TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

What does the role demand? But be careful, and mind the gap – the Founder-Developer Gap, that is! But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. Founder-Developer Gap How big is your startup’s Founder-Developer Gap? Exploring new technologies?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 11, 2022

In 10 years of venture investing I don’t think I’ve ever participated in a seed round which had less demand than supply. What expertise do the founders personally have? Founders Often Don’t Come From These Backgrounds…. Founders seem to disproportionately come from engineering, product and sales/business unit career paths.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Founder Marketing 102

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Here’s another from The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series. We also created a feature that allows you to imbed on demand live session into your group with a chat feature that is recorded. The post Founder Interview: Abraham Gin on Entrepreneurs and Leadership appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Leadership Founder Technical Review Entrepreneur 166

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

founders, marketers, investors?—?and eCommerce for example grew 39% just last year - so there’s simply more demand. There are plenty of talented, smart founders out there but you’d be surprised how many don’t have that “unfair advantage” when it comes to their product and audience. Founders, marketers and growth leaders?—?join

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to Gergo Vari, the founder of Lensa, if your startup is ready to ride the metaverse wave, staying informed and investing in the skills and expertise needed for this new era are crucial. Companies that can adapt quickly to the growing demand for digital experiences will have a competitive edge in 2024.

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Technical Review Generative AI Startup Agile 133

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Thus, in my mentoring of potential technical entrepreneurs who have a real passion for their technology, I often recommend that they find a co-founder who can manage the marketing and execution elements of the new venture. The competition will improve, the market will change, and your customers will demand more.

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Cofounder Founder Partner Leadership 332

Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2024

— each with different criteria Don’t invest time and resources in building on-demand prototypes if you don’t know the path to a purchase order Use polite forcing functions, e.g. cancelable purchase orders, to discover who else needs to say “yes”

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Make sure there will be a demand for your product. In the post-coronavirus period, the demand for technologies that help businesses compensate for losses will only increase. Remember that investors will not appreciate a business plan that features exorbitant salaries of the founders. Test the Idea. Define the Market Potential.

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Business Plan Ukraine Cofounder Startup 263

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders quandaries in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs.

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Founder Hockey Stick Cofounder Liquidity Event 325

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2020

As an angel investor and a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always disappointed to see founders who seem stressed out most of the time, and more annoyed than energized by the abundance of challenges they see in building their startup. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification. Viewed by others as a successful problem solver.

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Founder Startup Angel Investor Demand 429

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring.

Elevator Pitch 386

Elevator Pitch Technical Review Dividend Leadership 386

View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

Founder: Connor Cash. Investors, customers, regulators, and all key stakeholders are demanding more transparent corporate sustainability disclosures. To meet these demands, the historical practice of manually collecting this data does not scale and results in inefficient reporting that is difficult to audit and easily misrepresented.

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DC Software Review Government Boston 156

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2023

This will improve your effectiveness in your current role, and give you a head start towards a future role, such as startup founder, where you are the boss. The most productive people get things done by working in concert with others, not demanding actions and results, but by orchestrating win-win relationships.

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Management Leadership Demand Founder 291

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Other founders, “as a privately held company we don’t disclose our valuation.&# Me, “dude, I’m not a journalist. Investors own 25%, the founders own 75%. Investors will always want to get their money out of the company before founders, which in the case where the company is sold for a low price is fair.

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Valuation Liquidation Preference Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 405

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring.

Founder 120

Founder Product Elevator Pitch Startup 120

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2023

In 2022, we saw unusual supply constraints — lingering post-coronavirus supply chain issues, a persistently tight labor market , and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — converge with high demand — partly fueled by heavy government stimulus during the first two years of the pandemic.

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Technical Review Ukraine Software Review ChatGPT 148

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

One of the opportunities that comes with that kind of demand is meeting it in a way that aligns with the company mission. North Aware’s Jamil Khan: North Aware’s Kickstarter campaign really was a success and it was exciting to see that people were as enthusiastic about the idea of the Smart Parka as we were.

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Founder Pakistan Software Developers Software Development 189

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective.

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Founder LP Technical Review Seed Stage 75

deal architect

MARCH 22, 2017

Michael Keaton, as Ray Kroc, looks straight into the camera in the beginning of the movie “The Founder” and makes a pitch for multi-spindle milkshake blenders. His pitch “increase supply and demand follows”. They allow a restaurant to make six.

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Demand Founder 170

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

But when it comes to core technical skills, more and more entrepreneurs are opting to partner with technical co-founders rather than hiring someone for an in-house position. I really believe that what’s most important for a founder is the ability to have a vision for the company, make sales and hire well. Laura Roeder , LKR.

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Technical Review Cofounder Founder Software Review 131

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Disharmony among founders. Right off the bat, if the founders aren’t able to get along nor have any partnership agreements in place, your odds of failing are high. It could also be they’ve grown too fast and can’t keep up with demand or didn’t know how to budget the funds they had. Lack of demand or interest.

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Startup Demand Business Model Founder 130

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Unless you have a co-founder or two with the business skills to complement your technical ones, you need a friendly Advisory Board. The cost of a co-founder is usually fifty percent of your equity. Building and managing a business is a wholly different world from building an innovative solution.

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Advisory Board Bandwidth Cofounder Technical Review 356

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. All too often, founders fall in love with their products or technology, ignore negative feedback from customers, and spend years building a product based on a vision that no one else shares. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

Angel Investor 359

Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator Business Model 359

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2020

This will improve your effectiveness in your current role, and give you a head start towards a future role, such as startup founder, where you are the boss. The most productive people get things done by working in concert with others, not demanding actions and results, but by orchestrating win-win relationships.

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Leadership Demand Management Founder 380

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2020

by Shaun Djie, Co-Founder & COO of Digix. As Southeast Asia drives ahead with digitisation, its eagerness and receptiveness to emerging technologies have encouraged the rising adoption of digital finance and the growing demand for re-skilling the workforce in digital technologies such as blockchain. .

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Asia Technical Review Technology Singapore 290

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

You need the funding and support, but venture capitalists can be very demanding, and set high targets. Despite all these challenges, and the angst that comes with them, almost every new venture founder, failed or successful, interviewed by Eisenmann and myself insist that they have no regrets, and can’t wait to do it again.

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Technical Review Merger Software Review Acquisition 329

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. Deepfake Detection – demand for a mobile application that provides deepfake detection, Caller ID, spam blocking and perhaps even live translation or agentic experiences for call handling.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

View from Seed

JANUARY 31, 2024

Consequently, nearly every founder is attempting to weave an AI narrative into their ventures, regardless of its necessity or fit, which will likely lead to an unhealthy market environment and potentially drown out genuine opportunities. A less encouraging similarity is the deluge of capital and the suspension of disbelief in the AI space.

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Web Generative AI Houston Distribution 168

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The founder explains that the product or service is so “buzz-worthy” that the merits will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. Seed viral activity.

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Viral Marketing SEM Campaign 348

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

With a tactical understanding of two different marketing strategies: demand generation and lead generation. While your competitors pump out gated ebooks and “state of the industry” lead magnets that generate low-to-no intent MQLs, tap into existing demand to build a pipeline of high intent leads.

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Lead Generation Demand Audience eCommerce 107

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

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Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

#2- E-Learning platforms and tools business Photo Credit: Shawn Manaher My name is Shawn Manaher, founder of The Content Authority. The demand for online education and training continues to soar. Looking ahead to 2024, there are several exciting opportunities for starting a company. Thanks to Jeremy Piper, Whybuy !

Entrepreneur 115

Entrepreneur Technical Review Demand Analytics 115

Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

A data-driven approach can help you make accurate and timely business decisions to meet market demands and improve cost-efficiency. However, as a founder of a small business or startup, you’re juggling many things. KPIs Every Founder Should Track. “What gets measured gets done.” .

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Founder Retention Metrics Technical Review 71

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2019

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring.

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Elevator Pitch Technical Review Dividend Leadership 312

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Steve Jobs proved it with the iPhone, and Elon Musk can’t produce his electric cars fast enough to keep up with demand. However, such changes don’t yet happen automatically, so it still takes proactive strategies and key actions to create new demand where none exists. Use social media and the media to build demand for change.

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Marketing Demand Campaign Differentiation 231

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

insert founder number] of the founders dropped out of [insert Ivy League school]. We wish we were the founders, experiencing this testosterone-fueled melodrama of success. Many Startups Lack Demand. One feature that is prevalent among many failing (or soon-to-be-failing) startups is an overall lack of demand.

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Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 107

SiliconHills

JULY 30, 2012

And solo-entrepreneurs can find it difficult finding a technical cofounder in central Texas where people with technical skills are in high demand. Other startup founders are looking for partners with different skills such as marketing, sales and business development. [.].

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Austin 91