Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. The team working on the Green Hydrogen got connected to the Rotterdam ecosystem and key stakeholders in the Port, energy incumbents, VCs and Tech Universities.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Kaviani co-founded CoFoundersLab less than two years ago with the aim of bringing entrepreneurs together to launch startups. To find out more about how co-founders can help startups succeed,and how founders can find the right partners, I talked with Kaviani and Julie Edge, Ph.D., EDGE : Not everyone needs a co-founder.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 27, 2017

Here’s a question I recommend founders ask Seed or Series A VCs during their fundraising: “What’s a risk you’re more comfortable with than the average VC?” Here are two: We’re more comfortable with certain types of founder risk (first time, non-traditional) than some funds.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In all seriousness, the Q&A panel session will include European entrepreneurs like Guillaume Decugis, who sold Musiwave for $125 million and is currently co-founder and CEO of Scoop.it, and Unity Technologies co-founder and CEO David Helgason (read our interview with him ).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Salesforce holds as its guiding value “to make sure Salesforce is a platform for change,” delivering on initiatives such as renewable energy, carbon-neutral cloud computing, and green building certification. Take SparkToro’s Co-founder, Rand Fishkin. CEO Mark Benioff’s online presence ties directly back to this vision.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

After months of advocating for the idea of allowing QuickBooks users to process credit card payments from their customers inside the product, we were finally given the green light to proceed but only had 12 weeks to make it happen. I was generously rewarded the Intuit Founders Award in 2011 for helping get it started.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Rob Greene.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

With the theme “The New Age of Asian Innovation”, Techventure 2011 will be featuring a prominent host of speakers that includes Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Group CEO of regional telecoms giant SingTel Ms. Founder and managing director of Asiasons Capital , Jared Lim, agrees.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s taken the Toronto executive from the world of Big 3 Accounting (as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers in his early career) to Investment Banking(National Bank Financial) and capital markets (co-founding Eight Capital after leading the management buyout of Dundee Capital Markets). Some specialize in one arena, like green technology.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2017

by Nat Greene , co-founder and current CEO of Stroud International and author of “ Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers “ Sherlock Holmes said, “I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty.” But most of us guess all the time. Remember, your brain is going to guess.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

The sudden arrival of the global pandemic has shifted the playbook for founders and venture capitalists. As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. I can have a wider reach and a higher volume of 30 minute meetings with founders.”.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. Founded in 2012, FINEX Cast Iron Cookware Co. It just feels right,” says Mike Whitehead, FINEX founder. How a now-famous web company got funded by Mark Cuban. How a product-based company aced Kickstarter and got funded.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos. Tell us about something you love.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In addition, he co-founded and helps lead Quiet Cove Foundation, a private family foundation that supports innovative solutions to large scale social issues. What is it about Deep Green that makes it stand apart, in your mind? It’s the right move for our planet. Is that the case here? Brian Paes-Braga : Absolutely.

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deal architect

MARCH 6, 2021

In the 33rd episode of the series is Jyoti Banerjee, co-founder of North Star Transition. I first met Jyoti a quarter of a century ago and have always known him for focusing on better corporate reporting and finance.

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2021

Any software, hardware, or CPG startup in Texas with a female founder or co-founder can apply to participate. Houston based Syzygy Plasmonics is developing a green power source from hydrogen fuel cell technology and raised a $5.8 Female Founders! Who Can Apply? million Series A round.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This time it is Ashley Etling, co-founder and CEO of Limeloop, which is blending material. As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ) as part of my Analyst Cam series.

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Austin Startup

JULY 31, 2018

Image Description: Background image includes blue and green squares of varying sizes. Instead, cities must support and engage the broader community, prioritize and practice human-centered urban design, and provide diverse, accessible, and inclusive pathways for robust citizen co-creation. “As

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

Forerunner Ventures is one of Homebrew’s favorite co-investors for consumer commerce/retail startups. Firm founder Kirsten Green has an amazing analytical mind combined with empathy for the consumer. How do you convey to founders why your backgrounds are valuable to them? EK: It’s a great question.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

APRIL 11, 2011

Green Truck Moving Co. is a Nashville-based startup that is integrating the founders' commitment to the environment and the community into the mission of their company. Green Truck Moving is developing rentable, reusable containers made of recycled material to replace traditional moving boxes.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

We picked up this name because I, as the founder, consider myself a nerd. When we were searching for business ideas, my co-founder had an idea to use a Google translator. And I came up with the name by discussing it with my co-founders and the reason behind the name stock is With stocks you can get the best of the world.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2019

“Today’s talent transformation journey is not just about improvement, but about completely re-thinking how we run our business, how work gets executed and how we create seamless experiences for our customers and employees,” shares Ester Martinez, CEO and Editor-In-Chief of People Matters on this year’s conference theme.

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Steve Blank

MAY 20, 2020

Jordan Edelson, co-founder of Chic Sketch , reimagined his events business as a virtual events business. Alexander Osterwalder co-creator of the business model canvas , suggests a playbook of business model moves you can make: Shelter in place as a market opportunity. Regina says. Create an MVP or MVS to start.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Leaders in Environmental Sustainability “Green is the new black” in business. Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez’s journey as co-founders of Back to the Roots also stands as proof of the transformative impact of MBA education on sustainable business practices.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As a co-founder of the company, my main goal for 2023 is to build a successful and sustainable business that will bring value to our customers, team members, and investors. In the next few years, I plan to continue educating myself on the latest renewable energy technologies and invest in green infrastructure projects.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Boost Biomes CEO and co-founder Jamie Bacher The Forrest Four-Cast: March 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. It was a great accomplishment; the ponds were a beautiful green with algae.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 18, 2018

Those are the words of investor Bill Marcus of the networking business Green Table talking about the cannabis business as part of an interview broadcast Monday on the National Public Radio show Hear and Now. Green Austin! With medicinal cannabis now accepted in a majority of U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 3, 2011

New guidelines on how entrepreneurs can qualify for an EB-2 green card with National Interest Waiver. I’ve been working on this issue since I wrote the post The Founders Visa Movement on 9/10/09 (all my posts can be seen in the category summary Startup Visa on my blog). Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company. Of course, then we had these long dot matrix printers with the green bar paper, and it would just spew out row after row.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. Kim and his co-founder, Theo Lee, did the formal market research—including a thorough investigation of Kickstarter. “It helps catch early positioning problems and draw connections between copy and desired actions.”. Test launch tiny products.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

NBD Nano co-founder Deckard Sorensen was inspired by the beetle to the point that he created a self-filling water bottle, which he hopes to bring to the market by 2014. Cofounded by Miguel Galvez, who used to work at TechStars; MIT PhD student Andy McTeague; and Deckard Sorensen, a biochemist.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2018

by Joanna Malaczynski, founder of DESi. Pete Girard, Co-Founder of Toxnot, can attest to the importance of this. Charles Dimmler, Co-Founder of Checkerspot, understand this process. This is especially true if you are looking to scale your business, as Scott Bolin, Co-Founder of Tethis, can attest.

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The Next Web

MAY 15, 2013

Streaming live on The Next Web, greeNEWit founder Jason Jannati will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. As co-founder and chief communication officer of greeNEWit, Jannati is responsible for defining the high-level strategic direction of marketing and affiliate partner initiatives. ET (12 p.m. PT) Thursday, May 16th.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 5, 2017

My dream mentor would be Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com. Thanks to Wayne Green, Ohmattress.com ! #6 Melody McClusky, co founder and CEO of StyleSeat, would be my dream mentor. Michael Dubin – Founder of The Dollar Shave Club. Thanks to Jason Vaughn, HigherHopeBalloons.com ! #5 5 – Jeff Bezos.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 6, 2015

Conventional wisdom in the startup world dictates that two founders are ideal for a startup. There are lots of famous pairs of duo co-founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Jerry Yang and David Filo, Hewlett and Packard, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Having the right co-founder is perhaps the single most valuable thing in a startup.

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The Next Web

MAY 16, 2013

As co-founder and chief communication officer of greeNEWit , Jannati is responsible for defining the high-level strategic direction of marketing and affiliate partner initiatives. Recognized as the 2012 Maryland Green Entrepreneur of the Year, Jannati is devoted to developing social programs that have an environmental focus.

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