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We sat down with fund managers Chad Gomes, Johnny LeHane and Paul Hakim as they shared insights into their investment process, what they look for in both group members and startups, and. Hudson Valley Startup Fund brings together a network of the region’s successful business and community leaders to give back, supporting the launch of the next Hudson Valley visionaries. MORE
While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. MORE
Chad Laurans is the CEO of SimpliSafe, a large and growing tech company located in the Boston area. Years ago, in the span of 30 days, three of Chad’s friends were robbed. That led to Chad’s thriving business today. Today, we discuss how Chad built an Internet of Things-like product before that phrase existed, before the hype helps your marketing or fundraising, and before anyone was thinking about the connected home. MORE
It’s not an official thing, but there is this almost secret society of people who’ve been coached by Jerry.” – Chad Dickerson, Etsy CEO. Jessi Hempel from Backchannel just wrote an amazing profile piece on my close friend Jerry Colonna. It’s titled This Man Makes Founders Cry. MORE
says ZACH Theatre Education Associate Director, Chad Dike. Arts Education Preps Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs ZACH Theatre Education?—?Collaboration, Collaboration, Resilience, and Fanning a Creative Spark ZACH Theatre Education Students. AxelB Photography. Austin, TX)?—?The MORE
by Chad Hill, CEO of HubShout. Chad Hill is the CEO of HubShout , a U.S.-based Previously, Chad served as Business Development Director at America Online and worked in product management at FOLIOfn Investments, Intuit and the financial services group at American Management Systems. MORE
That’s the key question behind San Antonio-based Promoter.io, founded by Chad Keck and Ricardo Reyna. By Laura Lorek Reporter with Silicon Hills News How likely are you to recommend our company to a friend or colleague? MORE
Chad faces a security and humanitarian crisis very much linked to a pivotal water resource drying up. I haven’t written much about Homebrew’s investments in the agriculture space but there are two of note, and both are based on beliefs which might be controversial to some. MORE
by Chad Ruff, Chief Technology Officer at Swiftpage. Chad Ruff serves as chief technology officer at Swiftpage , provider of leading cloud-enabled CRM and marketing automation platform Act! Professionalisms business solutions Chad Ruff marketing automation MORE
Founded by Chad Keck and Ricardo Reyna, Promoter.io By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Every business knows that it’s important to create a loyal customer base. They may not know, however, how many loyal customers they actually have or why those customers are loyal in the first place. was created to help companies […] The post Promoter.io Featured on A Slice of Silicon Hills appeared first on SiliconHills. MORE
While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. MORE
Thanks to the following friends for their contributions to this post: Jack Sinclair, CFO of Stack Overflow; Angela Baldonero, SVP Human Resources for Kimpton Hotels; Tom Bartel, CEO of ThreatWave; Chad Malchow, CRO for Gitlab; and Dennis Malaspina, CRO for Parsley. MORE
In a HBS Angels panel I spoke at last week, Chris Fralic of First Round Capital quoted Chad Dickerson of Etsy on this topic. Speaking at a First Round-organized event, Chad said Etsy requires 100% of their engineers to be active in the technical community: give talks, blog, etc. One of our portfolio companies asked me this week, “Do you all have a list of job boards your portfolio companies have had great success with in recruiting high quality engineers?”. MORE
by Chad Reid, Director of Communications for JotForm. Chad Reid is a career marketer and currently Director of Communications for JotForm , a popular online form builder. Professionalisms Chad Reid online forms Online marketing sales conversions sales leads MORE
My good friend Chad started this Indiegogo to help support Atlanta nonprofits. Here’s a short video Chad made explaining this campaign: Support this awesome campaign! MORE
Chad Sanderson, the Experience Optimization Manager for Subway, creates an analogy for how the centralized model is set up: Chad Sanderson, Subway. As Chad Sanderson explains below, if your company is small, you may want to choose the model that works best within your budget. MORE
As an investor – I’m looking forward to seeing the flywheel gain more momentum, Chad & Co execute to perfection as he has always done, and beating up Chad along with with Andrew Parker of Spark. MORE
Examples of great storyteller entrepreneurs include Howard Schultz , founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley , founder of YouTube. MORE
And thanks to my buddy Chad , it continues to live on! Chad started a company called 25th Century Games and he just launched a Kickstarter for Robots Love Ice Cream: The Card Game. It’s really well done (great job, Chad!). MORE
Chad Auler, co-founder of Deep Eddy Vodka,and Eric Dopkins, former […] The post Austin-based Milestone Brands Acquires American Born Moonshine appeared first on SiliconHills. One of Austin’s newest spirit companies, Milestone Brands is on a buying spree. The company announced Wednesday its acquisition of American Born Moonshine from Windy Hill Spirits, based in Nashville. Milestone recently acquired Dulce Vida Tequila. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. MORE
Examples of great storyteller entrepreneurs include Howard Schultz , founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley , founder of YouTube. MORE
This is especially true of big businesses: Chad Sanderson, Subway. Chad Sanderson explains that you must have a methodology to segmentation: Chad Sanderson, Subway. Chad Sanderson explains why he prefers segmenting beforehand, which he calls “pre-registration.”. MORE
As a disclaimer, I am friends with Leo and Chad (and we co-invest frequently, or at least try to), and they did not ask me to write this. But the first time I met Chad, years ago, he had a very clear, simple plan to scale the fund. Earlier this year, I reflected on the difference between “fund investing” vs “fund management.” ” It’s a useful post for emerging managers, I’d recommend reading it. MORE
As an investor – I’m looking forward to seeing the flywheel gain more momentum, Chad & Co execute to perfection as he has always done, and beating up Chad along with with Andrew Parker of Spark. MORE
by Chad Reid, Director of Communications for JotForm. Chad Reid is a career marketer and currently Director of Communications for JotForm , a popular online form builder. If you’re a marketer, you live and breathe conversion rates. They’re the very lifeblood of your business. MORE
Marketing Podcast with Chad Peterson. Today’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is business broker, owner of Peterson Acquisitions , and fellow Kansas City resident Chad Peterson. Marketing Podcast with Chad Peterson. MORE
My co-founder (Chad Johnson) and I are both architecture graduates, so housing has always been a passion of ours. I am a homeowner but my co-founder (Chad Johnson) is a renter, and one day we got talking about ways to assist renters in their journey to become homeowners. MORE
And my guest today is Chad Peterson. So, Chad, thanks for joining me. Chad Peterson: Hey, thank you for having me, John. Chad Peterson: Yeah, we are local. Chad Peterson: Absolutely. Chad Peterson: To me, it’s especially sad. Chad Peterson: Yeah. MORE
Chad Sanderson , Microsoft. companies spend billions on training each year. What about marketing departments? How much do they spend? What are they getting out of it? And what are they struggling to solve? MORE
Chad Masso is the other co-founder. Austin Chad Masso makexyz Nathan Tone Makexyz, a startup in the 3-D printing industry founded by ex-indeed.com employees, landed an investment this week from Intel Capital. The company can’t disclose the details of the funding or the amount, Nathan Tone, one of the co-founder, said in an email. “Our goal is to help people make […] The post Austin-based makexyz Gets Investment from Intel Capital appeared first on SiliconHills. MORE
When Chad Pytel introduced me to Bryan Helmkamp , CEO/Co-founder of Code Climate , I knew that I had to pay attention. Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. As an Advisor to thoughtbot the past couple years, I’ve come to place a lot of weight and trust in Chad’s opinion. Chad Pytel at thoughtbot, many of the NextView portfolio companies, tens of thousands of developers, and I are already believers. MORE
The company also named Chad Bockius as CEO, Heidi Farris as vice president of marketing, and Chris Yndo as vice president of sales. CopperEgg today announced year-end results for 2013, achieving 380 percent growth in monthly recurring revenues year-over-year, and adding 440 new customers. MORE
American Exceptionalism Campus Eco-System Entrepreneurship Programs Students aacsb American Freshmen Survey business education Chad Moutray Smeal College of BusinessInside Higher Ed ‘s Dan Berrett writes about recent data from the American Freshmen Survey and business school admissions anecdotes to ask whether today’s college students are less interested in studying business. MORE
In this video, I sit down with Chad Sanderson, Program Manager on the Microsoft Experimentation Platform team, to discuss statistical testing, calculating sample size, and selecting the right tools to help you run statistically significant conversion optimization tests. MORE
Photo Credit: Chad Pavel. Thanks to Chad Pavel, Pinewood Consulting, LLC ! #3- Photo Credit: Chad Hill. Thanks to Chad Hill, Hill & Ponton ! #20- Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. MORE
Eric Clapton and Cream, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Every now and again there’s a rock band who are global superstars, who also happen to have world class musicians in the band. MORE
Examples of great storyteller entrepreneurs include Howard Schultz , founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley , founder of YouTube. MORE
by Chad Reid, Director of Communications for JotForm. Chad Reid is a career marketer and currently Director of Communications for JotForm , a popular online form builder. Thinking Aloud Chad Reid Earth Day eco-friendly green business small business MORE
Chad Raube , Partner at Dawn Capital (London) (business school classmate). I hope you’ll join us on November 15 th at 5:30pm for the final Worldwide Investor Network event of the year. MORE
Clayton Christopher and Chad Auler founded Deep Eddy Vodka in 2010. Austin Chad Auler Clay Christopher Deep Eddy Vodka Heaven Hill BrandsHeaven Hill Brands of Kentucky announced this week it is buying Austin-based Deep Eddy Vodka for an undisclosed amount. MORE
While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. MORE
Chris Tondre (Guitars and Bass), Derek Morris (Keyboards), Chad and Natasha Hudson (Background Vocals), Ron Wikso (Drums). I finally faced a big fear of putting my “art” out there for the world to judge, hate, like, love, or be indifferent about. MORE
Examples of great storyteller entrepreneurs include Howard Schultz , founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley , founder of YouTube. MORE
Chad Fisher is a co-founder of Content Runner, a marketplace for connecting users and freelance writers for the creation of unique written content. 7 Activities That Don’t Scale but Will Win You Customers written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. MORE
Chad Related Topics ConversionXL
DECEMBER 13, 2018
In this video, I sit down with Chad Sanderson, Program Manager on the Microsoft Experimentation Platform team, to discuss statistical testing, calculating sample size, and selecting the right tools to help you run statistically significant conversion optimization tests.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Chad Laurans is the CEO of SimpliSafe, a large and growing tech company located in the Boston area. Years ago, in the span of 30 days, three of Chad’s friends were robbed. That led to Chad’s thriving business today. Today, we discuss how Chad built an Internet of Things-like product before that phrase existed, before the hype helps your marketing or fundraising, and before anyone was thinking about the connected home.
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Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
The company also named Chad Bockius as CEO, Heidi Farris as vice president of marketing, and Chris Yndo as vice president of sales. CopperEgg today announced year-end results for 2013, achieving 380 percent growth in monthly recurring revenues year-over-year, and adding 440 new customers.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 24, 2020
by Chad Ruff, Chief Technology Officer at Swiftpage. Chad Ruff serves as chief technology officer at Swiftpage , provider of leading cloud-enabled CRM and marketing automation platform Act! Professionalisms business solutions Chad Ruff marketing automation
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
Marketing Podcast with Chad Peterson. Today’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is business broker, owner of Peterson Acquisitions , and fellow Kansas City resident Chad Peterson. Marketing Podcast with Chad Peterson.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
And my guest today is Chad Peterson. So, Chad, thanks for joining me. Chad Peterson: Hey, thank you for having me, John. Chad Peterson: Yeah, we are local. Chad Peterson: Absolutely. Chad Peterson: To me, it’s especially sad. Chad Peterson: Yeah.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 17, 2015
by Chad Hill, CEO of HubShout. Chad Hill is the CEO of HubShout , a U.S.-based Previously, Chad served as Business Development Director at America Online and worked in product management at FOLIOfn Investments, Intuit and the financial services group at American Management Systems.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 22, 2016
by Chad Reid, Director of Communications for JotForm. Chad Reid is a career marketer and currently Director of Communications for JotForm , a popular online form builder. Thinking Aloud Chad Reid Earth Day eco-friendly green business small business
SiliconHills
AUGUST 21, 2015
Clayton Christopher and Chad Auler founded Deep Eddy Vodka in 2010. Austin Chad Auler Clay Christopher Deep Eddy Vodka Heaven Hill BrandsHeaven Hill Brands of Kentucky announced this week it is buying Austin-based Deep Eddy Vodka for an undisclosed amount.
SiliconHills
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
Chad Masso is the other co-founder. Austin Chad Masso makexyz Nathan Tone Makexyz, a startup in the 3-D printing industry founded by ex-indeed.com employees, landed an investment this week from Intel Capital. The company can’t disclose the details of the funding or the amount, Nathan Tone, one of the co-founder, said in an email. “Our goal is to help people make […] The post Austin-based makexyz Gets Investment from Intel Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
Chad Fisher is a co-founder of Content Runner, a marketplace for connecting users and freelance writers for the creation of unique written content. 7 Activities That Don’t Scale but Will Win You Customers written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing.
entrepreMusings
JUNE 3, 2014
Chris Tondre (Guitars and Bass), Derek Morris (Keyboards), Chad and Natasha Hudson (Background Vocals), Ron Wikso (Drums). I finally faced a big fear of putting my “art” out there for the world to judge, hate, like, love, or be indifferent about.
Jeff Hilimire
JULY 8, 2017
My good friend Chad started this Indiegogo to help support Atlanta nonprofits. Here’s a short video Chad made explaining this campaign: Support this awesome campaign!
Gust
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
We sat down with fund managers Chad Gomes, Johnny LeHane and Paul Hakim as they shared insights into their investment process, what they look for in both group members and startups, and. Hudson Valley Startup Fund brings together a network of the region’s successful business and community leaders to give back, supporting the launch of the next Hudson Valley visionaries.
Jeff Hilimire
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
And thanks to my buddy Chad , it continues to live on! Chad started a company called 25th Century Games and he just launched a Kickstarter for Robots Love Ice Cream: The Card Game. It’s really well done (great job, Chad!).
Genuine VC
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
When Chad Pytel introduced me to Bryan Helmkamp , CEO/Co-founder of Code Climate , I knew that I had to pay attention. Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. As an Advisor to thoughtbot the past couple years, I’ve come to place a lot of weight and trust in Chad’s opinion. Chad Pytel at thoughtbot, many of the NextView portfolio companies, tens of thousands of developers, and I are already believers.
Campus Entrepreneurship
DECEMBER 13, 2010
American Exceptionalism Campus Eco-System Entrepreneurship Programs Students aacsb American Freshmen Survey business education Chad Moutray Smeal College of BusinessInside Higher Ed ‘s Dan Berrett writes about recent data from the American Freshmen Survey and business school admissions anecdotes to ask whether today’s college students are less interested in studying business.
SiliconHills
DECEMBER 3, 2014
That’s the key question behind San Antonio-based Promoter.io, founded by Chad Keck and Ricardo Reyna. By Laura Lorek Reporter with Silicon Hills News How likely are you to recommend our company to a friend or colleague?
The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
My co-founder (Chad Johnson) and I are both architecture graduates, so housing has always been a passion of ours. I am a homeowner but my co-founder (Chad Johnson) is a renter, and one day we got talking about ways to assist renters in their journey to become homeowners.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 29, 2019
Examples of great storyteller entrepreneurs include Howard Schultz , founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley , founder of YouTube.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 28, 2018
While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy.
SiliconHills
JUNE 1, 2016
Chad Auler, co-founder of Deep Eddy Vodka,and Eric Dopkins, former […] The post Austin-based Milestone Brands Acquires American Born Moonshine appeared first on SiliconHills. One of Austin’s newest spirit companies, Milestone Brands is on a buying spree. The company announced Wednesday its acquisition of American Born Moonshine from Windy Hill Spirits, based in Nashville. Milestone recently acquired Dulce Vida Tequila. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 14, 2015
by Chad Reid, Director of Communications for JotForm. Chad Reid is a career marketer and currently Director of Communications for JotForm , a popular online form builder. If you’re a marketer, you live and breathe conversion rates. They’re the very lifeblood of your business.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 3, 2017
It’s not an official thing, but there is this almost secret society of people who’ve been coached by Jerry.” – Chad Dickerson, Etsy CEO. Jessi Hempel from Backchannel just wrote an amazing profile piece on my close friend Jerry Colonna. It’s titled This Man Makes Founders Cry.
David Teten
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Chad Raube , Partner at Dawn Capital (London) (business school classmate). I hope you’ll join us on November 15 th at 5:30pm for the final Worldwide Investor Network event of the year.
SiliconHills
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
Founded by Chad Keck and Ricardo Reyna, Promoter.io By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Every business knows that it’s important to create a loyal customer base. They may not know, however, how many loyal customers they actually have or why those customers are loyal in the first place. was created to help companies […] The post Promoter.io Featured on A Slice of Silicon Hills appeared first on SiliconHills.
Haystack
JULY 3, 2019
As a disclaimer, I am friends with Leo and Chad (and we co-invest frequently, or at least try to), and they did not ask me to write this. But the first time I met Chad, years ago, he had a very clear, simple plan to scale the fund. Earlier this year, I reflected on the difference between “fund investing” vs “fund management.” ” It’s a useful post for emerging managers, I’d recommend reading it.
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
This is especially true of big businesses: Chad Sanderson, Subway. Chad Sanderson explains that you must have a methodology to segmentation: Chad Sanderson, Subway. Chad Sanderson explains why he prefers segmenting beforehand, which he calls “pre-registration.”.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 25, 2018
Chad faces a security and humanitarian crisis very much linked to a pivotal water resource drying up. I haven’t written much about Homebrew’s investments in the agriculture space but there are two of note, and both are based on beliefs which might be controversial to some.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 15, 2016
While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy.
Mucker Lab
JULY 23, 2013
As an investor – I’m looking forward to seeing the flywheel gain more momentum, Chad & Co execute to perfection as he has always done, and beating up Chad along with with Andrew Parker of Spark.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 26, 2017
Examples of great storyteller entrepreneurs include Howard Schultz , founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley , founder of YouTube.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 15, 2014
While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy.
Hearpreneur
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Photo Credit: Chad Pavel. Thanks to Chad Pavel, Pinewood Consulting, LLC ! #3- Photo Credit: Chad Hill. Thanks to Chad Hill, Hill & Ponton ! #20- Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better.
ConversionXL
OCTOBER 19, 2017
Chad Sanderson, the Experience Optimization Manager for Subway, creates an analogy for how the centralized model is set up: Chad Sanderson, Subway. As Chad Sanderson explains below, if your company is small, you may want to choose the model that works best within your budget.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 12, 2014
Examples of great storyteller entrepreneurs include Howard Schultz , founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley , founder of YouTube.
OnlyOnce
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
Thanks to the following friends for their contributions to this post: Jack Sinclair, CFO of Stack Overflow; Angela Baldonero, SVP Human Resources for Kimpton Hotels; Tom Bartel, CEO of ThreatWave; Chad Malchow, CRO for Gitlab; and Dennis Malaspina, CRO for Parsley.
Start Up Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Eric Clapton and Cream, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Every now and again there’s a rock band who are global superstars, who also happen to have world class musicians in the band.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 26, 2013
Examples of great storyteller entrepreneurs include Howard Schultz , founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley , founder of YouTube.
Austin Startup
JANUARY 24, 2019
says ZACH Theatre Education Associate Director, Chad Dike. Arts Education Preps Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs ZACH Theatre Education?—?Collaboration, Collaboration, Resilience, and Fanning a Creative Spark ZACH Theatre Education Students. AxelB Photography. Austin, TX)?—?The
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Chad Sanderson , Microsoft. companies spend billions on training each year. What about marketing departments? How much do they spend? What are they getting out of it? And what are they struggling to solve?
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2012
In a HBS Angels panel I spoke at last week, Chris Fralic of First Round Capital quoted Chad Dickerson of Etsy on this topic. Speaking at a First Round-organized event, Chad said Etsy requires 100% of their engineers to be active in the technical community: give talks, blog, etc. One of our portfolio companies asked me this week, “Do you all have a list of job boards your portfolio companies have had great success with in recruiting high quality engineers?”.
Mucker Lab
JULY 22, 2013
As an investor – I’m looking forward to seeing the flywheel gain more momentum, Chad & Co execute to perfection as he has always done, and beating up Chad along with with Andrew Parker of Spark.
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