Hearpreneur

AUGUST 17, 2022

Larry Page is one of the most outstanding internet entrepreneurs the computer industry has ever seen. Vitalik Buterin is the founder of Ethereum, a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of fraud or third-party interference. 16- Larry Page.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

They were mostly a B2B platform enabling game publishers to deliver via Internet streaming their traditional games built for game consoles. 33:15 Have you noticed a change from 2003 to now in the “serendipity factor” of Santa Monica? But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

.” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers. A new multinational, albeit a small one that nobody had ever heard of, was born.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# This is an interview you’re not going to want to miss, I promise. He decided to join.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 29, 2011

In a recent Capital Factory all-hands discussion, one of the founders started a question with a well-worn preamble: “I talked to a bunch of the mentors and they all told me the same thing about pricing, but I’m telling you, they’re wrong. I know our industry , I know how our customers think, and in our industry …&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. A new revolution began when high-speed Internet connections became available to most of the developed world.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 20, 2014

For Will von Bernuth, co-founder of Block Island Organics, a family-run sun care startup, the flexible schedule allows him to help his parents. There are some monetary incentives to starting a business as well, says Fernando Campos, co-founder of Topwick, a members-only journal site that offers insider pricing on certain brands.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

First launched in 2003, WordPress is the leading CMS by which 35% of the entire internet is powered. As founder Haradhan shares : “[WordPress is free and open-source software, and also every WordPress developer already make some functional themes and plugin which things make our some works effortless.”. Image source ).

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Probably the grand-daddy of VC blogs, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has been posting every day since 2003. His blog is full of personal stories, gentle advice, and guidance that will be useful to any startup founder. A Smart Bear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to take a look at the definitive book about them, called “ Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain ,” by Richard L. The model was a perfect fit for the Internet Age.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And despite not going to University, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of the Unicorn Startup Just Eat. Well, you're going to judge it by the team, by the co-founders. And when you're judging it by the co-founders, that's when you have to try and decide, okay, what have they got going for themselves?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

In 2003 I seriously thought about quitting Mobius Venture Capital. My portfolio melted down with the bursting of the Internet bubble. The depressive episode only lasted three months, but the s**t show continued through 2002 as most VCs and Internet companies suffered a massive collapse. In March 2003 I fully engaged in Mobius.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As the CEO and co-founder of Treehouse, an online tech school that teaches people how to make apps, Ryan Carson has a lot of great insight on running a startup. Jason Cohen is the founder of the WPEngine and Smart Bear Software. Management. The Naive Optimist | RyanCarson.com. Marketing & Sales. A Smart Bear | Jason Cohen.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

We looked at the companies in New England (call them "Boston and surrounding") that had exited in the last 10 years (2003-2013) with greater than $500 million in market valuation. Here was a statistic that blew me away: over half of these companies (51%) had an immigrant founder. Essential Role of Immigrants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2017

To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to take a look at the classic book about them, called “ Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain ,” by Richard L. The model was a perfect fit for the Internet Age.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. Now, we have more than 500 employees and we deliver the widest range of products in the country,” said Raphael Afaedor, co-founder of JUMIA, at the time of funding. “We Konga is another investor darling.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat). I I of course, it's so cliche now, but you know, I like to tell even 30 year olds, you know, about uh, dial up, um, internet and, uh, Yeah. Well, you're gonna judge it by the team, by the co-founders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2011

To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to take a look at the definitive book about them, called “ Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain ,” by Richard L. The model was a perfect fit for the Internet Age.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Tell us your story: .

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Remember, we’re on the Internet right now, and the Internet is owned by cats. My business niche is “entrepreneurs” and “founders”. I combined those 2 things to come up with “FOUNDER FREEDOM ”. Thanks to Rachel Whynot, FOUNDER FREEDOM ! #22- Thanks to Dave Davies, Beanstalk Internet Marketing ! #27-

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Rae Hoffman-Dolan Rae is the Principal of Sugarrae SEO Consulting and does various types of Internet marketing; search engine optimization, viral marketing, affiliate marketing, site auditing, link development road maps and tons of other little nooks and crannies of this business.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In 2003, the journey of the podcast began, and by 2007, “The Ricky Gervais Show” made headlines with a record-breaking audience 260,000 listeners. For those business owners trying to improve the way they market their business in a digital world—which should be all of us—check out the Unknown Secrets of Internet Marketing Podcast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2010

To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to take a look at the recent book, called “ Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain ,” by Richard L. The model was a perfect fit for the Internet Age.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He is the founder and CEO of Stackify. I said in the intro and it’s funny how many founders of companies start companies because they can’t find something or they can’t get something solved, so they just solve it by creating a company. As a founder of a company, a CEO of a company. Go check it out.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

In 2003 we started developing a martial arts motion sensing toy, a full three years before the Nintendo Wii changed the world of motion sensing. My co-founders decided startup life wasn't for them. What follows are solely his opinions. The toy (we called it Ninja Master ) consisted of two hardware units, attached to both wrists.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Of course much of it is conflicting. Always be fund raising.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

We invested in the company in 1999 during the ascension of the Internet bubble. We loved the two founders, Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice, but knew very little about marketplace businesses or the home improvement category. We learned this dynamic in the early 2000’s with our investment in ServiceMagic.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In the last decade, however, that common wisdom has shifted, at least for consumer internet companies. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Watch this video with the site’s founder and CEO where he talks about how he launched everything solo and wound up with an entire company built around one idea.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Family relationships influence founders and their startups. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of online jewelry retailer BaubleBar , and Jane Moritz. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of BaubleBar , previously worked at American Capital Securities and UBS Investment Bank. We were inundated with orders that day and phone calls.

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