David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. One of those partnerships is with Startup America , who was also featured at the lunch. Startup America is an example. Derek Holt of Startup America. Our customer is ultimately the startup. . •

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

This (somewhat liberally translated) Chinese proverb is something you hear often in Silicon Valley these days. by Pascal Finette from Singularity University. May you live in interesting times.” ~ Chinese Proverb. Some say it is a curse. Regardless, nobody denies its truth when it comes to the change technology brings to our world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! The media world now has its own leader running the largest YouTube multi-channel network startup. Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley and Who Will Win. This has been a very welcome addition. The Future of the Digital Living Room. New Online Video Trends.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2020

Valence launched our beta platform to provide a digital home for Black talent to connect, access opportunities, and aggregate their power. We want to even the playing field with the goal of exponentially growing the number of Black-owned startups that get funded.”

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. ” The Cost of Financing.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

In Silicon Valley, we've had access to the tribal knowledge, but no one has tried to capture it, derive a methodology out of it, and package it in a way that entrepreneurs around the world can benefit from this knowledge and expertise. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

All of these stories are useful for recruiting, internal alignment, and business development—they really serve as analogies for different types of startups. If you can tell these stories well, it will be a huge weapon in your startup’s arsenal. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce?

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Founder Technical Review Cofounder Non-Compete 120

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Is your new startup targeting auctions? … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. . The other half is commercial gallery sales.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you’re a startup founder, how much should you pay yourself? The company collected salary data from 11,160 startups around the world that use its benchmarking tool. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. A few are still trying to make money doing it, but it is hard to make money off startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. A few are still trying to make money doing it, but it is hard to make money off startups. Startup Accelerators and Incubators.”

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Although these startups are very diverse businesses themselves, they face similar requirements (especially in that they’re currently all in the seed to Series B range of company stage). 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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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Image is the bedrock part of the “fake it till you make it” culture that animates most of Silicon Valley today. Here are four critical challenges of tech startup PR. Technology industry startups have to pay more attention to their image than most other companies do.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

And ChubbyBrain released the demographics from early enrollees in the program, revealing some interesting statistics about who is seeking startup funding. ReadWriteWeb readers also trended younger than ChubbyBrain's aggregate data. Early Stage Startups. So how do ReadWriteWeb entrepreneurs stack up? Younger, More Educated.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. An Existing Market All four were trying to resegment an “Existing Market.”

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. A few are still trying to make money doing it, but it is hard to make money off startups. group rates for health, life and other insurance plans.

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Incubator Entrepreneur New York City Silicon Valley 147

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. June 5, 2011.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 22, 2013

Not that VC dollars are the be all and end all, but it''s one important measure of the health of a startup community, and NYC''s latest quarterly numbers from the PWC Moneytree report are continuing a positive trend--not only relative to the Valley, but in the aggregate. We''re up 11.5% Right now, 3.8x

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Aggregator New York 102

Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large amount of funding — a strategy that contrasts with the ‘lean startup’ model that has become common in Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

If all you ever do is create YouTube content then I agree – that’s not a viable startup business. You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent. This kind of spend happens all day long inside startup companies and 100% of the spend on attracting customers is a cost.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. Asked to help, I am confident that Silicon Valley and every other innovation center will step up. They are nerds. Expo SF (May.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

The panel will take questions and give stories and advice on startup sales from their vast wealth of experience in the entrepreneurial world. The W3 Method equips startups with the tools to articulate their strategy with their team, company, investors and customers. What are they buying? Why do they buy?

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

Startups aren’t only for twentysomethings. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. In Sweden, he founded omvard.se

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Sweden 120

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend. Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Many startups simply do not have the money for any kind of traditional compensation plan. Sometimes startups need to hire real paid employees.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

Here’s a quick primer on how investments tend to work in startup companies at the seed stage. So, in the aggregate, it is possible that you may be required to pay as much as $30k-$50k to get an equity round done. Newer VC firms, though, typically do not pass their costs to their startups, which is much more progressive.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

ambassador to the United Nations and a Stanford professor of political science; Zvika Krieger , the State Department’s representative to Silicon Valley and senior advisor for technology and innovation; retired U.S. The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

ambassador to the United Nations and a Stanford professor of political science; Zvika Krieger , the State Department’s representative to Silicon Valley and senior advisor for technology and innovation; retired U.S. The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.”

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative. Many startup companies are joining the Sharing Economy Association, showing their willingness to adapt. by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Its roots are in the campus and as Forbes frames it, they are disrupting Silicon Valley. Y Combinator’s influence in Silicon Valley has burgeoned ever since. From the piece by Christopher Steiner: The accident was a summer program Graham started in 2005 for college students who were tinkering with business ideas.

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Silicon Valley DC Affiliate Aggregator 34

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I remember when it was a rare, extraordinary thing for a software/internet startup to even file an S-1. What’s the impact for early-stage startups? Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. March 8, 2012.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Start in a business domain you know well.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Sam is one of the most prolific company builders in Silicon Valley. He was president of the startup accelerator YCombinator from 2014-2019, and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded. He also offers advice for startups, who are facing difficult decisions as we move forward.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Start in a business domain you know well.

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Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur Accredited Investor 224