The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Would you like to have a salary from day one that you work full-time on your startup? It’s preferable that you live in the New York tri-state area. See Should you co-found a company with your friend? Do you want to make America functional again ? Are you thinking of applying to Y Combinator without an idea?

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Would you like to have a salary from day one that you work full-time on your startup? By developing innovative technologies and taking a new approach, we believe that we can find alignment across various institutional and individual stakeholders with the means to leverage their networks and effectively push for progress.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 In terms of access to capital, Austin is not Silicon Valley or New York — but it is Austin. Let’s have a look at what early stage founders can expect in terms of oxygen. in New York helps put out some of that monthly burn.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. Decathlon Capital.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Brett is cofounder of Kumospace, the virtual HQ for remote teams, and Charge Ventures, a pre/seed VC based in Brooklyn, NY. John Jantsch (01:20): I remember the first time I went to New York and I saw Columbia Business School and it said CBS somewhere, and I thought it was a, I thought it was like a record company or something.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2014

by Bobby Emamian , co-founder and CEO of Prolific Interactive. For Buffer, it means having an “ open salary ” policy, meaning it uses a public salary formula for all employees. Scalability. Disruption. It’s amazing how quickly an idea can go from buzzworthy to buzzword. Your employees and clients will thank you.

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

Would you like to have a salary from day one of your startup? ff Venture Capital is creating a new, spin-off business from an existing company, and we need a team to take the reins. Initially you will likely be working out of our co-working space on West 36th St., If the answer is yes to any of these, you should keep reading.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Being a co-founder of a real estate investment company allows me to set my own objectives, determine my work hours, and reap the rewards of my actions. No matter how well my team did I knew that at the end of the year I would earn a predetermined salary with a small bonus that was based on the company stock performance.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). When we decide to hire someone, the interviewers who were involved in the "hire" decision will sit down with the candidates resume and salary history and figure out what level they will start at.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Groupon Adds Self-Serve Deal Platform.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2018

The form of companies dominating the startup scene changes , new types of startup founders appear, different partnerships are created, and new, powerful innovation hubs emerge. For example, New York is the world’s second most prominent startup landscape, with more than 7000 startups. in this field has plummeted.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. A few days later Gordon became a founder. The response from across the country?

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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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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 5, 2014

Christina Bechhold didn''t forget that--and so she co-founded her own angel group. It''s a group of her peers from the professional world--up and coming titans of finance and consulting with good salaries and not a lot of dependents. but in a city like New York, with it''s access to capital, "getting in" shouldn''t be the hard part.

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 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. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Nina Tandon , CEO and co-founder of EpiBone , the world’s first company growing bones for skeletal reconstruction.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 3, 2013

’” A friend pointed this out to me last week talking over coffee during a cold rainy New York afternoon. Love in the sense that the founders are motivated by some deep warmth and appreciation towards the area they’re innovating within. Keep collecting the salary, the promotions, the false stability.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Almost all of it is in one giant fixed-cost bucket: salaries. Returning to our example of the beleaguered founder who still has the pager, before hiring an operations guy, try promoting someone from within to take on the job. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

When my Japanese husband died at a young age almost 16 years ago, I had been doing medical writing for a major New York Hospital and also helping him with his documentary films for Japanese and American public television. I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. Image Credit: Bess Heitner.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 26, 2018

Alongside my excellent co-founders, I had spent months researching the viability of data.world. But it isn’t something we talk about, especially if you are a founder and CEO. Some VCs, such as Homebrew (one of our investors at data.world), have started to address the topic of founder depression. So why was I afraid?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Prior to that he started and built a media company serving small businesses in the New York area. He's a co-founder and chairman of Work Better Now, which provides talent from Latin America for US based businesses. Prior to that, he started and built a media company and serving small businesses in the New York.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Using thought-provoking examples of flawless and gruesome writing, and a generous helping of witty banter, the New York Times bestselling author takes Strunk and White’s Elements of Style and gives it a much-needed facelift for the 21st century. Your Inner Will: Finding Personal Strength in Critical Times – Piero Ferrucci.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. The journey brought me to study Zen Meditation with professionals in Manhattan and then with Buddhist Monks in the beautiful Catskill Mountains of New York. For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

As Des Traynor , co-founder of Intercom put it in the Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done book : Des Traynor: Some products are better defined by the job they do than the customers they serve. For some products, customers come in all shapes and sizes, from all countries, all backgrounds, all salaries, and all levels of computer skills.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Voluntary salary reduction program. Ive also used the voluntary salary reduction tool - its particularly useful as a way to get passionate employees who dont have a lot of personal expenses to buy into the mission of the company at a deep level. Selling is an honorable profession. Everyone from the receptionist to engineers is selling.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I million.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

That being said the following is available to the right candidate: • 3-5% equity in the company (based on experience). • $50,000/year salary once we obtain funding (target: January, 2010). Well, I am not in the Bay area, I am in the New York city area. Spent a lot of money on that. Silicon Valley Bank seems interesting.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

And the satisfaction of not only paying my own salary– which I’ve done for years on various book projects– but paying the salaries of others. The early images on Fab’s landing page were simply pictures of his New York apartment. Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Because he cant compete with Google on salary, Citron says, he offers job candidates more responsibility — letting prospective engineers know theyll get to work on bigger projects. Now hes the co-founder of TextPlus, which makes a popular app for making free texts and phone calls on smartphones. Reprints/Permissions. Ad Choices.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve met in New York meetups and events that fit this description. 16 – Get outcompeted.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I million.

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2017

In August of 2016, the New York Times reported that General Electric had high hopes for its new software initiative, Predix. Talking to customers is also crucial to gathering feedback on customer-facing employees, as is asking all employees to fill out anonymous surveys about their co-workers, and creating employee evaluations.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2020

I was interested in a new challenge and a test to prove to myself I could build my own business. I was living in New York City at the time and noticed there were no trolleys in the city. Thanks to David Pike, New York Trolley Company ! #4- I decided to start my own trolley company. Photo Credit: Russell Carr.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? The real question here is: why is it fair for founders to get so much more?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. As founders invest massive amounts of time into their start-up, how critical is it for them to come out of their “hermit caves” and network?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?

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