Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

According to the most recent report from the Kauffman Foundation , the highest rate of entrepreneurship in America shifted a few years ago to the Boomer age group, compared to Gen-X (1965 to1980) and Gen-Y (1981 to 1995). Supportive co-founder and executive positions. Member of the Advisory Board. Manage customer service.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

4/ Streaming equity – venture funds + employee stock becomes more liquid. This is already happening, but there will be an explosion of rolling funds, operator angels, and micro investors who want to co-invest in friends, companies, and cohorts they are a part of. Maybe the founders are the micro VCs we have been waiting for?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

On October 15, Capital Factory hosted the Latinx in Tech Summit, where over 100 founders, investors, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the city gathered together for an inspiring and insightful afternoon. Despite not having formal coding skills or startup experience, Pamela became a founder by using Facebook as her platform.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was visiting as part of Terrapinn Private Equity World, a leading private equity conference for the Latin American technology community. In addition, Miami is already sometimes called the capital of Latin America, and logically it may soon be viewed as the capital of LatAm tech as well.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a prior life, I served as a consultant to Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Carl Icahn’s organization, and some other very large private equity investors. I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a prior life, I served as a consultant to Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Carl Icahn’s organization, and some other very large private equity investors. I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The Stern Private Equity Club will host its 8 th Annual Stern Private Equity Conference on Friday, March 1 st , 2013. Keynote Speakers are Andrea Bonomi (Chairman of Investindustrial), Mark Dzialga (Managing Director and Chairman of the Investment Committee at General Atlantic) & me.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

He knows that quality of startup hiring is linked to the tone the founder sets for the company. Sometimes you get one opportunity to build something ubiquitous in the way that Lemon Perfect can be, probably even beyond America. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs believed that hiring employees was his most important role at Apple.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

And that’s how I started my private equity business where I acquire both online and offline assets such as lead generation websites and physical real estate. The day after receiving my degree, I was in my car driving across North America to start a job at a promising technology startup. Thanks to Daniel Javor, Next Luxury ! #4-

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. Size of Opportunity - market size, revenue or usage, exit outcome and their ability to get equity early are all important. HuffPosts QuickRead. HuffPosts QuickRead.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. One founder companies can work, against the odds (hello, Mark Zuckerberg).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. The Innovation Center at Houston’s TMC (TMCx), co-located with Johnson and Johnson’s J-Labs, and the Center for Medical Device Innovation, drive medical innovation. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

We are a community that is always in beta, that’s how you get things done,” says Kalu Yala’s founder Jimmy Stice. Tactivate founder Jesse Levin brought guests on private helicopter rides on the last day of the event.). All investors in Kalu Yalu must also be homeowners in the Founder’s Village, something Stice calls “Citizen Equity.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

It takes on many of the lessons MBA programs and Corporate America have been teaching about business for the past 50+ years and questions whether lessons from Apple might be more applicable in thinking about the future. And that leads me to today’s post.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2017

This due to equity ownership interest often requiring an exchange for the early stage funding provided by the investor. It is important to note that passion, integrity, and commitment do not represent the full range of abilities an angel investor seeks in any startup founder. Credible Experience.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. Robert Dahl.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Such a model is particularly helpful for those founders looking for a co-founder or key employee. Since he graduated, he’s now Founder and CEO of a Latin America-focused based startup, Participa.me (“I participate”). To the best of my knowledge, there are no direct competitors in Mexico or Latin America.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2016

The major misconceptions are that the incubator will help you form your founding team, will guarantee funding for the company and that they will directly invest in your company and possibly take a lot of equity away from the founders. Xiao Wang is the general manager and chief fire starter at InnoSpring Silicon Valley.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2013

In the startup world, you hear the title “co-founder” a lot more than “founder.” Even when someone says the latter, oftentimes you come to find out the person is forgetting to mention the “co” part, because in actuality, there are others involved. In 2009 I co-founded an online venture with two other partners.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2024

” Martin Gonzalez is the creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, a global research program that decodes the factors that enable startup founders to succeed. Martin is a frequent lecturer at Stanford, Wharton and INSEAD, and has advised leaders across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. Ultimately.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. These days revenue is the best source of capital. That’s cool.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. eBay, DoubleClick, Webex, Real Networks, Exodus, Equinix, amongst many other pioneering companies, as well as covering companies like America Online and Netscape.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

in equity & loans which was ultimately worth >170x ($355M) when DEC went public about a decade later. Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre [Silicon Valley] –> Itself an outgrowth of the venture investing arm of the original Bank of America (based in SF), Merrill Pickard backed many startups that ultimately went public.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. Startup America , an Obama administration initiative headed up by Steve Case. -

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. It’s a very cool vibe at Founder’s Coop. That’s one model.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

Dallas and Frisco We started the morning off at Old Parkland in Uptown Dallas, which is “the Capital Factory of private equity”?—?a Then we headed to Capital Factory in Uptown Dallas to hear from Mance Harmon, the CEO and co-founder of Hedera Hashgraph. [link]  —  @TexasManifesto Day 1?—?Dallas ExxonMobil.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Founder.org founder Michael Baum. In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. Nobody wanted equity in startup. The post Splunk Founder Now Launches Entrepreneurs, Not Startups appeared first on ReadWrite. Were you insane?

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

The best articulation of it comes from Basil Peters, a serial technology entrepreneur, co-Founder of Nexus Engineering, former Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, and Managing Partner at 3 venture capital funds – Fundamental Technologies I and II and the BC Advantage Funds. The next big technology investment idea is the “Early Exit.”

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Jason: For example, like in America, small business is up to 150. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It has close to 2,000 entrepreneurs and gives you the tools to pitch to investors, find co-founders, and launch your product to the press and more. It is more of a social networking for raising equity. Similar to Startup Weekend, this is for growing as an entrepreneur. Startup Funding'

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Corporate incentives: Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 developed a broad-based equity incentive compensation program known as stock options. Over time, the concept of broad-based equity ownership has become characteristic of most tech companies and embedded in Silicon Valley startup culture very early on. Venture capital.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. If you think I’ve missed any, please contact me. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

Chairman Alan Todd was formerly Founder and CEO of KnowledgePlanet, the largest cloud-based learning management system, which was acquired by a private equity consortium; and Founder and CEO of KnowledgeSoft, the largest IT training company in the mid-Atlantic region, which was acquired by Technicsource. and Goldman Sachs.

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