YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2016

Mention “performance review” and even the most unflappable employees feel sparks of dread or resentment. Neuroscience research shows that employee evaluations trigger an involuntary “fight or flight” reaction. Consulting Magazine twice has named her one of the top consultants in the U.S.

Seattle 100

Seattle Washington Cofounder Conversion 100

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely —a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. . WeWork, Seattle’s South Lake Union Neighborhood. My office at WeWork in Seattle is cool, energizing and complete. Your day is finally here.

Community 167

Community Seattle New York City Silicon Valley 167

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We tend to stick by founders in tough times and often roll up our sleeves in the darkest hours. A Sense of Purpose.

Leadership 150

Leadership Southern California San Diego Hiring 150

siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. 6) Advise as if you were an employee. Personally, I take this from the vantage of an employee or consultant advising his or her superiors. Name (required). Search for: July 3rd, 2012. by Rick Turoczy.

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Portland Oregon Technical Cofounder Startup 46

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. Lenore Estrada : Hi, my name is Lenore Estrada. I'm the founder and executive director of SF New Deal. Prior to COVID, I was and still am the founder and owner of Three Babes Bakeshop, a small bakery business here in San Francisco.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Government Technical Review Community 60

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). My favorite Rogers line was, “musicians of the future will be entrepreneurs and not employees [of labels].”

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Hawaii Semantic 228

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer.

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

It started with a huge amount of hype, nearly 40 employees, and an equally large amount of cash: $41 million. Contrast that with Instagram, which started with just two employees, a dramatically smaller amount of money, and went on to be acquired by Facebook for $1 billion. The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in Seattle.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Startup Seattle Social Media 69

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. Edmonton also has a number of high-quality post-secondary schools that continually add many highly-skilled employees to the job market. Broadband.tv

Silicon Valley 83

Silicon Valley Canada Entrepreneur Startup 83

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Were helping the second-largest city in the United States become a veritable tech center," Google says on its website, in trying to attract employees for sales and engineering positions. Now hes the co-founder of TextPlus, which makes a popular app for making free texts and phone calls on smartphones.

Los Angeles 87

Los Angeles San Francisco Southern California Silicon Valley 87

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. Edmonton also has a number of high-quality post-secondary schools that continually add many highly-skilled employees to the job market. Broadband.tv

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Canada Entrepreneur Startup 48

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. Like a parent, Y Combinator protected and guided a group of eight applicants who were chosen to be part of the Y Combinator Summer Founders Program.

Cofounder 70

Cofounder San Francisco Programming Founder 70