SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

He built a practice around a growing community in the Mid Atlantic and beyond. ” I was trying to encourage him to set up an early-stage practice. And again I won’t take credit for his decision to join Cooley but the magic of having David join Cooley is simply an awesome outcome for our community at large.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The celebration for its unique culture and flourishing business community is very appealing, and many new startups are flocking to the city to embrace it as their own. The companies out here, they’re rooting for each other.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. Fund Details We identify the most promising use cases for cryptoassets and within those use cases we vet the teams, projects, and communities. Our Story The two of us met at NYU almost 10 years ago. We were infatuated with tech.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

We want to help build an investor community based in Singapore but with connections around the world,” explains Steve Leonard, Executive Deputy Chairman of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), who chaired the panel that helped select the six firms.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

The iOS app store officially launched on July 10 2008 with 500 apps. So while ads can be an effective way to grow, spending on user acquisition before figuring out monetisation is a sure way to shorten runway for early stage startups. Almost overnight, a huge new industry was created around mobile. Slack or Discord).

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

There are a few reasons why angels make investments, and those are to gain a return on their money, to participate in the entrepreneurial process, and to give back to their communities by catalyzing economic growth. Angels typically invest in companies local to them. Investments commonly run around $600,000. Startup Funding'

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

He is currently a second year student at Harvard Business School and will be focused on supporting the early-stage startup community in Boston and its schools. NextView Ventures is excited to welcome Dimitri Dadiomov to the team as an MBA Associate. He’ll work with NextView through his final semester at HBS.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share. Prabhdeep Singh: We become their learning partner and they become part of a special and vast community of professionals.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

There are a few reasons why angels make investments, and those are to gain a return on their money, to participate in the entrepreneurial process, and to give back to their communities by catalyzing economic growth. Angels typically invest in companies local to them. Investments commonly run around $600,000. Want To Learn More?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2016

In the last few years, perhaps in reaction to the business integrity issues leading to the recession back in 2008, I am seeing a renewed focus on other less tangible attributes which can set your startup apart. Relevancy for an early-stage company is the discovery and understanding of the real addressable market for a product or service.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Community Manager. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify. (0) And 7 reasons that’s awesome. (13) Sr Developer (JavaScript/Flash).

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2013

I talk more about this and lots of other topics in my recent book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City. . All four of us had been successful entrepreneurs and we decided to try TechStars as an experiment to help create more early stage start-ups in Boulder.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To this day, although New Frontier Data has been successful, Aguirre de Carcer still feels the effects of biases against women that are often held by the business and tech communities. As an early-stage entrepreneur competing against a vast sea of startups seeking seed funding, first impressions matter a lot.”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The celebration for its unique culture and flourishing business community is very appealing, and many new startups are flocking to the city to embrace it as their own. The companies out here, they’re rooting for each other.

United States 48

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. 9 Responses to Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO Startup Advice: Developer Stockholm Syndrome « Web Startup Help says: November 10, 2008 at 5:10 pm [.]

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I run an early stage-startup called Smarthome NX that helps consumers discover Smart home technologies through content, collaborative partnerships and commerce. My background comes from owning my own photography business when I became an entrepreneur back in 2008. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. Those things all got created in 2007, 2008.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

Today we send out an inspiring notice about a young leader in the startup community who is truly making a difference with his high energy in bridging startups with investors and selfless pursuit of innovative solutions. Tianyi is also a co-founder of West Suburban Angels , a prominent angel investment group in the west suburbs of Chicago.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

of US annual medical costs in 2008, compared with 6.5% – Early detection , such as screening at-risk populations. Blood pressure screenings at churches are an often-used example of effective community-based partnerships. It also shows market white space for the smart entrepreneur. The data is painful. a decade prior.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2016

Construction companies have their ups and downs (for example, the economic crisis of 2008 hit construction firms hard ), but it’s an industry that will always have demand—and where there’s demand, there’s opportunity. Are there classes available, such as through your area’s community college system?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

BetaBrand building apparel MVPs and testing them quickly with targeted customer communities. Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. A nascent community has blossomed into a full-fledged movement.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common topics specific to very early stage entrepreneurship; private roundtables that many of you have requested; customer, channel partners, and investor introductions; media and analyst access; and a variety of other value-added services to make our entrepreneurs successful.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community.

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Early Growth Financial Services

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Having signed their first Austin clients, EGFS is going public with their ongoing efforts to partner with the Austin startup community. with 300+ clients representing all stages of the development process. From this foundation, EGFS has expanded throughout the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. Almost 20% of young women now aspire to run their own business today as entrepreneurs (15% in 2008), according to a recent poll by The Telegraph.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

Sunday, January 27, 2008. I think this same concept plays into what Ive seen happening a lot more in the venture community: partners at VC firms jumping back into entrepreneurial ventures. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Is the Grass Really Greener on the Dark Side? ► May. (1).

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Thursday, January 17, 2008. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When you first start a company, the corporate brand hasn't yet developed a reputation or any customer momentum, so most early-stage companies leverage the brands of the individuals involved for credibility. This is not a new recommendation. It's worth pointing out that the landscape is changing with frictionless sharing.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

Even relatively early stage boards should be thinking about diversity, because they face particular challenges on this issue. And because white, East Asian, and South Asian men are so overrepresented in the VC community right now, your investor board members might be limited in how much they contribute to diversity.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 19, 2016

EO: That’s a good question, the world of accelerators has changed so much since we went through Techstars in 2008. And you can move incredibly fast in a unified way with that sort of communication. We were guinea pigs then as the second class! I think if you’re a first time entrepreneur, an accelerator can be a great fit.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008. It still feels early in the summer, but I realized that my first class of the semester is only a few weeks away and my department deadline for the syllabus is tomorrow. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Where did Summer Go? Its been a while since my last blog post.It

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. But she needs to drop her tendency to "expand."

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products.

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