The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” Not only do SEO and CMS skills stand out on a resume, but they can also be demonstrated in a portfolio to further impress recruiters. And he’s right.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 78

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer. Step 1: Test your demand. It may surprise you to learn that the technology itself takes a back seat to market demand.

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Web Silicon Valley Salary Demand 160

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. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

Stealth 79

Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” A C-corporation is more complex and expensive, and is recommended only if you expect to pitch to professional investors who demand preferred stock, or to more than 100 potential shareholders.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Preferred Stock Stealth 120

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Cryptoassets have fixed supplies; therefore increases in demand drive up prices. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly. He co-founded the first angel investor group in the Bitcoin space, BitAngels , in 2013, which grew to over 500 members globally. This is exponentially more arduous when combined with cold storage.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Tal Raviv is the co-founder of Ecquire. Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that “Lean MVP” – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint. This post was originally published on OnStartups.

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Artificial Inteligence Cofounder Startup Widget 167

Hearpreneur

MAY 28, 2019

Marcelo Ricigliano is the co-founder of 4Geeks Academy , a Miami based coding academy with campuses in USA, Chile and Venezuela. 4Geeks Academy students gain real-world software development skills that traditional education left behind but are required to meet the demands of our digital economy.

Software Developers 110

Software Developers Software Development Software Venezuela 110

View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2022

Founders: Anita Broellochs & Alex Shirazi. To meet this growing demand, the industry must provide alternatives to the traditionally sourced animal meat. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? And your least?

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California Cofounder Germany Early Stage 296

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). Add this new model to the mix. 13mm in Series B.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

David Teten

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Nandini Jammi, co-founder at CheckMyAds.org (which protects brands from offensive content), said, “If you support your community and our democracy by advertising on high-quality journalism, not only is it the right thing to do, it’s also hands down the best place to be advertising right now.”

America 60

America Technical Review Social Media Community 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 9% (1 / 12). Source: Knowledge.VC , based on scraping firm websites

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. Twilio became a popular perk for Techstars companies globally over the years and many other Techstars portfolio companies use the product extensively. 1: SendGrid (2009).

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San Antonio New York City Seattle Los Angeles 171

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Essentially products that are “inelastic” means price increases don’t affect demand much (think cigarettes, drugs, alcohol) and if they’re “elastic” it means small price increases can massively drop demand but equally large price decreases can massively increase demand. Competition.

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

Austin Startup

MAY 2, 2017

I take great pride when my portfolio companies break technology barriers and launch products and/or partnerships that truly move the needle for customers. I met the founders, Subbu Rama , Mazhar Memon , and Maciej Bajkowski in the spring of 2015 during the Techstars Cloud program. In the end, IMPACT is what matters.

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Artificial Inteligence Cloud Angel Investor Architecture 48

The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

million portfolio. He is also a co-founder of Karmagawa , a company that exists to donate to charities and give them exposure in addition to preserving natural resources and assisting the less-privileged. His star student, Tim Grittani turned a $1,500 trading portfolio into a $3.2 million portfolio within 5 years.

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Stock LLC Portfolio Entrepreneur 142

Austin Startup

MARCH 8, 2021

Pictured left to right: three Sputnik-backed female founders?—?Jennifer Jennifer McEwen (founder of Datum), April Dominguez and Nikki Dominguez (co-founders of Handsome) As a female-led and majority female-run VC, today and every day we celebrate women.

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Early Stage Cofounder Washington Startup 63

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” Instead of believing we always have the right answers, we pursue perspective.”

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

The According to Alon Grinshpoon, co-founder and CEO of EchoAR: “3D content is now everywhere. Alban Denoyel , Sketchfab’s co-founder and CEO. Another example from our portfolio is Zoog , a interactive entertainment content hub to connect families, starting with books. Spectales 3, image credit: Snap.

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Cofounder Mobile Revenue Cloud 183

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

I love working with great people and as a venture capitalist, am fortunate the number of founders I’m impressed by far exceeds our investment capacity. Here’s an example of a founder that I’ve known for a while who recently raised a seed round with different firms than ours. fundraise came about & why it didn’t include me (yet).

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Cofounder Founder Acquisition Startup 89

Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. As we set out to design a venture capital firm that would enable founders to run their own companies, we began by asking: In what ways are professional CEOs superior to founder CEOs?

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Venture Capital Portfolio Cofounder Partner 78

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. So Coats and Kienzle set up Correlation to be a co-investor, not take board seats, and invest quickly—making it easier for lead investors and companies to quickly put a round together.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

View from Seed

MAY 28, 2020

Farmers need to know how much to grow, distributors need to know how much to order and sell to maximize sales and reduce spoilage, restaurants need to order more efficiently, and consumers are demanding more transparency and less waste. Pepper is one of several startups founded to address these problems.

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Memphis Distribution Bankruptcy Operations 256

Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

In the past four years since we’ve been investing together at NextView, 70%+ of those companies in our portfolio which have made attempts at raising full-fledged multi-million dollar Series A after their Seed round have been able to successfully do so (with another additional cohort raising new capital subsequent to seed but not bona fide Series A).

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Seed Capital Metrics Cofounder Revenue 212

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. 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. Lane Merrifield.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 148

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

by Solomon Ali, Co-Founder of Revolutionary Concepts. Staying ahead of market trends in your industry, and forecasting what will be in demand in the coming five to ten years is a non-negotiable skill. The questions below will establish patent viability: Does my idea meet a specific demand?

Intellectual Property 157

Intellectual Property Forecast LLC Acquisition 157

View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

It’s a common question that every VC fields from founders — and founders field from other founders, and marketers field from founders, and PR people field from founders. In light of that partnership, founders should be proactive about asking them to delay — if that’s your desire.

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Startup PR Cofounder Stealth 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. 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. Lane Merrifield.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120

OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In our prior lives, the Bolster founders worked together to scale up a business called Return Path and also. worked as advisors and mentors to numerous early stage founders and startups. The roots of Bolster Prime and Bolster Ventures pre-date the founding of Bolster. What about the middle?

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cap Table Early Stage 62

Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2021

We first met the Pickle team in early 2019 and quickly discovered that co-founders Andrew Meyer, Ariana Eisenstein, and Dan Paluska are awesome! This is a physically demanding environment with high rates of employee turnover. And this is why we appreciate Pickle’s approach so much. .

Artificial Inteligence 94

Artificial Inteligence Cofounder Demand Cost 94

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

We’ve seen this not only with the “on-demand” economy of Uber, AirBnB, et al but also with hardware devices that rely on a connection to internet to monitor, manipulate, manufacture, or otherwise impact our physical world. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

We’ve seen this not only with the “on-demand” economy of Uber, AirBnB, et al but also with hardware devices that rely on a connection to internet to monitor, manipulate, manufacture, or otherwise impact our physical world. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets.

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Baltimore Africa South Africa Michigan 62

YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2018

Include CEOs who were turned down and even CEOs who were parachuted into investors’ portfolio companies. All entrepreneurs want to demonstrate that they’re competent, courageous, and bold, however, always take a co-founder or trusted advisor along. Audit investors; they aren’t the only ones who need to conduct due diligence. .

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Seed Stage Due Diligence Cofounder New York 133

Version One Ventures

MAY 15, 2019

As we have seen in the ridesharing category, a marketplace that connects riders and drivers in a way that is a 10x better customer experience unlocks an incredible amount of dormant supply and demand. Dolly is that 10x better customer experience when it comes to on-demand moving help and furniture delivery.

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Demand Seattle Later Stage Cofounder 24

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Today one of our portfolio companies BigDoor announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based OneTrueFan , a community and web check-in company. Recently the market demand has been outpacing their ability to keep up, so they turned to OneTrueFan as a means of accelerating their product development and overall growth.

San Francisco 115

San Francisco Acquisition Cofounder IPO 115