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. Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Who’s next?

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. It doesn’t make sense to expend massive resources to win a small market. Distribution.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

Thanks to Mirela Borsan, Inspirational Leadership Coaching, LLC ! #4- My co founder Jonathan Hill realised how important good food was due to his father passing away from eating poorly. 9- Desire to go global. I wanted to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global. 4- Saw a gap in my industry.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

After completing this project, he contacted his friend Blake Chandlee, president of global business solutions for TikTok/ByteDance. He had previously invested in Tastebud, which Tsai co-founded and served as vice president of product. Joshua Baer, founder of Capital Factory. Brett Hurt, founder of Bazaarvoice and Data.world.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Requires Columbia affiliation.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

On launching in October 2019, the start-up offered flexible cloud-based banking solutions specifically tailored to small and medium-sized institutions. Dylan Taylor co-founded Voyager Holdings in October 2019 in order to provide infrastructure and funding support for start-ups working in the space industry sector.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. I’ve seen people succeed as solo founders – but I think not having a co-founder makes an already hard journey that much harder. The rest is history.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t privy to the financials at the time, but by the end of 2019, I had penciled out a guess that they were at a $50 million run rate—or at least on a clear path to it. The double standard in Startupland around how female founders get treated is something I’ve written about before. She knew I was a seed investor in the company.

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