David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking. with the announcement of a funding round, new senior hires, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

I previously touched upon the Passion/Product Fit of an aspiring entrepreneur. Once the answer is found, the entrepreneur needs to do serious research on the market he/she will be addressing. For e.g. platforms, market places, aggregators, advertising networks… chances are you are a B2B2C company. This is by no means easy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. And it’s true that I still take a whole lot of first meetings with entrepreneurs.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. The real goal is growth; no one else hires. • Aggregate America’s startups. in aggregate commitments. All of our regional leaders are serial entrepreneurs who are thinking about giving back.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

aggregates resources from all the VCs. Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies. For example, I suggest it doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a full-time team member who’s an SEO consultant. AskAnything.VC Is the service scaleable?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

This past summer, the Lightspeed Summer Fellowships program invited selected guests to provide aspiring entrepreneurs a perspective into all aspects of starting a new company. The program provides entrepreneurs the resources and mentoring they need to build their companies and develop their skills. ” The Cost of Financing. .”

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Some innovators with integrated business models like Kaiser Permanente are making great strides in aggregating your patient data and making it accessible to you. What I notice in entrepreneurs it that they often get energized by figuring out answers to sticky problems that might paralyze others.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. The large players like Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent historically would be more likely to simply copy a startup’s features than to hire their talent. Almost every entrepreneur I met was using VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Investors and smart hires will always do appropriate diligence before investing money and time, but they won’t bother doing that unless they are excited about your story. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? In fact, in the very beginning, the story is the entirety of the company.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

By opening fewer stores you decrease costs in renting real estate, distributing products to your stores, and hiring employees for every location in every area you’re operating in. Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' Customers don’t need to actually visit one of your offline stores. Image credit: JMiks / Shutterstock.

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David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

The Entrepreneurs Access to Capital Act helps to redress this. Currently, entrepreneurs are prohibited from doing so under the Securities Act of 1933, which requires companies who wish to sell securities to register and provide extensive information about strategy, future plans, ownership, management, etc.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. The large players like Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent historically would be more likely to simply copy a startup’s features than to hire their talent. Almost every entrepreneur I met was using VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

While I am by no means an expert in the space, I know serious, talented entrepreneurs when I see them, and Boyan’s conference was chock full of the kind of creative high IQ and high “EQ” people that smart investors love to back. Hire a programmer here, a freelance public relations staffer there. Small decisions, little things.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Several conversations over the last month have turned to the topic of helping entrepreneurs. Those folks may be hired in vertical specialties, and the larger and more successful incubators have enough deal flow to keep their agendas filled. They might ride your advice to become billionaires and hire you someday.

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Plus, my partners and I saw entrepreneurs repeatedly starting from square-one each time, which just didn’t seem efficient if we could help in some small way. But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Most people under estimate the challenge of winning “share of mind” the least understood concept with tech entrepreneurs. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? How many people would we need to hire? Sure, but will they still be using it in a year? In 6 months?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 3) Originate investments.

Private Equity 60

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The Next Web

JANUARY 14, 2014

Few startups are transparent when it comes to salaries, so it’s interesting to see at least some aggregate data about the salary landscape as a whole. Entrepreneur Insider News' Best save that for after the big exit, eh? .

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Are you an emerging entrepreneur with an underfunded venture? Hire Attorneys and Accountants. The proposed equity crowdfunding rules allow your business to fundraise up to $1 million per 12 month period in its aggregate equity crowdfunding campaigns. Hire Attorneys and Accountants. Perform Background Checks.

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Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2017

Every entrepreneur starts out with dreams of success. As your business grows, your already enormous workload as an entrepreneur could become overwhelming. If it is time to hire additional salespeople, there are some helpful guidelines here. by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Streamline your day-to-day tasks.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Replicate what I was doing for others. We saw that many food entrepreneurs had these same problems. As with any relationship, you never want to see your partner go through tough times alone and that’s when I began my journey as an entrepreneur.

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

One of my first mentors in venture capital explained to me that the key role of a VC is to “aggregate talent.” At NextView Ventures, we’re hyper-focused on the seed stage, and since starting the firm, we’ve heard repeatedly and consistently from founders that a primary challenge they face during that stage is hiring.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As you rightly pointed out, though most of us as entrepreneurs are aware of these concepts, we don't dig deep, drill down and present the numbers / issues / solutions to the board and / or investors. I thought your earlier post on CAC / LTV was very handy to depict our positives. petercohen David, Excellent and valuable advice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

When the project winds up getting cancelled for failing to meet its ROI justification, it’s natural for the entrepreneur to feel like it was the CFO – and their innovation-sucking spreadsheet – that is the real cause. Just because entrepreneurs tend to forget about these models doesn’t mean their investors do.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Hopefully, I’ll encourage other entrepreneurs with a dream but no technical co-founder options to take their destiny into their own hands. Sadly, that represents over 95% of potential entrepreneurs out there and it’s a very frustrating experience. Hire a programmer. Advice: Hire a Programmer. Not all is lost.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Heres what I do know: The future strength of our economy depends on its ability to create, support, and sustain entrepreneurs. (If If you are somehow not convinced of this point, Ill let Fareed Zakaria explain ) We know who the next generation of entrepreneurs are going to be. Nerds are not entrepreneurs. They are nerds.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

It seems clear that most entrepreneurs need help to navigate the ultra-dense tech industry PR environment. Content aggregator app developer Timehop is an excellent example of this idea in action. A good start is to get out in front of things like gender-neutral hiring. Most of all, they have to do it in a very public fashion.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

We all want to hire the best: most talented, very smartest, most experienced, best-cultural-fitting, perfect employees. The problem is, especially for small business, hiring recruiters is crazy expensive and doing it yourself is an massive strain on capacity and resources. ZipRecruiter: Posting job openings is a pain.

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Small Business Database Social Media Aggregator 92

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. We are literally getting hallelujahs from entrepreneurs for making the decision in record time,” Coats says.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? Hopefully, I’ll encourage other entrepreneurs with a dream but no technical co-founder options to take their destiny into their own hands. Hire a programmer. Not all is lost. Teach yourself to build it.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2010

It was an awesome weekend – we held an event modeled after the Apprentice TV show (without the bad hair) that had three challenges: (1) Marketing, (2) Hiring / Interview, and (3) 5-Year Plan & Budget. They are clearly the future – and we want more of them to be entrepreneurs. Congrats to all of you – you make me proud to know you.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend. Struggling entrepreneurs around the world are in deep envy of Nick D’Aloisio’s business acumen. Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Sometimes startups need to hire real paid employees.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Consequently, you’ve decided to utilize this passion and expertise to collect and aggregate social media data from some of the popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, CrunchBase, and LinkedIn. A solopreneur is essentially an entrepreneur who does not hire any staff. Draw up a budget.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing. I guess it wasn’t in their DNA.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

I have counseled innumerable entrepreneurs to change their focus to revenue, and many companies who refuse this advice get themselves into trouble by running out of iterations. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

Speed of product development, of brand-building, of customer acquisition, of team-building and talent aggregation. They set goals like “growing 5% next year” or “hiring a new salesperson” or “redesigning the email newsletter.” Or Dropbox raising $607 million over 9. They keep raising money because money buys speed. Dream a little.

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