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.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 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. Professionalisms Chad Reid online forms Online marketing sales conversions sales leads

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!).

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”.

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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.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2013

I started off at 20 Jay, saw NYU Poly Incubator , went for a long walk around DUMBO with Charlie O’Donnell , had an awesome lunch with Chad Dickerson (Etsy CEO), and then walked to MakerBot and hung out with the team there for a while. On Digital Sabbath #5, I read Tech and the City: The Making of New York’s Startup Community. I got through half of it on my flight home from New York on Saturday morning; the balance laying on the couch next to Amy on Saturday evening.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2017

Examples of great storyteller entrepreneurs include Howard Schultz , founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley , founder of YouTube.

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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.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2014

Examples of great storyteller entrepreneurs include Howard Schultz , founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley , founder of YouTube.

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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.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2013

Examples of great storyteller entrepreneurs include Howard Schultz , founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley , founder of YouTube.

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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?”.

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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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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

I found the following passage in this article about email habits: The online marketplace CEO (Etsy CEO, Chad Dickerson) told Fast Company that you need to have a system for everything, no matter what it is. I have a few friends, who shall remain nameless as they’d be embarrassed for me to say this, that are huge nerds like me when it comes to figuring out how to get things done.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Having seen that this could be a successful format for attracting people to Ireland Paddy hosted another the following year and called in favors to get the likes of Jack Dorsey, Chad Hurley and again Matt to visit.

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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.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Image credit: Chad Zemendorf/The Chronicle. Funny how the labels work: The lean startup tends to be called that because of a trendy and fast strategy, a lot of flexibility, and a high-powered startup mentality. Emphasize the phrase “high-powered.&# But ultralight startups?

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Up and Running

JUNE 17, 2015

For example, we recently took the whole company go-karting after a “marathon month.”. – Chad Halvorson, When I Work. Half the fun of starting your own business was creating your ideal work culture. But as you grow and scale, this can be hard to maintain.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In this case, if I’d like to see what Biz Stone, Chad Hurley and Dave Morin were sharing on Twitter, I’d use the query: Filter:links from:@biz OR from:@Chad_Hurley OR from:@davemorin.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2013

An agreement was recently concluded with Thailand’s Nation Multimedia Group that owns regional papers Kom Chad Luek and Krungthep Turakij. by George Graver.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 22, 2013

YouTube founder Chad Hurley was also very generous with me, which resulted in invites to parties, meetings, and meals above my paygrade. I started thinking about leaving YouTube in late 2010 once Chad announced that he was stepping down from the CEO role. hunter@google.com: From 2003-2013, it was a pretty powerful email address for me. I was the first “Hunter” to work at Google, so I got the six-letter name (the second Hunter went for retnuh@ — “hunter” backwards.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 5, 2012

SXSW is less than a week away. Lean Startup ideas will be a big part of the festival this year. Last year SXSW invited me to produce an official Lean Startup track for the conference, which I did in partnership with 500 Startups.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Chad Sanderson, a conversion optimization, experimentation, and personalization specialist for Subway, argues that developing a system that includes the many aspects of optimization is one of the biggest challenges. Chad Sanderson, Subway.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

Chad_Hurley : Follow social media heavy hitter @Chad_Hurley, the CEO of Delicious and co-founder of YouTube. CEOs: they’re just like us! Well, maybe not just like us, but many of them do something that a lot of us also enjoy: they’re on Twitter.

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