Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I should note that my friend Brad Feld has written a new book on the subject that I would recommend if you want the bible on the topic. When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Corey is also the author of ‘Anyone, Not Everyone,’ a comprehensive guide for agency founders looking to move beyond founder-led sales. He is currently on a mission to empower 1,000 agencies to become vertical-market specialists, leveraging his extensive experience and insights.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 29, 2013

It’s not our first rodeo, as we’d graduated from [name of an unrelated accelerator] but we wanted and needed some support around our vertical. We paused because it was an inaugural cohort but being that it was vertical-specific and the managing director worked for a highly lauded startup in our vertical, we decided to go for it. ([a

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. grow into international markets, other industry verticals, and other product lines). My co-founders and I wanted a name that would reflect the incredible ambition of our mission: “to build the most meaningful, collaborative, and abundant data resource in the world”.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). He would go on to be a co-founder of two mechanical engineering software companies.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Also, they are investors, startup advisors, and co-founders of Agency18, a firm that helps mission-driven companies adopt their Unsold Mindset. They are the bestselling co-authors of The Unsold Mindset: redefining what it means to sell. And it typically, a title has, uh, for most books, has something that needs to be defined.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. 9- A merger of two companies.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Prior to joining Syndio, Colacurcio co-founded Smartsheet.com , a work collaboration tool for companies of all sizes. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Meet Gu Jiawei is the CEO of Ling Technology, the brain behind a truly innovative approach helping children find their passion for reading real books, far away from tablet and TV screens. The mission of Ling Technology’s founders was to create a “Ling” world with man and robot symbiosis. How did you come up with your business name?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. In this case, they could build and service it but they needed a third co-founder to sell it.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Founder Nathan Barry launched in 2013 to help creators sell their books and courses but failed to meet revenue goals and eventually stalled.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Matt Briel In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Matt Briel. 5:12] Why would someone want to self-publish a book? [7:30] 11:42] What does it take to produce a book? [18:49]

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Based in Amsterdam, Skilllab is co-founded by Azza El Hayek and Ulrich Scharf. Skilllab’s co-founders won the Google AI Impact Challenge in 2019. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Maria Tanjala and Irina Albita , the co-founders of FilmChain. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 16, 2020 Maria Tanjala , co-founder of FilmChain , is passionate about tech solutions that bring transparency and automation to creative industries. If you weren’t working for FilmChain, what would you be doing? film and tech?—?and

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Stine Mølgaard Sørensen, co-founder and COO for Radiobiotics, based in Copenhagen. Sørensen, who is also a co-author of F**k It, Ship It , shared some thoughts about life in Denmark and her startup experience. Writing more books and investing in other startups. What is your top goal for Radiobotics in 2020?

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

Two aspects of the original vision that deeply depend on the kind of general partners that we hire are: We will help develop founders into CEOs. Many VCs excel at picking companies, evaluating CEOs and bringing in professional CEOs, but generally do very little to help a promising founder develop into a CEO. A Little Help.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. Some of the other founders had sold minicomputers to scientists and engineers, but no one knew or understood the unique class of applications and customers of supercomputers. A few days later Gordon became a founder.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” 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

MARCH 3, 2020

Tony Martens , Co-Founder at Plantible Foods , moved his company to San Diego from the Netherlands The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 Plantible Foods wants to contribute to a more sustainable and responsible future while meeting the food needs of a hungry planet. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Quicc co-founders Jason Toevs and Mike Mathia. One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Quicc Co-Founder and CEO Mike Mathia will pitch his company in the category of Entertainment & Content Technology before a live audience and a panel of expert judges (3:30 to 4:30 pm Sunday, March 15).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Ed Yu , CEO and co-founder of StrongSalt The Forrest Four-Cast: February 3, 2020 Is it possible for companies to protect their customers with data privacy that complies with regulations and is easy for developers to use? StrongSalt Co-Founder and CEO Ed Yu says yes it is. “Encryption sucks and we fix that.”?—?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Flugauto Co-Founders (left to right): Frank Noppel , CEO, Gerrit Becker , CCO, and Alexander Xydas , COO. B2B customers simply book on their platform and sit back until the goods are delivered. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

If you’ve tried to slog your way through my book on Customer Development you know that I’m insistent that the founders need to be the ones getting outside the building (physically or virtually) to validate all the initial hypotheses of the business model and product. Someone correct me if they have a better memory.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The brainchild of 20-year-old CEO and Co-Founder Michael Ioffe , Arist builds text message courses consisting of a series of 1,200 character texts sent to the user daily over five to 30 days. Lately, I’ve been a big fan of Patrick Collison (co-founder of Stripe). why not teach using text messages??—?and

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The brainchild of 20-year-old CEO and Co-Founder Michael Ioffe , Arist builds text message courses consisting of a series of 1,200 character texts sent to the user daily over five to 30 days. Lately, I’ve been a big fan of Patrick Collison (co-founder of Stripe). why not teach using text messages??—?and

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Praxis CEO and Co-Founder Elise Smith is passionate about leveraging innovation and disruptive technologies to increase access and opportunity in the pursuit of equity. 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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Sarah Tuneberg, co-founder and CEO, answered some questions about the company. We have developed a product that first meets the needs of public safety agencies and organizations, but we have seen a ton of interest from corporations across multiple verticals?—?hospitality, Do you see Geospiza implemented on a larger scale?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

How Winding Tree works to improve travel bookings. Winding Tree Co-Founders: CEO Maksim Izmaylov (left) and COO Pedro Anderson (right). Pedro Anderson , Winding Tree Founder and COO, how running a startup is like parenting, the words he lives by, and why humility is overrated.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Co-founded by Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) and Zai Ortiz (Hollywood creative director behind J.A.R.V.I.S. Zai Ortiz , co-founder and President of Virsix Games , has a relentless fascination with the merging of cinema, gaming and new technology, and strives to answer the question: “what does gaming look like in 10 years?”

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Neelam Dwivedi , co-founder of NeelAgil Technologies Private Ltd., My team consists of Co-Founder Dr. Arunagirinathan M. I loved the books “ The Kite Runner ” by Khaled Hosseini and “ 2 States: The Story of My Marriage ” by Chetan Bhagat. work at IIT Bombay. Consistency, perseverance and a never-give-up attitude.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The software product grew from tools and processes developed by Pattern r+d, a sustainability consulting firm run by Cove.tool co-founders Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson (both building scientists and architects). If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Unlike most people, many entrepreneurs are an open book, willing to share everything they know and have done with anyone willing to listen. Danny Wong is the co-founder of Blank Label Group and runs the e-commerce startups Blank Label , Thread Tradition and RE:custom. Traction Verticals. Noah Kagan. Dharmesh Shah.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

I´m reading (and enjoying a lot) your book “the 4 steps…&#. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. demand creation strategy).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

André Flórido , Betmarkets’ Co-Founder & COO, answered questions about his company, shared some book recommendations, and explained why he thinks obedience is overrated. 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

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

André Flórido , Betmarkets’ Co-Founder & COO of Betmarkets, answered questions about his company, shared some book recommendations and explained why he thinks obedience is overrated. 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

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. With 10 slides, we convinced Steve Case, the founder of AOL, to invest $100,000 in Sisu Global.

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