Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. Technical founder. When you meet with founders, do you just see all across the board, like this guy you mentioned with the mortgage, or who wants a mortgage? [00:32:26] President is kind of a weird title.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. Startups vs. Large Companies vs. Governments Innovation at Speed for Horizon 1, 2 and 3 (Managing the Portfolio across Horizons) What is Systems Thinking? Take a look below.

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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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. A company needs innovation policies, innovation processes and innovation incentives to match those it already has for execution. This never ends well. Managers need radically different tools to control and measure innovation.

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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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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. What rolling funds do not address is traditional portfolio construction that requires a thoughtful capital deployment strategy. How much capital are you reserving for follow on financings?”

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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). Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures).

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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there. If you have a co-founder, see if you can bring him/her along with you; I like to meet the key players. Can you get to break-even somehow, and live to fight another day?

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View from Seed

JUNE 5, 2018

Last week, we hosted our very first portfolio-only Hiring Bootcamp in NYC, led by NextView’s talent advisor Kristen Caldwell. seek out the perfect match and tell them why you’re special. The Hiring Bootcamp is something we plan to continue offering as part of our Platform resources for portfolio companies.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 25, 2017

So when Joe Marchese introduced me to Heather Hartnett for more information about the NYC startup studio they were cofounding, I was predisposed to feel a kinship. I can see this in the people they bring onboard and the founders they work with. We sit on the side of the founder and we let the market value the company.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” Creativity is also a must for product managers.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In our prior lives, the Bolster founders worked together to scale up a business called Return Path and also. worked as advisors and mentors to numerous early stage founders and startups. Jenny’s experience as a multiple-time senior executive and startup advisor (including four years as the COO of Techstars) was a perfect match for us.

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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?

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 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 Most indices are cap-weighted - more in line with a concentrated portfolio (i.e. spray-and-pray?

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

We brief our major investors quarterly and decided to model our LP meeting after what “big funds” do, albeit with a few Homebrew flourishes :) Logistically this meant an afternoon session with presentations/Q&A then a dinner with founders/advisors. We love our founders. Roughly 50% result in a first meeting.

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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.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. I built my first startup in Argentina during the economic crisis-turned-revolution in 2001,” writes Frederic Kerrest , “and my co-founder and I started Okta in the depths of the U.S. Here are some things you can do. Learn from forced efficiency. “I

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K9 Ventures

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Put differently, there are some founders for whom failure simply isn’t an option. I am so proud and honored to recognize one such founder from the K9 portfolio today. Sooinn Lee is the founder and CEO of LocoMotive Labs. However, there is a different pattern that they do match.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Paras Chopra , founder of VWO , answered a question about this on Quora. Due to Google’s increasingly sophisticated algorithms, intent and match are usually pretty high. For SEO, using keywords and language on a page intelligently and in ways that match with how people search (e.g. Image Source. Image Source.

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Early Growth Financial Services

APRIL 16, 2015

Our Ask The VC webinar was an open forum with Sean Foote, Founder of Co=Creation=Capital. Understanding what VCs are looking for is top of mind for many founders seeking funding. The more you know about their investing mindset, the greater your chances of insuring you’re a match. Sellers meanwhile believe the converse.

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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. ICAS® can then be scaled up across the customer’s portfolio bringing enterprise-wide benefits.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

And we invest in US-based startups, primarily on the US east coast though we’ll consider other parts of country on a selective basis (roughly 15-20% of our portfolio is in the SF Bay area). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Pingback: watch toy story 3 free online. Pingback: [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Another idea would be to say matching up. the sort of pain solution match-up process can work. I first did it for the founder.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 5, 2011

Many entrepreneurs come to us and say "I have this great idea, all I need is a technical co-founder" or "I have a killer technology that I'm developing, all I need is a business co-founder." They look to us to help make the match in the hopes that they will complete their team and live happily ever after. .

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

Your co-workers in one start-up become your co-founders in another. Find the top 3 VCs, angels, tech lawyers and headhunters in your target geographical market and ask them for the two or three hottest companies that match the domain and stage you are interested in. Pick a Stage. Ask a handful of insiders.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It has close to 2,000 entrepreneurs and gives you the tools to pitch to investors, find co-founders, and launch your product to the press and more. The only limitation with this platform is that it only gives contact information, meaning you need to find matches on your own.

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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. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

I have pitched to hundreds of angel investors over the years as a result of co-founding two tech companies and raising just shy of $1M in angel capital. One of the things I look for when investing (in addition to the obvious question of can it make money) is a sense of financial responsibility from the founders. Tweet This Tip.

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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. Portfolio theory construction, alpha and beta into the science process.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

While exact-match domain names don’t dominate Google like they did in the past, they can provide a valuable ranking boost in a competitive space. My co-founder, David Johnson, and I came up with the name “Genexa” because we felt it represented the next generation of medicine. in 1922 as their Miner’s Clubhouse.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was hanging out the other day with my buddy Jody Sherman, founder & CEO of EcoMom. I think how hard it is for me to be hands-on with a handful of portfolio companies. He was talking profusely about their portfolio company email lists and the knowledge that is shared. Through this process he raised $2 million.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 6, 2014

I wrote last year about their unconventional format that allows venture capitalists to pitch themselves to growth-stage startup founders in under 5 minutes. Arjen Strijker, co-founder and CEO of Capital On Stage, has had more than 200 top-tier venture capitalists on stage at his conferences (view all 5 minute VC pitch videos here ).

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. Company: Home Portfolio.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This matches the test subject’s behavior we observed during the checkout usability test back in 2011. Christian Holst Christian Holst is the co-author of the research report E-Commerce Checkout Usability , as well as founder of Baymard Institute , where he writes bi-weekly articles about web usability and conversion rate optimization.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

By Lihi Pinto-Fryman, co-founder and CRO and Gal Aga, VP of Sales at Syte.ai , a visual search startup and Remagine Ventures portfolio company. In the beginning, the founders gave demos all day. For us, gone are the days when founders and even VPs are in the field daily. Do you plan to land and expand?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When my co-founder Mohan Balachandran and I initially considered names for our company, which offers HIPAA compliant hosting and integration tools for healthcare technology teams, we wanted our company name to represent action, so we chose the verb to catalyze rather than the noun catalyst. Thanks to Michael Harris, Uproar PR ! #15

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