Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. With Remitr I saw that opportunity to solve a problem in international B2B payments that was crying for a technology-enabled solution and decided to plunge into it with my co-founding team. I co-founded Sarah Nicole Skincare with the mission for it to be a tool in reclaiming confidence.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

[contact-form] Can any other region “catch up” to Silicon Valley, or be the next Silicon Valley? These towns are setting their expectations way too high while the real Silicon Valley giggles at the sight. Silicon – Uh, yeah, that word? It’s what started all this.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

You can watch the video of them presenting to the panel of judges featuring Cyan Banister from Founders Fund, Roelof Botha from Sequoia Capital, Jeff Clavier from Uncork Capital, Aileen Lee from Cowboy Ventures, and Matthew Panzarino from TechCrunch here: video (sorry, couldn’t find a way to embed the video). Immigrant Founders.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 16, 2016

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. David Comisford , founder and CEO of EduSourced. Omar Zenhom , co-founder of The $100 MBA. As a founder, Omar learned to leverage his strengths.

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 6, 2018

My good friend and cofounder, Jason Chicola, has bought several phenomenal books for me over the years, some because I clearly had a gap in my knowledge that he proactively sought to close, or because he just knew I would greatly enjoy David Halbertsham’s book on baseball, “ Summer of ‘49. Thank you Ed.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

And Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture is a huge help to startup founders. Gary Marcus , one of the country’s best-known cognitive psychologists, is a professor of psychology and neural science at NYU and founder of Geometric Intelligence. The stuff founders are made of. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Objective Logistics has created a game layer on top of very sophisticated scheduling algorithms which increase revenue, save time, and improve customer and staff satisfaction. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

billion acquisition of Nest , a Silicon Valley based company that sells “smart” thermostats and smoke detectors: - Build vs Buy: Even for a company with significant resources such as Google, it is difficult to innovate beyond core products. A few observations from the just announced Google $3.2

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

I was positioning the company as the second coming of the video games businesses at the intersection of “ Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley.” My co-founder, head of business development and I were in Japan raising money. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Are those my initials on the slide?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Silicon Valley gets significant attention for its role in producing tech startups that often go on to see massive, international success. Our platform’s ‘EQ’ is higher than mine”, as Ori Manor, Co-founder and CEO, once stated. As the name suggests, LawGeex is all about making legal practice easier.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

For the past couple of years Ive used a question that I once was asked in an interview, in which you have the candidate produce an algorithm for drawing a circle on a pixel grid. As they optimize their solution, they eventually wind up deriving Bresenhams circle algorithm. December 2, 2008 10:56 AM Ryan said.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. We’ve had I think an 11-year relationship.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. We’ve had I think an 11-year relationship.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In our third example, we contrasted Altavista and its search algorithm versus Google and its search algorithm PageRank. Put another way, the ideal financing partner is a financing cofounder. It’s more important to have the right person say yes than it is to have everyone say yes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. You can even read a cool paper one of our engineers wrote on this approach).

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www.fastcompany.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

How Algorithms Rule The World. In his new book, Aisle50 cofounder Christopher Steiner counts the (many, many) ways digits have come to dominate. "If Fast Company: You say that those who design algorithms are “the preeminent entrepreneurs of this generation.”. By Arnie Cooper | August 29, 2012. Christopher Steiner.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. It's one of those things that founders can do sometimes where other employees are afraid to do it.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. Because of convergence of technology, the sensors, the algorithms are the hardware of course and maps.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. Because of convergence of technology, the sensors, the algorithms are the hardware of course and maps.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. I know of at least five former employees that went on to become startup founders.

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