before making 1 investment. Detailed due diligence. I’ve shown below a case study of the geographic diversification of the largest late-stage technology venture capital / growth equity investors. Deal origination is a slow, labor-intensive, frustrating process. Target Selected.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

In the eleventh hour of the due diligence process, we discovered a one-page agreement between a company founder (before incorporation) and a consultant, promising the latter 5% of the company’s capital. The consultant was no longer with the company and neither was the founder. Protect your asset – company shares.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., » More. » More.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. That’s the good news. We think so.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

million, in part due to cost-cutting (Eyeblaster says it “focused on cutting costs given the uncertain global economic environment” during the first half of 2009). Its main shareholder is Sycamore Technologies Ventures, which owns 33.9 percent) and co-founder Osfer Zadikario (6.2 Revenue inched up only two percent to $65.1

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

And without sounding too schmaltzy, we’re grateful for the wisdom of many of the Israel ‘advocates’ in the UK who helped make our dreams of traveling with our company a reality. The first two were prohibitive due to timezone difficulties. By process of elimination & in small part due to my Israeli heritage, Tel Aviv won the day.

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San Francisco Technical Review Venezuela 145

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. Technically yes. For early-stage founders, I suggest AngelList and Crunchbase.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

That included my computer teacher back in middle school, my wife, my mom (all of Lucky7 is a tribute to her ), my CEO coach, my co-founders, some of my investors and advisors, and many others?—?it It does an amazing job of covering how technology is evolving and also changing society. and I cast a very wide net in doing so.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

The co-owners, including myself, put our heads together to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital marketing and PR agency, catering to both start-up and seasoned franchise companies. Technology has helped close the information and resource gap for many vulnerable people, and I wanted to be a part of this revolution.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Gili Golander is a co-founder and CMO at Bazaart. Being from Israel – population of 8M – means no sizeable market on the home front. WhatsApp founder Jan Koum is an Ukranian immigrant, and I’m betting it had helped him realize the potential of going global from day one. Think global, start early. It cost us exactly $0.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Seed Startups. Customer service.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 3, 2009

This week, The Deal declared that Route 128 is well-positioned to continue its leadership in innovation, despite the economic crisis, due to its diverse economy and robust enterpreneurial environment. The founder and former CEO and chairwoman of iRobot, Helen has been the godmother of the robotics industry in Massachusetts.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“The tech industry creates roughly 10 awesome companies per year,” he says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. Now it’s glutted.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. And that would never get past an Ethics Review Board because you can't. Jeremy Howard : Sure.

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