Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A few thing as we move into Week 2 of my book tour: I'm now in Los Angeles and San Francisco to promote The Startup Way. If this week is anything like the last, attendees are in for great events.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

by Karen Hayward, Chief Outsiders Managing Partner and CMO, and author of “ Stop Random Acts of Marketing: Deliberate & Practical Growth Strategies for Mid-Market CEOs “ Middle market companies are ambitious to grow, and they need the right marketing strategy that can guide the whole enterprise to new heights.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2012

Many of Gnip ‘s customers and partners are in the bay area and they have decided to begin adding people in San Francisco to better support those clients. They’ve just posted their first position in San Francisco to help manage and grow existing customers.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2018

They spend a lot of time, effort and resources on developing a business plan, and even more time and effort on raising capital, finding the right people and developing strategic partners. Millias is the managing partner and co-founder of OUM & Co. Warren Chung is a partner in the San Francisco office of OUM & Co.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

My other partner, Steven Dietz, was on the board of my second company. I started working with David when I was an entrepreneur and he was an associate with a VC firmed called … wait for it … GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures)! Mafias matter a lot to me, as well. In a way my firm at Upfront is mafia.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

Successful companies constantly reinvent and reimagine using 360 triangulation and partner workshops, empowering employee teams, and encouraging attention to detail. Author of “ Customer-Driven Disruption: Five Strategies to Stay Ahead of the Curve ” Suman Sarkar is a partner with Three S Consulting, located in San Francisco.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s the first big gathering of the year, a small sibling to the much larger Game Development Conference (aka GDC) taking place in San Francisco in March. Live operations refer to the ongoing management and maintenance of a game after its initial launch, and can include things like events, updates, and community management.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. Let me not bury the lede. When he left I called him immediately.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

"We knew that if we wanted immediate action, the only way to do that was with private money," Lenore Estrada explained to me as we talked about why she founded SF New Deal in the days after being forced to lay off most of the staff at her San Francisco bakery, Three Babes Bakeshop. So, Lenore started something called the SF New Deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Tonight’s event at the 5A5 Steak Lounge in San Francisco was even better. The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. The second event was in Boulder.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. The guy has knowledge.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. One of the world's leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries, founder space was ranked number one, the number one incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and entrepreneur magazines.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. The correct answer is to closely manage the overall network – promote the good people and kick out the bad people. We were effectively together 24/7.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Kelly McAdoo is the City Manager & CEO of the City of Hayward in Alameda County, California. I served this role in my prior position as Assistant City Manager. It’s similar with private sector or non-profit partners. 6 in San Francisco. I have seen a pattern in the way city governments approach problem solving.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

The two Data Collective managing partners, who are currently raising fund number two, tell me that the timing is right for a fund committed exclusively to Big Data companies, as the barriers to entry in launching these sorts of startups are only getting lower.

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David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

I am excited to announce that I have joined HOF Capital as a Managing Partner. In order to ensure a smooth transition and continue supporting the companies with which I have had the most involvement, I have moved from my General Partner role at ff Venture Capital to a Venture Partner role. Details in ffVC’s blog post.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. and the redesign of TED.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

million and opened another office in San Francisco. They did not take salaries during the first two years and invested more money in the firm than they received from management fees. SecondRound.com – This is a proprietary CRM system that was built to help manage the fundraising process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective. It starts with the people.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had really positive experiences such as working with Greg Gretsch at Sigma Partners where he championed us to a partners’ meeting where we sort of got crucified. We made changes and Greg was a gentleman throughout the process rather than berating us for our performance (it was our first partners’ meeting).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

But be philosophically consistent: periodically take the time to question your own expertise and that of your friends, partners and investors. But be philosophically consistent: periodically take the time to question your own expertise and that of your friends, partners and investors. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

We pitch to potential partners, vendors, publishers, conferences, employees, and even lawyers. Dont keep banging your head against the wall - if you cant convince your potential partners that your startup is printing money, try to figure out why. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The Challenge is just 3 years old; it was initiated in 2015 by the Head of Google Ukraine, Dmitry Sholomko, and managing partner of Noosphere Ventures, Max Polyakov. These guys took the first Vernadsky Challenge in 2015 by storm with their drone management systems. Image Credit: Vernadsky Challenge via FB. Avision Robotics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. As a result, for a lot of these companies, Boulder is just a gateway to San Francisco. You can learn more about that by reading The engineering managers lament.) April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Sometimes this needs to happen with an employee, sometimes with a partner, sometimes with a certain customer, and sometimes with your overall marketing or business strategy. For instance, many managers wait for the end of the year before beginning an employee performance review.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

San Diego ›. View More in San Diego ›. San Francisco ›. View More in San Francisco ›. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. San Diego Events ›. San Francisco Events ›. San Diego Home. San Diego Events. San Diego Jobs. View More in New York › ›.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Adam Hertz, a cable company executive in San Francisco , and his wife, Joan, have enthusiastically embraced the movement. Find road-trip partners on Zimride. Struggling to manage costs, the start-up closed shop as quickly as it opened. Turn your driveway into a cash cow at Park Circa or ParkatmyHouse.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. It strokes your ego.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time). Read the rest.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

To discuss this seismic shift, Rodolfo Gonzalez, partner at Foundation Capital and one of the only major Silicon Valley investors from Mexico, will be joined by the CEOs of Rappi, Bitso, and Runa HR?—?three due in large part to the rising costs in San Francisco and economic booms elsewhere. particularly in the Heartland?—?due

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

If you missed these when they went out live, we encourage you to watch them now , as they lay a strong foundation for The Lean Startup Conference , December 9 -11 in San Francisco—less than two weeks from today. So if we are the managers, if we are the leaders, then we have to look in the mirror. We changed the work.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

PersonalLibraries was focused on creating a reference management system for discovering, organizing and citing researchers’ readings. This team spoke with 10 more customers and potential channel partners. Should they look at the Document Management market? If you can’t see the slides above, click here.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

Booster partners with large businesses to offer on-demand gas fill-ups on their corporate parking lots. million round from existing investors: Floodgate, Second Avenue Partners, V1, and Rich Barton. In February, Talentbuddy was acquired by Udemy , an online learning and teaching marketplace headquartered in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. This presentation will empower entrepreneurs and managers to: -Identify a profitable business model faster and cheaper than your competitors.

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