YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Singapore-based technology startup accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia) today announced that applications for the first of its two business acceleration programs they intend to run for 2013 is now officially open. The program will start on 14 February 2013 and runs through May.

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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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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

I worked throughout different areas in Cybersecurity/Identity and Access Management and in 2013 I took the big step and moved to the Boston area. I started Good Dog Labs in early 2014 and a year later I officially became a co-founder with the on-boarding of my brother Dino in 2015.

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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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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

You might feel like a bit of a wet blanket when you start pushing people to hire a lawyer and write up contracts or an operating agreement. Was it when he handed us a working version, or did it have to operate successfully for a certain number of days? Writing up a contract is especially important if you’re working with co-founders.

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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. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. Author howerl.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Now nearly a “double unicorn,” the company plans to use the new investment to further grow its business operations and expand its current suite of mobile applications. The $130 million Series D investment round was co-led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban. Disrupt NY 2013. Disrupt NY Hackathon 2013. August Capital Party 2013.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

Presenting in the Entertainment and Content Technology category at 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 11, Sceenic will talk about its Watch Together SaaS solution, which enables media companies to create interactive co-viewing experiences for dispersed viewers. In 2013, this inspired Watch Together and our journey began.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen , co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. Date: Thursday, July 18, 2013 2:19:42 AM. Friends from the campaign went on to run Obama’s Internet operation. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.” From: Zachary Rosen. To: Pantheon Staff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. But that’s not to say that every established company developing personal grooming products is operating risk-free. Last week, we announced that our short application form was live.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. 60-70% for founders. As a founder you need to develop this skill very quickly. The road from being a founder, to becoming a CEO or a manager is a very long and bumpy one. 10-20% for employees.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

by Charles Cridland, Co-Founder and Technical Director of YourParkingSpace. In 2013, everything changed. To survive in a crowded marketplace, businesses had to pool their resources, so they could operate more efficiently and capture more of the market share. YourParkingSpace almost didn’t take off. It wasn’t personal.

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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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you don’t know Scott, he was the co-founder and CEO of ExactTarget (2000) – one of the original SaaS companies. ExactTarget went public in 2012 and was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2013 for $2.5 I put him in the awesome category. billion and became the core of the current Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

Both me and my co-founder, Abhishek, met in first year of collage (IIT-Bombay). Currently we are only operational in Mumbai, India and focusing on cooking and baking classes in the city. In January 2013, I was working my dream job at a high-end stationery store as a designer/retail manager. A mobile app is on its way.

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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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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on May 17, 2013. If I was an aspiring entrepreneur, I would take a vacation during RISE week and attend as many sessions as I could (author’s update note: sadly, RISE is no longer operational). The teams are made up of founders who are dramatically younger. in the long-run, I say!?—?success

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2018

by Eric Czerwonka, co-founder of Buddy Punch. They operate under the belief that if they make no waves, they attract no attention; no one will yell at them for failing because they generally never attempt anything great at which they could possibly fail (or succeed).” . Theodore Roosevelt.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

7 in terms of payment volume in Q1 2013 when hiring online freelancers. This reflects a shift in workplace trends, coupled with the strong Asian economy, where companies are looking towards adopting a more elastic workforce in support of a leaner business operations. “In fact, we’re still using his services.”

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

The company saw its revenue drop by 25% in 2012, and Johnson was unceremoniously ousted from his position in April 2013. Avoid making the same mistakes by carrying out focus groups, speaking with your customer base, and keeping communication open to see how your customers would react to big changes in the way you operate. .

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Since 2013 I’ve been running a bit of an experiment, trying to build a purpose-driven (for profit) business that truly believes in business as a force for good. Dragon Army is a purpose-driven digital engagement agency, and I’m so proud of what we’ve built.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2013

by Elisha Tan, founder of Learnemy. Boyd Au is the co-founder of Enzer Corporation and served as the CEO from 1984 to 2007. Many new founders don’t know why they are starting up (besides making lots of money). As a founder, you need to have domain knowledge of the industry and keep observing for gaps in the market.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

In the past few weeks, we’ve had our data.world executive team and then leadership team off-site, All-Hands kick-off for the year at the Alamo Drafthouse, Board meeting, and another event I co-host every year outside of data.world. Hurt Founder and CEO Bazaarvoice, Inc. This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on Jan. Thanks, Brett A.

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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. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem. Sold to Yahoo!

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Successful founders believe anything is possible but they build strong founding teams to achieve their startup dreams. Joining me at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco were: Liz Powers , co-founder of ArtLifting , a for-profit online art gallery that features the work of homeless and disabled artists. Liz Powers.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2015

Twitter first opened in Singapore in the fall of 2013 operating out of a serviced office, but its Singapore-based team – which quickly grew to 80 staff members in under two years – means that it required a far larger space in order to accommodate for expansion.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. Army special operations before retiring from active duty service in 2014. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2019

Since then, I’ve been a founder of a number of companies, a CTO of a public company that acquired my first company, an angel investor, a VC in two different firms that I helped start, and an LP in a bunch of VC firms. One of the concluding lines in my dad’s Birth of an Entrepreneur post stood out to me.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The Stern Private Equity Club will host its 8 th Annual Stern Private Equity Conference on Friday, March 1 st , 2013. Keynote Speakers are Andrea Bonomi (Chairman of Investindustrial), Mark Dzialga (Managing Director and Chairman of the Investment Committee at General Atlantic) & me.

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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.” 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. She should know. The Idea Behind Airbnb.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. Before starting GreenPal in 2013, I ran a lawn care business for 15 years. Image Credit: Lori Cheek.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and immigrated to Austin, Texas, in 2002 at the age of 15. Maria’s dad started Donn’s Bar-B-Que 35 years ago and Maria now co-operates the business alongside her parents.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

What about hiring, taxes, llcs, operations, scaling? “Begin with the end in mind or risk being side tracked” Advice from James Griffith, Co-founder of Mous. “Phone accessories is an industry which operates at light speed. Advice from Samantha Strom, Co-founder of Hazel Lane.

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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. To me, all of them simply say – crowdsourcing. We need to build it differently, for example with more context, explanation and monitoring.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 23, 2017

Rahul Varshney, Co-creator of Foster.fm But with 2013’s release of iOS 7, Apple completely overhauled the interface, getting rid of these real world cues for a flat, sparse looking design. Overnight, apps that used real world visual cues went from fitting in with the operating system to looking dated. Why is this important?

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