Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

The underlying technology is here and in game progress should be transferrable. I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. The biggest win here will be that people will use this technology without knowing (or caring) what is happening under the hood. 2022 Predictions Legend = -1 = -.75

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The underlying technology is here and in game progress should be transferrable. I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. The biggest win here will be that people will use this technology without knowing (or caring) what is happening under the hood. 2022 Predictions Legend = -1 = -.75

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time. We are excited about the trend toward transparency, and technology companies are leading the way. million employees on the platform. Pretty much in that order.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. But don’t lose sight of the fact that we’re already in the midst of a deadly global epidemic. Mike Sheehan , CEO and Founder at Milis Bio, earned a B.S. At least 2.8

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Neelam Dwivedi of NeelAgil Technologies Private Ltd aims to help millions of people treat their diabetes The Forrest Four-Cast: February 19, 2020 The next time you’re out in a crowd, look around. The global prevalence has jumped as well, going from 108 million adults worldwide in 1980 (4.7 In the United States, in 2018, a stunning 10.5

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Meet Gu Jiawei is the CEO of Ling Technology, the brain behind a truly innovative approach helping children find their passion for reading real books, far away from tablet and TV screens. During this period he spent the majority of his time in the design and research field wondering what the future of AI technology was.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force. We thought it was very cool!

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Acelerar Technologies Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. For now, it won't come in through the store. Discuss.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Part of why I’m on this trip with Wences Casares (founder and CEO of Xapo ) is to learn (and share) a broader view of entrepreneurship, where the strategies of Blitzscaling can be applied outside of Silicon Valley and China, and participate in Endeavor’s critical global mission for building the industries, companies, and jobs of the future.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. And it is most certainly not about me, it is about the CTO, the technology and the company. Vaultive « Are Derivatives the Real Problem?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and CEO. Inworld AI, takes this type of technology to create game characters using text. Now the mobile networks are good enough that it’s starting to be a lot more video. And to me, this kind of like immersive experience is clearly going to be the next step. Ready Player Me avatars ( source ).

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. This week, I published an article called The Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends where I have discussed this at length. You can register for the next roundtable here. Photo by yirsh. Discuss.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2021

From left, Matthew Iommi, CEO of Fetii, and Justin Rath, chief technology officer for Fetii. billion rideshare industry is only a decade old,” notes Fetii CEO Matthew Iommi, “and as with all industries, we’ll begin to see verticals arise that provide specialized rideshare solutions. Some big names have taken notice.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Quicc co-founders Jason Toevs and Mike Mathia. In just a year, Quicc has rocketed into the global marketplace and now serves video creators in 84 countries. Reach the 25,000 global user mark! That’s the mission of Quicc , launched in 2019, in Wichita, Kansas. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” With any new technology, adoption can be slow. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

Mentors embrace the Techstars “Give First” philosophy by offering founders their time, advice, and connections. Our global network now consists of over 5,000 mentors, including many successful Techstars alumni. As Techstars continues to selectively expand into new geographies and industry verticals, our mentors are important as ever.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Stine Mølgaard Sørensen, co-founder and COO for Radiobiotics, based in Copenhagen. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

What’s needed to keep up in today’s digital and global economy is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. . The importance of technology ownership is significant. He is founder of the Eureka! But ideas can’t be random. Recognize that the only patent owner reaps the rewards.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Winding Tree drives the development of open source protocols for the travel industry, starting with ORG.ID, a global registry of business entities that streamlines access to APIs in an automated and secure way without the need for third parties. What is your top goal for Winding Tree for 2020?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Technology impacts all facets of human life, and sometimes it can save it. Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

Acceptance that leading VC franchises needed to be multi-stage and global. To me, it makes sense, because “tech” is no longer a vertical – it’s seeping into every sector horizontally. The AUM of many VC funds has increased dramatically. Depending on where you sit, it makes sense or is a recipe for disaster.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In fact, the food we waste is responsible for roughly 8% of global emissions, so wasting less food presents a key opportunity to address climate change. See the PurePlus pitch in the category of Consumer Technology & CPG , 9:30 am to 10:30 am Sunday, March 15, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

We’ve seen this dramatically accelerator around the world through the Global Accelerator Network and when I wrote Startup Communities: Building a Startup Ecosystem in Your City , much of what I used as the basis for the Boulder Thesis came from my experiences here. Ten companies will participate in a three-month, mentorship-driven program.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Communism being a bad science experiment) ESL’s founder Bill Perry was moving the chess pieces. In building ESL Perry made a conscious choice to emulate Hewlett Packard (then considered the “gold standard” of a great technology company.) If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

So founders might be tempted to first shoot the arrow and then draw the target around it, by choosing the ‘soft’ metrics that puts them in the best light. Just like revenues are the right metric for businesses that aim to sell products directly, one can probably deduce a global metric for other types of businesses.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Elad Gil , the founder of Color Genomics and widely considered one of the most-connected angel investors in the Bay Area tweeted after the Qualtrics announcement, “ Feels like we just turned a corner on BigTechCo M&A and lots of activity for the next 6 months as companies rethink the strategic playing board.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Mat Ellis is the CEO and founder of Cloudability. The Internet of Things forces us to look at the world – the technology world, at least – very differently. In fact, today, technology infrastructure is beginning to resemble a neural network. It takes a lot of serious technology and people to stay on top of that and win.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Vince Molinaro: Well, it’s really came about from working with a lot of my clients globally who had been investing a lot in leadership development, but not see it translate into stronger leadership within their organizations. We’ve … My team and I have done global research and leadership accountability is a global problem.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. He's the founder and chairman of the board of global partner marketing agency, acceleration partners. He's also the co-founder and chairman of brand cycle.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

An incubatee with Indian Angel Network, Anirudh Motwani from New Delhi, India, discussed IndiaCollegeSearch , a vertical search engine to address the problem of finding detailed information about various colleges and institutions in India. IndiaCollegeSearch. You can register for upcoming roundtables here. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Very little by way of technology has been applied to the problem thus far. Note: There are technology limitations, which were discussed to some extent at today's roundtable, and quite possibly, the solution is a somewhat manual one. There are some excellent comments, especially observations made by Vikrant Mathur, founder of iFood.tv.

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