Austin Startup

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The funding will be used to further invest in hiring remote workers, with an emphasis on the greater Austin and San Francisco areas due to Honor’s existing office footprints, and to expand Honor’s groundbreaking operations and technology capabilities across the Home Instead network, which has three offices in the greater Austin area.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Engineer Finance Technology 62

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

by Aytekin Tank, founder & CEO of JotForm. Encouraged by the demand, and motivated by direct conversations from users, I began to realize that my personal pain point with form building was shared by many people around the world. At the time, most users accessed the web through Internet Explorer.

Bootstrapping 100

Bootstrapping San Francisco New York City Software Developers 100

Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

However, for a first-time founder, the prospect of building a fully-functioning marketplace can feel quite daunting?—?you’re My big tip here for any new marketplace founder is to go niche. A lot of founders worry that by constraining their marketplace, they will limit their growth and opportunities. London) and category (e.g.

Software Review 100

Software Review San Francisco Valuation Stock 100

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

The number of Lean Startup meetup groups has crossed 100, spreading out from traditional startup hubs like San Francisco and New York to a wide variety of places. But along with Intuit founder Scott Cook, Brad is a leader that recognizes that entrepreneurship is critical to his company’s success. Hope to see you there.

San Francisco 146

San Francisco Silicon Valley Lean Agile 146

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. This has led to exponential growth. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Bring your questions.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed. Wondering how do I get in touch with you - I am founder of a company here in San jose, CA and would like to invite you to be part of our advisor team. Bring your questions.

San Francisco 155

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief. Most people cant sustain more than a few of these iterations, and the founders rarely get to be involved in the later tries. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified.

Customer Development 168

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

View from Seed

JULY 13, 2022

Founders: Carolina Nucamendi & Brenna Curran. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. CN: Carolina, Co-Founder and CEO. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. BC: Brenna, Co-Founder and CPO.

Early Stage 156

Early Stage Cofounder San Francisco Philadelphia 156

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" By delegating and training, we create a corps of leaders who could step in to provide CTO-like services on demand. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Thats an important job, for sure, and Ive been called upon to do it from time to time.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They had their own private forum, and a company founder (aka me) personally ran the group in its early days. Customers kept demanding that we add this or that IM feature, and we were routinely refusing. They had their own private forum, and a company founder (aka me) personally ran the group in its early days.

Advisory Board 151

Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean 151

mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

Because there is often a lot at stake for a new company, its wise to ask where you will fit in among founders and first hires — and how you can make a direct impact on the companys success. What are your founders goals? If interviewing with a founder, Id ask what the founder hoped to gain from the venture.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Software Review Exit Strategy San Francisco 103

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What is customer development?

Agile 76

Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 76

Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2023

At 500, I had the opportunity to work with early-stage founders from around the world and quickly realized that this was where I wanted to spend my time. HW: Your blog , which I love, tries to bridge a knowledge gap between founders and investors, often explaining ‘why investors do/care about X’ and so on.

Silicon Valley 114

Silicon Valley Canada Founder Early Stage 114

Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

If you’re not already familiar with the startups and founders making up the V1 portfolio, here’s a summary of some of this quarter’s news clippings. Booster partners with large businesses to offer on-demand gas fill-ups on their corporate parking lots. Talentbuddy founders, Octav Druta and Andrei Soare, joined on as Udemy employees.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio San Francisco API Software Review 60

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Some companies and founders refuse to serve existing customers, and are always lurching from one great idea to the next. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

San Francisco 88

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What is customer development?

Lean 102

Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment 102

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. San Diego ›. View More in San Diego ›. San Francisco ›. View More in San Francisco ›. Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. San Diego Events ›.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. They get a cheaper price, they wipe out much founder stock value and they reissue you new options.

Pre-Money Valuation 336

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. Zipline provides vital, on demand delivery for the world. The company is based in San Francisco, with significant operations in Africa and elsewhere. #5:

San Antonio 171

San Antonio New York City Seattle Los Angeles 171

Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

As our group sweltered in the July heat on the outskirts of Cairo , each of these purported minions of the state — none of whom wore a uniform or badge — in turn blocked our entry, determined to exercise the modest amount of authority bestowed on him by demanding that my host surrender his digital SLR camera.

Technical Review 172

Technical Review Egypt Morocco Russia 172

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Amazon PostRank

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Beginning this month, Strideline is launching a range of six new city socks called “The New Crew”, featuring Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago and St. The two founders continue to operate their sock business even as they are working towards their business degrees at the University of Washington.

St. Louis 216

St. Louis Seattle Los Angeles San Francisco 216

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Founder and Chief Clinical Director at Paradigm Malibu Treatment Center. It is a form of learned helplessness, where the demands have exceeded the resources. This is particularly true for the entrepreneur, as time marches on and the work demands pile up. The center has locations in both Malibu and San Francisco.

San Francisco 147

San Francisco Demand Entrepreneur Management 147

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Periodic or on-demand reports are one possibility, but we can do much better. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked. On-demand utility pricing for services (aka "cloud computing"). April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. For example, I recently created a customer validation exercise around the Lean Startup Workshop. Bring your questions.

Product Development 88

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88

Version One Ventures

APRIL 5, 2017

named Mattermark ’s founder, Danielle Morrill, one of the 30 Inspirational Women to Watch in Tech in 2017, while Forbes called Outreach one of the top 20 B2B technologies to try in 2017. Shippo will be holding its first summit in San Francisco next month. Josh will also be speaking at Generate San Francisco on June 9.

Portfolio 111

Portfolio San Francisco B2B Naming 111

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite. It is different.

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Gatekeepers are overloaded. Bring your questions.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Jason is the Founder of 37 Signals, makers of Basecamp, with over 3 million users and 2.8 DiJiPop (Providence, RI), Provider of on-demand shopper marketing platform - $1 million. Flurry (San Francisco, CA), - Provider of mobile analytics services - $15 million. 10 million. For those counting at home, that’s 10 out of 11.

Cloud 72

Cloud United Kingdom Los Angeles San Francisco 72

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

As in many scalability decisions, we’d have been much better off investing in agility, so that we could change the architecture in response to actual customer demand, rather than trying to predict the future. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. That’s what Just-in-time Scalability is all about. Bring your questions.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What is customer development?

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Many CTOs grow from inward to outward facing as their companies grow and the demands of the position change.“ —  Neil Dholakia , CTO, Keller Williams Neil Dholakia Business Liaison Working closely with stakeholders, CTOs help ensure that the business objectives and needs align with the current and future technology strategy.

Fractional CTO 54

Fractional CTO CTO Hire CTO Technical Review 54

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. What is a founder to do? Israeli tech review Q3 2022, IVC Online and Bank Leumi.

Founder 174

Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 174

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Since leaving GrubHub, he founded Fixer.com, an on-demand handyperson service focused on social impact. He's the founder of GrubHub and he founded in his spare bedroom and grew it to a multi billion dollar online food delivery.

Founder 82

Founder Chicago Kansas Startup 82

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. The next legal frontier: courts can demand access to your social content, even if marked private – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC Way to go San Francisco! – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Costa Rica Small Business Design 92

Version One Ventures

JUNE 7, 2017

A few weeks ago, we hosted our second marketplace meetup in San Francisco. We had a diverse group of people attending, from founders and product and growth leaders, to data scientists, data engineers, and investors.

San Francisco 74

San Francisco Hosting Demand Engineer 74