ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2013

by Rohan Mathew, co-founder and executive director of The Intersect Fund. This is in effect for 2012 and 2013. Rohan Mathew is the co-founder and executive director of The Intersect Fund. However, there are some simple and timely tips that can help out any small business owner in this tax-time crunch!

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures. Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey. It has been a rocket ship from there. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

My guests for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast are Joe Pulizzi, founder of Content Marketing Institute, and Robert Rose, Chief Strategy Advisor of Content Marketing Institute. His third book, Epic Content Marketing was named one of “ Five Must Read Business Books of 2013 ” by Fortune Magazine.

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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. 10: PillPack (2013). 1: SendGrid (2009).

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 26, 2021

When I befriended Alex Taub in 2013 he lived in New York City, didn’t have children, and certainly did not yet have thousands of dollars invested in virtual race horses. Hunter Walk: Ok, we met back in 2013 after we invested in theSkimm and they said you were one of their friends/navigators of the startup world. It’s been a lot of fun.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Initials of a longer name. With a different business model, we wanted a name that didn’t sound like areal estate brokerage.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

According to Hugh Mason, co-founder and CEO at JFDI.Asia , around the world accelerator programs like theirs are evolving as a consistent way to direct innovation, teach entrepreneurship and manage the risks involved. “Early-stage business is becoming less of an art and more of a science,” he adds.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 5, 2014

Turns out the best way to explain was to share how I spend my days at Homebrew , the seed fund Satya and I founded in 2013. Meeting new founders while collaborating, recruiting, analyzing, doing whatever it takes, to help our current founders build strong companies. Why is my calendar the window into my soul?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. Now, the startup and its software solutions are both household names. Starting out, you can’t hit every network and outlet full-force. million people in 24 hours as a result.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on December 7, 2013. For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. No matter the name?—?the and I bet he’ll be back. or break?—?the

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Last night it was finally time for Wayra demoDay 2013 – a chance for the fledgling startups to draw interest and offers of cash from a crowd of more than 200 investors. Founder, Robyn Exton, explained to TNW that location had to still be included as a relevant factor but exactly how important it was varies from person to person.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The name of this startup was Flipkart and they started it with $6,500. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. It’s not accident we have so many great startups targeting commerce including Tradesy, DailyLook, NastyGal, Honest Co & JustFab just to name a few.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Muun found a market need but failed to compete with bigger names that provided customers with authoritative content and resources. It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams.

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

Whether it’s angling for multi-billion dollar franchises in faraway places like India, or competing for a small startup in Boston — the gloves are off and founders in the right position stand to benefit. While I don’t know TJ well, I am super happy for him, his cofounders, colleagues, and folks in the PillPack orbit.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. My company name is 3 Leaf Tea. The name is from when tea leaves get picked there’s often one two or three leaves and a bud.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Mayer earns a spot on Forbes’ 2012 list of Power Women and Time’s 100 Most Influential People in 2013. Forbes names Bezos one of “ The Greatest Living Business Leaders Today ,” and that accreditation continues to be validated, as he now owns The Washington Post. Perry Chen, Kickstarter CEO and Co-Founder.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on May 17, 2013. The teams are made up of founders who are dramatically younger. The teams are made up of founders who are dramatically younger. The good thing about young founders is that they don’t know what’s not possible, Wood said. in the long-run, I say!?—?success

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The Next Web

JUNE 21, 2015

Aside from having an awesome name, this book looks at how a successful software company is built and run. In a book based on his 2013 TED talk, Pico Iyer muses about how the more connected we become, the more we need to disconnect and just…be still. The Year without Pants by Scott Berkun. Which software company? Automattic.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

by MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle. With the trend of email overload more than likely to continue in 2013, the time has come to clean up, prioritize and organize your inbox so that the emails you do receive are the ones you want to keep. Do you ever wonder how we functioned before email?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Coffee fanatics can search via the map search for location name, coffee brand or coffee shop. The app – a finalist in the 2013 Australian Mobile Awards - was recently redesigned to be optimized for iOS 7. Well, at least that’s according to Beanhunter , a location-based coffee discovery app for both iOS and Android.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

A couple weeks ago my colleague Dimitri Dadiomov published a post on NextView’s “View From Seed” blog which answered the question “Should we take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders?” From the group, over 260 founders have launched around 90 startups, raising more than $2.5B in capital. Quite the contrary.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

You’re kind of amused when the Salesforce.com co-founder Parker Harris drives on stage in his best “Back to the Future” Doc costume and uses the shtick to announce the new Salesforce1 mobile platform. Founders should never forget where they came from, and how to contribute back when they make it big. And then you’re into it.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Adora Cheung, co-founder and CEO of Homejoy, said in an interview with Forbes that “ Startup is a state of mind.” Homejoy was named one of the Hottest U.S. Startups of 2013. Today, we know it by the name “ Airbnb ,” a global company that operates as one of the world’s largest online marketplace and hospitality service.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 22, 2016

So when we started the fund in early 2013, we knew that in addition to investing in the familiar, there would continuously be new areas of exploration that we’d want to ‘get smart’ about. Namely, proprietary hardware giving way to software giving way to developer communities atop the software.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2014

According to Accenture, this investment has grown from $930 million in 2008 to almost $3 billion in 2013, and 27 percent of which was early stage capital. Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay , where he drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth. For more information visit www.wepay.com.

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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. The startup’s name? Sold to Yahoo! Pied Piper.

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The Next Web

MAY 1, 2013

Streaming live on The Next Web, Pancake Labs founder Jim Belosic will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. Jim Belosic is the co-founder and CEO of Pancake Labs, a software company based in Reno, Nev. ShortStack recently celebrated its second birthday; Pancake Labs has several new software products slated for release in 2013.

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The Next Web

MAY 2, 2013

Jim Belosic is the co-founder and CEO of Pancake Labs, a software company based in Reno, Nev. ShortStack recently celebrated its second birthday; Pancake Labs has several new software products slated for release in 2013. The company anticipates serving more than 300,000 users in 2013. Got a question for Jim?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2013

The upcoming Crowdsourcing Week is a five-day conference to be held in Singapore on June 3-7, 2013, that will explore everything crowdsourcing, open innovation and crowdfunding. Who do you think are the biggest names in crowdsourcing over the past few years? To me, all of them simply say – crowdsourcing.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. Pete Newell retired from the US Army in 2013 as the director of the Rapid Equipping Force (REF), responsible for rapidly understanding problems of soldiers in combat and rapidly providing solutions. Pete directed the investment of over $1.4B

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 29, 2013

It has been a wild ride since we started the company in our dorm at Harvard Business School just over three years ago My co-founder, Peter Michailidis and I learned so much along our journey and feel so fortunate that we started Pushpins when we did rather than waiting until after we graduated. Date Your Potential Co-Founder.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. businessname #business #entrepreneur #startup #name #compilation #instagram #ceoblognation #blog #newblog #blogpost #livetoday.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. 12 – It was Just Time.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2015

It was August 2013 when my co-founder at SportsManias called to tell me that we had raised $1 million in angel funding. Before I make a case for the mother-son duo, let me be honest: I was not the most willing co-founder, initially. How many other startup co-founders can claim to have that amount of team practice?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. According to Transparency International in 2013, Nigeria was the world’s 144th most corrupt country out of the 177 countries monitored. Moreover, investment in the country has been slow to accelerate.

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