Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2016

For example, Trim co-founder Daniel Petkevich realized he was still paying renter’s insurance for an apartment he no longer rented. Since Mint launched in 2007, people have become more comfortable sharing financial information with a third-party / tech company. on your behalf.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. Hyundai’s Assurance program, which debuted during the 2007–08 financial crisis, is a great example. If you move fast, with less information, there will be mistakes,” admits Stewart. What does a thoughtful campaign look like? recession in 2009.”.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. event I did last fall.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

Writing up a contract is especially important if you’re working with co-founders. But when I was working as a reporter in 2007, I covered the purchase of a local ski resort in Montana by business mogul Bill Foley. The information you glean may help you decide which features you should work on, or how to build them properly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. He’s also the co-author of a new book launching in June 2022 — Marketing Artificial Intelligence: AI, Marketing, and the Future of Business. Marketing Podcast with Paul Roetzer. So Paul, welcome back.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

He is co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London and San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. Charles is the co-author of the bestselling book Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything and The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I first met and worked with Bobby in the mid-2000s at the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), where he was a co-founder and on the board with me. Bobby is awesome and I’m really psyched he’s back in Boulder at CU.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2014

by Alex Miller, Co-founder of PosiRank . Marketers hope to disseminate information and inspire sales. Likewise, aligning email templates with personas helps save time and advertisers individually tailor each email, knowing specific information about good and service preferences. Internal Linking.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

July 31, 2007 |. When you're getting started, sweat equity is often a critical component of your negotiating leverage with co-founders, early stage employees and others who aren't paid market wages to help you grow your business. This is the typical way that a founder determines sweat equity: foregone wages.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. So Coats and Kienzle set up Correlation to be a co-investor, not take board seats, and invest quickly—making it easier for lead investors and companies to quickly put a round together.

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

Initially you will likely be working out of our co-working space on West 36th St., Among our most successful seed investments that have reached maturity are Cornerstone OnDemand (which raised $137m in a March 2011 IPO, ticker CSOD) and Quigo Technologies (sold to AOL for a reported $340m in 2007). How quickly you could start.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2012

Well, Carroll is back, but this time he’s surfaced as a co-founder of – surprise – online customer complaint resolution service provider Gripevine.com. Carroll’s experience would become a case study in social media – and customer service – history. ” . ”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). Co-founder discontent. Reference checking is to confirm or disprove a strong, positive intuition you already have about founders that could lead to an investment or a pass.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. One founder companies can work, against the odds (hello, Mark Zuckerberg).

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swombat.com

JULY 15, 2012

daily articles for founders. founders library. Im the CTO and cofounder of GrantTree , Woobius , and Vocalix, a full-time entrepreneur since 2007. It gives you the buzz of learning stuff, absorbing new information, adding to your growing skill set. swombat.com. BY DANIEL TENNER. Want to read more about me?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. Not only will your comment and your information be displayed, but the blogger you’re commenting on may end up following and commenting on your blog too. Janine is VerticalResponse’s CEB (Chief Executive Blogger).

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

In 2007, he founded Millionaire Media, LLC through which the books An American Hedge Fund and Pennystocking were published. He is also a co-founder of Karmagawa , a company that exists to donate to charities and give them exposure in addition to preserving natural resources and assisting the less-privileged.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Main July 11, 2007 The Different CTO Roles I was putting together a short panel presentation on the roleof a Chief Technology Officer in corporate innovation and I once again realized that there is quite a bit of confusion around the role of the CTO. In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 23, 2017

Rahul Varshney, Co-creator of Foster.fm In one study , 51% of people thought a useful element often missing from websites was thorough contact information. It’s important to make sure you are organizing your site and its flow of information properly. They help make the information you want to present easier to access.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). students.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2013

One of the thoughtful notes I got was from Scott Petry – one of my good friends and co-founder of Authentic8 (we are investors). Scott co-founded Postini and a bunch of email stuff at Google after Google acquired Postini in 2007. Intro integrates dynamic LinkedIn profile information directly into the iOS email app.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 11, 2010

Mr. Parra is a partner and co-founder of Daylight Partners, which is a group of investors who mostly share a background at Dell. Ro retired from Dell in 2007, and previously held roles at Grid and Radio Shack. CrunchBase Information. Information provided by CrunchBase. We are honored to have him join our board.”.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. In 2007, Paul Graham gave a variety of causes for startup death in How Not To Die. I have witnessed startup failures that were due to predictable co-founder conflicts.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

Books can give you information. Games can give you information, test your recall, help you practice a skill, give you feedback on how well you’re progressing, and much more besides. The rise of the information industry changed all that. Sagi Shorrer is the co-founder of Brainbow, the creator of Peak app.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 3, 2010

Challenge Games’ Co-Founder CEO, Andrew Busey, will become Zynga’s general manager and vice president of the Austin studio. Challenge Games, backed by Sequoia Capital and Globespan Capital Partners, launched in 2007 to focus on immersive Web game development built on a virtual goods business model. CrunchBase Information.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

In particular we talked about how 3rd-party apps have a lot more access to your personal information than you think – especially if a friend of yours gives access to an app it can inadvertently give that app access to your details, too! Thus we see lots of movement from Google, Verizon, HTC, Dell, HP and others. Total Raised: $366mm.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. These days revenue is the best source of capital. That’s cool.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

In the end, if you determine that a consultant is just looking to exchange their time for your precious money, smile politely and give them your competitors’ contact information, followed by a short, sharp kick in their arse as you usher them out the door. Interview: Naval Ravikant, Co-Founder AngelList and Co-Maintainer Venture Hacks. |.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 27, 2018

With the launch of 3G and the rapid growth of iPhones and iPads in 2007-09, the world realised that paper could be entirely digital, beginning a new era for DocuSign, which had invested early on in “mobilising” its product. Real estate brokers quickly realised the value that could be gained from an expedited signature process.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 22, 2010

Boxby co-founder Sandra Patterson will serve as a uShip consultant. “Boxby has done an outstanding job organically establishing itself within a competitive UK courier services market,&# said Matt Chasen, CEO and founder uShip. CrunchBase Information. Information provided by CrunchBase.

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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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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

We discussed the possibility of recruiting a couple of cofounders who can help him build out the core skill-set needed on his team right now. I was looking for what you teach back in January of 2007 and couldn't find it anywhere. As for investment, one of the key elements missing for me is a concrete market sizing.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. A native German will liekly understand German culture better than even well-informed American. This is no longer the case.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. -Eric] “The first user experience was actually terrible.&#

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