Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. That’s because unlike accelerators, which operate on a six- to 12-week cadence, studios don’t have a set timeframe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. Operate with a comparable level of integrity.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 3, 2020

Leveraging technology within your business model can lay down the path for improved productivity, smoother operation, and increased profits. Here are some of the many ways technology can help streamline your business operations…. This will completely change the way business operations are carried out within the organization.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

by Hema Crockett and Jamie Jacobs, co-founders of Gig Talent . Whether you’re working for a large corporation or a small startup, operational costs will always exist. With the continuous advances in technology, it’s easier than ever for businesses to get work done remotely. Cost Savings.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup. ” But it’s that exact trust that allowed them to agree for me to join, the gradually introduce change (that they encouraged & supported) and to eventually co-lead the partnership after just a few short years on the inside. .”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2020

How HelpKitchen began The idea for HelpKitchen began with a conversation between Eric Ries and Jeff (founder and CEO of Twilio) and Erica Lawson. The model was simple: we’d build a SMS texting tool that matched the food insecure with a free meal from a partner restaurant, all covered by donor dollars.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The funding will be used to further invest in hiring remote workers, with an emphasis on the greater Austin and San Francisco areas due to Honor’s existing office footprints, and to expand Honor’s groundbreaking operations and technology capabilities across the Home Instead network, which has three offices in the greater Austin area.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2018

by Penny Garbus, co-author of ‘ Mining New Gold — Managing Your Business Data “ Every day, businesses across the country hum along efficiently, their operations supported by enormous reams of data that most employees – and bosses – take for granted. Penny Garbus, co-founder of Soaring Eagle Consulting Inc. ,

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2016

By Omer Tadjer, CEO and co-founder of Comeet. A few other open ended questions that can give you insight into how well the candidate will match your organizations include: What few businesses or people do you admire – and why? What does your perfect dream job look like? Is there anything we should have asked you – but didn’t?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

Thus, unless the visionary highlights a cofounder who can take the vision and execute, I assume the worst. My bottom-line recommendation and theirs is that every visionary entrepreneur needs to be matched with a cofounder or key team member who has the required execution attributes. Cause organizational whiplash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Another way to add value is to use today’s online digital technology to remember their preferences, simplify their interactions with your business, customize your offerings to match their interests, and make them feel special. Businesses that operate with no margin for recovery are doomed go get a bad image, if not total failure.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. “I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s taken the Toronto executive from the world of Big 3 Accounting (as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers in his early career) to Investment Banking(National Bank Financial) and capital markets (co-founding Eight Capital after leading the management buyout of Dundee Capital Markets). Some specialize in one arena, like green technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” I want to do the best deals wherever they are, but I thought, most VCs I met didn’t have very good operational experience, so I thought, “Well, what if I created a blog called Both Sides of the Table and could emphasize the fact that I used to sit on your side of the table? [00:14:38] Technical founder.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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’re seeing about a 70 to 75 conversion rate from appointments in terms of purchase ,” said Joanna Griffiths , Founder and CEO.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

My business name is too obvious as it matches our services. Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

by Andrea Martins, co-founder of GreenSocks. He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me. Lecture 3: Before The Startup.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. Key Takeaway: The Chief Operating Officer is the second in command to the CEO – they’re the go-to person that should be running the business. Marketing Podcast with Cameron Herold. 3:38] How would you define the job title COO?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

9-More precise algorithms to match couples. I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types. This is a future trend I see in the dating app space: The next generation of dating apps will match people based on more than just looks.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 5, 2014

Meeting new founders while collaborating, recruiting, analyzing, doing whatever it takes, to help our current founders build strong companies. ” That means the founders are currently fundraising and we are at some stage of mutually getting to know each other. Doing what excites me and gives energy.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2022

Studies show that not only do free snacks at work boost employee morale and productivity , they also have a low impact on bottom-line expenses compared to health insurance or 401(k) matches. and has rapidly growing operations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, New York City, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

To avoid the tax implications of co-mingling personal and business funds and assets, create your business entity before you hire anyone or spend money building the product. File founder stock election so no taxes are due until exit. Also remember that your tax entity election doesn’t have to match the legal entity.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

JD Weinstein , head of Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem in Austin; Karen Kilroy, entrepreneur and CEO of Kilroy Blockchain; Sabrina Wojtewicz, co-founder of Bunker Labs; and Sara Chapman, Director of Entrepreneurship Strategy & Partnerships at Dell will discuss how both startups and corporations can work together and find the right fit.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2023

4- To provide reliable funding solutions Photo Credit: Fred Winchar As a co-founder, president, and CEO of MaxCash Title Loans, I have a passion for providing access to financial resources to those in need. It's a fairly outmoded method of operation that dates back to the industrial revolution. Thanks to Cody Candee, Bounce ! #11-

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. Seth is one of those truly descent human beings that you meet occasionally in this industry whose earnestness on camera is matched by his behavior off camera. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. Not a chance.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

The intent of Spark Collider is to help companies match their solutions with Air Force customers who can use them, and in that regard it was a tremendous success. We can and will make it better by working more deliberately to match problems and solutions, as well as bringing in commercial customers and investors.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company. … (They were operating like) there’s an opportunity and there’s a market need. (So) Eye on the Prize. Anand : Yeah.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. Author howerl.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Rick Boerebach is a co-founder of ZEEF.com , a curated link directory built by passionate experts. If your startup’s goal is to sell a product or service but you’re having a hard time with your revenue model, affiliate marketing might be the perfect match to give you that much-needed boost.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 1, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. The reasoning behind investing in an index fund is that it closely matches the overall market - and it'?s Every week StartupDigest publishes weekly newsletters about the best events, jobs, and what to read for your industry.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

by Juan Pablo Segura, President and Co-Founder of Babyscripts. Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. In the rapidly changing climate of a pandemic world, corporations have had to radically rethink their strategies for survival.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Okay okay, "Planning == Bad," but the supposed benefits of planning are still important: designing for profitability, understanding your customers and competitors, focusing your attention, deciding what's worth doing next, changing directions, and ensuring the founders agree on important issues. Which of your business operations do you hate?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Only smart software can plow through the volume of live data, recognizing trends, customers, and match offerings to reality. In the bike rental business, all operations and rental decisions are made completely by software, with no human intervention. This is a new class of software that can adapt in real time to market changes.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

It is rare to find somebody who matches exactly what I’m looking for in a partner so when you find it you act: Academic rigor (Princeton undergrad, Stanford MBA). M&A experience (Morgan Stanley and later co-headed M&A for Barry Diller at IAC). She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Jason is a Co-founder of Thriveal, a firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. He's a co-founder of Thriveal firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. That's what I, that's what I thought you were gonna say first was the operation. You got to see that.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

I spoke with Toptal Co-founder and CEO Taso Du Val to find out more about how Toptal got started and his predictions for the future of the talent economy. What are the key things you have learned as a tech founder that you think it is most important to share with other founders? Focus on what to focus on.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 19, 2020

The idea of a streaming venture fund matches the fluidity of entrepreneurship and the operator>investor>operator paradigm that seems to be growing. The good news for founders is that they have a growing list of options as the landscape of venture changes. ” So far the answers are unclear.

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