View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Founders from LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , The Muse , Behance , InsightSquared , and more have appeared on the show. Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher.

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CTO Hire Framework Cofounder Seed Stage 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! The founders had been responsible for gaining staggering scale in the past 3 years, having been trail-blazers in building a network of talent and an unrivaled understanding of the YouTube ecosystem. ” Dana & I took a chance on the founders early on.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

Founders that learn are more successful. They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. Solo founders take 3.6x Most successful founders are driven by impact rather than experience or money.

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup 230

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

“Personal Branding” The term is fingernails on a chalkboard-level cringe for many of the best founders—mostly because it feels most of the people who spend time building their personal brand don’t actually have much there there behind it. Unfortunately, this has real consequences for founders. So how can founders differentiate?

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Doing Reference Checks on VCs “Try to speak to at least one founder that the investor has worked with in a failed investment. Thinking too early about opportunity scale artificially limits the types of problems a founder may consider working on.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

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Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 333

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

We curate and aggregate a collection of talented made-to-measure designer brands who showcase their garments in our integrated marketplace platform. Team Info: Founder: Dana Todd. Dana Todd, Balodana Founder. This experience will be as easy as traditional e-commerce. Fantastic points. Good luck and thank you, Balodana.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. aggregates resources from all the VCs. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs. Serial entrepreneur Samar Singla is the founder of Click Labs , a technology solution provider with 5+ years of industry experience in developing enterprise grade solutions with focus on mobility. Beauty is a much commented on subject – thousands of attempts have been made to define it.

Demand 138

Demand Software Review Technical Review SMS 138

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 31, 2011

Expo when Factual CEO and founder Gil Elbaz gave a talk on the challenges of big data. Elbaz identified several major hurdles that companies face around data: Findability Access Rights and Ownership Economics and Business Models Standards Integration and Aggregation Trust. Some of those issues were addressed today at Web 2.0

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

And so they’re typically not necessary, nor sufficient conditions, to being or even becoming an exceptional Founder. Some founders actually keep two lists, one of both categories. A record of not just who is in a Founder’s orbit, but who could be an integral co-Founder, peer/partner, or early team member.

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Cofounder Aggregator Matching Founder 194

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

” From the hyperbolic Jason Calacanis weighing in that “The petty VC’s did everything to deride [Naval, the co-founder of AngelList]” as though the industry was collectively s g its pants that AngelList was going to put us out of business. founder fighting. strategic direction. Photo Credit from StickerMule.

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Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Early Stage 356

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

Hence, a Singaporean founder will find it easier to execute in the 3rd key market that is the MENASSEA region (Middle East, North Africa and South/Southeast Asia). In this case, I urge founders to start in the US first (i.e. For e.g. platforms, market places, aggregators, advertising networks… chances are you are a B2B2C company.

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Singapore Technical Cofounder Product Marketing 178

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Luck Companies , an aggregate business headquartered just outside of Richmond, Virginia, believes, to quote CEO Charlie Luck, that “all human beings have extraordinary potential to make a positive difference in the world.” Too often leaders assume money is considered to be the most meaningful benefit working for a company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

We all know the result of the over-funding of the asset class – poor returns in aggregate for the industry. Some startups won’t make the cut but those founders will have developed invaluable skills and will join the ranks of the survivors. The best firms have still delivered results, though.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation Angel Investor 289

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2020

If you are a venture capitalist, I strongly encourage you to join the Valence Funding Network to provide Black founders with direct access to VCs. Valence launched our beta platform to provide a digital home for Black talent to connect, access opportunities, and aggregate their power. I’ve joined along with a number of my peers.

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Networking Silicon Valley Cofounder Aggregator 167

The Next Web

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you’re a startup founder, how much should you pay yourself? In Silicon Valley, 75% of founders pay themselves less than $75,000 per year and 66% pay themselves less than $50,000 per year, according to the data. Does the stage that a startup is at affect its founders’ salaries? Not as much as you might think.

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Salary Silicon Valley San Francisco Founder 167

mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We asked 10 founders to share what they think the future of personalized shopping holds (ecommerce entrepreneurs, listen up!). Amazons product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. If they did, I could get an amazing aggregate view of whats relevant to me based on a more complete profile.

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eCommerce Technical Review San Francisco New York City 108

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

A major reason for incorporating is to have the founders assign their IP to the company; it is far easier for a business to contract with a startup when the IP is owned by one entity. Incorporation also protects the founders from a liability standpoint. In addition, John is the founder of Lightspeed’s Summer Fellowship Program.

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Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In other words, they’re telling companies that, in order to get next round funding, they’re somehow supposed to stay the same fast growers they were before the tech downturn, but just do that longer and get to higher aggregate revenue and performance numbers. Maybe the middle ground is not putting away your experiments.

Lean 159

Lean Aggregator Portfolio Revenue 159

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. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! – OKRs for CEOs.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Founder of Duncan Capital LP , Joe Duncan is a FinTech entrepreneur, with a strong background in Cryptocurrency and Artificial Intelligence.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Just like Peep, other marketers from hypergrown products, such as David Cancel (founder at Drift) argue that product-based differentiation is vanishing. It’s like they thought about the attendees and what they need and then designed a format focused on them.

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B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. There are 1.4m-1.6m

America 144

America DC Startup Aggregator 144

The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. Earth to founder, the chances of you being the next Mark Zuckerberg are very slim. Y-Combinator founder Paul Graham coined the term Schlep Blindness to refer to a group’s tendency to avoid unpleasant tasks. You know what’s cool?

Startup 130

Startup SCRUM Cofounder Aggregator 130

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 2, 2014

I typically advise issuing 50% to 80% of the authorized shares of Common Stock to the initial founders upon incorporation. Thus, if the certificate of incorporation authorizes 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock, an aggregate of 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 share should be issued at incorporation. Incorporation'

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Common Stock Founder Aggregator Stock 84

David Teten

JUNE 14, 2011

I’ve known John Frankel , the firm’s founder, for a year and a half. Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. We have a large crop of exciting growth companies that are starting to come into their own.

Venture Capital 122

Venture Capital Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio 122

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We first met co-founders Brennan Spellacy and Aaron Grunfeld in March. We also believe that defensibility comes with the aggregation and “digitization” of quality supply. So as a follow up to yesterday, we are excited to officially introduce Patch , a platform for negative emissions.

API 182

API Aggregator Cofounder Demand 182

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Almost every successful company is a mixture of very hard work by the founders mixed with a pinch of luck, good fortune and perseverance. Another 3–5 could return in aggregate $300–500 million. the sale of the company for $1 billion. It was ~30 days from bankruptcy. That’s return, not exit price of the company.

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Bankruptcy Bridge Financing Portfolio Angel Investor 294

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. Co-Founder & CEO. Co-Founder & COO. David Harper. Maha Harper.

Technical Review 111

Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 111

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

by Ross Kimbarovsky, founder of crowdSPRING. I also explained that we weren’t concerned with what each itemized item cost – but we needed to make sure that in the aggregate, we didn’t exceed our budget. Ross Kimbarovsky is founder and CEO at crowdSPRING and Startup Foundry. Many dread the adversarial nature of negotiation.

Partner 171

Partner Employee Non-Compete IP 171

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In terms of diversity, seven companies in the new class have at least one woman founder. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Iconfinder: site for icons. iDreamBooks: the Rotten Tomatoes for books. Fake it before you make it.”

Founder 136

Founder Brazil Latvia India 136

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Having recently addressed founders in my chapter “Be Coachable,” allow me please in this essay to address this matter to you providers of help. As you probably know, I prefer advising founders in long, immersive engagements. If you want to share your wisdom to founders, you have many avenues that do not require prior Freudian training.

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Incubator Vertical Deal Flow Technical Review 48

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members.

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Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Shravan Parsi is CEO and founder of American Ventures , and author of “ The Science Of The Deal: The DNA Of Multifamily & Commercial Real Estate Investing “ He is an entrepreneur and innovator with a background in the diverse fields of real estate investing and pharmaceutical research. Never settle for less.

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Accredited Investor India Private Equity Cofounder 147