VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

” – Marc Andreessen In the book “ Super Founders “, author Ali Tamaseb, studied 200 Unicorns, aka startups valued at over $1 billion, started between 2005 to 2018. Israeli startup Checkmarx , which provides software security solutions, is an excellent example of a company that fulfills this trait.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

This would inspire him to start GoodBuzz in 2005, a free web-based peer-to-peer referral network that would allow artists, bands, associations, public organizations, event promoters and organizers to help promote each others’ events. .&# The African Boy Who Could.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

The innovation engine that powered the U.S. Studies show that foreign immigrants who enter on H-1B visas make a greater innovation and scientific contribution to the nation, by patenting at double the rate of native-born Americans, and publishing more highly-cited engineering articles. More and more people, like Henry R.

Technical Review 230

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 14, 2014

Facebook’s Head of Product Chris Cox is, gasp, in his 30s and joined Facebook in 2005. Stripe’s VP Engineering Marc Hedlund has said “companies develop more antibodies against new kinds of people over time.” Josh is 22 which means the world looks different to him.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

16 Competencies Leaders Exhibit So, naturally, there was backlash when in 2005, Harvard president and former Secretary of Treasury Larry Summers hosted a discussion at the Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Posted by : John Jantsch on Jun 21, 2011 | 11:28 am Categories : Local Search , Marketing Strategy , Social Media Tags : Google Boost , Google City Pages , Google Offers , groupon , Yelp Popular Posts Adding the Facebook Like.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. Is that when it became big?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

million raised, per CrunchBase): It came from my deep frustration renting as an undegrad at Oxford for the first time back in 2005. Poort (Rescale): Since we were not able to raise money early on, we just started building a product that we ourselves as engineers would want to use.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

Small Business 68

Small Business Marketing Software Review Social Media 68

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. And these microwave engineers were working at startups – not large companies.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

Subsequent challenges in 2005 and 2007 had better results, and the 2007 event was the first actually staged on roads… albeit an abandoned military base in California. None of the entrants could complete the 150 mile course, in fact the best vehicle (developed by CMU team) only went about 7 miles before it got stuck like the others.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2015

Adam Simpson is the CEO and co-founder of Easy Office Phone where he oversees the creation of new sales channels including a North American Dealer Program, plays a leading role in software development, manages the company’s network infrastructure, and builds dedicated teams of sales, support and engineering staff.

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North America Cofounder Canada Hosting 100

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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Customer Video Social Media Software Review 66

mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

For example, if the startup says it plans to launch two new tech features for its product and youre applying to be an engineer, youll likely have a great first three months. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2014 Mashable, Inc. Nanxi Liu , Enplug.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

Small Business 60

Small Business Marketing Social Media Software Review 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 9, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

Social Media 59

Social Media Software Review RSS Engineer 59

The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Chris DiBona, the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google, was recently interviewed by Slashdot. He had a few interesting things to say about his job and his tasks at the search giant, but we found his comments about Google Summer of Code (GSoC) to be particularly noteworthy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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Small Business Marketing Arkansas Social Media 73

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Kumo is a Japanese term for spider and was previously the name of an early Microsoft search engine that eventually evolved to become Bing. Not only did I have a suggestion, I created a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program and named it, KidGINEER, LLC. I combined Kid and Engineer to name the business KidGINEER!

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Naming Entrepreneur LLC Social Media 75

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

Small Business 59

Small Business Marketing Software Review Social Media 59

SVPG

AUGUST 21, 2013

Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. The Agile trainer must understand that capability and experience level of the engineers is typically very different from IT, and adjust their approach accordingly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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Web Software Review Cofounder Small Business 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

Marketing 54

Marketing Social Media Software Review Small Business 54

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Groups list on March 15, 2005. I built the eCommerce engine myself and self-funded the business. to date from some of the best, including most recently Workday and others.

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Bootstrapping Austin Equity Cofounder 48

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Robert has been working in software since 2005. Search Engine Marketing and online ads on the other hand can be set up in minutes. I am sure this hurt me, but I think I managed the campaign as well as most engineers in my position would. (Powered by LaunchBit ). He is a Ph.D. dropout who spent time working for Google.

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Campaign Software Review Brazil Conversion 272

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Back in 2005 … (movie studios) were very worried about piracy, and were also worried that the whole digital world was coming on like a freight train and they really didn’t understand it. My sister was frustrated because she thought every electronics engineer should be in this country. … Listen to my full interview with Steve here.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

He was ultimately approved after several years of application and soon progressed to the position of vice president of engineering at Cisco. She started HuffPo in 2005 when it was relatively unknown. Yuan kept applying for additional work permits to keep the idea alive when less committed entrepreneurs might have given up.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. When potential readers are using search engines, you’re going to want your content as high in the rankings as possible. Publish it to Facebook , Twitter and LinkedIn. And submit it to StumbleUpon and Digg at the very least.

Small Business 41

Small Business Social Media Engineer Matching 41

The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Founded in 2005, the company has since delivered more than $1 billion from employers to freelancers. In our customer service team we have a hundred freelancers, in our trust and safety team we have another hundred, in our engineering team we have close to 150. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. round closed Feb 2005. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Series B Preferred. Series B-1 Preferred.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. I got an engineering degree and worked on various entrepreneurial projects but my heart was always in data science and analytics. These names are too general. Try it and you’ll see. 14- From a common clients’ question.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006. ” Here’s what I mean.

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PR Early Stage Software Naming 150

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Engineering, physics and computer science majors were the most likely to start a company, while nursing, administration and social work majors were the least likely. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Education is a strong indicator of your likelihood to start a company.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

This is how I describe a marketing plan to my clients: “While marketing is the engine driving your business, a marketing plan is the road map guiding your business.” ” While marketing is the engine driving your business, a marketing plan is the road map guiding your business. Talk with department directors and managers.

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Marketing Technical Review Small Business Administration SBA 88