Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place. California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. 87% of funded founders are white, which is not too far above the US population of 77% white.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. He's the founder and c e o of a nonprofit organization called Beyond the Crisis.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Tina Fitch , co-founder of Hobnob , an app that lets users send and manage event invitations via text message. Alice Brooks is the co-founder of Roominate.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2019

Stacey is the co-founder of Lez Talk and Managing Director of Contact Center Experience at Charles Schwab.  —  @CFStartupPride Charlie Lass , Senior Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focused on how to successfully navigate entrepreneurship and innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place. California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. 87% of funded founders are white, which is not too far above the US population of 77% white.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Chennai and TiE Mumbai. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You can register for the next roundtable here. Discuss.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place. California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. 87% of funded founders are white, which is not too far above the US population of 77% white.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2010

But until now, I’ve never seen a study of exactly how that plays out for startup founders for current venture-backed companies, specifically: race, age, experience and the number of founders per company. The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place. No surprises here. Marty Zwilling.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Midwest. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Inspired in Zimbabwe The founders of Zimride were inspired by drivers in Zimbabwe, who pick up strangers and give them a lift for a few bucks. Thats real money."

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S. So how early should the founders pack their bags and ship out to the U.S.? Israel has been branded the “startup nation.”

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Tina Fitch , co-founder of Hobnob , an app that lets users send and manage event invitations via text message. Alice Brooks is the co-founder of Roominate.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Founded in Philadelphia in 2007 as CityRyde and now headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zagster helps property managers, hotels, businesses and universities across North America offer bike sharing programs to tenants, employees, guests and students.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. Recently, Disney was seen scoping out space in Kendall Square to set up a research lab.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. For the 15 years since inception, CEO and cofounder Bush has run athenahealth end-to-end. Athenahealth's Culture. Visionary CEO.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Tim Schumann, Founder & CEO, Buddy Ventures , highlights that typically less investment capital is required to get into foreign startups at the same stage of development as a comparable US startup. . Founders’ determination. If you want to start selling abroad, an international founder is an advantage.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 3, 2009

The founder and former CEO and chairwoman of iRobot, Helen has been the godmother of the robotics industry in Massachusetts. MIT Professor Chiang is the technical founder of A123, the battery start-up that is shaking up how power is generated in the automobile, utility and tools industries. 4) Helen Greiner. 5) Yet Ming Chiang.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. You can listen to the conversation here. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. You can listen to the conversation here. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Jeremy Howard has had tremendous impact on the world of AI entrepreneurship. Jeremy Howard : Sure. Good Lord, no.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Stephen Chambers spent 22 years in some of the most innovative companies in life science as the director of gene expression and then as a co-founder of his own company. I left the UK joining a newly formed startup, Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as one of the founding scientists.

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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. The Innovation Center at Houston’s TMC (TMCx), co-located with Johnson and Johnson’s J-Labs, and the Center for Medical Device Innovation, drive medical innovation. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

How do you find co-founders who are willing to work for 18 months without getting paid? Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

First up, Manoj Dharap presented EzeeBank , a core banking solution for credit co-operative societies. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I advised Paul to find a scientist with enough credibility in this field, and invite him/her as a cofounder / Chief Scientist. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is an essential step that will be necessary for Paul to take. Photo by ilco.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

Sajeeva and his cofounders have good domain knowledge of the retail business, but have not yet done sufficient validation of the idea. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You can listen to the recording of today's roundtable here. Photo by Bessarro.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

We discussed the possibility of recruiting a couple of cofounders who can help him build out the core skill-set needed on his team right now. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Without that, I cannot gauge whether this business is fundable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2016

Guest post by Melissa Moore, co-founder of Lean Startup Co. AOL co-founder Steve Case , who just released his new book, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future , is one of the big thinkers we’re excited to team up with.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With locations in Chicago, Brooklyn, Queens, and Somerville, Massachusetts, it’s clear the work-workout trend is catching on. There’s a co-working and conference room available for booking, and a full-service kitchen and rooftop deck to enjoy the fresh produce available on site from the farm.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 22, 2012

and Bon Appétit Management Co., But some, like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, grant limited access to select independent vendors. Aramark Corp. Many universities don’t allow outside food trucks to come onto campus. MIT, in Cambridge, Mass., via Food Trucks: The Newest Rivalry on College Campuses – WSJ.com.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Even more tragically, the company's founder, Danny Lewin, was killed on one of the 9/11 airplanes.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

A similar pattern exists for venture capital funding: In 2020, just three regions — the Bay Area, New York, and Massachusetts — accounted for 70%+ of total venture funding in the U.S. In fact, the enforceability of non-competes in Massachusetts has been cited as one key contributor to the rise of Silicon Valley compared to Boston.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 6, 2016

They are typically mission-driven companies with founders who are passionate about the mission for its own sake rather than financially driven where the company's focus is a means to an end. The founders are focused on helping millions of people learn to code so that they can improve their job prospects and move up the income ladder.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. MOST READ on FOLIO: F+W Acquires Aspire Media. Merging Brands with Technology. Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. Reports: Major Layoffs at Spin. FOLIO: Alerts & Newsletters. FOLIO: Alert News Updates. Executive Management.

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