YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue. by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was all technical. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Pierce Burnette knows the meaning of “humble beginnings” and has combined her intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), entrepreneurial spirit, and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology, and education. She is committed to improving representation in Austin’s technology landscape.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Over the past two decades the internet has reshaped our daily lives and the world of business—so it’s not surprising that it’s transforming how companies develop talent. Talk with other entrepreneurs, not just famous entrepreneurs,” the Dropbox cofounder Drew Houston told Reid on the Masters of Scale podcast.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. . – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

What about hiring, taxes, llcs, operations, scaling? “Phone accessories is an industry which operates at light speed. Get a technical co-founder. The toughest part is that my cofounder and I are non-technical co-founders. Getting overwhelmed by the big picture.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If a VC asks his advisors what they think of your deal and they dislike it, it’s dead. If you are looking to add experienced people to your team but can’t afford to pay employees, look at finding a cofounder or using venture labor (hiring someone you pay in equity instead of cash). Horrifying, but true. Being invisible or forgotten.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Over the past two decades the internet has reshaped our daily lives and the world of business—so it’s not surprising that it’s transforming how companies develop talent. Talk with other entrepreneurs, not just famous entrepreneurs,” the Dropbox cofounder Drew Houston told Reid on the Masters of Scale podcast.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. In addition to the basic hardware and operating system, he added applications (iLife, iWork) and peripherals (like the iPod).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Sagan was thus almost like a cofounder and, similarly, has been with the company for 12 years.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again. And remember, LinkedIn was a consumer internet play with moderate consumer traction and without a dime of revenue. Reid Hoffman.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Sean Higgins, cofounder of ilos Videos, participated in the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management MN Cup, a new venture competition which he says was a huge help in getting advice. We always used advisors or mentors to vet numbers and the block and tackle items within a pitch.”. Operated by the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. My cofounders and I would hash out nuances and details almost every day, re-drawing diagram after diagram on the whiteboard. MeganMurray : "Behind every technical problem is a human problem.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Office and Operations. Internet and Online Business. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Newsletters. Subscriptions. Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. How to Incorporate. Financing a Small Business. Franchises.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem? Thanks to years of internet progress there are existing technologies that virtually anyone can piggy back off.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. Great blog, just now found it.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The internet. Your price may affect business operations. Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers. If your invention is simpler, it could be more feasible to begin manufacturing operations in order to produce it. The headache pills. Your guitar.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

After creating many successful start-ups- from internet fashion companies to home market businesses- I spent several years researching a category that intrigued me from a health-standpoint. From that life altering event, Ella Bing was born as a family owned and operated business in 2012. 30 – Pinnacle of My Life’s Work.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. And the big guys can’t do that, because they’d have to re-train people and anyway, they don’t operate that way, I can.’ My first instinct as an internet user is to close this browser window instantly because this just screams bad.

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