VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

“This investment will accelerate our work to build the metaverse and create spaces where players can have fun with friends, brands can build creative and immersive experiences and creators can build a community and thrive.” The large corporates might invest billions, but startups have the benefit of speed, agility and courage to innovate.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

The design thinking process may have originated with designers, but the business world has started to take notice because of the agility, speed, and innovation that it promises. ” If your company isn’t ready to run its own online community, there are many other ways to bring customers into the fold.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

At a party in NYC recently, I was challenged by a VC to name the biggest company currently using Lean Startup practices. Although everyone knows GE, Beth is new to many people in our community, so we’ve created a backgrounder for you. Guest post by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Other companies with big names like Facebook and Google are often more quickly credited for their innovation, but IBM maintains innovating just as much without getting the same recognition. For me, it's a live example of agile and sustainable business. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Photo Credit: Jeremy Goldman.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

We will see a lot of altruistic entrepreneurs that want to help people, communities, and the environment based on the significance the young generation gives today to the wellbeing of society. Skills like agility, flexibility, continuous learning ability, and stress tolerance would be some of the defining skills of a future entrepreneur.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

2- The importance of adaptability and killer branding Photo Credit: Josh Camitta First off, flexibility has been the name of the game. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. These takeaways will shape our strategies as we navigate the dynamic landscape in the years ahead. Thanks to Cort Adair, The Adair Group ! #2-

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Exact-Match Domain Names. If you are able to, obtain an exact-match domain name as an intellectual property security measure. Be sure that each time you mention anything online, the name of your company is accurately attributed. This is a great way for protecting the trademarks you own. Open-Source IP.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned quite a few of these, including these most important ones: having engineers post on the forums in their own name when they make a change routinely split-testing new changes routinely conducting in-person usability tests and interviews Net Promoter Score Each of these techniques is fundamentally bottoms-up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. There was a guy in New Jersey government named Ross Dakin. There are people in communities who are trying to deliver food to needy residents.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

How was VisionSpring named? Originally named the Scojo Foundation in 2001 and re-named VisionSpring in 2008, Scojo Foundation was named for co-founders Jordan and Scott (ScoJo). The new name VisionSpring came out of the change of re-envisioning of the brand. That’s how VisionSpring was born.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

How did you come up with your business name? Our goal is to help moms find comfort and community – whether she gets a comfortable pair of new pajamas, reads a blog that reminds her how amazing she is, or finds support through a social post. In 2019, Kindred Bravely was named #20 on the Inc. What makes you unique?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

On the surface the book is an incredibly well written narrative over the course of five years, from 2008 to 2013, that connects the laid off auto workers, job center retraining, union organizers, community and business leaders, and politicians. but that the supporting service jobs would also disappear in the community.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

How was VisionSpring named? Originally named the Scojo Foundation in 2001 and re-named VisionSpring in 2008, Scojo Foundation was named for co-founders Jordan and Scott (ScoJo). The new name VisionSpring came out of the change of re-envisioning of the brand. That’s how VisionSpring was born.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 15, 2021

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. To play up the name even more, I use when you need a best friend on the web as my tagline. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We might have medium-term goals like “adopting agile methodologies” or “getting everyone on the same page with a project kick-off” as the outcomes for the reader. A unanimous agreement on a name without prompting supports a “thumbs up” rating on this attribute. In her search for tutorials, she landed on the Agile Coach.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a formal method, the Lean Startup consists of three parts: The Business Model Canvas – to frame hypotheses, Customer Development – to test those hypotheses in front of customers, and Agile Engineering – to build Minimum Viable Products to maximize learning. In a business the aim is to earn more money than you spend.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. He connects the Lab with the defense user community. Pete directed the investment of over $1.4B

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It’s also a time when you are most agile to work on ideas and implement strategies without the crippling setbacks caused by decision hierarchy and process. Marketing is often seen as this front-loaded element of a business; it’s what gets your name to the public and what draws them in to complete a purchase.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 31, 2022

Assisting my customers and patients, and providing employment opportunities in the community, motivates me every day to do better and better. Too often in our community, we are told what we cannot do and what we should do instead. 21- Agility. Don’t forget to join our # IamCEO Community. 4- Spontaneity.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. It’s going to make the people who are working hard in the community—people who have the connections you need—that much less interested in helping you. Misconception #2: There’s no tech talent in NYC/Wall St.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It was whatever you can do to get away from the classic DOD stovepipe way of doing business to a much more agile software approach. Josh Marcuse and the Defense Innovation Board were instrumental in helping us see what those agile principles were and how we could get moving and go fast. That is the future for the Department of Defense.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It’s also a time when you are most agile to work on ideas and implement strategies without the crippling setbacks caused by decision hierarchy and process. Marketing is often seen as this front-loaded element of a business; it’s what gets your name to the public and what draws them in to complete a purchase.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

This means: Social networking and Community sites that want to unify chat, forums, polls, videos, blogs, etc. Portals that want to unify news, communication, tools, etc. I wrote an article a while back specifically on social community sites, called Social Design Explosion. Ideas for when and how to pay down product design debt?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2022

15- To be a top name in the telecom industry. My new-found motivation is to be a top name in the telecom industry. My motivation to grow my business is to increase the quality of education for our students so they can become great leaders in the community. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Not being caught up in a corporate management structure gives me the freedom and agility to be at the top of our game. 11 – Entrepreneur Community. I used to practice law and now that I’m an entrepreneur I am constantly struck by the “entrepreneur community” that I did not even know existed before.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A finalist in the Enterprise and Smart Data category, which will pitch at 12:30 pm Saturday, March 9, Novo is a banking platform that provides better business deposit accounts to today’s companies and is powered by a network of FDIC-insured community banks. Name three people, in any field, alive or dead, you’d like to meet and tell us why.

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Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

That means unifying the company’s exceptional talent around a set of shared values to create lasting relationships between PEMCO, its customers and the community. Our community is connected, and we embrace all of the ways we are the same and all of the ways we are different. ” Absolutely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Much of what I have found effective is counter-intuitive, because it requires investing more effort in each hire - all in the name of efficiency. You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. This is another sub-optimization caused by incentivizing the wrong metric. Keep them coming.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. More importantly, we continue to help the community through pro-bono projects, supporting non-profits and charitable campaigns, and giving back where and when we can. Six years in business later, we continue to grow.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2010

The name gives you a slight window into what they do, but it’s like one click business listening. Stock prices change, people tweet about a company, new job openings are posted, people “fan&# or like Facebook pages, people update their LinkedIn profiles, and Jigsaw information gets updated, just to name a few examples.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 11, 2019

1) Small businesses support healthy towns and communities. In turn, these profits are generally spent or invested by said owners, back into the business owners’ local economies and communities. Or the fact that you are locally owned and know your customers by name. 3) Small businesses help spread the wealth. Or experience.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. So there would be no point in including “CRO” in the name of the position.”. The future seems to belong to those moving far past myopic CRO practices and into the strategic and universal realms. Image Source.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

When outsourcing, remember that lawyers are like VCs…it matters less who’s name is on the front door than who you work with. Go direct and network your way to the people you need to meet or find them directly in the local community. Again…another nobrainer unless you’re LegalZoom. in equity.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Even though it expands my territory in terms of business, other members of the community of businesspeople benefit and their families prosper as well. Entrepreneurship makes you agile, able to view the world more clearly and truly live it to its fullest potential. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes. Be very outcome-driven in the world we're going to. Let's go."

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The importance of a domain name. For Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin, finding a good domain name was a key part of his branding strategy. If you find the domain name you want is taken, Gabriel suggests turning to a domain marketplace that sells premium domains. Pick a name for your business.

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