Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Companies all over the world are stepping up to the plate and pivoting from their normal business model towards one that emphasizes assistance and relief for COVID-19. The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. VisionSpring is no different.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Founded in 2008, Shanghai-based CooTek is the company behind TouchPal X Keyboard and TouchPal Contacts , which lets you type contact names directly on your smartphone’s dial pad. Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. That’s why the free business model is so popular in China.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 8, 2019

Millennial businesswoman Luvleen Sidhu is the Co-Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer at BankMobile, America’s largest and fastest growing mobile-first bank. We had a chance to interview Luvleen and asked about her story, how she started her financial business and the future of BankMobile. Tell us your story.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. They are busy too, but they are not creating value for the company.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

except for 2008-2009, which is another story) But, I think we’re in trouble, Silicon Valley. 1) Silicon Valley / San Francisco is too expensive With the high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area these days, a lot startup capital must now go towards founders’ rent. I went to college during the bust. Documentation?

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

except for 2008-2009, which is another story) But, I think we’re in trouble, Silicon Valley. 1) Silicon Valley / San Francisco is too expensive With the high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area these days, a lot startup capital must now go towards founders’ rent. I went to college during the bust. Documentation?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” From there, more years passed until: HubSpot’s founders translated an idea into a book. An eponymous book (e.g. Drift’s marketing team refined a concept.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

For software companies especially, scaling distribution and development is comparatively cheap. We have to continually invent new categories of products, new platforms, and new business models – all extremely risky bets. For software companies especially, scaling distribution and development is comparatively cheap.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. “This one is just so much fun.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. But when I returned to venture in 2008, I remember wanting to see people who were similar to me in some sense, but I didn’t see that as much as I would've hoped. Let’s move to Floodgate now.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan. ► 2008. (14). ► May. (1).

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It is also reducing energy consumption since water production and distribution require a lot of energy, so preventing water loss also prevents this waste.&#. manufacturer 3M Co is acquiring Israel’s Attenti Holdings SA, which makes technology used to remotely monitor criminals and elder care patients, for $230 million in cash.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

To learn more about the product and the founder’s ambitious vision, I interviewed Erez Pilosof, founder and CEO of Libox who also founded and ran Walla! It’s all based on growth and on opening the capabilities of the Libox distribution platform to the community. VC Cafe: What is you business model?

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