View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

There’s Semantic Machines , one of the best collections of AI and ML minds in the world, led by serial entrepreneur Dan Roth. Webb, as well as security-focused TenEleven , co-founded by Mark Hatfield. Want businesses with massive reach and international presence? Want hardcore futuristic technology?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. California Dreaming.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 30, 2023

4- Made it distinctive Photo Credit: Henrik Muller-Hansen From day one, Henrik Muller-Hansen, CEO and Founder, had a global vision and wanted to choose a name that would excite and be easily understood around the world. Our other co-founder and I were looking for a name that would represent our business values and our service proposition.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. I know that I call them often to co-invest. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade.

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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? Fair is a subjective evaluation made by each participant, so it's hard to really standardize.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Hawaii Semantic 228

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

has announced this morning a $1 million round led by Genesis Partners, Blumberg Capital and Innovation Endeavors , Eric Schmidt’s investment fund, as well as private investors including Joe Londsdale (founder of Palantir). I sraeli startup Any.Do

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Mobile Stealth Semantic Algorithm 94

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. If you’re are a startup founder or an early employee, there may come a time in your relationship that your significant other/spouse will ask you the “ what’s more important? But the problem was that I was married.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS 291

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

How to Balance AI Magic with Human Expertise written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jeff Coyle, the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for MarketMuse.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Differentiation Technical Review 71

Austin Startup

MAY 6, 2010

They’ll also be having a special guest speaker, Susan Strausberg, co-founder of EDGAR Online. Carla is an evangelist in the semantic web community and just recently started Sharp Skirts , an online resource for women entrepreneurs.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2011

Yosi Glick, Jinni’s CEO and Co-founder said: “Completing the Series B funding round allows us to focus on what we do best: Developing an innovative product that is designed to fundamentally improve the entertainment experience. The round was led by Belgacom and an undisclosed connected-TV manufacturer.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Front End Expertise: XHTML/CSS/JavaScript – Hand code, standards compliant, semantic, cross platform & cross device interfaces, jQuery, MooTools, Ext. I don’t have a technical co-founder on my team but am apt in graphics design and have a lot of ideas bursting out of my head.

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Sweat Equity Equity Hiring Technical Review 40

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Excepting for cosmically co-incidental success stories, the fuzzy requirement stuff never congeals as a holistic engineering exercise. Actually, "the market" and "commodities" are just a way of saying "shared context", but that's just semantics. less pain please, scruff).

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Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights. Next page: The transition from a founder who does all the sales to a scalable sales team is really, really hard.

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Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. Frankly, I just dont buy the notion that making an investment is akin to throwing a dart in the dark. Worse, I think its a dangerous idea to promote." startupcto

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# This is an interview you’re not going to want to miss, I promise.

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Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

And so it kind of goes hand-in-hand with the knowledge panel it’s just the knowledge panel for semantic knowledge as opposed to physical entities when it comes to local. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. David thanks for joining me.

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Search Technical Review SEO Small Business 30

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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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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Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

Tellme was founded with the idea that anyone should be able to simply say what they want and get it from any device, starting with the phone,” said Mike McCue, co-founder and CEO of Tellme. Now, with Microsoft, we’ll be able to extend that vision to millions of businesses and consumers around the world.”.

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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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Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Do you mean the shares go to the founders? What if the founder already included an option pool in the existing shares outstanding? But, this is basically just semantics. Remember, more fully-diluted shares outstanding drives the Series A price per share down, resulting in more dilution to the founders. VC: How about 12%?

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Option Pool Pre-Money Valuation Dilution Warrant 68

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Co-founders and outsourcing work the same. Thank you for you insight.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

He’s the co-founder and CEO of the Community Company. He’s also the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, YEC , and the Forbes Councils. He is a co-author of a book we’re gonna talk about today called, “ Superconnector: Stop Networking and Start Building Business Relationships That Matter.

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