This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It certainly worked out pretty well when Stanford licensed the search technology that Larry and Sergei had been working on back to them at Google. Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder. They don't have to be big, contrived incubators--just a few couches and maybe a plug or two--and open wifi.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute. That's a great point, but also one that I think a lot of founders overestimate.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Sort of a sophisticated and targeted co-reg – even though I’m guessing they hate that term.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Important Questions Startup Co-Founders Should Ask Each Other - [link]. Giving startups a kick start: Incubators dole out advice and capital - [link]. Interesting stats about Google search & adwords - [link]. CrowdSourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald - [link]. by @msuster) - [link].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

So how does a company act like a startup in search of new business models while still continuing to successfully execute? If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. First, management must understand that innovation happens not by exception but is integral to all parts of the firm.

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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. Adarsh observes that there are over 30 million search queries for the term "Resort" and over 25 million for the term "spa". Ten people paying $37.50

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2013

by Natalie Gonzalez, co-founder and head of marketing and social media at Chatalog. Reach out to your network and search for individuals looking for contract work and have the skill set fitting your business needs (design, front-end development skills, copywriting). Small businesses are the economic engine that drives the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. As usual, Id like to post the slides and then offer some additional commentary. Yet, I think this definition is too important to leave out. Iterating at whiteboard !=

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Get help with grant funding and incubator resources. Every startup needs to start their funding search looking for grants, with no equity dilution, as well as contests and foundations. Attract a co-founder and key team members. I do volunteer work at both these schools, and I’m not even an alumnus from either one.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Pros: The search bar makes finding info a snap. Cons: People advertising services, looking for advice, seeking investment capital, and looking for cofounders are all dumping their comments into the same place, which can make it hard to browse. Searching for team members is easy.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

My experience has been this lever brings three benefits: it lowers origination costs because more founders want to raise capital from you; it enhances your leverage in negotiating with the CEO; and it lowers your failure rate. . – Incubating companies.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

My experience has been this lever brings three benefits: it lowers origination costs because more founders want to raise capital from you; it enhances your leverage in negotiating with the CEO; and it lowers your failure rate. . – Incubating companies.

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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. … The innovation function is dedicated to iterative search through experimentation. The innovation motto is “Fail fast.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I am somewhat of an expert in this having created one of the first pioneering labs and incubators in the Internet era, from N AZ where the normal course of action was to prove lean ventures with our retirement only to see them copied by deeper pockets on the coasts when we went searching for capital. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Alpha Lee : Right.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

” Transitioning from partners in an informal collaboration to co-owners of an actual business may seem like a big step, but it is a necessary one that every successful startup eventually must take. As soon as valuable IP is developed, founders should assign their rights in the IP to a company in exchange for an ownership stake.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me this week at the Stanford University studio were: Wayne Sutton , co-founder of BUILDUP VC. Dave Kashen.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2017

Jamie Potter is founder of Flexciton, a company that is breaking into the new potential offered by artificial intelligence and using it at that to take a crack at the persistent problem of environment waste and emissions. Here but a few of the many of Britain’s young business leaders worthy of note: Jamie Potter and Flexciton.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over breakfast he got me up to date on his life since school (two non-CEO roles in startups,) but he wanted to talk about his third startup – the one he and two co-founders had started. In this first step, the goal of a startup is to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Lucky you’re not the ex-CEO.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

When John Brockman ,founder of Edge , interviewed NathanMyhrvold his first question was “ What’s a CTO ”,to which Nathan replied: “Hell if I know. In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires. I am posting it here as it might be of generalinterest. Below are some sources.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. View More in Detroit ›.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Or Yale could develop a legaltech incubation program and to help improve lawyers’ productivity, a profession whose primary tech tool is Microsoft Word. Students typically use internship search sites like AngelList, Internships.com, and Experience.com; Yale uses an internal job board powered by Symplicity. Incubate non-Yalies.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt. Meetup groups, universities, incubators, and anyone else who wants to get together to watch is welcome to do so. Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt. Congratulations.

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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). Their model looks like a key ingredient in the startup brew there. They dont invest a lot of money; just enough to keep them going through the summer.

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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. Groupon China happens to be a customer of Recruiterbox, and found them through organic search. Guerrilla p.r. AskHerFriends.com.

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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. And audience members were suggesting local incubators that they want to bring in to the 1M/1M program, which was also great! Without that, I cannot gauge whether this business is fundable.

India 115

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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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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2013

There are a minimum of 2,000 companies per year getting funded and coming out if incubators, and there are only 750 VCs that call themselves ‘active.’ AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant concludes , “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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Two years ago I moved to Beijing, where, as the founder of SoHelpful.me, I take calls from all over the world, talking entrepreneurship and innovation with people in 30-minute intervals. Impatient investors and team members give little support to a founder trying to do Customer Development to verify or modify that idea. Europe, etc.),

Silicon Valley 168

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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