Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2021

eve is Coming to Austin How an event insurtech startup not only survived, but thrived during COVID Building a startup is risky at the best of times. Building a startup during COVID is terrifying. Building an event insurtech startup during COVID is downright insane, but here we are. Why am I telling you this?

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Here are a few traits to try to emulate if you want to be a successful startup guru. When I returned to LA in 2011 after being away for many years, I was smacked in the face by the volume of young startups that were in their first stages; and many of them sought me out. I can think of many startup companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. We chose the word “upfront” to represent our culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). The closing event was the filming of a live version of Jason Calacanis’ “This Week in Start-Ups” (appropriately named TWiST – episode is here ).

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In the startup world, it seems to be winning over the bits and bytes style. Meetup.com and Eventbrite , founded on this principle of meeting in person as a response to too much Internet meeting, has helped to spawn, grow and change thousands of startups. He had on a name tag, I didn’t. We couldn’t move.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

And don’t use the word “silicon” in your name. Take Boulder, Colorado as a model, they’ve successfully created their own very strong economy for startups. There’s a startup for every 50 or so people there.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. s Tim Koogle helped build Jerry Yang and Dave Filo’s startup into the world’s most valuable internet company.

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