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APRIL 17, 2016

It is not uncommon for founders to fight amongst themselves or teams to develop silos that simple can’t stomach talking with other groups so they avoid human contact and revert to flaming wars on email or Slack. My observation is that many companies become Game of Thrones with warring factions and competing interests.

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MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? ” As far as “terms” go I’m 100% aligned to have the most vanilla, founder-friendly terms I can. And I listen to the reasons their co-founders quit their well-payed job to join them.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

HDI also focused on state Medicaid programs as well as private insurers. At the federal level HDI is responsible for auditing 22% of the US territory yet has been responsible for 41% of all US refunds or a whopping $658 million between the original pilot program and the current program.

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JULY 13, 2013

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. So I did that kind of stuff. It was all technical.

Cofounder 337

Cofounder Technical Cofounder San Diego Startup 337

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APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell. Employees: 20.

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OCTOBER 22, 2011

He was the founder, after all. I sure wish the founders of Yahoo! When that happens it is no longer acceptable to be the founder on the board trying to reinvent yourself. They are great at their respective fields whether they be marketing, sales, programming, PR, whatever. He realized he needed to leave.

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MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? ” As far as “terms” go I’m 100% aligned to have the most vanilla, founder-friendly terms I can. And I listen to the reasons their co-founders quit their well-payed job to join them.

Deal Flow 347

Deal Flow Early Stage Investment Bankers Technical Review 347

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APRIL 6, 2020

Who is this program for and why does it exist? 350 billion of this money is dedicated to small businesses under a loan program called the PPP (payroll protection plan). The goal of the program is in the name?—?payroll Below lists how the loan program is calculated. payroll protection. Do I need to repay the loan?

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. Yves Sisteron, our founder and still a full-time and very active member of our partnership, has the opposite style.

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APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Canada Green South Carolina 282

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

We needed routers, switches, databases, caching software, load balancers, application servers, browsers, compression algortyhms, streaming technology, low-cost storage, management consoles, programming libraries and on and on. We see improvements in wireless transmission and in real-time programming languages.

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APRIL 3, 2014

Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. Founders think in options. But find a way where the bonus program is adjusted for any work that has a higher COGS due to dev work and they’ll sell around it – I promise. Nor do they exist in the investors of early-stage companies.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B They’re primarily thinking about 7 AM?—?7

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APRIL 28, 2010

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. ShoeDazzle has Kim Kardashian as a co-founder / company as a spokesperson as well as Brian Lee who was a co-founder at Legal Zoom. In the program we also talked about much debated topic of large VC’s and whether they should have seed programs.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

I seem to get so over programmed that if I ever want to have a “break-out” unplanned trip somewhere I seem to have to reschedule meetings. I’m not talking about two people from the same company (like co-founders) or two partners at a VC firm. Canceling meetings is a part of modern day life. Not fun, but a reality.

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Las Vegas Warrant Technical Review Cofounder 369

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MARCH 22, 2011

I didn’t sit through any panels (other than the day where I was the emcee and judge for the BizSpark Accelerator program). I turned around and there was StockTwits founder (and my favorite Tweeter) Howard Lindzon. Wendy Tan White, the founder of Moonfruit. And a motley crew of other interesting startup founders.

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Technical Cofounder Austin Hosting Cofounder 294

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. Most firms hire associates straight out of MBA programs and usually it is a “2-3 years and out” type of job. Just ask Rob Bailey. I think there are two reasons for this: 1. Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments.

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Jordan Technical Review Portfolio Partner 365

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MAY 2, 2015

Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks. I watched Ophir Tanz achieve much in his early days at the Founder & CEO at GumGum, which has now become quite a large business. Who is leading your patent filing program?

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JANUARY 16, 2010

Turns out DailyBurn was part of the TechStars program in Boulder. The founders claim that up to 75% of the population has some form of sleep deprivation. They joined the YCombinator program and have raised a small amount of angel money. Man, Dave seems to always find out about these deals earlier than I do!

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Software Review Alabama Silicon Valley 278

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. And this is especially important since the people who get sucked into this admin the most are the founders – the people who you most want focused on high-value tasks.

Warrant 333

Warrant Germany France Cost 333

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APRIL 19, 2011

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon).

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Acquisition Warrant Customer Term Sheet 304

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APRIL 15, 2010

On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. That said, the founder is Stewart Butterfield , who co-founded Flickr.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I found him to be a very compelling founder that I could work with one day but the idea of tracking players like a stock didn’t appeal to me personally because I had the opposite problem – I wanted to track players casually and focus on work during the week.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft. Some Teams Create, Others Scale (Some do both) There is so much focus these days on founders and whether they should always remain in the CEO seat.

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IP Intellectual Property IRR Cofounder 223

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APRIL 13, 2011

And we are just starting our first year in Seattle.”…” Of the Boulder companies there have been 41 companies that have gone through the Boulder program and there is some mortality…” “I guess it’s 5 or 6 that have failed. On the Startup Visa Program. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd.,

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

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MARCH 31, 2012

Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. I also applaud Tom Eisenmann & Jeff Bussgang for bringing this kind of discussion into an MBA program. ” I encapsulate that in an analogy I heard years ago.

Startup 319

Startup Early Stage Sales Cofounder 319

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MAY 10, 2014

I fall firmly on the side of supporting public funds for quality, less-biased, programming. For those in the know, Jarl has been a savvy angel investor and a mentor to many young tech founders (and a few of us VCs as well). He understands audiences, programming and distribution as well as funding and deal-making.

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Los Angeles Angel Investor Hosting Media 299

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. But find a way where the bonus program is adjusted for any work that has a higher COGS due to dev work and they’ll sell around it – I promise. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Nor do they exist in the investors of early-stage companies.

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Sales Technical Review Matching Hiring 316

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APRIL 1, 2020

He enacted a program to proactively offer payment holidays to customers in obviously “hit” industries like travel & entertainment. I promise we’ll all get through this some way and there’s always tomorrow, whatever that holds. I have lost friends who didn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel in past economic hardships.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. So we’ll be supportive every initiative in town and doing all that we can in LA to encourage more tech entrepreneurship across any startup incubation or acceleration programs. ” We get feedback like this often. So What is Different for Class Three?

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Incubator Startup 287

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APRIL 17, 2010

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. And of course we had, TheMan.

Los Angeles 276

Los Angeles Stealth Securities and Exchange Commission Southern California 276

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JULY 16, 2013

Nobody is offering to put you on their scout program and pay you to be an angel investor. And revisit my point about whether you are the archetypal founder who will get tons of money thrust upon you. I tell the founders I work with, “Listen, our incentives aren’t always 100% aligned. You’re out of money.

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MAY 9, 2012

I believe in the Blink perspective where we as humans are really programmed to know whether to trust people by the short amounts of time we spend in person with them. The founder whom I intro’d wrote in the email to the investor, “let me know if you’d like to set up a phone call or we could meet in person.”. He said yes. I was bcc’d.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

But even more valuable if you don’t have much money to give is to give your creativity or your programming time. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Charles Best , the founder of DonorsChoose.org to talk about his startup. So my call-to-action is do something. Small or large. Here is information on the data set.

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America API Matching Programming 295

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. He kept telling me how profound this prison program was and would I meet Cat.

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California Programming Private Equity Equity 150

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. Entrepreneurshit.

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Monaco Cofounder Chicago Mexico 420