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. Co-founder Holly Liu will walk us through the the decisions that led to that outcome. That’s why we’ve put together a panel that looks at the human side of being a founder.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

If you want to learn more about chatbots generally, read Drift’s The 2018 State of Chatbots Report: How Chatbots Are Reshaping Online Experiences. MobileMonkey’s founder and CEO, Larry Kim. The post Facebook Messenger Chatbot Marketing: The Definitive Guide (2018) appeared first on crowdspring Blog.

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View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

Since we first opened our New York office back in 2015, we have steadily increased our presence over the years ( Melody joined us in 2017 and Dorothy in 2018), and now roughly 40% of our investments are in New York. You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You are hungry.

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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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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Meet the startup co-founders that are simplifying and automating fundraising campaigns for nonprofits through their business, Kindest. We had a chance to interview Holly McKay and David Semerad, the co-founders of Kindest, and asked about their story, how they started their business and the future of Kindest. Tell us your story.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Intro to the Austin EdTech Startup Scene Come meet Sean Duffy , founder of EdTech Austin and let him tell about everything going on in EdTech in Austin! Join us at this interview and hear how WWE co-founder Linda McMahon fought back from bankruptcy to build her company into a publicly traded entertainment and media powerhouse.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Lean Startup Conference 2018 is sold out, but you can still register for the livestream. It’s critical that we hear both voices because we face enormous challenges and opportunities that call us to be our best—to create a future of work (and of culture) that we can thrive in. I hope you’ll join us that way.

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View from Seed

APRIL 3, 2019

Original research on gender diversity and fundraising amongst HBS founders. Historically, there has been a general bias against MBA founders — a skepticism around their grit and hustle. Yet, despite the attention and efforts in 2018, funding to female-founded startups continued to plateau: 2.2%

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2020

by Shaun Djie, Co-Founder & COO of Digix. Shaun Djie is the co-founder of DigixGlobal and is also the founder of the Ethereum Singapore meetup group – one of the largest in the world with over 8,00 members.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Austin has become quite a hotspot.

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Mucker Lab

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Mucker’s first meeting with Emotive happened in November of 2018, though our initial investment wouldn’t happen until 18 months later in May 2020 when we would lead their Series A. We normally tell founders we can be fast and turn things around in just a few days if needed.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 5, 2023

Neko Health is well positioned to achieve its goals, as the board of directors recently welcomed notable investors such as Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype, and Klaus Hommels, founder of the venture capital firm Lakestar. We try to be as clear as possible about what it is that we do and how it operates.

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For companies, this means a minimized induction effort and a faster, cost-effective onboarding process,” says Elena Carstoiu, Hubgets COO and Co-founder of Hubgets. If you already use a platform like Slack for team communication, get the new hire logged on right away.

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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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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2017

She is the former Chief of Technology and Research at Manufacture NY and the Founder of Skinteractive Studio, a fashion tech studio working with startups including Thesis Couture, Dropel Fabrics, Kenzen, Mycoworks and Wonderwoof, and with past clients including Google, Intel, and Ringly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2019

I found that role validated and highlighted in a new book, “ Scale or Fail ,” by Allison Maslan, who has built ten successful companies from the ground up, and consulted with many more in her current role as founder and CEO of Pinnacle Global Network. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/20/2018. Feel free to join us.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2019

Karthik Sridharan, founder of Kinnek , wrote a great article on Medium on what they’ve learned from building the largest North American B2B marketplace. Mike Murchison and David Hariri , the founders of Ada Support and Nikhil Srinivasan and Alex Kern , founders of Cleargraph, which was acquired by Coinbase last summer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

I often wonder how many more startups would succeed if their founders could master the art and science of delegation. In my role as mentor and advisor to many founders, I consistently fail in convincing them of the power in wise delegation. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/05/2018.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Founders’ Chat is a series where we share the entrepreneurial journey of founders from the GridAKL start-up hub. As a startup founder, your time and resources tend to be limited. Kiwi businesses paid $750 million+ in electronic card transaction fees in 2018 alone. Tell us about Choice. NZ Entrepreneur. NZ Sales Manager.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

by Melanie Mohr, CEO and founder of YEAY. Google parent company Alphabet booked more than $54 billion in ad revenue in the first half of 2018. Melanie Mohr is the CEO and Founder of YEAY , an e-commerce site for Gen Z. Melanie Mohr is the CEO and Founder of YEAY , an e-commerce site for Gen Z.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant. And a founder of Neuralink a brain-computer interface startup.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

MonaLabs – founded in October 2018, Mona labs is targeting data science teams. Mona announced an undisclosed seed round led by Global Founders Capital in Feb 2019. Superwise raised an undisclosed round from F2 Capital , and is founded by two brothers, Oren and Ofer Razon. Ofer the CEO previously started the AI unit at Amdocs.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2020

percent and represented 25 percent of the entire CRM marketing space in 2018. Prior to Swiftpage, Ruff was an entrepreneur, serving as founder of Kuvana (provider of the email marketing and marketing automation solution InboxGuru) before the company’s acquisition by Swiftpage. www.act.com ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Plan to and assemble the right team, including co-founders. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/11/2018. Only later did they expand this offering to multiple classes of cars, Uber for business use, package delivery, and even freight hauling. Building and running a business is not a solo operation.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 22, 2018

By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News From dog walking services to robot teaching assistants, 10 startup founders pitched their ventures at the sixth annual Techstars Austin Demo Day. This year’s class included six teams from the Carolinas and Virginia and four from Austin and half of them had female founders.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

I traveled around recruiting a fantastic starting lineup of designer partners to build their stores on the Balodana marketplace, and I left my CMO job in March 2018 to build the prototype and the business. Team Info: Founder: Dana Todd. Dana Todd, Balodana Founder. Fantastic points. Good luck and thank you, Balodana.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

by Sanjoe Jose, CEO and Co-founder of Talview. In fact, it’s predicted that the AI market within the US education sector will grow by 48% CAGR between 2018-2022. Automation improves experience. Automation has the potential to play a huge role here.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The Startup Magazine was proud to be a media sponsor at this year’s E-Cell, IIM Kashipur flagship entrepreneurship event , Uttishtha’18, on 6 th October, 2018. To apply, visit www.janhitjagran.com ; applications close October 30th, 2018. The theme of this year’s event was, A decade of Disruption – Future Scope.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

According to Blissfully’s report, overall spend per company on SaaS has increased by 50% in 2020 as compared to 2018. Often, SaaS company founders are not aware of steps, tools, and checkpoints they should follow while building their product. The largest cost component of establishing a SaaS company is product development costs.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 5, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: June 5, 2018 Show your tech pride at the world’s only LGBTQIA-themed Startup Weekend Hackout ! You’ll learn all the nitty-gritty details about how to create a company and meet mentors, investors, co-founders and sponsors ready about able to help you get started.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 15, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 15, 2018 The final deadline to apply for the SXSW Release It program is the end of the day on Friday, January 19. This competition is designed for startups (as well as established companies) that have a product, a service or an app that will launch in the first quarter of 2018.

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Austin Startup

MAY 13, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 13, 2018 Inclusiveness and diversity was one of the most important themes at SXSW 2018. But this mindset and approach must not be limited to geographical, gender and racial concerns. A truly inclusive tomorrow also focuses on accessibility in all its forms.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Founders face multiple challenges when they are in the initial faces of a startup. Wingman was founded in the year 2018. 90% of Indian startups fail within the first five years of inception. Wingman automatically joins sales calls and analyses the conversation.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Plenty – Founders: Matt Barnard, Nate Storey, and Nate Mazonson. The concept behind this new startup, as the founders say, is “a new kind of farm for a new kind of world.” Pindrop – Founders: Paul Judge, Dr. Mustaque Ahamad, and Vijay Balasubramaniyan. Zume Pizza – Founders Julia Collins and Alex Garden. million so far.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2018

We asked 19 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2018. #1- My goal for 2018 is to take my accomplishments and what I’ve learned in 2017 into 2018 with paid public speaking opportunities such as Key Notes, Workshops, and Special Events. I am so excited for 2018!

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Where to Play

JANUARY 10, 2019

The post 2018: Thank you for an amazing journey appeared first on Where to Play. The 2018 report: ‘Where to play’ in numbers. 2018 was our year to set the tone. Here is a quick peek to some of the organizations we worked with during 2018: Outlook for 2019. 1 book in two languages (English and German).

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