Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

As we put the final touches on Lean Startup Conference 2018 , I wanted to take a moment to share more about some of the panels, workshops, and events. Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Greylock Partners will be talking about “blitzscaling” with his co-author Chris Yeh, and Stanford Professor Bob Sutton.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Their investment supported Stat Health’s recapitalization, alongside Spanos Barber Jesse & Co. Hauser Private Equity partnered with the Denver-based private equity firm Revelstoke Capital Partners to make a growth investment in DataLink Fund Solutions, a leading provider of integrated population health management applications.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Shira Sue Carmi, the founder of Launch Collective, reminds us that the business of launching a clothing brand is as important as the artistry: Fashion is amazing in the way it balances art and commerce, but it’s a business. There’s a terrific book about this from the founder of Nike, Phil Knight – Shoe Dog.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

With a concentration on providing a more diverse workforce, Capital Factory and Opportunity Hub are partnering in 2019 to converge on the Austin tech scene this spring at SXSW. Capital Factory is so excited to welcome the OHUB community to Austin during SXSW,” said Joshua Baer, founder & CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

Co-mingling personal and business funds and accounts creates legal risk and tax liability, and makes your efforts look like a hobby. These days you can create a C-corp or LLC online quickly at a low cost, to serve you well in signing partners, intellectual property, investors, and revenue. This is the time for pivots as required.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 16, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: April 16, 2018 Central Texas founders have just a few more days to apply to be considered for the 2018 Austin A-List of the Hottest Startups , as the entry deadline for this competition is the end of the day on Friday, April 20. Register now to attend this Thursday, May 24 ceremony.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Lighter reports that from 2015 to 2018, the number of VC investments under $5m dropped 23% from 6,709 to 5,139. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 2, 2018

Austin, Texas June 1, 2018?—?HelloFund, With over 10 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, the Austin-native founder, Phil Sanger, alongside co-founder, Mike Lacourse, built the platform with the best interests of nonprofits in-mind. to suit the individual needs of each group. Our platform is 100% responsive?—?mobile

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

Today, Aurora and Reinvent Technology Partners Y announced their agreement to merge. In my own view, this is awesome news — because I’ve been an investor in Aurora since February 2018 when I co-led its Series A round for Greylock and joined Aurora’s board. Uber is the world’s largest ride-hailing network.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Find out how startups and corporations can partner to achieve results that truly benefit both sides. Four successful female company founders?—?Shayna Shayna Brown, Founder of Chez Boom Audio, Jan Ryan, Exec. Vote ] 2. Learn how to focus your data objectives and build a data-rich culture based on applied use cases.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Gifted Healthcare is listed as one of the Country’s 2018 Fastest-Growing Staffing Organizations by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA). AMN Healthcare is a Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Company and is listed as one of the 2018 Largest US Staffing Firms with revenue over $100 Million by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA).

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2018

Capital Factory - 2017 Year In Review I can already see some room for improvement on how we measure this and appreciate your feedback about how else we can improve the 2018 annual report. Eugene Sepulveda was co-chair of the LGBTQ Council for President Obama. We need more Women founders getting funded.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 30, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event , 50 finalists from around the world will make their pitches before a panel of judges. What does Sceenic hope to accomplish in 2018? What kinds of people is your team looking to meet at SXSW 2018? What are the goals for Sceenic for SXSW 2018?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2018 SXSW has announced 50 finalists for the SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event. What does Pawame hope to accomplish in 2018? What kinds of people is your team looking to meet at SXSW 2018? Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January.

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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. These are sorted by the year that we funded them.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 17, 2022

Tough Love by Jared Hecht (Fundera and GroupMe cofounder). As Jared notes, “The irony is that withholding the truth is the opposite of being founder friendly. It’s something I try to do when I invest in companies and work with founders. CEO/cofounder Alexandr Wang. Entrepreneurs crave it.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, after two short years and $3 million raised in startup funds, recruitment AI company Ansaro shut down due to bad market fit. It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

He co-founded Work Better Now in 2018 and currently serves as the chairman. Previously, Rob was the founder and publisher of The New York Enterprise Report, a media company that served small and midsize businesses. He co-founded Work Better Now in 2018 and currently serves as the chairman. This is John Janstsch.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager. Sachin Bansal. Peter Gylfe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2018

In my experience, the initial idea for a new product usually comes from a single entrepreneur, but the implementation plan for a new business requires a team, or at least a co-founder. The challenge is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner. Network to find co-founders as you network to find investors.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2018

As the CEO and co-founder of my own company, I place immense value on a clear, purposeful mission and vision. I work alongside employees and partners who have a similar viewpoint and want to deliver such innovative, thoughtful products to users. Written by Lauren Golembiewski, CEO and Co-founder of Voxable.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

I love working with great people and as a venture capitalist, am fortunate the number of founders I’m impressed by far exceeds our investment capacity. Here’s an example of a founder that I’ve known for a while who recently raised a seed round with different firms than ours. and we also had a great relationship with the partner.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

By Danielle Ofek Before I was a banker, I was a founder. My journey over the last decade founding and leading startups has been a successful one, but it has also come with challenges, many of which are shared by other women founders and entrepreneurs. The numbers begin to tell the story.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

Eighteen months later, I’m keynoting at conferences and serving clients in London, Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Vancouver, and 50 other cities,” says Logan Young, the co-founder of BlitzMetrics, a Facebook dashboard and advertising company. Learn, Do, Teach: Build Your Expertise First.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Bill Wood, founder of Silverton Partners and an early General Partner at Austin Ventures before, said something that got me thinking (quoting from the SiliconHills article ): Because it’s easy to startup a company and doesn’t take a lot of money, Silverton Partners sees more startups forming, Wood said.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2019

In this spirit, one of the key organizations my partners at Foundry Group have helped create and nurture is Pledge 1%. If you are a co-founder at a startup, leading a company, or an employee at a company and want to learn more, check out the Pledge1% (or here if you’re in Colorado).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2018

Unfortunately, in my years since as a small business advisor, I have seen too many founders squander this asset through a lack of understanding of some basic legal and operational issues, or by handing out nominally “free” stock to the wrong people at the wrong time. Always specify a vesting period for new partners.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The mission of Ling Technology’s founders was to create a “Ling” world with man and robot symbiosis. Ling Technology is a board member of Jibo an exclusive partner in China. By CES in 2018, we only exhibited Luka and Jibo. The word “Ling” originates from the philosophical idea that every living thing has a spirit.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. We then co-founded Sage Networks (which changed its name to Interliant) with Raj Bhargava (NetGenesis co-founder) and Steve Maggs (whose company was also acquired by AmeriData.) Len loved to smoke a cigar.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At the beginning of 2018, we almost invested in a startup with two strong founders. To make a long and private story short, on the morning I was about to call the founders to let them know I was in, they decided to amicably part ways. This is the story of how we invested in Fiddler Labs. I’m glad we did.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

He is co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London and San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. He was the founding CEO of Ticketmaster-Citysearch and was a partner at McKinsey & Company. And you can listen to it all on your lunch break. Thanks for having me.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

In 2018 and 2019, we connected together all four cities with staff, programming and a Texas-wide mentor network. In 2018, we launched in Dallas with the help of The DEC, the Dallas Regional Chamber, UT Dallas, Accenture, Deloitte, Varidesk and many other partners. Our word of the year was “Dallas”.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 26, 2018

About 45 girls and 35 entrepreneurs and tech professionals took part in Latinitas’ 2018 Startup Chica Conference Presented by eBay. Photo Credit: Josie Hughes The girls got to hear from teenage keynote speakers Layla Renee and Mya Parish , founders of Suga Babes Beauty , a plant-based bath and body product line for teens. Rowling Hall.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. This is a topic we care a lot about, given HOF Capital’s long-term strategy for partnering with universities and my forthcoming book on “ hacking the university ”. “CEO is the new Analyst.”.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2018

by Shireen Yates, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nima. Wellness technology, welcome to 2018. Become their trusted partner in this journey, and your solution might just be the next CES breakout star.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 23, 2018

Many of these events can be isolating for startup founders or leaders of growing companies; without name recognition or existing relationships, they struggle. Carter and his co-founder, Michael Lovitch, established The Baby Bathwater Institute to provide entrepreneurial support they didn’t see available elsewhere.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab.

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