Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In For the purposes of our own discussion on female founders, the portfolio was the first thing I asked Boris about, and an obvious starting point. The founder drives the culture. Boris Wertz.

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SiliconHills

MAY 8, 2014

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News The Austin Chamber of Commerce Wednesday night named 12 companies to its A-List of Startups for 2014. In the “Growth” category, […] The post Austin Chamber Names 12 Startups to its Austin A-List for 2014 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 21, 2015

We’ve gathered up some of the worst fails of 2014 and included some helpful tips on how to avoid them yourself. “I doubt that you consulted the Navajo Nation about using their tribal name on sophisticated items such as the ‘Navajo Hipster Panty,''” wrote Navajo Nation member Sasha Houston Brown.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

No new business is worth starting in these times unless it can go global.” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea. Why did Ring become an enormous success when it produced a hardware product and the market keeps saying, “hardware is too difficult to scale?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Start simple. Download free website tools.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2016

by Shane Kenny, founder of Filtersnap. Safe Eyes had been named the #1 parental control product out of 11 products tested by Consumer Reports. Officially launched in November 2014, FilterSnap offers 72 filter sizes and a choice of 1, 2, 3, 6 or 12-month replacement schedules. Admittedly, they have not all been successful.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Here is who will be joining the NextView Operator Guilds (for full bios, click the link in their name): Product Guild. Go-to-Market Guild.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2014

Each of these cards included the company name and the words “my bike likes your bike.” According to David Prochaska, Founder and CEO of ePoint Digital , developing relationships within your local community is the best way to get your first customer. Blog and be an active contributor within the blogosphere.

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The Next Web

JUNE 26, 2013

While financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, leading the round was Roberto Bonanzinga from Balderton Capital, with Christoph Janz from Point Nine Capital named as another “major investor”. So what happens to StorageRoom and its customers?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. We relaunched our brand name. We had to define our brand values to define a name that we felt was fitting. Our theme for 2014 is “teach a firm to fish” where we build more scalable support for portfolio companies. Just ask Rob Bailey.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. This raised the company's name, despite all controversies. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood. 3- Sam Walton.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 17, 2022

When I think of innovation, the name Marc pops into my mind. Vitalik Buterin is the founder of Ethereum, a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of fraud or third-party interference. Thanks to David Reid, VEM ! #9- 9- Marc Benioff. 18- Vitalik Buterin.

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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. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. Yuga Labs Pitch Deck: BAYC founders raised $450M from Andreesen Horowitz from Pitch Decks. Here we go! Epic Games. No company has more riding on the Metaverse than Meta.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. billion in venture funding.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

In addition, 83% of companies had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian, while only 12% of founders were Asian and less than 1% of founders were African-American. Conventional Founder Background. Quadrant I : Most VC-backed companies, e.g., Mark Zuckerberg, Founder/CEO, Facebook. Non-Majority Markets.

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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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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yoav Vilner is the CEO and co-founder of Ranky.co , a growth hacking and online marketing team. Fast forward to 2014. Are you finding hundreds and even thousands of search results for guest articles that carry your name? So, what SHOULD you do in 2014? And as such, you are no stranger to guest blogging. Yourname Author.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

There are a litany of points to consider when you’re launching a startup, namely: “What’s the company purpose?,” This brand’s focus in 2014? Charity:water’s latest campaign for 2014 is focused around donating to the people of Malawi, Africa. What’s new in 2014? Launching – and funding – several crowd commerce campaigns.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Are Experienced Founders Better? Old School SEO Tests In Action (A 2014 SEO Experiment) - crowdspring.co/1dB0QGP. Brands can’t rely on logos/name alone - crowdspring.co/1crfrF1. Email marketing best practices, 2014 edition - crowdspring.co/NeK0bD. Giving less advice | by Jason Fried - crowdspring.co/1dL2dmq.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

Bethenny Frankel, Founder of Skinnygirl is really an inspiration for me. If I am to name names, Elon Musk for his bold ideas, Jeff Bezos for his customer obsession, Steve Jobs for listening to his customers as well as knowing when to stop listening, and not just these guys, I try to learn from the people with whom I interact with as well. #23-

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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. Pulizzi is the winner of the 2014 John Caldwell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Content Council.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Jeremy Johnson.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2015

by Donna Cutting, Founder & CEO of Red Carpet Learning Systems, Inc. McKinsey, 2014). Call customers by name. It can be as simple as calling someone by name, or remembering something about their last visit and referring back to it as you chat with them. But it certainly is not the time slack off on service.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The Austin Chamber of Commerce has added Jack McDonald, the founder and chairman of Silverback Enterprise Group, as its chair of the board for 2014. In addition, the board named Gene Austin, president and CEO of Bazaarvoice, to serve as incoming chair-elect in 2014. “As

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Austin Startup

APRIL 4, 2017

They have their use case, but are points of comparison for other people to evaluate you,” Lloyd Tabb, founder and CTO of Looker, says. In 2014, a recruitment platform went viral by emailing a user’s Facebook friends after a sign-up. Vanity metrics aren’t useless. Don’t focus on them internally.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 9, 2018

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- Unique name addressing what we’re doing. Lately other data storage startups were choosing names ending in.io

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The name of this startup was Flipkart and they started it with $6,500. He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Today, Flipkart is worth $2.8 Olaf Carlson Wee.

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conversionxl.com

APRIL 29, 2014

Apr 24, 2014. Unfortunately the founders ended up selling the business, and the next owners didn’t pay nearly enough attention to the process. Apr 25, 2014 @ 14:44:42. Apr 26, 2014 @ 16:03:54. Apr 25, 2014 @ 16:48:20. Apr 25, 2014 @ 17:01:34. Apr 25, 2014 @ 22:29:29. Apr 26, 2014 @ 09:42:59.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Completely unrelated to CVF’s investment, Deb Eichten, who is on the staff at Entrepreneurship at Cornell, recently interviewed the founders of ATC. Part 1 of 2 part posting by guest blogger Debra Eichten, Entrepreneurship at Cornell staff, interview with the founders of Agronomic Technology. Hope you enjoy it.

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David Cohen

OCTOBER 10, 2022

.” The question it sought to answer is one that still resonates with founders today: Which is more important for your startup–a big vision or a specific focus? This played out in a conversation with a recent founder who had a big vision to expand his company beyond his current focus. In reality, it’s not conflicting at all.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

It’s overpriced, unreliable — you can lose your coverage if you’re sick and unable to work — and limits you to a certain group of medical providers and facilities, just to name a few. As of 2014, individual health insurance plans are categorized in four standardized levels of coverage, called “metallic tiers of coverage.”

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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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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Scott Spiro is founder and President of Computer Solutions Group, Inc (CSG), and author of the book “Hassle Free Computer Support”. In 2013, CSG was named one of the top 100 I.T. Our Guests Scott Spiro Scott Spiro is founder and President of Computer Solutions Group, Inc (CSG), and author of the book “Hassle Free Computer Support”.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Jeremy Johnson.

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