Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. Seriously, this happens.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I looked at this founder’s prior startup, which ultimately had a successful exit, and then was happy to connect with him again as he launches a new project. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? Read More ». And Why 20%?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

by Sanjoe Jose, CEO and Co-founder of Talview. According to Navitas Ventures’ survey on digital transformation in higher education , which included students, edtech founders, and university leaders, the primary goal of digital transformation is improving student experience. Automation improves experience.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Lighter Capital is a RBI VC which has provided over $100 million in growth capital to over 250 companies since 2012. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. In this workshop, Fraser, Founder/CEO of LUXr and Klein, Director of Product & UX at One Jackson will offer practical techniques for getting and using customer feedback.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits. The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. On average, the founders who keep the most control over their company make the least amount of money.

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SiliconHills

JULY 6, 2013

A few years ago, Bart Bohn co-founded Ravel, a big data analytics firm. W2O bought Ravel in 2012. The post Spotlight on Bart Bohn, co-founder of AuManil in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. Ravel applied analysis to big data sets like Reddit and Tumblr to create social graphs. He’s been [.]

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

The landscape grew to 2,011 companies in 2024 from merely 139 logos in 2012 when it was first published. While investments to generative AI startups are red hot, founders have to battle quite a few investor biases. Shameless plug, at Remagine Ventures , we’re looking to back founders that have internalised this.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Technical Review ChatGPT 78

SiliconHills

MARCH 8, 2019

Jeremy Rossmann, co-founder of Make School, a computer science and software engineering school, based in San Francisco is disrupting higher education. Rossmann founded Make School in 2012 with his high school friend, Ashu Desai. Rossmann dropped out of MIT and […].

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2013

TechStars hopes that participation in the Patriot Boot Camp will be the catalyst for Veterans and Service Members to kickstart their company, find co-founders and advance as entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This year, Techventure has also taken on two new partner events - TechInnovation 2012 and Failcon Singapore. Techventure , one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs, is back. Renaissance.’, ” You can find out more at the Techventure website.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Attention founders: Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company - [link]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. Attention founders: Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company - [link]. 5 things a non-technical founder can do - [link].

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In 2012, Care.com acquired her company for $55 million and it became Care.com Homepay, according to an article in Forbes. The post Stephanie Breedlove, Co-founder of Care.com Homepay, Provides Entrepreneurial Advice on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast appeared first on SiliconHills.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 18, 2018

We couldn’t be more excited to be leading this new round of capital again with Canaan Partners and including Heavybit, FundFire, and Peter Mckay (Co-CEO of Veeam) (see Techcrunch for more coverage). Our initial journey goes way back as we were investors in Guy Podjarny’s previous company, Blaze.io, which sold to Akamai in 2012.

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Open Source Security Cofounder Software Review 60

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. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Citing from a recently conducted ’2013 ICT Business Outlook’ survey conducted by the industry federation that polled over 100 ICT companies on their 2012 business performance and expectations this year, the SiTF revealed that survey participants were skeptical of key schemes in Singapore’s Budget 2012.

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Singapore Cost Technical Review Cofounder 133

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2013

by Rohan Mathew, co-founder and executive director of The Intersect Fund. Take advantage of liberal deductions for equipment purchases made in 2012. This is in effect for 2012 and 2013. Rohan Mathew is the co-founder and executive director of The Intersect Fund. Double check your work before sending it in.

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Software Review Cofounder Small Business Security 145

Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

“I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So Nutritionist Stacy Goldberg says she tried a lot of things before deciding on the idea for her company, Savorfull , in 2012.

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Detroit Technical Review Cofounder North America 156

Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

January 4, 2012. Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2017

This is significant—in 2012, there were only 8.3 Monika Kochhar, CEO and co-founder of Smart Gift , says there is a lot to be said for being more human as a leader, and appreciating that different people solve problems and approach work in many different ways. . trillion in revenues.” million women-owned businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. Yves Sisteron, our founder and still a full-time and very active member of our partnership, has the opposite style.

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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. We’d also like to highlight two notable investors who participated in our first close: David Johnston began investing in Bitcoin in 2012. Our Story The two of us met at NYU almost 10 years ago. We were infatuated with tech. Factom, Inc.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. Founded in 2012, FINEX Cast Iron Cookware Co. It just feels right,” says Mike Whitehead, FINEX founder. In 2012, Vernetta Freeney was seeking funding to grow her business. Enter grant competitions.

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Cofounder Green Small Business Administration Business Plan 137

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

by Alex Schmelkin, co-founder and president, Alexander Interactive. With the continued explosion of Apple’s iPad and other tablets in 2011, 2012 will see an expanded focus on tablet commerce. To keep up with large online retailers in 2012, small businesses will be upping their game in the website design department.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Microsoft’s Kinect Accelerator is powered by TechStars and applications for the Kinect Accelerator are now being accepted through January 25, 2012. Some of the mentors, in addition to me, include: Jeff Powers, Founder, Occipital, Andrew Tschesnok, Founder, Organic Motion. Eran Egozy, Founder and CTO Harmonix.

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Intellectual Property Common Stock Seattle Cofounder 134

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

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. Mbwana Alliy founded the Nairobi based Savannah Fund in 2012.

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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 is the author of The Marketing Performance Blueprint (Wiley, 2014) and The Marketing Agency Blueprint (Wiley, 2012); and the creator of the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON). So Paul, welcome back.

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Artificial Inteligence Marketing Cofounder SMS 89

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999. Thanks to Roy Morejon, Enventys Partners ! #10- 10- From a naming contest.

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Naming Entrepreneur Jordan Merger 161

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 6, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan On August 20, Eric will sit down with developer and Hut8Labs co-founder Dan Milstein for a webcast you can join to discuss “Getting Engineers Into the Lean Startup Cycle.” It’s also for founders who want to think about how engineering and the rest of the business team can realign around a shared set of goals.

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Lean Engineer Startup Cofounder 167

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs wireless power company.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

The founders were very sympathetic; a man, laid off from his job, and his very pregnant wife, who sold their house and investing $150k into the business and are working hard to make a go of it. At this point, the very pregnant cofounder was weeping. But in the end Robert came back in to join Lori. Daymond offered to be an advisor.

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Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. It was originally called Romotive, and I still remember founder Keller Rinaudo just crushing it at demo day that year. “ #8: Digital Ocean (2012).

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Thursday, August 9th, 2012. Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. Founder Stories) Aereos Chet Kanojia Urges Entrepreneurs To "Go For The Difficult Problems" [TCTV]. © 2012 AOL Inc. Alexia Tsotsis. View Staff Page. Follow me on twitter. 2011 Holiday.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition. Obviously, startup teams aren’t always comprised of all men or all women; teams of mixed gender founders exist, and some of them get funding. 33 billion in venture funding.

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