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. Reviewing financial & operational performance. Founder’s perspective.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The chatter of the “Retail Apocalypse” began long before the recent events of a global pandemic. 52% of buyers say they’ve shifted more of their spending to online due to the pandemic. The rise of new fulfillment methods. Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot. Getting the most from ecommerce. We did them.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. When we syndicated the purchase of the Buffalo, New York cable system, we literally called everybody we knew and raised an unprecedented $16 million, a breathtaking sum in 1980.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. then all the problems will be solved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Tim Staples is the CEO of Shareability and co-author of Break Through the Noise: The 9 Rules to Capture Global Attention. Michael Margolis is the CEO and founder of Storied. He is also a New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author himself. Tim Staples – Creating Shareable Content for Your Busines.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

At the beginning of Coremetrics, there was no such thing as “the end of software” (a term that Salesforce.com popularized and now they are the largest Software as a Service company in the history of the world, with a market cap as of this writing of $132.7 Software as a Service. Eventually the term ASP came along?—?Application

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. I started Rising Star Reviews because I’ve always had a passion for helping small businesses. Every day I get to see how my company helps so many small businesses get the appreciation they deserve from online reviews from their own hard-earned happy customers. Photo Credit: Chas Cooper.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Routehappy's New Take On Flight Search.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. Founder Stories) Aereos Chet Kanojia Urges Entrepreneurs To "Go For The Difficult Problems" [TCTV].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2012

How Much Traffic Do New York Times Links Generate | Entrepreneurs Unpluggd – [link]. Fighting among co-founders is healthy- [link]. The Surprising Secret to Selling Yourself | Harvard Business Review – [link]. ” | Fast Code Design – [link]. ” | Fast Code Design – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

I am grateful to everyone who helped make this event a success, especially my co-organizers Charles Hudson and David Sachs. And a special thanks is due to all of our presenters, panelists, and mentors. Kent Beck is deservedly famous for his many contributions in the software industry. And then you can buy a t-shirt.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. This happened quite often in the early days of IMVU.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

My colleague Paul Bianco serves as interim CFO for a number of ff Venture Capital ’s portfolio companies, and has built and reviewed hundreds of financial models. I also spoke with Michael Hutchens , CEO & Cofounder of BPM Global , which helps organizations more efficiently build and maintain financial models.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. software. (10). Software 2.0: Global warming: a plague for humanity? Monday, February 12, 2007. on a scale of 1-4). Subscribe in a reader.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Almost to a person, we learned the key skills that would enable us to compete in this new economy in between shifts of highly regimented classes and turns of humiliation at the hands of our more popular peers. We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Good Post.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

” Melanie is also the Co-Founder of The Convoy and GroupUps, B2B marketplaces that help small businesses save money so they can invest more in themselves and their communities. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Key Takeaway: You say your company is amazing. Storyfuel.co. TheConvoy.com.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. WHATS HOT: EVENTS NEWS LEARN CAREER VIDEOS ESPAÑOL. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Scoring Founder “Dates” On My Own.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Due to the overwhelmingly positive response this Masterclass received, we launched a new workshop series, Sunset Social Series, and we’re teaching one social media workshop per month at our office in Venice, CA. I was working with only my savings for a budget and still working full-time as a global director.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

by Thomas Smale, founder of FE International. This is particularly true in the early stages of a new venture when you may be a solopreneur or working with a very small team. What if there was somewhere you could go where you can be surrounded by founders just like you? Here are the top 10: 1. LTV Conference. London, UK.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. The journey brought me to study Zen Meditation with professionals in Manhattan and then with Buddhist Monks in the beautiful Catskill Mountains of New York.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

@jack : Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is on Twitter as well, sharing updates from his work as the CEO of Square. dens : Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley gets personal on his Twitter account, sharing his interests in soccer and hidden urban art. MichaelDell : Follow Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Prominent news organizations, ranging from The Economist to Wired ( multiple times ), have been describing WeWork as an example of blitzscaling. And many of the Silicon Valley technology companies achieve their global prominence due to blitzscaling — which provides jobs, tax revenues, and new products and services to society.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our code pushes take another six minutes. Since these two steps are pipelined that means at peak we’re pushing a new revision of the code to the website every nine minutes. On average we deploy new code fifty times a day. Code reviews and pairing Great practices. Throwing out a lot of code.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. At Smart Bear we were selling a code review tool, and if you paid $600 for Perforce, it was very hard for me to charge $600 hundred for an add-on to Perforce that did code review. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. Jason: Woo.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

He’s out with yet another co-authored book with Nancye Green called — Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! He is the co-author of In Search of Excellence, the book that changed the way the world does business and is often tagged as the best business book ever, 20 books.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. If I did go to social events, all I would talk about was my new company. Not enough people understand the emotional cost of being a start-up founder. Thank you, global meltdown! The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Eyeblaster , an Israeli company headquartered in New York, develops several media-rich advertising formats (see examples here and here ) and interactive ad features , as well as MediaMind , campaign management software for agencies and online advertisers. percent) and co-founder Osfer Zadikario (6.2 percent). —

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Thanks to Joe Silverman, New York Computer Help ! #3) After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

In addition, 83% of companies had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian, while only 12% of founders were Asian and less than 1% of founders were African-American. For example, ff Venture Capital looks at 2,000 companies a year and invests in only 10-20 new ones (between 0.5 Conventional Founder Background.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. It's one of those things that founders can do sometimes where other employees are afraid to do it.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Passbase Co-Founders: Felix Gerlach , Mathias Klenk and Dave McGibbon The Forrest Four-Cast: February 26, 2020 Passbase is tackling a huge and essential challenge: how to build a secure, private, and convenient digital world. It gets up and running fast with simple pricing, minimal engineering effort, and global document coverage.

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