Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

So here is a rational hedge strategy I recommend, and see playing out every day in Silicon Valley and other startup hubs. There are many organizations which cater to entrepreneurs, including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and local startup incubators. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet. Explore investor websites and conferences.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Many became skeptical over Color’s introduction to the scene when it was announced that investors like Bain Capital Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, and Sequoia Capital had poured in millions of dollars to this unproven company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Ecosystem 101: The Six Necessary Categories To Build The Next Silicon Valley – [link]. Incubator 1871 Nurtures Chicago’s Growing Startup Scene – [link].

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Founder Institute is the brain child of Adeo Ressi , a super passionate and successful serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, probably best known for founding TheFunded.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

So here is a rational hedge strategy I recommend, and see playing out every day in Silicon Valley and other startup hubs. There are many organizations which cater to entrepreneurs, including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and local startup incubators. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet. Explore investor websites and conferences.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Stock Options Due Diligence 120

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The process of raising money in Asia is very different from raising money in Silicon Valley and, frankly, it’s not nearly as easy.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 In terms of access to capital, Austin is not Silicon Valley or New York — but it is Austin.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. One of them is the 1M/1M Affiliate Program we announced today at the roundtable.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Reading the articles and the comments is probably worth it, but I personally think that the NY Times is overstating the advantage of being in Silicon Valley with a couple of exceptions. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain. Then Gerard McDonald from Dublin, Ireland, discussed CustomerDiscovery, a concept-stage venture around online marketing services using social media mechanisms for customer acquisition. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. CustomerDiscovery.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

She seems to have good relationships in the blog and media world for the lifestyle products category, and I thought that she should first harness those before spending money on the performance marketing services like Linkshare. I know Silicon Valley and the MBA types look down upon lifestyle businesses. Well, I don't.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Jobseekers, therefore, need help cleaning up their social media profiles so that objectionable material does not find its way to these background check scenarios, disrupting their chances of getting hired. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Incubators and accelerators are breeding grounds of hype - they put lists of companies out there and have a demo day to display their wares. Hyped companies draw eyeballs, and media businesses are about getting lots of eyeballs. Sometimes they’re founded by more mature founders that are over the Silicon Valley median founder age.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising. Of the ten startups in the inaugural 2012 class, four have raised follow-on funding to date, and one even reached the break-even point and expanded to Silicon Valley.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Incubating companies. If you define yourself as a specialist in narrow and well-known theme X (e.g., – Network. They get in early and cheap with very attractive economics.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Incubating companies. If you define yourself as a specialist in narrow and well-known theme X (e.g., – Network. They get in early and cheap with very attractive economics.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

While on this topic, I want to particularly emphasize the social media advertising trend, and my observation that the infrastructure to measure, analyze, optimize, and target is really wide open, and I'd like to hear from entrepreneurs working on the various nuances of that particular problem. Next, we had two very interesting entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Several funds and firms are participating in this investment including Rincon Ventures , Idealab ( Bill Gross built the original incubator and there will be active support from Allen Morgan ), Baroda Ventures , GRP Partners , David Cohen (founder of TechStars ), David Tisch (founder of TechStars NY ), DLA Piper and Stubbs Alderton.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. MapWide.com.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Social Media Marketing World. Attend the world’s largest social media marketing conference of the year! By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

– Stephanie Kaplan , Her Campus Media. My company, Imprint Energy, was part of Plug and Play’s accelerator in Silicon Valley. It’s important to understand the difference between an accelerator and an incubator. Be Proactive. I have been a part of both Startup Chile and now TechStars in Boston.

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Technical Review Chile Startup Due Diligence 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Before this class this team had spent three months in an incubator building the product after talking to only one customer. They came together over a personal pain – the inability to afford a house in Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

She was married to a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur who ran a couple of major companies and had a brilliant career. In some cases, and this situation is particularly prevalent in places like Silicon Valley and Wall Street where wealth flows abundantly, women quit because there is no real pressure to earn money.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. “These photos that would potentially tell great gastronomical adventures are often left dormant in our smartphones or get drowned out on generic social media.

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Singapore Silicon Valley Cofounder Social Network 217

YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. “These photos that would potentially tell great gastronomical adventures are often left dormant in our smartphones or get drowned out on generic social media.

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Singapore Silicon Valley Cofounder Social Network 197

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

Incubators and Accelerators. While accelerators and incubators are two entirely different things, they often go hand-in-hand in helping startups grow and flourish. Both can also offer the desired funding, but an incubator is more focused on refining a business idea, whereas an accelerator helps to scale it.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 23, 2012

The destination was Dealmaker Media's GROW 2012 conference , a summit of startup rock stars and wannabe-rock stars raring to pitch, invest and innovate their hearts out in Vancouver. The final headcount was a raucous, adventuresome 100+ founders, investors, entrepreneurs, bloggers, developers and designers. here's the evidence.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. Edmonton is a leader in Canada for a number of industries, from biotechnology and digital media to oil and gas.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Wildfire Interactive. I first heard about the company from Dave McClure and have tracked it on the sidelines a bit since then.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Channel NewsAsia’s TV show will likely be far from the flashy American reality TV series ‘Start-ups: Silicon Valley’ on Bravo that debuted in November last year, but wasn’t renewed for a second season. It will be broadcast on the news channel in four episodes, while the finalists’ ideas will get tested and incubated over eight weeks.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

For instance, Columbia has launched a variety of explicitly interdisciplinary centers in recent years, including the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute , Columbia Data Science Institute ; the Brown Institute for Media Innovation ; or cross-school courses such as Columbia Business and Engineering’s Research to Revenue course.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Thomas Clayton is the CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. . The ways of doing business across the Pacific are very different than in Silicon Valley, and the quality and breadth of VCs out here vary widely across different countries.

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Asia Silicon Valley India China 123

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Before this class this team had spent three months in an incubator building the product after talking to only one customer. They came together over a personal pain – the inability to afford a house in Silicon Valley.

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Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 120