K9 Ventures

APRIL 16, 2023

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. After 10 years of building K9, my knowledge and advice to founders were becoming dated. The name of the candidate will often be very American-sounding. Like a lot, a lot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

When you look through the list , you’ll see big names that we’re very pleased we landed, epic companies we really want to hear from, and people we’re particularly excited to present because they have incredible stories to share--and you won’t hear them anyplace else. For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Very few founder CEOs go into the job ever expecting to give up their seat. It’s your baby. You took the biggest leap of faith.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

by Kenneth Coats, founder of eKnowID. Doing a background check on a potential partner or co-founder, while unorthodox, could bring to light small issues that could be resolved with a bit of honest dialogue. In the past few years, big names, including Yahoo! Now, don’t get me wrong: Most people don’t lie on their résumés.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

As well as hubs of tech innovation springing up all over the United States – locations in Utah and Colorado, for example – the world is also getting behind tech. Germán Montoya is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy and Creative Officer at Rokk3r Labs. As access to the internet increases from the current 3.5

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Today, if you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? There’s the Alfred P. What happened to him?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” The name and the type have to fit, or expensive rework will be required later. In the United States, this is a limited liability corporation, or LLC.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2022

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. We also provide laser-focused guidance to clients like a beam of light, so we wanted to include that element in the name. 1- We focused on strategy.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. Starbucks, which is now a common coffee hangout place all over the United States, has an interesting owner.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Six years later, in 1886, her parents called upon Anne Sullivan, an experienced teacher of the blind, to help a seven-year old Helen learn to communicate in terms of names and letters. In that moment, language and naming “clicked” for Helen. Co-evolution in an ecosystem is a beautiful and a relatively stable thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. He stated: “China is also courting trouble.

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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.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 3, 2011

Post on the White House blog titled Making It Easier for Immigrants to Start Companies in the United States by the Director of U.S. I’ve been working on this issue since I wrote the post The Founders Visa Movement on 9/10/09 (all my posts can be seen in the category summary Startup Visa on my blog).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. There are close to 30 million small businesses in the United States that, collectively, employ more than half of our nation’s working population. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. The United States provides a phenomenal environment for promoting startup ecosystems, ranking 1st out of 138 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index. Biotechnology. In fact, 6.02

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Up and Running

JANUARY 21, 2015

“I doubt that you consulted the Navajo Nation about using their tribal name on sophisticated items such as the ‘Navajo Hipster Panty,''” wrote Navajo Nation member Sasha Houston Brown. ” Many of Mateen’s sexist and racist text messages to Wolfe were made public as a result of the trial.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs wireless power company.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

Company names like Apple, Amazon and eBay evoke an image of success and cutting-edge technology. It’s hard to overstate the importance of a business name. Getting your business’ name right could mean the difference between “Blue Ribbon Sports” and “Nike.” Here are some tips for how to come up with a business name.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Similarly, Techstars Austin is a force to be reckoned with.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In ” At present, Version One Ventures portfolio includes startups from all over the United States and Canada. Version One Ventures does not look at founders in a gender specific light.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. The United States provides a phenomenal environment for promoting startup ecosystems, ranking 1st out of 138 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index. Biotechnology. In fact, 6.02

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. In her well-regarded (but boringly named) book “ Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages ” Carlota Perez outlines the history of many of our great leaps forward in innovation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2017

Apple Co-founder and introvert Steve Wozniak, like Rowling, understands the value of working alone. And, you’re going to have to interact with your co-workers at some point. The President of the United States is often called “Leader of the Free World.” Steve Wozniak. Barack Obama. Bill Gates.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

It is not sufficient for well-meaning people in the administration to stand by and allow racism to emanate from the White House in the name of getting tax cuts or lower regulations. Each of their parents came to the United States in search of a life. We have an obligation to speak up or eventually they will come for you.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

We started our alcohol delivery service in 2014 on the basis that alcohol is one of the most consumed beverages in the United States. I started my business because I was the victim of a horrible acquisition (can you name a good one?). #5- To offer consumers convenience. Photo Credit: Chris Vaughn. Photo Credit: ????Jay

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

He is co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London and San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. Charles is the co-author of the bestselling book Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything and The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. Our mission stems from our passion in creating automotive technology disruption, our vision of a more sustainable future and our belief in astoundingly desirable designs that the Fisker name has been known for all around the world. Thanks to Brandy Runyan, Black Diamond PR Firm, LLC ! #2-

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Of course, there’s no one-fits-all approach to figuring out what niche you’re best served to help—and the variety of responses we got from real estate agents across the United States is proof of that. Naturally, this differs slightly from state to state, so make sure to check in with your own state about regulations and rules.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2013

One such solution is Yiftee ( [link] ), an iPhone application launched in December last year that allows users to buy another person a gift from over two million shops and restaurants throughout the United States. ”

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. Digital Response. She served as the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. He also co-founded three companies: a broadcasting network, Air America Media, a solar energy company, Atenergy and a branding agency, Brand Maestro.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We make a point of keeping our records updated in the major data-trackers tracking the VC industry, e.g., CB Insights , Crunchbase , Dow Jones , Mattermark , Palico , Preqin , Pitchbook , and ThomsonReuters , since they are a source of data to LPs and to potential co-investors interested in us. . Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . The DEMO conferences for years has served as the launchpad event for big name companies and has a well earned reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow’s cutting-edge technologies. . Others Alon Alroy Bizzabo conference event startup technology United States'

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

So read on and be inspired… At 30 Years of Age, Tianyi Joe Zhu, Chicago Entrepreneur, Named Amongst the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business. Tianyi is also a co-founder of West Suburban Angels , a prominent angel investment group in the west suburbs of Chicago. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (PRWEB) JULY 12, 2017.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. Kirsten Saenz Tobey : My name is Kirsten Saenz Tobey. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. Kristin Groos Richmond : My name is Kristin Groos Richmond. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods.

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