View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

EP: I went off to the University of Michigan for college and last year made my way back to Santa Monica after 4 years of working at Meta in Digital Marketing in Austin and San Francisco. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? And your least? Honestly, I get the hype now. Looking Ahead .

Early Stage 156

Early Stage San Francisco Michigan Portfolio 156

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Meet the Locals Here are the most active early stage investors in town that you should meet while you’re here and do deals with. It’s a robust ecosystem so I’m only listing the ones we’ve done the most deals with here but Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas so this is a good sampling.

Silicon Valley 50

Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. If you dont have customers, a product, investors, or a board of directors, you can pretty much stay focused on just one thing at a time. . Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 88

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Reasonable minds can differ on all of the above topics.

Silicon Valley 187

Silicon Valley San Francisco Intellectual Property Accredited Investor 187

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Later, when the company was much larger, we had everyone on our engineering team agree to sit in on one usability test every month. It wasnt a huge time commitment, but it meant that every engineer was getting regular contact with an actual customer, which was invaluable. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

(behind Silicon Valley and New York), the city of flowers and sunshine boasts one of the largest concentrations of engineering graduates in the country. This was one of the reasons entrepreneur Justin Yoshimura ( founder of the start-up 500friends ) found his way there: Compared to San Francisco in particular, it’s very cheap.

United States 48

United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 48

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. But all things are never equal. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. Great engineers see it and smile. This is called set-based concurrent engineering (SBCE). [1]

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

He is currently a second year student at Harvard Business School and will be focused on supporting the early-stage startup community in Boston and its schools. When I was a freshman, a wise mentor told me, “Pick your major based on something for which the Stanford engineering department is creating new buildings.”

Boston 328

Boston Seed Stage San Francisco Startup 328

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

Lean 68

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2021

Capital Factory has been the most active early stage investor in Texas since 2010, investing in hundreds of startups and collecting more than $100 million in pre-emptive investment rights to invest in hundreds more. A “who’s who” list of Silicon Valley leaders moving to ATX This shift did not happen overnight?—?it

Accredited Investor 106

Accredited Investor Texas San Antonio San Francisco 106

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. That fostering and encourage entrepreneurs to bring companies and products to market is a great source of innovation, job creation, etc. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Tampa Continuous Deployment Lean 60

View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

Boston 120

Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

In fact, early stage companies shouldnt be able to get time from anyone else - who else would be crazy enough to try an truly innovative new product? christinelu : if youre building a disruptive innovation.the only people who you want to talk to are early adopters. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Japan Continuous Deployment 60

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. Hyper-Local, meaning the entire team should be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Frighteningly Early.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development.

Silicon Valley 312

Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital 312

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Startup salaries — especially on the engineering side — are at near record highs. According to Colton Commercial, a leading broker in San Francisco, current average prices for space in SOMA/FiDi in SF is $70 per square foot. These two costs suck up a lot of the money in an early stage company.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage San Francisco Startup Valuation 120

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Just like great engineers attract other great engineers, the same is true with designers. As you talk to designers and engineers at a startup, do you feel inspired and confident that you can learn a ton from them? Do you see evidence that the founders invest in design and value it at the same level as engineering and business?

Design 161

Design San Francisco Cofounder Startup 161

Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

It meant frequent flights or moving your company to San Francisco to raise money from Bay Area VCs. Yet, having a vibrant ecosystem to seed early stage startups is one thing. You’ve got a great number of senior level talent in engineering, sales, marketing, etc. Waterloo has another unicorn with Kik.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley San Francisco Startup DC 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

In this capacity I can tell any entrepreneurs raising early-stage capital that I would have Matt on my short list if I were raising. Gogii [the original company name] was an early leader in the free text messaging space and we had tens of millions of downloads of our product. He’s with you in good times & bad.

Silicon Valley 150

Silicon Valley Los Angeles San Francisco Architecture 150

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

This is important, especially if you are a very early stage company. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

Hearpreneur

JULY 25, 2019

He approached me one day when I was visiting him at home (I was still working at my day job in San Francisco as a mobile engineer for Climate Corp). People always ask me “what is it like to run an early-stage startup?” Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners?

Raleigh 66

Raleigh San Francisco Silicon Valley Mobile 66

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The competition is open to any early-stage venture that's still in beta stage and has yet to receive significant funding. Applying teams must have at least one women and one technologist (engineer, scientist, etc) on the founding team. Applications are being accepted now for the 4th Annual PITCH: Women 2.0

San Francisco 135

San Francisco Incubator Startup Early Stage 135

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Compounding what's already just a general shortage of engineers, those tech companies with deep pockets are offering big salaries and bonuses to those willing to join (and hopefully stay). The "Which startups in San Francisco Bay Area are hiring?" Linking to a story in Techcrunch that tells of Google offering an engineer $3.5

San Francisco 118

San Francisco Non-Compete Deal Flow Startup 118

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We’ve just published the program for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , December 9 to 11 in San Francisco, and we can say without hesitation that it’s completely unlike any other entrepreneurship conference in existence. This post was co-written by Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference.

Lean 166

Lean Early Stage San Francisco Cofounder 166

David Teten

DECEMBER 24, 2015

We’re a New York based early-stage venture capital firm. Central Canada has many of the assets of other entrepreneurial hubs: a flourishing creative community, an active local VC community , strong engineering talent and quality universities, such as University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and Ryerson University.

New York 60

New York Venture Capital Canada Silicon Valley 60

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. ” It seems to either be “The Peninsula” or “San Francisco” or even just “The Bay Area.” An innovator in technology, especially monetization. Don’t you think? I’ve come to accept it.

Community 304

Community Los Angeles Startup Silicon Valley 304

keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Engineer, arranger, communicator, amateur photographer. These were the best resources I found: Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups. Startup Equity for Early Employees. Kirk flew into San Francisco from Seattle on that Friday, so he could talk to the founders in person. Michelle Wetzler.

Salary 50

Salary Equity Startup San Francisco 50

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. The movement has inspired a powerful community that includes leaders from enterprise organizations, government agencies, nonprofits, and early stage startups. No lights, no wifi, and no A/V. Prices increase on June 30th.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Startup Cofounder 60

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 107

San Francisco Romania Cleveland South Africa 107

K9 Ventures

MAY 19, 2011

The reason why I want the teams to be located in the San Francisco Bay Area is the subject of a whole blog post in itself (coming soon!). In the very early stages of a company’s development there is a lot of fast-cycle learning that should happen and needs to happen.

Distribution 131

Distribution San Francisco Early Stage Startup 131

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Supercities, such as the San Francisco Bay Area, have traditionally attracted lots of newcomers into the network because that’s where the jobs, the labor pool, and the prospects for economic growth lie. Private capital Seed, or very early-stage startup capital, is inherently local.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Jeremy Goldman, entrepreneur, strategist and CEO of the early-stage branding consultancy Firebrand Group , says premiums for custom domain names can cost upwards of $185,000. “Costs for these new registrations will vary, and the most desirable domain names will be sold at a premium,” Cooper says.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco New York City SEO Naming 150

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. PayPal, under the leadership of David Marcus and Bill Scott, re-defining and re-engineering itself by embracing Lean Startup to improve the product experience.

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I liked the flattering Venture Hacks commentary so much Ill just quote it: Many founders believe that early stage startups are endeavors of execution. He believes that many early stage startups are labors of learning. Learn why you dont want to do premature press, despite all the pressure youll feel to "launch" early.

Lean 74

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 74

ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Today, Andrew Rachmell from Boca Raton, Florida, discussed peerbackers , a crowdsourced fund raising platform to help very early stage entrepreneurs raise small denomination funding ($50, $100) from friends, family, and peers to help finance the prototype development phase with about $25,000 in seed financing. peerbackers. Discuss.

Affiliate 130

Affiliate San Francisco Entrepreneur India 130