A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

What’s the name of the company? Dan: The name of the company is Member Desk. So Member Desk is a virtual and yet it can also be physical, literally sitting in the front of the co- working space inexpensive way to do that for pretty much any organization. e.g., “Thanks @TheDaveCollins for sponsoring #SmartBearLive!”

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai They're hard to forget your last name.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 20, 2014

For Will von Bernuth, co-founder of Block Island Organics, a family-run sun care startup, the flexible schedule allows him to help his parents. There are some monetary incentives to starting a business as well, says Fernando Campos, co-founder of Topwick, a members-only journal site that offers insider pricing on certain brands.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., with their startups growing by 81.2

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

You just don't wind up with $25 million to name a dorm unless you've gotten equity upside in something. Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder. Schools should create co-working areas where startups and other innovative folks from the community can come in and take meetings or work a few hours.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. No matter the name?—?the We all know the famous story of Apple, which at one point kicked out its co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs.

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Great news — your startup just got accepted to an incubator! But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. Pre-money valuations startups receive from incubators are typically low…really low.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Let’s have a look at what early stage founders can expect in terms of oxygen. Namely, windfall revenue from oil means that the Texas taxman does not collect personal or corporate income taxes (on the state level).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. Very cool concept and I want to thank the founder Adil Mohammed for inviting me to take part in it. Be a salesman.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., with their startups growing by 81.2

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m sure many of you have heard his name. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. They can partner with suppliers, co-create with consumers, open-source key technologies, open their application programming interfaces, or run open incubators for customer ideas.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Singapore-based technology startup incubator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator – better known locally as JFDI.Asia – today unveiled a lineup of eight technology startups set to participate in its 100-day accelerator program this year. “Early-stage business is becoming less of an art and more of a science,” he adds.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2020

He changed the way we perceive parenting by giving prospective parents the chance to meet others who are interested in co-parenting without the hassle of a relationship. Since 1971, Patagonia owner and founder Yvon Chouinard has been a bona fide maverick in the business world. 5- Sara Blakely, the founder and inventor of Spanx.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. … To support the three Cs, ING has also developed their own iterative practice named PACE.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 25, 2017

When I was about 7 years old, my parents told me that if I had been female, my name would have been Heather. So when Joe Marchese introduced me to Heather Hartnett for more information about the NYC startup studio they were cofounding, I was predisposed to feel a kinship. Together we set out on this journey.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2017

by Mark Hasebroock, Founder and Managing Partner, Dundee Venture Capital. Omaha is rising in prominence among entrepreneurs and investors, making a name for itself in a more broad and diverse range of industries than in previous years. West Coast incubators are known for being competitive rather than collaborative.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In the summer of 2015, our co-founder/managing editor, Stephanie Choporis, was a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and tasked with the following assignment: develop an idea for a new media product. Team Info: Co-Founder/Managing Editor: Stephanie Choporis. Thank you Happenstance.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. John recently co-founded P360, a business that produces animated training content for the military, and he works for BMNT Partners.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 23, 2018

They enter the room with big names and leave with an even bigger stack of business cards. Many of these events can be isolating for startup founders or leaders of growing companies; without name recognition or existing relationships, they struggle. But what about entrepreneurs? Building for Entrepreneurs.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 16, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. When choosing a name, we wanted to incorporate the concept of collectiveness that is so important in a world connected by social media.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I come up with this business name with a few ideas that lead to one thing. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. Like a help centre.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . The DEMO conferences for years has served as the launchpad event for big name companies and has a well earned reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow’s cutting-edge technologies. . Hopefully we will see you there! Google I/O. South By Southwest™ Interactive.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Earlier this year, Forbes Magazine named Madison the 7th most innovative city in the U.S., Madison, Wisconsin has always been known as a progressive town - in part because it's home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But over the last few years, the city has gained a reputation as an emerging technology startup hub in the Midwest.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. The discounts?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The Telefonica-backed Wayra London incubator officially opened its doors last year, but its current intake of startups have only called it home for around seven months. Founder, Robyn Exton, explained to TNW that location had to still be included as a relevant factor but exactly how important it was varies from person to person.

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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. These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities. Their model looks like a key ingredient in the startup brew there.

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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. I’m also executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. There are a handful of respected incubators operating in the city, including Startup Edmonton and TEC Edmonton. Broadband.tv com for $575 million.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Richard Witten , special advisor on entrepreneurship to the President of Columbia University ; and Kathryn Minshew , co-founder of the popular online career platform TheMuse.com both joined me in Sirius’ New York studio and shared their version of being knocked down and coming back stronger. It has been phenomenally successful.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

You may recognize Scott’s name – I wrote about him in my post When VCs Don’t B t You. When we started Mobius, we were four founders and two EAs. That kind of fits with the word Foundry in our name. Scott Maxwell of OpenView Partners had an awesome post up this morning titled The Truth About VC Value-Add.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This coworking space gets its name from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but not to commemorate the fire itself. The name is a tribute to the innovation and passion that came after the fire, “a remarkable moment when the most brilliant engineers, architects and inventors came together to build a new city.” 4101 North Broadway.

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Eric Friedman

JULY 12, 2016

Eric is the General Manager of Expa Labs , an incubator in Soho backed by $100MM that is investing $500k each in its first six companies ( TechCrunch story here ). Eric is a great guy and I like to think of him as the “ Chief Domain Officer ”, given his unique gift of acquiring rare domain names. Where to even begin?!?!

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Founder.org founder Michael Baum. In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. The goal is to significantly increase the number of student entrepreneurs by backing the brightest student founders and biggest ideas. Were you insane?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. There are a handful of respected incubators operating in the city, including Startup Edmonton and TEC Edmonton. Broadband.tv com for $575 million.

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