The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Ben Schippers is the co-founder of HappyFunCorp , a Web development company that has built sites for TeePublic , Of A Kind , Postography and Yeah TV! “If

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

The two most notable are the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Colorado and the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars. The first is from David Rubenstein (Carlyle Group co-founder – one of Blackstone’s competitors) in 2006. King of Capital was a really useful book to read on a number of levels.

Private Equity 82

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Booth has announced a course called Building Interet Strartups: Risk, Reward, and Failure and it is being taught by two of Groupon’s co-founders. Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, the Chicago-based cofounders of the social coupon website, Groupon, turned down an offer from Google in early December.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

With over two decades in the digital marketing industry, he established his award-winning Melbourne-based digital agency WebSavvy back in 2006, to help small businesses grow. He co-authored The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads , now in its sixth edition, which is the world’s best-selling book on Google Ads, with over 130,000 copies sold.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions. Elizabeth Sabol-Jones at Inspirist , Jan.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

She is also the co-founder, co-owner and CEO of MFE Interactive in addition to being the co-owner and SVP of Marketing for Speedy Incorporation.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem. Sold to Yahoo!

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

For example, in 2006, we co-founded Techstars. At the time David Cohen, the co-founder and CEO, was unhappy with how angel investing worked. Ultimately, we realized that the optimal model for what we were doing was Techstars , specifically the Techstars of 2006. Our 2014 project is FG Press.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

I came up with my business name Aging Youthful when the network marketing company I am involved with came out with a product for youthful aging. It was late 2006 and I was serving old media as a national editor at an entertainment industry trade publication, plus freelancing for an alt-weekly and writing a book. 2- A lifestyle change.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2013

As a co-founder of TechStars , I’m a huge believer in the mentor-driven accelerator model. When we started TechStars in 2006, the idea of an accelerator was brand new. And there are many other accelerators around the world using the TechStars mentor-driven model that are members of the Global Accelerator Network.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. What the research showed was that the size of a network had an exponential effect on the amount of venture capital in those markets rather than a linear effect.

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2018

When my husband Josh and I launched our business Pagely in 2006, we had just been married a few months. So how did we progress from ambitious newlyweds with an entrepreneurial dream, to co-owners running an established company? Also, because the tech space is male-dominated, Josh is better at networking and forming relationships.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses. Janine is VerticalResponse’s CEB (Chief Executive Blogger).

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

When we started TechStars in 2006, one of our premises was to help build a strong startup community in Boulder. Announcing Ari Newman as TechStars Network Catalyst. That’s what the goal of the Nike+ Accelerator program is. TechStars Lets Startups Apply Via AngelList. TechStars Bolsters Team With Mark Solon, Luke Beatty.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet. The phrase “reddit” came to RedditM co-founder Alexis Ohanian while in the library of the University of Virginia in 2005.

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Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

For example FRC launched a founders equity exchange fund and various programmatic forms of knowledge sharing like list serves, CEO summits, conferences, etc. Though they only started in 2006, Foundry’s obviously off to a great start with investments in Zynga and AdMeld and a promising portfolio of others.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. Why It Works Part Two: Crowdsourcing.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

8:30 Networking. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. She is the Founder and CEO of Volunteer Spot an online coordination app that facilitates volunteering. Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Dahl served as co-head of healthcare investment banking in North America at Credit Suisse First Boston. 6:30 Registration.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. Or one of the first women co-founders of a VC firm – “I co-founded a great firm.”

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

Dan Caruso, the co-founder/CEO of Zayo Group , is one of them. In late 2006, Zayo was a pure start-up headquartered behind Nick and Willy’s on 8th and Pearl. In June of 2006, we sold what remained of ICG Communications to Level 3. First, many fiber networks had consolidated into a handful of platform.

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Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

Founded by Scott Harrison in 2006, charity: water has raised more than $300M dollars, funded almost 28,000 water projects, and has helped over 7 million people get access to clean water. Right: Umesh, Founder of NEWAH. A hand-written contract is drawn up with every household listed as co-signers. Left: Mahesh, Program Manager.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet. He is the co-author of Get Content Get Customers.

Small Business 54

Small Business Marketing Cofounder Social Media 54

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Surphace is a reincarnation of Sphere, a startup founded by Martin Remy and Steve Nieker in 2006 as a related content plugin and was later acquired by AOL in April 2008 for a rumored sum of $25 million. Co-founder Tony Conrad left AOL in 2009 , but has since come back as part of the About.me acquisition late last year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SocialMediaExplorer.com is owned, co-authored and edited by Jason. Lisa Barone Lisa Barone is Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media , Inc and writes for the Outspoken Media Blog. Read each of the five posts that follow and click our entry form link to match the guest star with their post.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Attendees included Blue Nile , Postini , LinkedIn , Lifelock , Wize , Sparter , Zopa , Revver , Wikia , Flock , Vimo , Delivery Agent , Gerson Lehrman Group , Pure Networks , Zensys , Summit , T3Ci , Endeca and Nominum - a wide spectrum of companies, both in terms of stage (very early to pre-IPO) and sectors (consumer internet, software, chipsets.).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Keith Ferrazzi Keith Ferrazzi is the author of Never Eat Alone and the founder of the Relationship Masters Academy, an online training program for networking that offers the structure and support to put Keith’s bestselling books into action in your life for unparalleled career success and satisfaction.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents , and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends , an award-winning online publication. Chris’s blog, [chrisbrogan.com] , is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150.

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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. eBay, DoubleClick, Webex, Real Networks, Exodus, Equinix, amongst many other pioneering companies, as well as covering companies like America Online and Netscape.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Tim Berry Tim Berry is the president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International, author of books and software on business planning, Stanford MBA, father of five, married 41 years. His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

I told the story about how Brant Barton, my Bazaarvoice co-founder, and I picked the name in Chapter 7 of my book “ The Entrepreneur’s Essentials ” (also available for free online). 19, 2006) Blockbuster is traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol BBI and is a 21-year old company with 8,500 stores located in 29 countries.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Lisa Barone Lisa Barone is Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media , Inc and writes for the Outspoken Media Blog. 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.

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Web Small Business Social Media Matching 53

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2014

It’s imperative to keep communications strong after purchase to earn loyal customers who will spread the word about your business to their own networks. About Brad Jefferson, CEO and co-founder, Animoto. Prior to co-founding Animoto in August 2006, Brad spent eight years with Onyx Software, an enterprise software company.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Next, we have Honor Lydon, co-founder and Executive Editor of BostonChefs.com. It is a digital marketing network that connects chefs, diners, and brands through a shared passion for food and drink. link] [link]. BostonChefs.com is THE hub for all things’ restaurant in and around Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. 5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

He is the co-author of Get Content Get Customers. He is also the founder of Junta42 , the Content Marketing Institute , SocialTract and a few others in the works. Joe Pulizzi Joe writes one of most popular content marketing blog s in the world.

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