VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches? trillion by 2030.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 13, 2023

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Rita Bautista, CEO of Latina Podcasters. Latina Podcasters is changing the landscape of media by streamlining the process for brands and companies to purchase host-read ads and curated segments on podcasts with authentic Latinx voices. Founded in 2019 by Ms.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This event focused on relationship building and a lot of work was put into building curated groups to have fruitful round table discussions. More networking and curated roundtables, less gurus and swag. We arranged vetted and curated groups for roundtable discussions , and matched everyone with other like-minded people.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The Mattermark Daily consists of both original content from the company’s blog and a hand-curated list of featured posts from various investors, founders, and media members covering the startup ecosystem. Investors of all types and stages, startup founders and employees, and tech media are all counted among them.). Nuzzel.com.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Every business person with a dollar and a dream these days thinks they’re a technical co-founder away from interweb stardom. That’s something that a business founder might have some ideas about, but it really takes a product manager to weigh resource constraints, internal input, customer demands, etc. It just works.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 3, 2019

Feedback to investors about what helps and doesn’t help founders when fundraising. I originally asked this question to several founders with the intent of addressing angel investors but I’ve found it doesn’t exclude other institutional investors either. Quick No Now onwards to positive behavior that founders love!

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

As Bryan stated below, there are no shortage of “How to pitch” or “How to behave” articles by VCs but really very little advice for VCs by founders. Anyone notice there's a ton of VCs giving founder advice, and almost no founder advice for VCs? Lines Not Dots Raising money from a fund is a process, most founders get that.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2021

Iati is the C o-founder and CEO of Duda – a website development platform used by thousands of agencies around the world to build sites for their customers. In this episode, I talk with founder Itai Sadan about the future of Duda and important web design concepts. Marketing Podcast with Itai Sadan. Questions I Ask Itai Sadan. [0:52]

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 30, 2023

Founder Sam Williams shared some reflections on this milestone , including the fact that 860 million pieces of data have been stored. to offer a curated climate action platform to other orgs within their “radius” of influence. You can read more about it on this Twitter thread, and get all the details and sample hooks in Github.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

In addition, Amazon launched two dedicated funds: Alexa Startups – The Alexa Startups team engages founders and investors through startup programs, business development, and technical support. AWS Startups Blog – Head here for insights on startup related topics and guest posts from startup founders/leaders. Physical space.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

If you’re fond of relying on numbers and charts to help you learn, this article by Palo Alto Software founder Tim Berry should be at the top of your list. All About Cash Flow. Here, you’ll get a solid understanding of the cash flow process, and if you prefer to see what the actual numbers show, you’ll find that in this article as well.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2014

Kauffman just launched Founders School - a new education series to help entrepreneurs develop their businesses during the startup stage by highlighting how startups are different from big companies. After weeks honing the script and days of filming, I’m honored to present the “ Startups ” section of Founders School.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is the new book by David Cohen , founder and CEO of TechStars, and Brad Feld , managing director of Foundry Group. Below is his chapter, Avoid Co-Founder Conflict. A perennial favorite is to decide that each founder should own an equal share. For what reasons?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. Sometimes, it was a technical issue that other founders helped us to solve. About a year and a half ago, we got accepted to the Elevator accelerator program in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2024

Over a decade ago, when I was working for First Round Capital, we opened our doors for “Open Office Hours”—a series of open meetings where any founder could come in and chat with us for 20 minutes each. I’m not sure we backed any of the founders—but that wasn’t the point. We met quite a few smart folks. We had 70 investors sign up!

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

We curate and aggregate a collection of talented made-to-measure designer brands who showcase their garments in our integrated marketplace platform. Team Info: Founder: Dana Todd. Dana Todd, Balodana Founder. This experience will be as easy as traditional e-commerce. Fantastic points. Good luck and thank you, Balodana.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2017

by Chris Low, founder of MyTeamPlan. Similarly, a subscriber to an eCommerce store may find the content of the newsletter relevant only if the products being promoted are carefully curated based on their past purchase history. Chris Low is the founder of MyTeamPlan , a desktop-based project management software.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2019

Gui Costin , author of “ Millennials Are Not Aliens “, is an entrepreneur, and founder of Dakota, a company that sells and markets institutional investment strategies.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2020

by Stephanie Fatta, founder of BeautyBrite.com. Make sure to also submit all of your blog posts to content-curating platforms like Mix.com, which will get new people to discover your blog. Stephanie Fatta is the founder of the popular beauty & lifestyle blog, BeautyBrite.com. To Wrap It All Up.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2012

But a new Singapore startup is looking to resurrect the model (if not the kind of products): Booxify is an online subscription service that, at S$14 per month, will deliver a carefully curated box of four to seven different products to your home.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2019

Gui Costin , author of “ Millennials Are Not Aliens “, is an entrepreneur, and founder of Dakota, a company that sells and markets institutional investment strategies. As environmental factors change, transparency and genuine interactions remain important to everyone.”.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 19, 2020

Jessica Ewing, co-founder, and CEO of Literati called the founding of her company the summer of the pivot. She pitched so many different versions to investors including Etsy for authors, a curated enterprise book service for businesses, the first data-driven publishing house and others. You name it, I pitched it,” Ewing said. “It

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 15, 2021

Josh is the Founder and Creative Director at Fix8 Media. You get access to a curated catalog of top outsourced talent in 500+ categories – already vetted for quality and experience. Josh is the Founder and Creative Director at Fix8 Media. Marketing Podcast with Josh Neimark. Marketing Podcast with Josh Neimark.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

As part of our Founder Interview series, The Startup Magazine caught up with entrepreneur Ola Sars, Founder and CEO of music-tech leader, Soundtrack Your Brand. Ola Sars, Founder and CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand. TSM: What is the most important thing you tell other startup founders? Ola: Stay focused.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2019

by Manish Dudharejia, President and Founder of E2M Solutions Inc. Consumers want to know what to expect from a product before they buy it, and they are not always willing to trust the curated and heavily Photoshopped versions that are typically displayed on business websites. The same goes for customer reviews.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

“Personal Branding” The term is fingernails on a chalkboard-level cringe for many of the best founders—mostly because it feels most of the people who spend time building their personal brand don’t actually have much there there behind it. Unfortunately, this has real consequences for founders. So how can founders differentiate?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

Yet there are big challenges to hyperlocal, at least for consumer-focused hyperlocal startups, according to Sean Barkulis, Founder of UPlanMe, whose initial consumer-focused business model was an early casualty, writing in Street Fight : Every site requires real curated local content to engage users.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 30, 2017

Background / Related Reading: Founder Education Gatekeepers and Ecosystems What is the purpose of universities? Employers who are honest will tell you it’s mostly one thing: curation; various filters (admissions, testing, etc.) Top accelerators have corrected an imbalance between the strength of founders’ networks and those of VCs.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

by Mike Bird, CEO and co-founder of Social Garden. Plus, curated content a great way to get in front of people who aren’t your immediate followers, grow your following, and ultimately spread your brand-centric content to a wider audience base. In fact, up to 40% of us are unsure if our efforts on social are even working.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

Utilize business content curators and coaches. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. These days, if you can’t find money, you haven’t tried hard enough or maybe your idea isn’t a good one. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The founder of Parachute, Ariel Kaye , had a clear vision for what she wanted to disrupt and how she thought she could do it. Curation There are really multiple forms of “curation” that I think can build sustainable differentiation in products vs. the retailer that is selling them. I don’t use the word ‘spectacular’ lightly.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

by Evan Varsamis, Founder/CEO at Gadget Flow Inc. Myself and my co-founders were just a bunch of young upstarts with a big idea. My good friends and I, all aged 21, were working on a design inspiration blog and curating content for designers and artists. Evan Varsamis is an entrepreneur, Founder/CEO at Gadget Flow Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

And, in the years since, they’ve carefully curated the brand’s offerings to ensure quality and customer appeal. We recommend that you follow Costco’s lead and curate your store’s signature brand carefully. However, Costco’s Kirkland Signature brand is breaking that mold. This careful handling has paid off. What You Can Do.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 21, 2018

These ramblings are about my week in London with 10 other women as part of the inaugural Startup Catalyst Female Founders London Mission where I was supported to attend by Advance Queensland. Female Founders Unite Some of us arrived the day before our official start and met up at the closest pub. Pack gloves!

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For new founder friends who are popping in to check us out for the first time, for old industry friends who are circling back around to catch up after a while… regardless of where you fall, we are so glad you’re here! We will continue to invest in founders who are redesigning the everyday economy. Check it out! .

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin. Michael says that among stories about young entrepreneurs dropping out of college and then experiencing a meteoric rise to success, ‘Lost and Founder’ stands out as a book about carefully, slowly building one’s company and reputation over the better part of two decades. “By

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