Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

She is passionate about issues surrounding equal pay, employee wellness, and equity at work. Prior to joining Syndio, Colacurcio co-founded Smartsheet.com , a work collaboration tool for companies of all sizes. To help companies resolve pay equity and the pay gap. Pay equity addresses equal pay for equal work.

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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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2011

Online platforms that connect startups and entrepreneurs are common, but one that connects private equity professionals? But DealMarket ( www.dealmarket.com ), launched in March this year, looks set to be the way that private equity and investment types will work in the future. “It is based on our own extensive experience. .

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Coca-Cola has brand equity that makes people gravitate towards it. In this article, you’ll understand what brand equity is and how to build it so your audience reaches for your product, service, or solution over the rest. Why brand equity matters now more than ever. Brand equity. It’s the safer bet. Take Shopify.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. This is hosted by NFX. I welcome suggestions.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

While private equity has a history in the U.S. that dates back over a century , the “boom or bust” period of the 1980s to early 1990s is considered the period that marks the rise in private equity and venture capital funding as we know it today. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2019

While this isn’t Capital Factory’s first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) event or initiative, this was the first of its kind in the DFW area and definitely not the last. He advised the audience, “What matters is you— the real, sincere and persistent you.” He also gave us some compelling tools for what you need as an entrepreneur.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In a statement, co-founder and CEO Zeev Farbman said that “Through all of our diverse creativity apps, we are planning to continue to pioneer industry-first technology and provide all users with the tools and capabilities they need to express themselves and achieve their creative goals.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Those who are accepted will receive an investment of $50,000 in return for some equity in their companies and intensive mentoring at its downtown offices, as we wrote about last year here. What makes these ventures interesting to me is how focused they are on their particular audiences of either potential users or customers.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

While 2011 is only eight years ago, it’s a lifetime in the world of finance, private equity, venture capital, and business. The first is from David Rubenstein (Carlyle Group co-founder – one of Blackstone’s competitors) in 2006. It was indeed private equity’s moment.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

There’s a tremendous wealth of insight in his answers and the way he engaged the Reddit audience. How do I find good technical co-founders? How Much Equity Do Your Employees Deserve? Phenomenal Reddit AMA … I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. 10 adjustments to make when working for a Big Co. Convertible Debt: really Bridge Loans and Equity Replacement Debt – [link]. Your Brand is What You Do – [link].

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute. That's a great point, but also one that I think a lot of founders overestimate.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. I was fortunate enough to speak with co-founder Allyson Cote, and hear the Maternova story, as well as some of its exciting plans for the future. “It took an enormous investment of sweat equity on both our parts,” Allyson admits. We can do better.

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David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most founders who are raising capital look first to traditional equity VCs. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. But should they?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Quicc co-founders Jason Toevs and Mike Mathia. The Forrest Four-Cast: January 31, 2020 Make video captioning easier and better in a world where audiences now watch extensively without sound. That’s the mission of Quicc , launched in 2019, in Wichita, Kansas. Tell us about something you love.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Very cool concept and I want to thank the founder Adil Mohammed for inviting me to take part in it. Test it on five people that would be your target audience – do they get it right away? I’ve learned this first hand from Mark Gerson, the founder of Gerson Lehrman Group. Articulate your idea. Be a salesman.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2014

By Elton Rivas, co-founder of KYN. Let’s break this down, typically, a startup’s accelerator will provide entrepreneurs with mentoring, guidance and a small amount of funding in return for a small equity stake in the company. Starting a company a few years ago was a lonely enterprise. After all, people invest in people.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

See the Praxis pitch in the category of Augmented & Virtual Reality Technology , 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. My co-founders and I all met at Stanford so Palo Alto is really where it all began. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Consider Bob Parsons , the founder of GoDaddy Hosting. Who is your target audience ? Interview your target audience to see if they actually have the pain point, which you are about to solve. Conduct surveys to reach hundreds and thousands of target audience and analyze the result. Look for a co-founder.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2018

Meyers and Kate Pope Hodel, co-authors of “ Beyond Collisions: How to Build Your Entrepreneurial Infrastructure “ How does a community find funding to support building and encouraging an entrepreneurial infrastructure? by Maria E. The connections and collaborations don’t happen by chance. Try Federal Grants.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2018

by Harold Hardaway and Shannon Hernandez, Co-Founders of Cardigan Communications Group. Though most founders would agree culture is important in an organization’s success, it often takes a back seat to product development and generating a profit in the early stages of an organization’s life. Recognition & Rewards.

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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. . To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

(This post, written by my co-founder Cathy Hawley, also appeared on Bolster.com ). Bolster is helping bring these two audiences together in a marketplace that matches on-demand executives with companies who need their services the most. This type of consulting isn’t new, and it’s similar to what large consulting firms offer.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2016

And it creates endless organizational waste and misalignment when the CEO / investor / board member / leader isn’t clear about what she is saying and who her audience is. Between 1996 and 2002 I was co-chairman of Interliant, a company I co-founded with three other people. Your wall is dingy is one of them.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2015

It was August 2013 when my co-founder at SportsManias called to tell me that we had raised $1 million in angel funding. Before I make a case for the mother-son duo, let me be honest: I was not the most willing co-founder, initially. How many other startup co-founders can claim to have that amount of team practice?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

asks Bruna Martinuzzi, president and founder of Clarion Enterprises. You also need to understand your audience. Describe and/or quantify the problem to help your audience understand that a change needs to happen. The members of your audience are investing in you and your team as much as they are in your company.

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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. 10:03] Would you say that a lack of leadership training is a blindspot for most founders? [12:31] Founders are never one-time founders.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

(This post, written by my co-founder Cathy Hawley, also appeared on Bolster.com ). Bolster is helping bring these two audiences together in a marketplace that matches on-demand executives with companies who need their services the most. This type of consulting isn’t new, and it’s similar to what large consulting firms offer.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

This led me to realize there were two huge gaping holes in the industry, not just in terms of the way the industry served its customers – although undoubtedly this was a problem – but more importantly, inefficiencies and wastage that were always going to stop the private jet industry being accepted by a wider audience. Image Credit: Nancy D.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 24, 2017

You never know—you may just get a potential investor out of it like Michael Litt , co-founder of Vidyard. You will also need to gather direct data from your target audience. Many cities have innovation labs or mentoring programs that can help you get your idea off the ground.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Before StartEngine, Howard co-founded Activision and founded Acclaim Games. . Weaknesses inside the founder team kill startups. The truth is, sometimes you need to replace your co-founders and start over. Usually it’s because the founders were doing exactly what they needed to do to raise money. Guess what?

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. If I were in Mike’s shoes, I would start by talking to people in the Philadelphia Startup community. I would imagine that there is something similar in Philadelphia.

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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. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything!

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I spent $20k on their MVP.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 16, 2017

A whole category of startup problems (especially around cofounders, funding, dealflow, and skills) work the same way[1]. For cofounders it’s to forget about haggling equity terms and instead build a mutually respectful relationship with skilled people over several years.

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