ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. One thing common to 2014’s most intriguing upstarts is how they didn’t just serve themselves: They empowered others to innovate, too. Here are 2014’s most influential small companies.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

by Tim Handorf, Co-Founder and President of G2 Crowd. In fact, selecting and integrating a piece of software can take months to do; even years, depending on the size of the company, the complexity of the software and the technical skill level of the person implementing it. Existing user advice will prove invaluable in the long run.

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Software Review Small Business Software Technical Review 209

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2019

by Caroline Pegden, co-founder of TempaGoGo. You have the Startup Awards, the Family Business Awards, even the Security & Fire Excellence Awards (which has sold out every year since 2014!). Keep your reviewer entertained. Like examiners or recruitment consultants, award reviewers are faced with a thankless task.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 17, 2022

It wasn't until Amazon invented walk-out technology that he was open to expanding. The entire world was in need of this technology. She persevered and disrupted the beauty and skincare industry with her business acumen and diligence. The largest search engine and streaming site were eventually combined due to this.

Entrepreneur 125

Entrepreneur Technical Review Chad Software Review 125

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Reviewing financial & operational performance. Founder’s perspective.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Bill Phelan, president of small business ratings company PayNet, estimates that alternative lending companies, which provide billions of dollars in loans annually, grew 100% in 2014. Filling a Need. How it Works.

Small Business 100

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015.

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

By Scott Gerber 2014-03-20 10:10:23 UTC. Because there is often a lot at stake for a new company, its wise to ask where you will fit in among founders and first hires — and how you can make a direct impact on the companys success. Proceed — if at all — with extreme due diligence and caution. What are your founders goals?

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Technical Review Software Review Exit Strategy San Francisco 103

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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our last fund was $200 million but as you may already know since we raised that fund we added new partners Greg Bettinelli and Kara Nortman and Venture Partner Hamet Watt – all of whom are busy looking at new deals for the firm in addition to Yves Sisteron (the founder), Steven Dietz (also part of founding team) and myself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Industry reviews. Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. So the “VC associate” is largely a launching pad job for exceedingly bright and hard-working young tech professionals. Our theme for 2014 is “teach a firm to fish” where we build more scalable support for portfolio companies.

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Jordan Technical Review Portfolio Partner 365

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

by Nick Candito, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly. Interestingly, most organizations are using advanced technologies that offer data-driven insights for many of their day-to-day operational needs, yet aren’t leveraging the same advances applied to business processes. 4 Redundancy. 5 A Lack of Insights.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

For acceptance at Endeavor Miami, scalable businesses don’t have to be technology companies. Examples in the Endeavor Miami group of 16 companies include restaurant, fashion, food, and education companies in addition to innovative technology companies. All product industries are different and meet the needs of differing markets.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Needless to say, she received rave reviews from everyone we spoke to about her. When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. But in our view, most seed stage founders really only care about four things.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Needless to say, she received rave reviews from everyone we spoke to about her. When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. But in our view, most seed stage founders really only care about four things.

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Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 120

Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

I’ve been reviewing my notepad from 2013 and thought I’d share my insights into what’s changed and the big issues from my perspective in startups, business and technology. Technology is no longer a thing: It’s almost not worth mentioning now it is so ensconced in human life. Here’s hoping for 2014.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

I did a lot of technical interviewing. We noticed a clear need for an evolution of wallet styles and technologies and ran with it. 4- Due to lack representation in the skincare industry. We started our alcohol delivery service in 2014 on the basis that alcohol is one of the most consumed beverages in the United States.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Acquisition Software Review 143

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. We were infatuated with tech. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. We dive deep into white papers, review technology, economics, game theory, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/31/2014.

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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 254

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. You technically have more gas left but you never know if some unexpected circumstance causes you to run out of gas.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was visiting as part of Terrapinn Private Equity World, a leading private equity conference for the Latin American technology community. You might assume the event took place in Sao Paolo or Mexico City, but no, it was in Miami, and will be again in 2014. The decision to host the conference in Miami is hardly unfounded.

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Miami Private Equity Florida Technical Review 114

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2015

by Richard Milam , the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated. With the end of the 2015 fiscal year nearing, businesses may be reviewing their consolidated revenues and thinking of ways they can increase their profit margin as they enter the new fiscal year or second-half of the calendar year. Implement data software automation.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 5, 2017

I would love to be mentored by actor and successful tech venture capitalist Jared Leto. I saw him speak once at BoxWorks 2014 and as a crowd pleasing ice breaker, he brought his Oscar trophy and passed them around the crowd. Not only is he a phenomenal performer, but has also had great success as a tech visionary.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Entrepreneur San Francisco Cofounder 79

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Book Review: Remote by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson – crowdspring.co/1gYIIgT. Book Review: Remote by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson – crowdspring.co/1gYIIgT. Ecommerce Trend for 2014: Buying Into the Subscription Service Model | by Matt Villano – crowdspring.co/1hVvm6v.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 27, 2018

According to Forbes , in 2014, 95 percent of the 2.1 Dan Brown, the inventor of Bionic Wrench and founder of Logger Head Tools, is a prime example. Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures. million active patents weren’t licensed or commercialized: they didn’t generate any money.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 23, 2016

My main interest was learning how the tech industry actually operates, and journalism let me contribute to a public good and spend time with incredibly smart people in tech. Kyle Russell: I started working at Business Insider when I was just 20, and later dropped out of college to join TechCrunch full-time.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review Venture Capital 48

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Amir Elaguizy pitching Cratejoy on stage at SXSW 2014 I know lots of investors from Texas and from around the world who are visiting Austin for SXSW and want to know where to go and how to plug in. Come check out tech through a military lens. Here are the lounges, parties, pitches and panels I can share publicly. GEAR UP, Y’ALL.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. The forecast also predicted that its 2014 sales were going to be equally uncompetitive.

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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. Like this show?

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Cost Marketing Technical Review Cofounder 56

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2014

In 2014, LinkedIn determined that the most in-demand startups for engineers are: Lytro (“The first high-end camera that lets you capture and harness the power of light field”). Just as I did for the top big data startups , it turns out that Glassdoor review data can reveal a lot about the realities of working at a hip company.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Engineer 60

The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

This was my fourth year at SXSW with my company.CO, and while some are doubting whether this geek spring break can sustain the Austin takeover for many years to come, 2014 bubbled with smart people, big ideas and tons of energy. Panel after panel covered how to break down barriers for women in tech. Owning the spirit of your brand.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review API Austin 139

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Smart entrepreneurs now avoid this option like the plague, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , 2014 was a strong year with IPOs actually outperforming other indices by 10 percent. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Being an outsider, I also wanted to lean heavily on the actual research available on the subject, as well as the voices of women both in the tech space and who have successfully received venture funding. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 A rare success. 33 billion in venture funding.

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

For example, mobile now has become the formidable new communication channel, posting a year-over-year growth rate of 47 percent in 2014, according to WBR Digital Research. Today’s customers ignore these sites in favor of ones with dynamic daily specials, promotions and positive reviews easily accessible on their mobile devices.

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Customer Marketing Social Media Technical Review 120

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

There are now many metro areas with growing infrastructure and increasingly skilled workforces that can support tech startups. . In large part due to the University of Texas at Austin and other universities’ influence, Austin is known for having an educated workforce. The city is renowned as a center for tech entrepreneurship.

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