Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning.

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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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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. Adrian wants to build a location-based service focused on assembling, and then reviewing and rating various services from fixing roofs to plumbing.

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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. HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. It is worth $3.4

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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. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! This is John Jansen.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

The mailing list works in two ways: Every two weeks the 10 most interesting listings are e-mailed to more than 40,000 startups on the “Help a Startup Out Digest” listserv, and every week the best technical listings are sent to the “Hackers Digest” listserv. Because there’s a fee to post jobs and resumes, there’s not much spam.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Small business tips: mobile technology, the iPad, and your business - [link]. Important Questions Startup Co-Founders Should Ask Each Other - [link]. Giving startups a kick start: Incubators dole out advice and capital - [link]. CrowdSourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald - [link].

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. The discounts?

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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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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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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

So I considered resources that I use on a regular basis, that provide real value to me in my own life as a startup co-Founder and that I think others will benefit from. An awesome online tech news resource that I visit on a regular basis is (of course) TechCrunch. A great blog for entrepreneurs should be like a wonderful novel.

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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 : Yeah.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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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). Im also excited to share two long-form reviews from actual attendees. Technically you argue it goes back 30 years when StorageTek was founded.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. It’s a very cool vibe at Founder’s Coop. The ingredients are all here.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. The Wall Street Journal. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Message Center ( new). Edition Home.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Key Insights. Red Ventures (HBS, Wharton).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester. .

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.

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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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. and Path Intelligence.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 8, 2018

This is partly due to improvement in technology that has helped scale their online visibility and allow ease of collaboration. I see the future for women entrepreneurs blowing wide open in the next three years due in large part to investors and funding sources looking to lead in diversity. Women entrepreneurs are on the rise.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Hilton E – Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur, discusses the impact of social media and technological innovation on culture, society and economic justice. Threadless, 37Signals, FeedBurner, BIG Omaha conference, and SXSW itself are proof that technology life exists away from the coasts. 02:00 PM: Is Innovation Fair?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2017

For example, The Embrace Warmer was created by asking mothers with premature babies what they disliked about traditional infant incubators in hospital maternity wards. No exit strategy for firing lazy co-founders. Choosing the right co-founder is as important as choosing the right spouse.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. Code Igniter. Seed Startups.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. – Starship Technologies sells an autonomous robot-powered local delivery service.

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