Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

“Founder trouble” is a leading cause of startup death (though data also show that companies with only one founder are more likely to fail , so the conclusion is just that startups are just always likely to fail!). Employee #2 will join a startup for the experience. Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2018

David Meyer founded Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) in 2000 as a way of ending pet overpopulation. Around this time Moore was introduced to lean principles through The Lean Startup and urged CEO David Meyer to consider them as well. “We We were excited about that methodology,” recalls Meyer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Since the recession, and at least partially sparked by it, I’m seeing a real resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

With the Covid-19 virus a worldwide pandemic, if you’re leading any startup or small business, you have to be asking yourself, “What’s Plan B? If you’re running a startup or small business, your first priority (after your family) is keeping your employees and customers safe. “Winter is coming.”. And what’s in my lifeboat?”.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

But by my graduation in June of 2000, the party had ended. companies; and the Class of 2000 was just plain unemployed. Over the previous years you could spend 12–24 month at a startup and become an IPO millionaire. As became clear quickly: the Stanford Business School Class of 1998 had founded the good Internet 1.0 Absolutely!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

I made every textbook mistake at my first startup, which is why I believe I was much more effective at my second one. The following are some lessons I learned about early-stage startup marketing. I worked with an entrepreneur who was to appear at a startup networking event where he was to talk about his company’s plans.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000. Start at minute 50.30

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. They had a model such that customers had to make two trips (to purchase and return) for any VHS.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

In comparison to traditional business ventures, startups are expected to grow rapidly, at a rate of between 5% and 7% per week in their initial stage – Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator. The term startup is also associated with a business that is typically technology oriented and has high growth potential.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Startup Chica Spotlight: Meet our 2019 Committee Members Meet the Austin professionals and community leaders who have embraced the Latinitas mission and helped make Startup Chica 2019 a reality. What do you hope happens when girls experience Startup Chica Conference?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. Every startup has a launch party, but what happens when a startup dies?” No one is around to commemorate the life of that startup.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 14, 2018 For the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event , 50 startups will show off their skills on March 10 and 11. The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. Have you previously been involved with other startups? This is my third startup.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The startup industry is littered with stories of founders being taken for a ride by their app developer. You may be interested in their experience building solutions for trusted brands and other startups, or apps with similar functionality to your idea. by Guy Cooper, Managing Director of Wave Digital. encounters delays.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. There are already more than 2000 hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on the Hackerspace Wiki. Countless startup teams have already been spawned from these. Accelerates the trend to higher purpose startups.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2011

It's still not the accepted or the obvious choice for funding your startup, however. But news that the Austin, Texas-based MicroVentures has successfully raised its first $150,000 for three startups via its crowdfunding platform suggests that these alternatives might be viable after all. It also allows them to invest smaller amounts.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

I’ve always been intrigued by the success of the ‘Startup Nation.’ That of a British startup which naively arrived for three months in Tel Aviv and hasn’t looked back since. The Israeli startup community is: “Pashut Magniv” (simply spectacular). By Daniel Abrahams *. In this post, I want to share my story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Founded in 2000, by 2010, the company’s fleet already had 8,000 cars. The post Transforming Corporate Mobility with Car Sharing Software appeared first on The Startup Magazine. The company provides self-service car sharing services.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 22, 2012

People with $50/mo blogs have many of the same problems as people with $2000/mo blogs but pay us 40x less, which might imply we should focus on the high-end blogger. During the summer, one of the Capital Factory companies developed a plan to sell into the “mid-sized” corporate market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Santa Monica is the place where the highest concentration of early-stage startups are created if you consider also the contiguous geography of Venice Beach. Startup Advice' Let’s start with the fund.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2018

Dental practices wouldn’t be able to thrive without a referral base, so it’s essential that you incorporate this into your marketing efforts as a startup dental business. Getting your voice heard as a startup dental practice can be difficult; however these marketing methods are almost guaranteed to build up your client base!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 16, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startup Tips: Enjoying Your Customers For Profit and Fun – crowdspring.co/1jy0bxm. The Startup Mass Extinction | The New Yorker – crowdspring.co/1jTnSQs.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. Every startup has a launch party, but what happens when a startup dies?” No one is around to commemorate the life of that startup.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. He continues: “I am thinking of initiatives to startup hi-tech companies with annual sales turnover of over $1 billion a year. Venture capital, the money that is invested into startup companies, is shrinking.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

The lean startup – as envisioned and explained by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, associate professor at Stanford University and ReadWrite contributor – is no longer just for startups. The Evolution Of The Lean Startup. The lean startup model is not new. Companies are facing continuous disruption.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 26, 2020

Austin had another outstanding year with startup activity overall on the rise. And VC funding in Austin reached levels the city hasn’t seen since the Dot Com boom of 2000. The post 25 of Austin’s Hottest Startups to Watch in 2020 appeared first on SiliconHills. In 2019, Austin-based private companies raised $1.7

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Ironically, when I asked her what her favorite startup was, she said somewhat semi-seriously, "Raising my 21-year old son."

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Lean Startup Book launches in just under a week. Almost any startup - in any industry - can use AWS to find and serve customers. You’ll get awesome video content, including the video Lean Startup course I created exclusively for Udemy. How many copies will this book sell in its first week – real, hardcover, paper copies?

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

A lot of thoughtful people have weighed in on whether this is a “buy the dip” moment for startups and public tech companies, or rather, the cusp of a sustained downturn. Comparisons have been made to the two most recent significant pull-backs of the dot com crash in 2000-2001 and Great Recession of 2008-2009. .

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Austin has shed some of the innocence of its youth as a city circa 1970 through 2000 and replaced it with socio-economic stratification and segregation of its growth, post-2000. and not the startup kind but the Facebook/Google/Apple/Big Tech Co kind?—?which

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. For starters, there are more startups. And these are not just any old startups either; they’re some of the most innovative and successful organizations around! Damon Becnel discusses how the startup industry has changed over the past decade.

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