David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

a pitch event featuring ten early stage tech startups, Tuesday night , September 4 at Microsoft’s midtown office at 1290 Avenue of the Americas. I’ll be a judge for IGNITE!, Presenting Companies. geekli.st. A place for geeks to share what they’ve done, who they did it with and connect with great companies and communities.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2021

My co-founder and I consider his sister to be a trusted confidant. To give you some context, my co-founder and I operate a website called Solitaired , which ties classic card games to brain training. In our card game research, we learned that the earliest card games were meant to teach players about historical events.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2019

by Caroline Pegden, co-founder of TempaGoGo. Early-stage startups might want to consider local opportunities first before plunging into national awards! Some events, such as the British Business Awards , require you to write a lengthy ‘essay style’ submission which require careful thought. Choosing an award.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This Maker Movement has now spread across the world, spawning hundreds of events and companies, including Maker Faires, Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, and Maker Film Fests. This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Events for enthusiasts, formerly called Maker Faires, now stretch across the USA and into many other countries. They have also become great networking events for meeting other like-minded entrepreneurs. They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Planning and dealing with extra-ordinary events: M&A, fund raising, crises.

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David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

As one of the lead engineers at ff Venture Capital , I spend most of my day building custom software solutions that enhance our firm’s process–tools that range from portfolio investment management to co-investor and cap table tracking and more. We are also actively looking for potential sponsors of our first event.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2013

. “Our vision for crowdfunding is about helping people achieve their dreams – be it starting a new business, developing a new invention or creating a technology start-up – and leveraging the power of the crowd beyond just the funding event,” says Jason Graf, co-founder and CEO for CrowdIt. “We

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

Not sure how I’ve come to know about ZURBsoapbox events, but I decided to go to my first one a few weeks ago. I will be returning to more ZURBsoapbox events. The funny part is that I didn’t realize Eventbrite had male cofounders since Women 2.0 always spotlighted Julie Hartz, cofounder and wife of Kevin.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Organize events in your vertical.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. Accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces have proliferated in Cambridge and Boston. RSVP to the event here.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. My co-founder (Chad Johnson) and I are both architecture graduates, so housing has always been a passion of ours. Team Info: Co-Founder: Pat McLoughlin.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. .

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2012

But early-stage investor and entrepreneur Bred Feld, the co-founder of VC firms Mobius and Foundry, as well as startup accelerator TechStars , thinks trying to be Silicon Valley is a fool’s errand.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

What I mentioned in Events and Networking in Los Angeles was that its somewhat hard in LA to count on networking events to build networks. The articles I cited there around finding co-founders suggests that Ben is on the money. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Thats right on the money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

As we put the final touches on Lean Startup Conference 2018 , I wanted to take a moment to share more about some of the panels, workshops, and events. Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Greylock Partners will be talking about “blitzscaling” with his co-author Chris Yeh, and Stanford Professor Bob Sutton.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. Technical founder. You’re 42.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. No surprise, during this time, many B2B businesses were struggling to adjust to a world without physical events. Let’s dive in.

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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. But the answer is the co-founder’s been in the industry for 30 years and he’s somebody and so they can get meetings. Jason: Right.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

All Week Official Events There is some amazing content at SXSW this year with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, blockchain and smart cities. Capital Factory will be making a $100,000 investment on stage in a blockchain startup. I’m looking forward to keynotes by Melinda Gates and London Mayor Sadiq Kahn. Warner Bros.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. This is a recap of the more insightful tweets and comments from the event.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2013

If so Singapore Business Review recently featured a list of 20 hottest startups in the city, highlighting how the founders of these new upstart companies managed to make their business flourish with initial funding that ranges from as little as $15,000 to as much as $68.4 Panelists include: Camille Schu, Co-founder, Luxola.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., Evening events in Orange County require about 2 hours of round trip drive time. It has to be a pretty good event for it to be worth attending.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute. FI and Adeo have already been helpful making introductions to several of the leading early-stage investors for casual gaming companies.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?—?AYX

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . Pitchbot.vc

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship: While the exact title and contents of this class may vary depending on the business school you attend, as a first time founder, it’s incredibly important to understand all of the legal considerations around starting your own company (e.g., See Also How to Find a Business Partner.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

When you're getting started, sweat equity is often a critical component of your negotiating leverage with co-founders, early stage employees and others who aren't paid market wages to help you grow your business. Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2023

Depending on how the metaverse evolves, users could be capable of wearing their favorite outfits every day, and in every scenario–whether they’re attending a virtual social event or playing golf. I believe we are coming to the new era of art and a completely new wave of creators.”

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Early stage education technology startups can now apply for Startl 's second annual accelerator program. This is an exciting time for education entrepreneurism," says Diana Rhoten, Start's co-founder.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. RubyRiot/TechProm/Playtime: Not recurring events, but seems like there is a few big parties every year organized by a small group of folks who are very active in the tech community. Invite only.

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