Cofounder Finance Networking Semantic 
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 1, 2011
Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ).
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. But the “monetization heart of the Internet” doesn’t stop at Overture, Applied Semantics and MySpace.
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VC Cafe
OCTOBER 7, 2010
Leading financial magazine Global Finance named Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer among the top ten World’s Best Central Bankers for the year 2010. TaKaDu’s solution is very flexible, easy to set up and easy to use,” said Rob Casey, Strategic Network Performance Manager at Thames Water in the United Kingdom. Diversified U.S.
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.
www.drowningamerican.com
JUNE 22, 2012
We both tapped into our respective networks, asking (almost pleading with) people to join our team and vision. What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. I started feeling as though we were stagnating. What could we offer?
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. Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
Excepting for cosmically co-incidental success stories, the fuzzy requirement stuff never congeals as a holistic engineering exercise. I also have to include this caveat: we werent purely a software company - we built telecom network devices, hw and sw. Software Eng. here who spent a couple years in Eng. less pain please, scruff).
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