Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2014

These have helped them build trust and confidence among team members, and effectively sell their message to partners, investors, vendors and customers. That only happens if you take an active role in your community and relevant business associations with like-minded people. This applies to suppliers and business partners as well.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2015

Give back to the community. Companies that engage in the community and get involved in various community or charitable events are likely to interact with potential customers. Furthermore, community-involvement and providing funds to charities strengthens a company’s public image. Reduce unnecessary costs.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In it we talk about the continued failure of the federal government to help small businesses and highlight some encouraging ways that local communities have stepped into the void to help. Op-ed: Communities across America rush to save Main Street as federal relief for small business stalls. Last week, the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2017

We are excited to announce that Chris Moody is joining Foundry Group as a partner. There would be no generational planning, no transitions to younger partners, and no senior partner hold-outs who would hang onto economics well after they had stopped working. For a while, the only name on the list was Lindel’s.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

On October 1st, 2014, after more than two years of partnership and development, Gust proudly joined the Mayor of the City of New York and IBM in announcing the launch of Digital.NYC , NYC’s new official hub for tech and startups. praised the hub and its place in the community. Gust News'

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2019

The PSI-Pay Company started being functional in the year 2007 as it helped the business community in the world. In addition to that, it is a major partner with the MasterCard International and have been doing this ever since 2009.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2013

SPROCKIT 2014 , a year-round program by NAB Show and World Series of Start-Ups that showcases elite emerging companies in media and entertainment and introduces them to industry influencers and decision-makers, is again looking for startups to participate in the coming year’s program.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

“This investment will accelerate our work to build the metaverse and create spaces where players can have fun with friends, brands can build creative and immersive experiences and creators can build a community and thrive.” For that, Yuga labs partnered with London based Improbable. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Since starting the business, it has allowed us to home school our children while providing great value to the healing crystal community. I fell in love with the blogging community, traveling, and cooking (plus eating) new foods and flavors. We started our business in 2014, after a successful Kickstarter campaign.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. It is set to announce a first class of 10 companies in early 2014. Bryce Keane is an Australian expat now living in London.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: August 20, 2017 More than any other mayor in the history of Austin, Steve Adler has courted and created strong ties with the city’s tech and startup community. These ties proved to be an important pillar of his successful election bid in the spring of 2014.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. This is an initiative that we will continue to refine in the coming years, but we are so excited to be partnering with these Guild members going forward. Back to Top).

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Board Effect

JANUARY 6, 2021

While they’re experts at running nonprofit organizations, nonprofit board members don’t always understand their communities or the social context of the issues that affect their constituencies. In more recent reports, we find the following: 2014- D5 conducted a study that indicated 92% of executive directors were white.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

In 2014, I created and started writing on my blog. As a personal injury law firm, protecting the safety of our community has always been our number one priority. Generating more leads for cases means our law firm is present in the community and community members know they can count on us to defend them.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mitul’s passion to excel and customer focus have been built into the core values and mission of Citius Partners. They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies. How Citius Partners helps their clients. Giving back to the community. Key Career Highlights.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

We have now grown into an overnight hit, as we had built up a huge community of black women with skin conditions years before even launching Topicals. We started our alcohol delivery service in 2014 on the basis that alcohol is one of the most consumed beverages in the United States. Thanks to Olamide Olowe, Topicals ! #5-

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2022

He created Rise of Rest and did the first of many bus tours in 2014. I was part of the one in Denver, and my partner Chris Moody was part of the one in Birmingham. Steve’s supported me on several things I’ve done, including writing the foreword to Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Jaclyn Hester, one of my Foundry Group partners , recently asked if there was an online definition of #GiveFirst. GiveFirst first appeared as “Give Before You Get” in my book Startup Communities published in 2012. It was turned into the #GiveFirst hashtag by someone at Techstars around 2014.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 19, 2018

by Quint Studer, author of “ Building A Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America “ America’s small towns are doing really big things. One of the most crucial hidden truths about the community comeback is who’s driving it: civic-minded entrepreneurs and private citizens of every stripe.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Taking Care of Your Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Brian Clark and I have been friends for a really long time and they have certainly set the standard on how to build a business, how to build a brand, how to take care of a community. Transcript of The Key to Success? Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Last year, NextView co-founder and partner David Beisel asked our portfolio startups which service providers they use to make up the nuts and bolts of their businesses, which he published as the first edition of a potentially recurring resource. Preferred Boston Startup Service Providers 2014. Click to view a larger version.).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2017

Stat that matters : From the same 2016 Vendasta study: 92% of consumers now read online reviews vs. 88% in 2014. You are paying it forward because you are an established brand that partners with established charities within the community. Partner with an old time, established local favorite restaurant. Or reviews!

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Here are 10 things you should be considering as the calendar ticks down and 2014 looms large! Create a new strategy for 2014 which leverages the best of what you did in the past year and plan for testing and implementation in the year to come. Be proud of what you did in 2013 and use it to do even more in 2014!

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

When I graduated with honors in 2014 and took a job working as a legislative correspondent in the U.S. Most people want security for their life partners in an emergency. I recognized a way to help my community and the globe as a whole, which inspired me to start advising on divorce-related issues. 20- Improve lives.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Stephen Straus (@ssaustin) | Twitter Carolyn Rodz HelloAlice Featured in Fortune, Inc.,

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next. If you’ve spent any time with me, you know that scaling horizontally is a huge part of how I think.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. Now they are partners. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. And that is what we’ll do.”

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 17, 2015

We also publicly announced two companies, which we invested in at the end of 2014: Volley : a community that connects people who need help with those who like to help. Finally, we are indebted to our LPs, colleagues, partners, portfolio companies, friends, and followers, for their continued support. and two more unnamed.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In 2014, Business Insider listed Dan as one of the top 46 African Americans in Tech. Actively involved in the local startup community, Brian is a Startup Weekend Columbus host and MC at the monthly morning pitch event for entrepreneurs, WakeUp StartUp. He was also on the team that wrote the business plan for BlackGirlsCode.

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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. A study based out of Babson College via The Diana Project looked at venture capital investments in women between the years 1999 and 2014.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Dr. Tom Offermann, my business partner and a dentist, was using a substance in his work for dental fillings, just like dentists do every day. When my wife Stacy and I were pregnant with our first child in 2014, we transformed our lives, ensuring everything we use in and on our bodies was as organic, non-toxic, and sustainable as possible.

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Transformify

JULY 25, 2019

In this role, he partners with leaders and team members across the organization to deepen and advance Dell Technologies’ culture of inclusion as a fundamental business imperative. At the youth level, we provide grants, technology, training and volunteer expertise to our 54 youth learning partners in 17 countries.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Between Q3, 2013 and Q1, 2014, Snapchat grew 67%; faster than any of its competitors (GWI Social). According to comScore (June, 2014), Snapchat is the #3 social app among Millenials (32.9% Below are three examples from 2014 of brands successfully engaging with their consumers via Snapchat. 70% of those users are female.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2019

Over the years, I’ve written about my belief in the importance of giving back to your communities and #givefirst. In this spirit, one of the key organizations my partners at Foundry Group have helped create and nurture is Pledge 1%. Pledge 1% Colorado has now distributed over $8 million back to various organizations in our community.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Tony Lillios is a serial entrepreneur and most notably a co-founder of Speck Products, the protective case maker for mobile products, which was acquired by Samsonite in 2014. For Scott, that means going out into the community and networking. Corporate Partners. For Scott, that means going out into the community and networking.

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