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. Said one investor, “We may have overdone it on socialization at the expense of productivity.”.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

I lived in Düsseldorf for some time, and there I came up with the company name idea: “one (idea) for one (client)”, “each custom product for each client”, and “one and only solution for each business partner. We picked up this name because I, as the founder, consider myself a nerd. Thanks to Julia Ivanova, RegexSeo ! #11-

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2019

To take place on 19-21 February 2020 at Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre, the event will host over 3,000 attendees from over 40 countries, as well as featuring over 200 tech partners, more than 60 startups and 50 investors. and 100+ speakers.

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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. We are confident that these unique insights enable us to assemble superior products.

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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. Ambitious entrepreneurs are setting out to disrupt formidable incumbents across every product, service and experience.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2018

by Joanna Malaczynski, founder of DESi. Before you do anything else, you need to take time to understand the needs and expectations of your customers on an ongoing basis as you develop your product and business. Pete Girard, Co-Founder of Toxnot, can attest to the importance of this. Engage with those end-users.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Now my digital products, blog, classes and workshops serves women all over the world teaching them how to use yoga as a tool to juggle their busy life and kids without burning out! I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Well, Green Envee Organics can help fix that. Their body care products are all natural and all organic. For the rest of you fine folk, you can order their products online. Co-founder, Bob, talked about breaking into the body care business: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2018

by Joanna Malaczynski, founder of DESi. You will need to invest your time into getting clarity about your market and customers and building momentum around your product. . You will need to build champions for your product in order to convert customers from their existing way of doing things.

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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. I could tell my audience that it's a sustainable product. Where they have like the side by side showing the two products doing what they do.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

From providing free resources such as grant-writing classes and courses, to partnering with our communities and other non-profits that align with our company’s message. 9- Reaching out to the community Photo Credit: Admir Salcinovic I am an experienced product leader who specializes in driving vision and roadmap for businesses.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera is one of the biggest online educators with over 20 million registered users and 150 education partners which include universities from all over the world. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Udemy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. And further, Tracy felt the calling to try to build something “green.” And through this industry legitimacy she was able to get the ear of Dany Levy, the co-founder of Daily Candy. She now recognizes the need to have co-founders.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

By contrast, Staples closed down some underperforming facilities but increased its workforce by 10% during the recession, mainly to support the high-end product categories and services it introduced. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. Where do your consumers fall?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Photo Credit: Josie Hughes The girls got to hear from teenage keynote speakers Layla Renee and Mya Parish , founders of Suga Babes Beauty , a plant-based bath and body product line for teens. Startup Chica 2018 winning team “The Green Machine” with Judges and their mentor TC Waugh.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Everyone on my team is obsessed with the products, so it’s been fun managing the social media channels. 6 – Wonderful & Productive Summer. Thanks to Shel Horowitz, Green and Profitable ! #7 9 – New Product. Over the summer, I accomplished writing a 130K-word product in 4 months.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Praxis CEO and Co-Founder Elise Smith is passionate about leveraging innovation and disruptive technologies to increase access and opportunity in the pursuit of equity. My co-founders and I all met at Stanford so Palo Alto is really where it all began. I love green smoothies and juices.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera is one of the biggest online educators with over 20 million registered users and 150 education partners which include universities from all over the world. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Udemy.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

By attending, you can learn about new technologies coming out from Salesforce.com, innovations from the partner ecosystem, and the location of every Moscone outlet to charge your dying iPhone. But beyond product announcements, Dreamforce is renown for its amazing line-up of popular and formerly popular entertainers.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. Founder Too. My engineering co-founder and I had a great relationship. My partner asked five or ten questions, everybody nods and the meeting was over.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Sites such as OpenSky and Send the Trend utilize recommendations by celebrities and experts to sell products. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions. Sites such as CodeAcademy and Khan Academy are bringing quality instruction online to the masses.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Melissa Mesku of New Worker Magazine told us that her co-working space was a great venue for discussing business ideas. Amy Olson, the founder of Kuhfs, a company that sells boot accessories, told us: “My group of friends became my prototype testers and proof of concept testers for months. Crowdsource your market research.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2019

Joel Gascoigne is the co-founder and CEO of Buffer, a social media management platform. In addition to his early career as a surgeon, Dr. Larry Goren is also a well-respected entrepreneur and the founder/CEO of Onsite Innovations, one of the largest providers of on-site occupational medical services in the United States.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

Photo Credit: Sheryl Green. Thanks to Sheryl Green, Sheryl Green Speaks ! #3- I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. I found my productivity and creativity had increased… as well as my boredom. Thanks to Will Bachman, Umbrex ! #2- 2- Was laid off from a job.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Institute includes a co-working space and accelerator (the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas), an incubator, a training group, a seed fund, and much more — all working together under the unifying, umbrella theme of entrepreneurship. Who was an original developer on which award-winning product?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2018

If you sell products, invest in good packaging design (the packaging for your product) and package graphics (the graphics/content on the product packaging) to help your company succeed. Product packaging accomplishes this by helping tell your brand story in an expanded format.

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Life Beyond Code

MARCH 19, 2013

I have known Dr. William Miller (co-founder of Value Centered Innovation ) for a number of years and every conversation with him on business model innovation and beyond has been delightful and insightful. Product: The products and services offered to customers. Hers is a quick interview with him on the topic.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2018

If you sell products, invest in good packaging design (the packaging for your product) and package graphics (the graphics/content on the product packaging) to help your company succeed. Product packaging accomplishes this by helping tell your brand story in an expanded format.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

If your company isn’t giving employees a cause — if the organization exists solely to create revenue, in other words — they won’t be partners. Traditionally, products seek customers, customers form markets, and markets move with momentum. Traditionally, products seek customers, customers form markets, and markets move with momentum.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Dr. Tom Offermann, my business partner and a dentist, was using a substance in his work for dental fillings, just like dentists do every day. Photo Credit: Adam Greene. My co-founder and I came up with the idea for Cuddle Clones in an entrepreneurial-focused MBA program. Thanks to Adam Greene, Cuddle Clones ! #3-

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The show inspired us to create a product that would help an individual learn something quickly and in small bites. This idea of snackable content format pivoted to a video product in June 2016. When I was focusing more on just the green part, I used Green And Profitable. Thanks to Shel Horowitz, Green And Profitable ! #8-

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was visiting his and my alma mater in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, where I had just graduated a few months prior and was bumming around getting my own startup off the ground. Speaking of cutting edge products … have you downloaded the Flipboard app yet?

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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. 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. Uh, Nancy Green is no slouch on her own, right?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2011

With green technology becoming more and more in demand, many homeowners are struggling to connect with companies that sell products like solar panels, but also contractors who can design and install the systems. PVPower co-founder Nick Yecke answered some questions I had: 1. through our website at pvpower.com.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 23, 2022

Thanks to Mike Falahee, Marygrove Awnings Co. ! #7- Almost every industry or sector is equipped with smarter tools and technologies to empower their products or processes. Our founders were tired of being lied to and ripped off by overpriced, green-washed brands filled with unnecessary chemicals. 7- To get fulfillment.

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