ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Water and Sanitation Crisis: Scalable Solutions Presented by Water.org and WaterEquity Cofounders Matt Damon and Gary White, cofounders of Water.org and WaterEquity, initiated the summit by discussing a critical worldwide issue: accessible capital. Tisch Illumination Fund. What were some of the panel debate topics at the event?

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Cofounder Congo New York City Global 133

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 40

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

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Artificial Inteligence Analytics SCRUM Cofounder 164

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. Andrew was SVP of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment which launched the very successful Simpsons online game (curse you for wasting tons of my kids free time!) But I’m guessing the narrative is similar elsewhere.

Technical Review 373

Technical Review North America Los Angeles Cofounder 373

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

And she had a model for a new media company for mobile and wearables. The Columbia Startup Lab is in a building completely taken over by WeWork – a company that provides co-working spaces in 12 cities worldwide. Women founders already had leadership roles in the industries they’re about to disrupt? If it’s real why?

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Silicon Valley New York City New York Venture Capital 120

startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Finding a Technical Cofounder by Mike Subelsky on September 17, 2010 Advice View Comments Over the past 18 months I’ve had the same conversation with about ten entrepreneurs looking to start a software-based business. As Dave Troy put it, it all boils down to this: “In Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Cofounders Find You!&#

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Baltimore Maryland 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves. We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes.

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Venture Capital Fractional CTO Cofounder Early Stage 150

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. I really like CC, and we’ve integrated it nicely into our workflow.” It’s indispensable.”

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Software Review Chad Ruby PHP 191

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Very few founder CEOs go into the job ever expecting to give up their seat. We set out to find Jonathan’s “co-founder.”

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Technical Review Cofounder Analytics Founder 303

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. 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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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup San Diego 337

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. During that time, we watched the first wave of mobile apps take off — Foursquare, GroupOn, Instagram, Twitter, etc. But we never lost the finance bug. Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. To help you more effectively build your early teams, we asked a group of founders to share their favorite interview questions when they build new startup teams.

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Founder Seed Stage Cofounder Boston 120

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

One of the highlights of my trip was a startup dinner which included Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of 37signals. Pivoting - Chris Dixon , June 14, 2010 My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build our product the same way we had so far? Now I have.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Term Sheet Startup 175

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. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

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Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Greylock Partners will be talking about “blitzscaling” with his co-author Chris Yeh, and Stanford Professor Bob Sutton. Kabam, the mobile gaming company, hit a major stumbling block in its early days when its financing was lost due to the 2008 financial collapse.

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Lean Las Vegas Cofounder Startup 103

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2017

by Bill Lewis, co-founder at Temasys Communications. The traditional flows of goods, services, and finance appeared then, and now, to have stalled. Today, digital connectivity, and mobile technology and mobile applications, drive a more digital form of globalization. And the digital product.

Global 113

Global Technical Review Agile Internet 113

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In that capacity, I co-founded the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Venture Capital Access Program, a joint venture with the National Association of Investment Companies (“NAIC”), which helps women and diverse entrepreneurs raise capital. Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype. Are you politically active?

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Venture Capital Partner Technical Review Cofounder 60

Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

This is the exact problem that Tal Weiss and his co-founders at Takipi faced a few years ago after selling their startup VisualTao to Autodesk. Tal and his team were charged with mobilizing the Autodesk application, which was no easy task. Some of the best companies are born out of frustration.

Architecture 60

Architecture Cofounder Cloud Distribution 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

San Francisco 256

San Francisco Valuation Technical Review Los Angeles 256

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Joining me at the Stanford University studio were: Matthew Wallenstein , chairman and co-founder of Growcentia , which aims to revolutionize management of soil health to help crops grow better and faster. Jason Young , co-founder of MindBlown Labs , which makes mobile social games to teach young adults about personal finance.

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Colorado Customer Development 120

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

May 23, 2011 by Christina Warren 20 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share The Mobile App Trends Series is supported by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms.

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Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) Short answer: no.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 238

View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

I find it intriguing that species not only evolve against their environment, but their environment co-evolves simultaneously against them. When you look at a biological ecosystem, the creatures in it have spent thousands and thousands of years co-evolving against one another in a careful dance. A nice account of Stuart’s story is here.

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Founder Technical Review Cofounder Non-Compete 120

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

3 Biggest Mistakes When Choosing a Cofounder – [link]. If there’s one video 1st time founders should watch to understand VC financing it’s this one – [link]. 3 Biggest Mistakes When Choosing a Cofounder – [link]. Always use data, not feelings, to make business decisions – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Suddenly, those multi-million dollar financing rounds that startups raise don’t seem so outrageous! 3) Facebook. 4) WhatsApp.

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Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

Jeff Decker is a co-instructor of the Hacking for Defense class and the Stanford program director. Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has sardonically noted that the only defense companies to reach unicorn status in the past 30 years have all been founded by billionaires able to endure long gaps in funding. He’s a former U.S.

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Artificial Inteligence Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 360

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

by Samuel Worsley and Nathan Moore, co-founders of Live Tech Games. This may sound obvious, but with everything changing rapidly, keeping your finances, data and logistics in order will keep you ahead of the game when inevitably the tide changes again. Keep on top of your logistics.

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Cofounder Mobile Founder Global 246

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Mobile Mondays : Boston chapter of the world’s largest Mobile professional community. Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah.

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Boston Community CTO Hire Cofounder 72

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types. This concept has been taking off in such consumer-facing technology sectors as mobile app development and gaming. 24- Personal finances awareness. Thanks to Josh Stomel, Turbo Finance ! #25-

Entrepreneur 149

Entrepreneur United States Software Review Technical Review 149

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Paul Jozefak, co-founder and managing director of innovation laboratory Liquid Labs , argues that outsourcing innovation will become a mainstream business practice and a key driver of growth, specifically in the tech sector. Innovation within large corporations is often slow and ineffective.

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Matching Cofounder Software Developers Software Development 152

YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2017

by Robert Schulte, founder and CEO of LumaTax . Additionally, if you have an e-commerce site or use a point-of-sale system for your mobile or brick-and-mortar locations, make sure you regularly perform software updates to ensure your system is using current rates for in- and out-of-state transactions.

Sales 124

Sales Affiliate California Software Review 124

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Mobile Mondays : Boston chapter of the world’s largest Mobile professional community. Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. Topics have included “Leveraging Pinterest”, “Mobile Commerce”, and “Facebook Advertising”.

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2013

I cleaned parks in Brooklyn, served meals in soup kitchens, and mentored underprivileged youth on personal finance. In my former life, I worked at an investment bank, where at least one day a year we were required/allowed to donate a day to “Community Teamworks,” and participate in a charitable program.

Green 178

Green Artificial Inteligence New York City Startup 178

mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

“There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones. Have an account? instead of having to travel home. .&# instead of having to travel home.

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Cofounder San Francisco Social Media Startup 81