YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2011

In this exclusive Caplinked interview with Peter Thiel – co-founder of PayPal and managing partner of Founders Fund – discusses why he invested in Facebook, the differences between Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and why he would not start PayPal today knowing what he now knows.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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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. Evangelos : Yes.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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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. The partners are currently in the middle of successfully raising their second fund. Alexia Tsotsis.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

I lived in Düsseldorf for some time, and there I came up with the company name idea: “one (idea) for one (client)”, “each custom product for each client”, and “one and only solution for each business partner. It’s about my life and how I managed my finances , and now I want to help other people that happen to be in the same shoes.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

See Supporting New Managers and What Would You Do to Support New Managers? Charles Edge :: Partner, 318 Author :: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book April 16, 2007 1:37 AM Shashank said. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc.

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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. As the agency work poured in, I also tried to manage everything on the home front. From this, Urtasker was born.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. 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.

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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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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

He struck up his friendship with Jobs as the result of an introduction by a mutual friend who had met Jobs at their California high school. However, so long as you manage your time and juggle your goals effectively, you can realize the benefits of starting a business in this kind of environment. These include: 1.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN AMOS SCHWARTZFARB REVEALS DETAILS ON SEPT. Austin-based author, tech investor and Managing Director of Techstars Austin Amos Schwartzfarb reveals details for the launch event for his new book “Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups,” published by Wiley. “I

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2013

By Ali Behnam, co-founder of Riviera Partners. Many CEOs want each department (Finance, Product Management, Sales, Board, etc.) Prior to co-founding Riviera Partners , Ali Behnam co-founded and acted as EVP, Operations & Services at PeopleMover.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us.

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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. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Find road-trip partners on Zimride. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Struggling to manage costs, the start-up closed shop as quickly as it opened. Find free office space at Loosecubes.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners. Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. Listen to my entire chat with John.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She now recognizes the need to have co-founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. A Sense of Purpose.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

by Karla Friede, CEO, co-founder, and member of the Board of Directors at Nvoicepay. Earlier this month, my co-founders and I raised our sixth round of venture capital funding for Nvoicepay. We were working on a business strategy for a software company in California, and I’ll never forget my first meeting at the company.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The site is managed almost entirely by the crowd (none of whose members need to register to participate). SCORE.org A resource partner with the U.S. I've also recently created a private email discussion list for technology company founders at FounderList.com to network, share, and learn from each other.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Founders Pad. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster.

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David Teten

MARCH 22, 2011

The Committee received and continues to receive valuable feedback from the HBS Angels of Northern California via conference calls. We are co-sponsoring two upcoming events with the HBSCNY: Tuesday, 03/22/11 at 5:00pm : HBS Alumni New Venture Contest: Regional Finals. Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2016

You have a great idea and a strong business plan, and an incubator is just the partner you need at this stage. Dr. Xiao Wang is the general manager and chief fire starter at InnoSpring Silicon Valley. So you’ve decided to enlist a technology incubator to help your new business get off the ground. But don’t fret.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. DoubleClick and Amazon and is led by co-founders Jason Lehmbeck and John Zimmerman.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

You bump into the person you’ve always wanted to chat with or your perfect business development partner who can “make” you. My partner was in product management at Demand Media. He said it’s really impactful both to help the founders clarify their vision and to more effectively communicated it to others. Don’t wing it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

So many had names of partners (Kleiner Perkins) or local favorite identifiers like trees (Sequoia). I know that I call them often to co-invest. I thought about some Southern California angle, because this is where > 50% of my investments are. Some Other Thoughts on Branding / Positioning. Think about venture capital.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2019

A series on things I constantly ask myself as a founder. This is a series on things I’ve asked myself constantly as a founder. the passionate fellow startup founders, VCs, and other advisors who adhere to the “all in” method. Myself and my founder have decided not to pay ourselves yet and invest our money into the business?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. high or high school with a PC in California in the early 80’s. My close friend Brian Moran (co-founder of BuildOnline) was an architect and is now a real estate developer and adviser. THE FIVE C’S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. My partner has a start-up and we went to his office and borrowed a bunch of office equipment and set up some real home offices. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. Digital Response.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) General managers of divisons are compensated on division P&L not long term innovation. At HP the founders were still at the company and still running the business. It was priced at $22,000 – equivalent to about $140,000 in 2009 dollars.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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