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. I'm the founder and executive director of SF New Deal.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

When I reflect on where some of our investments are, they are in cities like Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Minneapolis, Boulder, Denver, Charlotte, Lexington, New York, and Boston. Or you can just call it San Francisco, Oakland, and the Peninsula. The Bright, Sustainable Future of Chicago’s Technology Ecosystem.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Locations: London, New York City, and San Francisco. Notable Clients: Uber, Alibaba, Zigbee Alliance, GrubHub, The Metropolitan Art Museum, Spotify, Orange, The Hyatt, Virgin Media, (RED), AOL, Target, Unilever, GE, PwC, Microsoft, Google, Skype, Expedia, FutureLearn. Headquarters: San Francisco.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Hyped companies draw eyeballs, and media businesses are about getting lots of eyeballs. We have founders and wonderful portfolio companies in Seattle, San Diego, Chicago, and Atlanta. And, of course, we also have companies in San Francisco that have been through startup incubators. Why is that?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Social Media Week. With events in major cities around the world, Social Media Week brings people together in person and online. Location and dates : San Francisco, May 13-14; Europe, June; New York, September 18-19. You’re not likely to find this many SEO, social media and content experts under any other roof.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 29, 2011

— Tim O'Reilly, CEO O'Reilly Media The Book Tour Starting in two weeks, I'm going on a crazy action-packed book tour. We'll officially launch the book at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. It could be someone in the media, someone you work with, or just someone you know casually. Who influences you?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2012

Double Fine Productions , a San Francisco gamemaker, raised a record $3.3 Double Fine founder Tim Schafer told the San Francisco Chronicle that he'd think about selling shares down the road but notes that giving up equity in return for just $1 million doesn't make sense for Double Fine. "And Offer cool perks.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Ashley Mayer: I was two years post-college and working at a public relations agency in San Francisco, a job and career path I stumbled onto when I was rejected by my top law school picks. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It After years of the San Francisco Bay Area dominating the tech start-up scene, with huge smashes such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, entrepreneurs are finding they can go elsewhere to grow and prosper. But there will be," Citron says.

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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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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

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. Indeed we have already seen the beginnings.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Uh, so I literally had to walk the entire city of Chicago and the entire city of San Francisco and pick up every single menu. You know, today everybody's online, but are they finding your website, Grab the online spotlight and your customer's attention with Semrush from content and SEO to ads and social media.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

I had a fever, had a really strong headache, and this was when the first cases in Seattle were happening. I flew down to LA Tuesday morning from San Francisco, and we had signed the agreement by Wednesday. I know there's a negativity bias in the media of course, and it's hard for people to keep track. Fred had had.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Startups based in the region stretching from San Francisco to San Jose raise more funding, make more money and have smarter people than startups in any other place. ” The problem: Boston got sidelined in the social media game. Seattle, Washington. And in other news, the sun will rise in the east tomorrow.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 31, 2015

Many in the VC community are incredibly generous when it comes to sharing their insights and experiences via blogging and social media. As an example, my friend Semil Shah has done an amazing job building his brand through a combination of smart writing, social media, and organizing get-togethers and targeted conferences.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Social Media. That idea became ClickFacts, a malware solutions company for buyers and sellers of online media to identify and combat “click fraud”. ClickFacts itself is now based in San Francisco, and continues to work hard to help advertisers and ad-networks manage their risk and security, exactly as it set out to do seven years ago.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. Calm Down, Hippies: What San Francisco needs to Learn from the Valley Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps? link] Three Ships Media » MORE Sage Start-Up Advice from Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg [.]

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Photo credit: althecat See Also The Startup Financing Dating Game: Courting Potential Investors Be Prepared! Advice for Startups Entering the Mobile Sector Inside the Mind of an Early Stage Venture Capitalist Need Startup Office Space?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco. If any of our app users eats at one our partnered restaurants and takes a photo using our app, we donate a meal to charity through a local food bank, and if they post this to social media, we donate an additional meal.

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