Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 7, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. It’s the best place to sharpen your skills and discover important trends, making you better at what you do and igniting your love of code. A seasoned investor who recently moved to Austin?

Technical Review 75

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 16, 2018

Due to his great ability for engaging communication, Mendlen was chosen as a speechwriter for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, composing landmark speeches featured in the media, including Bill Gates’ last speech and Ballmer’s first speech as CEO of Microsoft. The Wiki of People is a free people search engine with 500K profiles and 1.2M

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Today with every city, state and country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and what has not. Tech investing is risky.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Bartering technically means exchanging goods or services as a substitute for money. Apply for contests and business grants. Barter your services for their services.

Entrepreneur 283

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Bartering technically means exchanging goods or services as a substitute for money. Apply for contests and business grants. Barter your services for their services.

Product Development 177

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Bartering technically means exchanging goods or services as a substitute for money. Apply for contests and business grants. Barter your services for their services.

Intellectual Property 309

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. Solo entrepreneurs rarely find an investor. Focus on prior results, not titles. Business credentials and functional coverage.

Sweat Equity 152

Sweat Equity Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Software Review 152

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Arizona or a similar location.

Silicon Valley 149

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Bartering technically means exchanging goods or services as a substitute for money. Apply for contests and business grants. Barter your services for their services.

Intellectual Property 134

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest.

Technical Review 288

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Bartering technically means exchanging goods or services as a substitute for money. Apply for contests and business grants. Barter your services for their services.

Entrepreneur 120

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

Las Vegas 120

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2018

2017 Capital Factory Accelerator Diversity (out of 61 companies) We know that there is a systemic discrimination problem in the tech industry caused by hundreds of years of institutional racism. Diversity in tech and in business leads to greater chances of success. We organize Blacks in Tech and Women in Tech summits.

Technical Review 56

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

Technical Review 78

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Engineering Serendipity Making real connections starts with having the right people in the room. We start by doing our homework and researching all of the most interesting people and companies coming from all over the world and add in all of the local entrepreneurs and investors that we know. Serendipity is what SXSW is all about.

Silicon Valley 50

Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Summer is always the time when large numbers of new participants in the tech ecosystem arrive and start to get their bearings. It’s also surprisingly difficult for students to get plugged-in to everything that is happening in the local tech ecosystem. Greenhorn Connect: Excellent collection of BOS tech events and resources.

Boston 71

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer.

CTO Hire 73

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

It’s also surprisingly difficult for students to get plugged-in to everything that is happening in the local tech ecosystem. Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. PopSignal - My favorite regular tech gathering. Invite only.

Boston 56

Boston Technical Review Community CTO Hire 56

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). One of them used to be a lead developer at [insert hot consumer tech company here]. In startup time, that feels like forever.

Burn Rate 152

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Despite all these advantages, it seems that the foreign investors are still reluctant to invest in seed and early stage projects.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 24, 2013

5 Easy Tech Tweaks That Will Significantly Improve Your Business | Forbes – [link]. Key Factors to Effective Competitive Analysis as a Small Business | Search Engine Watch – [link]. The Why and How Of Updating Your Angel Investors – [link]. Small Business and Social Marketing: Time for an Audit?

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Angel-Backed Companies More Likely to Succeed, Says Harvard Study – [link]. Angel investors becoming more active in the Valley – [link]. The Most Influential Women in Technology – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in. Also on AOL Tech.

Early Stage 70

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 3, 2013

It may be the one site that best represents all players in the tech startup universe – from glamorous poster-child to hopeless wanna-be. Just as important, taken as a whole, the list represents a powerful cross-section of today’s best technology startups. DuckDuckGo – A search engine with lots of extra goodies.

Software Review 60

Software Review San Francisco Startup Technical Review 60

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. So at any point, if you are trying to raise money, and you are hearing from investors that you are too early and have too little validation, it may be a good thing. We will work on that with her. Trendy Loot.

Valuation 119

Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

Scalable Startup

MARCH 7, 2012

Investor groups are cutting out the management, bus dev, sales, and marketing professionals, trying to get raw, young engineering teams that have never negotiated a term sheet to give away their IP rights and equity for next to nothing. The signal to noise ratio continues to degrade, but it’s actually moving into the next phase.

Software Review 26

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Due Diligence 26

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

this post is all about the resilience required to keep going as an entrepreneur, not as an angel investor. HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. voice of their customers and talk them off the ledge that negative reviews wouldn’t tank their overall sales. But I digress?—?this It is worth $3.4

B2C 51

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea.

Software Review 74

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Has anyone in the engineering team actually shipped a product? I worry about everything: money, sales, engineering, support, and recruiting. 2 likes ohno 460 days ago If any of these 10 questions are new to you, you will probably be losing every penny of your “angel investment&#. You may think I’m kidding.

Software Review 68

Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Every day I hear from entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists about an exciting new movement called “the consumerization of the enterprise.” 20 years ago, the technology adoption curve generally conformed to the following order: Government —specifically Defense and Intelligence organizations.

Customer 78

Customer Technical Review Silicon Valley Internet 78

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Neither Pablo or I have a technical background and therefore needed someone to build our product. Our application tool will be free and will immediately compete with Peterson’s, Kaplan, Princeton Review, and other smaller players. All they do are tech startups and they know their stuff. We are implementing the innovative web 2.0

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Transformify

JULY 25, 2019

Our guest today is Brian Reaves, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Dell Technologies , responsible for Dell Technologies’ global diversity and inclusion initiatives. Could you please share the best D&I practices of Dell Technologies? That’s how we approach diversity & inclusion at Dell Technologies.

Technical Review 61

Technical Review Programming Software Review Hiring 61

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Published on: July 13, 2011 Posted By Angie Tags: Elizabeth Knopf , Finding A Co-Founder , FounderDating , Sorced , Technical Co-Founder , Tips & Tricks. My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. Thus, I embarked on the journey to find a technical co-founder.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. “Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. Have an account? Kayserian believes they will.

Equity 74

Equity Engineer Technical Review Social Media 74