A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So Member Desk is a virtual and yet it can also be physical, literally sitting in the front of the co- working space inexpensive way to do that for pretty much any organization. They now do extra- merchandise so fan selling other fans merchandise that they made but this time with IP rights and everybody makes money, which is pretty cool.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

A few takeaways from the podcast: Meta is launching a new hardware VR headset in October this year (currently called “Project Cambria” but it’s likely to be “Quest Pro”) The new device will cost $800 and will help users experience a feeling of “social presence.” Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and CEO.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

" We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position.  Investors would like to see lowest cost - but with certainty.  Investors would like to see lowest cost - but with certainty.  Will the product work? .

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2016

by Paige Zandri, Attorney Network Director at Priori Legal. Patent applications represent the hope for defensible protection, as the most a company can truthfully tell investors is that the company owns its IP. First all employees, including founders, should sign invention assignment agreements. What should my IP strategy be?

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

Usually, the remote workers work from home or co-working spaces and visit the company office once per month or even once per quarter. It’s an extra cost for the employer and most companies stick to 2-3 overseas locations to simplify remote working arrangements. Needless to say, penalties apply in cases of non-compliance.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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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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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Cons: People advertising services, looking for advice, seeking investment capital, and looking for cofounders are all dumping their comments into the same place, which can make it hard to browse. Go BIG Network This site helps investors, startups, service providers, and advisors find each other.

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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. Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. It’s a cliche that one of the most important benefits of attending an elite university is the network.

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nickpoint.co.uk

OCTOBER 23, 2010

» 5 Startup Steps to finding & working with freelancers By Nick Barker As there are just two of us ( Simon Oxley – my co-founder and I) in our startup we need outside help. We’ve been making lots of new friends at networking events over the last year. Trust takes time and experience working together.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. Why It Works Part Two: Crowdsourcing.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Social networking. IP Location Tools. tells you how much adwords cost. Create your own social network. Mailing lists/groups.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 12, 2019

For the majority of new business owners, there are no Government funds that will give you the founder, cash to start your new business. The New Zealand Government wishes to stimulate the creation of more high growth businesses and build on our intellectual property (“IP”) in science and technology related businesses.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. This includes again another acronym I’m going to share, CAC, the cost to acquire a customer, the customer acquisition cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Maybe small amounts of money for what founders reading these pages dream of but life-changing for many. Before this South Korean wonder spread across the globe I had written about a trend in global audiences that exists when the costs of production are nearly zero and the costs of distribution are also nearly free. think Apple.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Dan Ushman is the Co-Founder and CMO of Singlehop. According to a study by Emerson Network Power released during the Uptime Institute Symposium, downtime of one minute costs businesses $5,600 in lost revenue on average. Redundancy takes on two forms, solving network reliability and latency.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

3) Check the social network username site www.knowem.com to see who else is using something similar. You're going to spend many multiples of what the domain name would have cost you to create brand recognition. I suggest you never call this person again for information TheNameInspector The founder of Kodak was George Eastman.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Steve Kelly, Lead Investor; Godfrey Nazareth, President & CEO; and Matthew Maltese PhD, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx.

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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. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. That’s the difference between a founder and a non-founder. The world is much safer for non-founders.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. There are so many trends, how can your logo stand apart?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. Many of you will know Robert as the founder of Soylent, which he started out of his kitchen and then grew into a nationwide phenomenon. What's the cost of delay? Robert Rhinehart : It's a bit of a roundabout path.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, many a BDC CEO has initiated a consultant to study cost cutting issues before announcing a significant layoff. Unlike employee training costs, which can typically be spread over years of service, the relative return from training a consultant is modest and pricey. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. Interview (22).

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Geleerd also co-managed the IPO of Manufactured Home Communities, LLC, now Equity LifeStyle Properties, LLC which owns and operates the highest quality portfolio of resort communities in the United States. in Economics from Columbia University. Wednesday, May 25, 2011.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. How much will this cost? Why bootstrap?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Great lifestyle, great cost of living, motivated people and only the crap weather on the negative side. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

This model has not translated well to the world of social networking, because customers of social networks engage sites in a different way than customers of search engines. Social network page views are much more likely to be internally focused; ads are more of a distraction. So why buy advertising on a cost-per-install basis?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

I often speak about co-founder fighting and how this ends in lawsuits but this has become much more prevalent. I’d encourage you to watch this quick 3-minute video with some views on what I call “ The Co-Founder Mythology ” that is perpetuated in Silicon Valley. Lawsuits are on the rise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

Akash Bakshi , Nadja Mannowetz , and Andrew Bartynski are the co-founders of University of California, Berkeley-based YourChoice Therapeutics. And we think that we should run a Phase 3 clinical trial on this drug and we just need to order 15 kilograms," and that'll roughly cost about $500,000. Let us know if you're interested."

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2018

He’s the co-founder at Book in a Box and a four-time New York Times bestselling author. I’m sure that there are countless stories of organizations that you have an idea but the idea is pretty easy to outgrow the founder of the idea, isn’t it? We haven’t talked about cost. Transcript.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Deals come in all shapes and sizes, and seed stage funds like First Round Capital and programs like TechStars provide flexibility Explosive growth companies and multi-time successful founders get atypical deals The other terms (besides valuation) matter too! For example, liquidation prefs. Read Terms that Hurt (Venture Hacks).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Fullfunnel co-founder Andrei Zinkevich says, “ABM is not that complicated, and it’s also oversimplified.”. How iRidium used audience targeting, networking, and activation to land 34 new sales opportunities. We needed a way to co-create one cohesive message for our key accounts.” — Hillary Carpio, Director of ABM, Snowflake.

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