Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. Media relationships. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

A friend of mine in Seattle just asked me the same question recently. For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. This is tough, and something I hear a lot. and Failblog.org.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

These designers help small to mid-sized brands design/develop quality product by exposing them to big company best practices and a global network of factories, trim suppliers, fabric sources, etc. We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco. 10 – Unique Social Network.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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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. More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. He's also the co-founder and chairman of brand cycle. Like this show?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

” For Lindsay Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Theme Dragon, Inc that opportunity was founding a tech company. She and original cofounder Megan Bradford poured their proverbial blood, sweat and tears into this enterprise. Don’t be scared to turn down “dumb money” Network like crazy.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 21, 2010

We recently invested in a Seattle company called BigDoor Media. The founder/CEO Keith Smith wrote a wonderful love story about the deal which was picked up by the WSJ VC Dispatch in a post titled A Summer Romance Between Founder And Venture Capitalist ? BigDoor straddles our Glue and Distribution themes.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Scarborough, the co-founder of Tourism Currents, will speak at the Austin Innotech eMarketing Summit Oct. She discussed the changes within social media for the travel industry. How many resorts are truly monitoring social media? So many see social media as a threat, not an opportunity. 28 at 1 p.m. Literally years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. I'm the founder and executive director of SF New Deal. Prior to COVID, I was and still am the founder and owner of Three Babes Bakeshop, a small bakery business here in San Francisco. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2012

Double Fine founder Tim Schafer told the San Francisco Chronicle that he'd think about selling shares down the road but notes that giving up equity in return for just $1 million doesn't make sense for Double Fine. That includes friends, family and all your social network connections." Rubin says it's essential to any funding campaign.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. Fred Turner : I'm Fred Turner, CEO and co-founder of Curative. I'm the founder and CEO of Celevity. Here's my conversation with Curative. Celine Halioua : Hi, I'm Celine Halioua.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

And Apple is famous for taking existing ideas (wireless networks, media creation, mice, mp3 players, smartphones) and doing them really, really well. Myth #5: Massive reach on social media matters. A great way to engage those interested customers in the wild west of social media is by reaching them through micro-influencers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The report details some of the high profile success stories in Vancouver: In the early days Slack’s founder estimated the market for the software to be $100 million, which they exceeded in just three years—and have now become the fastest growing business software of all time. Broadband.tv com for $575 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Social Media. After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. But what of those eight members of the first Summer Founders Program; Y Combinator’s “First Batch”? Previous story. Daily Dose.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The report details some of the high profile success stories in Vancouver: In the early days Slack’s founder estimated the market for the software to be $100 million, which they exceeded in just three years—and have now become the fastest growing business software of all time. Broadband.tv com for $575 million.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Theres also eHow parent Demand Media, streaming video site Hulu, car-shopping site TrueCar and one dominant player from Silicon Valley: Google. Jen Sargent, founder of entertainment news site HitFix, says she can get folks to work for her at much lower rates than the "inflated" fees being offered in Silicon Valley and New York.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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