thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I looked at my inbox this morning, I had emails from six organizations I have advised/worked with over the past couple of years (including Astia and Techstars ) announcing their partnership with the White House’s Startup America initiative. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 44:12) Show-related links Code for America United States Digital Service 18F U.S. Up until January 31, I was running the nonprofit that I founded called Code for America, for ten years. Digital Response.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

My Mama, the founder of Yuca’s Hut in Los Feliz, CA, didn’t allow a lack of college degrees or a business plan to deter her from launching her dream. Larry Page, Google co-founder.I I am co founder of GreenPal which has been described as Uber for lawn care. Image Credit: Dora Herrera. — Bryan Eisenberg.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas. It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press. In Rio we stayed with the founders of Resolveai, an Uber clone. Paul Bragiel, founder of I/O Ventures launched the Savannah Fund to invest in East african startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees. As I outline in my new book, The Innovation Blind Spot , meritocracy in America today is a myth. First, we need to intentionally recruit a different and broader pipeline of founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. Scott Lahman , Zack Norman & Austin Murray were the three co-founders of JAMDAT, the most successful mobile 1.0 And normally the rest of the team are young & inexperienced because that’s all the startup could afford to bring on.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete. Image Credit: Lori Cheek.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2015

We’re over-fed, under-nourished, over-medicated, under-rested, and under-satisfied. By disproportionately incenting, bonusing and promoting 2 nd Gear activities, Corporate America is multiplying the problem… as well as resultant family and health issues and budget-breaking costs. That’s what’s happening to most of us.

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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. Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. They are nerds. Good Post.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 26, 2017

68% of potential startup founders worry about funding their business ideas. Crowdfunding, one of the fastest growing funding resources for small businesses in America, may be worth your consideration. times the size of the global venture capital industry today. Stephen Key, co-founder of InventRight and Inc.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 22, 2019

They tell us how much or little office catering they want to plan and order—and we do the rest. We link innovative, modern offices looking to feed their company office meals with the best, owner-operated restaurants in cities across North America. We have the power to become the Airbnb of office catering. Be an expert.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I gained nearly 20 pounds during those two years, in part because of the growing frustration I felt when I would leave yet another meeting with VCs who I felt didn’t genuinely listen to, understand, or value my experience as a black founder and CEO. Those were teachers, accountants, consultants, entrepreneurs, and community leaders.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. raked in five-figure daily signups after announcing its upcoming launch, according to the site’s founders. Leave the full website for those who are curious to dig into the rest. It got 10% conversion,” Carrella says.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

America is worse than it was before and, probably, worse in a semi-permanent way. There is a good (though far from great) story to be told about the global fight against white collar crime, money laundering, and other financial bad behavior. Adam, respond to this question with something encouraging! So, I am deeply, deeply upset.

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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. And frankly, I think it’s such a unique strength of America for the past decades, if not a century.

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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. And frankly, I think it’s such a unique strength of America for the past decades, if not a century.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Coming to America. “I Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs. government commercializes science. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

In a forthcoming article Ive written advocating for the Startup Visa , I wrote this: Like other industries – from publishing to automobiles – entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization. Teaching at Berkeley (and beyond).

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2018

The Brandless founders recognized that even a $3 price tag isn’t affordable for everyone, and so they built a social mission directly into their core business model. They built a partnership with Feeding America, and for every order placed, Brandless provides a meal for people in need.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Save the rest for later. No need to even tell people about the rest unless theyre really really interested. If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” Then carry on with the rest. Call this Version 1.0.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

Entrepreneurs such as Figma CEO Dylan Field, fellow investors including Moxxie Ventures founder and general partner Katie Stanton, and Coatue Management partner Jamie McGurk pitched questions to the duo. To guide the conversation, Reid and Harry solicited questions from Twitter ahead of the recording. You can listen to the podcast here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Jeremy Howard has had tremendous impact on the world of AI entrepreneurship. Jeremy Howard : Sure.

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