View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. 2009-2011: Retrenchment. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It was there that I met Eric Simone (one of the first investors in Bazaarvoice) as well as Josh Baer (one of the first investors in Bazaarvoice through his team building our first solution and getting paid primarily in equity versus cash). starting the global social commerce movement and changing the face of commerce forever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Every startup needs to start their funding search looking for grants, with no equity dilution, as well as contests and foundations. Attract a co-founder and key team members. They have connections to industry associations and entrepreneur organizations that can kick-start your networking efforts, both locally and globally.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. We have an amazing co-parenting style that works for both of us, and we’re both happy. Thanks to Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4 We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

by Jeffery Kang, CEO and founder, IngDan. From coast to coast, evidence of democratic principles and practices are front and center, playing out everywhere from small town hall meetings to global front page news. billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016. It’s an election year.  Analysts forecast that 6.4

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Artificial Inteligence China Incubator Startup 100

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Tim Schumann, Founder & CEO, Buddy Ventures , highlights that typically less investment capital is required to get into foreign startups at the same stage of development as a comparable US startup. . Founders’ determination. If you want to start selling abroad, an international founder is an advantage.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. 2009-2011: Retrenchment. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. You become a global company. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. 8:22) On how crisis reveals character. (9:11)

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Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

The geographic concentration of network effects, jobs, and economic growth in cities is not a new phenomenon, but disparities between the haves and have-nots continue to expand : Workers in cities earned more than 50% higher wages relative to workers outside those cities in 2016 (it was 30% in 1980). Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S.

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