David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

“How is an early-stage founder expected to interpret the Give First philosophy?”. That’s the polite way of rewording a question Keith Coleman, Founder of Fraudmarc (Techstars Atlanta 2017), posed to Brad Feld and me in an email a little while back. It made for a great conversation and I invite you to listen to the full episode.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Some of those tidbits have changed careers and made companies viable; one never knows what effect a different and more experienced viewpoint will have on an impressionable founder. If you’re the founder and/or CEO, my recommendation is that you never admit you’re tired. That’s not a bad model to follow. Energy is infectious.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

We’re bringing a select group of Texas startups to the East Coast for curated, 1-on-1 investor meetings in Atlanta, Boston and New York. Are you a venture investor in Atlanta, Boston or New York? Capital Factory is launching our 2019 TEXAS@USA East Coast Roadshow as part of our Texas Startup Manifesto.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” Mailchimp looks like it’s going to be a huge exit down in Atlanta, but that might turn out to be a one-off. Startup founders always need help.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Capital Factory is so excited to welcome the OHUB community to Austin during SXSW,” said Joshua Baer, founder & CEO. 4:00 PM JW Marriott, Ballroom A & B, 110 E 2nd St Access: SXSW Badge Required Finding & Backing Venture Back-able Black Founders 11:00 AM?—?12:00

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. After the games are played and the episodes released, reality constrains conversation.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 6, 2018

The Disruptor Studio has quickly become my favorite Atlanta event. It’s an intimate conversation between Alex Gonzalez (founder) and a guest that is known for massive disruption in their industry. All were spectacular conversations. His fourth guest is someone that I admire tremendously, Kat Cole !

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Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2017

There is no set of advisors for whom a founder/management team should care more about their independence than company counsel. There’s something noble in that, but not when it comes at the expense of founders — who are putting their entire livelihoods on the line — getting s**t service. See: “ How to avoid ‘captive’ company counsel.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. After the games are played and the episodes released, reality constrains conversation.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2021

The initial vision was to templetize and scale building conversion optimized websites. Two years after the start we had evolved into a pure conversion optimization agency, and later it would become one of the world’s leading CRO agencies. We think CRO agencies that focus solely on conversion rate are broken.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2021

Working with founders. You might think I’m referring to the time spent with a founder before deciding to make an investment in their startup, and certainly, there are moments where an in-person conversation can be the difference between Deal or No Deal. My 2022 will hopefully include a return to events like these.

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David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures. From my first conversations with Adam, he said that he was planning to bring in a business-focused CEO. This showed an unusual level of humility and introspection for a founder. acquired by Symantec).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Read interview Stroly , Kyoto, Japan Tankee , Austin, TX Alternates: Ibble , Austin, TX Immersive Systems , Los Angeles, CA VIDGO , Atlanta, GA Health and Wearable 5 pm Sunday, March 10 Finalists: Extend , San Francisco, CA k egg , San Francisco, CA?—? Read interview SkyWeaver , Toronto, Canada?—? Read interview Pathware , Ann Arbor, MI?—?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Instead the winners are Dallas, Atlanta and Waco. As someone close to the smart cities movement, Editor of Smart Cities Connect , Founder of Digi.City , and a member of local smart cities consortium, Austin CityUP , I’m a bit closer to the ground on this issue. But our fair city didn’t make the list of locations that will get 5G first.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 28, 2021

Mitali Chakraborty – CEO and founder of Youth Jobs Connect ( podcast ). Darryl Cobbin – Founder of Brand Positioning Doctors + The A Pledge ( podcast ). Elaine Dinos – Founder of Kindred Lane ( podcast ). Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon – Founder and CEO of Atlanta Village Market ( podcast ).

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 28, 2021

Mitali Chakraborty – CEO and founder of Youth Jobs Connect ( podcast ). Darryl Cobbin – Founder of Brand Positioning Doctors + The A Pledge ( podcast ). Elaine Dinos – Founder of Kindred Lane ( podcast ). Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon – Founder and CEO of Atlanta Village Market ( podcast ).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

SXSW Pitch: The 50 Finalists for 2020 was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Many of you have probably read by now that I am returning from Austin to my roots in Atlanta. Even in the early Peachtree Software days, the decision to build our company in Atlanta was not made without some careful consideration. Oddly enough, our one primary competitor was in Austin, even more out of the way at the time.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 7, 2014

The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool; the third with Mark Feinberg , CEO of Uruut; and the fourth with Simms Jenkins , BrightWave Marketing. . Midtown/Tech Square and Atlanta Tech Village are obviously both here to stay. I love that we build real companies.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Background Reading: Should Non-SV Founders use SAFEs in Seed Rounds? the majority of the content available online for founders to educate themselves comes from Silicon Valley. Purely from the perspective of founders, it is a fantastic deal. TL;DR : Still not seeing a ton of SAFE adoption, albeit a slight uptick.

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 24, 2021

For our Atlanta friends, we just took our family to ice skate at Atlantic Station and to see the lights at the Horse Mansion (yeah, I’d never heard of it before either). With this email, I’m officially launching the company, and I’m beyond excited to announce our first non-Hilimire author: The Weaponry Founder and CEO, Adam Albrecht !

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. Posted by: Atlanta Search Engine Optimization | April 16, 2008 at 07:38 AM. what kind of stock you are getting. where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack.

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Hippoland

MARCH 2, 2018

:( C) Though we did no investments in TO/Waterloo, Atlanta, Boston, and really anywhere in the midwest in 2017, we have done a TON of investments in these locations in the past and will likely look heavily there in 2018. 2) Almost half of our companies have at least one female founder. In most cases, she is the CEO.

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Hippoland

MARCH 2, 2018

:( C) Though we did no investments in TO/Waterloo, Atlanta, Boston, and really anywhere in the midwest in 2017, we have done a TON of investments in these locations in the past and will likely look heavily there in 2018. 2) Almost half of our companies have at least one female founder. In most cases, she is the CEO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Most importantly, if you know a high-quality entrepreneur who you think would add to the conversation, would you be willing to try and convince them to attend? Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog? Twitter about it or post it to a social media site?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another is Interlock Ventures , launched in 2016 by Jason Story (a founder of Austin’s Mutual Mobile ) and veteran Dallas VC, Jeff Williams. Nor, would they continue to be available, if those companies’ founders hadn’t re-invested in new generations of startups and encouraged civic and industry leaders to do the same, today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

How to Balance AI Magic with Human Expertise written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jeff Coyle, the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for MarketMuse. This is predicting this conversation, right?

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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. Today, startup founders focus on the fundamental challenges of our time with energy, life sciences and industrial technologies dominating Houston’s tech scene. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

"I really like that resilience word," Robert Rhinehart told me in our conversation about his new organization, The Corona Initiative. You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. In addition, a complete transcript of our conversation follows the show resources below.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I know it’s an uncomfortable contradiction because every time I talk to Andy Baio about it, the conversation starts with, oh, that name. I remember specifically one of the founders that we’d backed, when we kind of shook hands on our first investment said they were never going to raise anymore money and keep the team close and small.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

In the last batch of startups we funded, we had several founders who said theyd thought of applying before, but werent sure and got jobs instead. This is a problem for founders, because it makes raising money take longer and cost more in legal fees. Founders and investors have different attitudes to risk.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google , or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, the transcript of my conversation with Sydney, Ryan and Frank is below. We could do a whole conversation just about the spiritual implications of it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 31, 2019

John Jantsch: Today’s episode is brought to you by Break Through The Noise , the new book by Tim Staples, Co-Founder and CEO of Shareability. ” Because honestly, as a human being, with some level of empathy, he had just earned the right to have the conversation. Back to Podcast. Transcript. It’s just what they say.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name. After a few conversations, she offered up an alternative name for the company, “Find Your Influence.” The brand name has stood out and acted as an earworm of sorts during the sales conversion process.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Are we teaching founders more than they need to know? I bring this up because I believe we are often trying to teach founders how to do everything in their startups from scratch. Startup founders had better be in much more of a hurry than that. I effectively became, shall we say, the job superintendent for the founder.

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