Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
When I left Intuit in 2015, I was VP of Innovation and led Intuit Labs, Intuit’s internal incubator. After months of advocating for the idea of allowing QuickBooks users to process credit card payments from their customers inside the product, we were finally given the green light to proceed but only had 12 weeks to make it happen.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?
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ReadWriteStart
JUNE 23, 2011
Green Earth Aerogels At age 16, kids have very different career counseling needs than they do at 18 kids. Last up, Fortunato Cardenas from Barcelona, Spain, presented Green Earth Aerogels , a nano-materials company in Barcelona, Spain focused on developing insulation gels from rice. partners to help bring his product to market.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups.
Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Over the years, despite massive losses, Netflix was able to bounce back and improve its revenue by 47%. Photo Credit: Rob Greene. Thanks to Rob Greene, Price of Meat. #13- 12- Disney.
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 20, 2007
LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult.
VC Cafe
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Bravo AG, established in 1951, is a manufacturer and distributor of copper-based pesticides, a green crop protection method used in organic agriculture. Kinrot Ventures is owned by the AquaAgro venture capital fund and is the only incubator in Israel to innovative water technologies with a portfolio of 12 water companies.
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