Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

00:00:06] DEREK: Tell us about growing up in Northern California, tell us about what your dad did, what your mom did, and your family a little bit. [00:00:52] I grew up in Northern California. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Equity for Employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

This week I sat down with Chris Dixon, co-founder / CEO of Hunch and Partner at Founder Collective in the most recent installment of This Week in Venture Capital. 2. Chris then discussed his time as founder and CEO of SiteAdvisor, his first venture-backed startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout. Speak human!

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. Google also unveiled plans to double its NYC employee base to 14k.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. I don’t know 100% that this is true in all 50 states (if any lawyers read this please put notes in comments section) but I’m pretty darn sure that this is statuary law in California. That’s the difference between a founder and a non-founder.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. I try to listen wherever I go. Evangelos : Yes.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Every company I meet these days is grappling with this topic, from ESG to employee activism, to so much more.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. 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. San Francisco, California. Alexia Tsotsis. Thursday, August 9th, 2012. View Staff Page. Gift Guide.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Let’s have a look at what early stage founders can expect in terms of oxygen. Paying 0% in state income tax in Texas versus up to ~10% in California or ~6.5% You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? I am now talking with some affinity groups in these domains about co-organizing such pitch nights under the umbrella of HBS Angels.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic had an unexpected side effect – organizations that were reluctant to adopt home office and remote work had no other choice than asking their employees to work from home. ‘’ No doubt, remote workers need to have equal rights as in-office employees. Classifying Remote Workers.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

One of the company’s four employees, its software engineer, is not an American citizen. Howard Marks, the co-founder of game giant Activision, and the current co-chair at the Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine , was born in Santa Monica to European parents, grew up in France and came back to the states for college. .

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SiliconHills

APRIL 26, 2019

That’s the mission for Barry Mione, Co-Founder and President of SaveDay, a startup that provides 401K plans to small businesses. SaveDay, with four employees, is relocating from California to Austin. SaveDay wants to make sure everyone can easily and affordably save for retirement. Sputnik […].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Create a stream of translational entrepreneurship literature for practitioners (founders and VC’s.) . An adjunct is a non- tenure track , part-time employee. In research universities with entrepreneurship programs adjuncts are typically founders, VC’s or business executives. Expose faculty to current industry practices.

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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. It sounds interesting. How did it help you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Employees only. That evening, there will be a casual talk followed by a book signing at Town Hall Seattle (co-sponsored with Lean Startup Seattle). Co-sponsored by the Rock Center & the Harvard innovation lab. Ries, the guru behind the “Lean Startup” sensation, asks: Is your startup employee-centric and knowledge-obsessed?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

They are l ongtime sales leaders, practitioners, and professors of Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Also, they are investors, startup advisors, and co-founders of Agency18, a firm that helps mission-driven companies adopt their Unsold Mindset. John Janstch (27:40): Awesome.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

by Mike Smerklo, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Next Coast Ventures. I’m a huge believer in open communication with employees. I focused my company updates through a simple lens called “WIIFM” — which stands for “What’s In It For Me” — in order to make these updates personally relevant to my employees.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 23, 2022

Thanks to Mike Falahee, Marygrove Awnings Co. ! #7- I started my business because I was a terrible employee. Our founders were tired of being lied to and ripped off by overpriced, green-washed brands filled with unnecessary chemicals. I remember moving to California almost 10 years ago and was completely overwhelmed.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2020

Thanks to Indira Hodzic, Image Spa Encinitas, California ! #8- You have to constantly challenge yourself, your employees, and your business, whether it’s with new products, services, growth, or even a new marketing campaign. Thanks to Jennifer Q Williams, Saint Louis Closet Co. ! #9- That alone gives me drive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. I was in California at that point, where there were a handful of women, which to me was already really inspirational. Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. Let’s move to Floodgate now.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Feeling motivated by this realization, I connected with my brilliant Co-Founder Amy Yuan, who then built a massive database consisting of reviews, assessments, and scientific research related to skincare. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California. I don't think I'm cut out to being an employee.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., California.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. As an early employee I worked all hours of the day, never hesitated to jump on a “ red-eye ” plane to see a customer at the drop of a hat, and did what was necessary to make the company a winner.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

BlueVine, which is based in Redwood City, California, offers online working capital financing to small- and medium-sized businesses in many industries. Passion can inspire your employees. From a handful of employees, BlueVine has grown into a thriving, successful startup of more than a hundred people.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2013

By Ali Behnam, co-founder of Riviera Partners. Prior to co-founding Riviera Partners , Ali Behnam co-founded and acted as EVP, Operations & Services at PeopleMover. Ali is a graduate of the University of California at Irvine with a BA in Economics.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

But once in a while you do stumble upon a tale of an epic entrepreneurial struggle against all odds that revive your faith in the story of human resilience – “ Beyond the Pale: The Story of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co ” is one of those. He’s lived the near entirety of it.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 12, 2012

Keeffe III, CEO and co-founder of El Segundo, California-based iRise. Keeffe III, CEO and co-founder of El Segundo, California-based iRise. Prototypes can be run directly on the iPhone with iRise Mobile , a free app available in iTunes App Store.

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