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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Friday, September 16 - Seattle On Friday, I fly to Seattle, where I'll be for two days. That evening, there will be a casual talk followed by a book signing at Town Hall Seattle (co-sponsored with Lean Startup Seattle). Startup Weekend and Seattle 2.0 Employees only. It'll be fun.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 Seattle-based Syndio has a bold ambition: to eradicate unlawful pay disparities in the workplace. Prior to joining Syndio, Colacurcio co-founded Smartsheet.com , a work collaboration tool for companies of all sizes. Maria Colacurcio giving her winning pitch for Syndio in Seattle last fall.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2010

If you are a first-time entrepreneur, I often recommend that you team with a co-founder with experiences, connections, and a skill set that complements, but doesn’t duplicate yours. If you live in the middle of nowhere, your chances of finding the right co-founder for your new high-tech startup are poor. Marty Zwilling.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I formally declare year one of TechStars Seattle a huge success. I was absolutely blown away by the companies at Demo Day last week along with the reaction and support of the Seattle tech community. The Seattle tech and entrepreneurial community has really embraced TechStars. Tags: TechStars seattle.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 10, 2010

I’m on a six week rhythm in Seattle for the three boards I’m on up here – Gist , BigDoor , and Impinj. It was an absurdly beautiful day in Seattle. The day started out at the new Founders Co-op office where BigDoor is located. Tags: My Investments bigdoor gist oblong seattle.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. Techstars funded the company via our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. These are sorted by the year that we funded them. 1: SendGrid (2009). 3: Twilio (2009).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

by Pabla Ayala, cofounder of pFunk Media Is your holiday gift-giving list becoming longer and pricier than your current wallet can handle? Paul, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. Pabla Ayala is the cofounder of pFunk Media , a communications strategy company focused on tech startups.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Over 400 Seattle-area would-be entrepreneurs were in attendance today at StartupDay 2010. The event featured a number of speakers from the tech industry, including 500 Startups ' Dave McClure, Posterous co-founder Garry Tan, and Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? To some extent – of course they are. But this time there really is something happening in LA. It is different. More substantive.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Share this: We’ve seen a flurry of activity in recent weeks among Seattle area venture capital firms, led by Madrona Venture Group which raised $300 million last month and Divergent Ventures which pulled in $6.9 But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Location: Seattle. Featured Jobs.

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David Cohen

DECEMBER 10, 2012

” Microsoft launched the Seattle-based Microsoft Accelerator in January, and it’s now in the middle of the second program after a very successful first program. Living a healthier life is a hot topic in an exciting space and Nike is perfectly positioned to address this technology.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Andy Sack , who runs TechStars Seattle, has been all over the Seattle entrepreneurial scene in the past few years. On November 11th, Andy is hosting TechStars Seattle Demo Day. Tags: TechStars oaf seattle. As is my custom, I’ll be in attendance. Register online here: Angels , Entrepreneurs , Service Providers.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2011

From March to May 2012, the companies will co-locate in space provided by Microsoft in Seattle where they will be provisioned Xbox development kits, Kinect hardware, the Kinect for Windows SDK and space for testing and developing Kinect based applications. Eran Egozy, Founder and CTO Harmonix. Manu Kumar, Investor, K-9 Ventures.

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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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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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SiliconHills

MAY 21, 2019

By LAURA LOREK, publisher of Silicon Hills News At Hypergiant’s Austin headquarters, Ben Lamm, CEO, and Co-founder takes to the conference room’s whiteboard to explain its structure and expansion plans. Its […]. The post Hypergiant Aims to Dominate the AI Industry on Earth and in Space appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

ShoeDazzle has Kim Kardashian as a co-founder / company as a spokesperson as well as Brian Lee who was a co-founder at Legal Zoom. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. Sort of a sophisticated and targeted co-reg – even though I’m guessing they hate that term. 13mm in Series B.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

If you are a first-time entrepreneur, I recommend that you team with a co-founder with experiences, connections, and a skill set that complements, but doesn’t duplicate yours. If you live in the middle of nowhere, your chances of finding the right co-founder for your new high-tech startup are poor. Get it written down.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. Gabriella Draney, Tech Wildcatters.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Along with Kauffman, Steve Case , the co-founder of AOL, his wife Jean and the Case Foundation , has been working hard to help the White House craft a public / private partnership to shine a bright light on entrepreneurship and help accelerate it across the country.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2019

Today, Techstars announced a new initiative called Techstars Studio which will allow Techstars to source new company concepts from Techstars alumni founders, community leaders, venture capitalists, mentors, and corporate partners. We are investors in PSL (in Seattle) and High Alpha (in Indianapolis).

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

4 teams with female co-founders (of which, 2 are CEOs). We are geographically agnostic, though focused on North America with main “hubs” in SF, Toronto, NYC, and Seattle. hardware startups having a heavy software layer (using AR and AI) . 2 crypto/blockchain applications . 3 marketplaces . 3 pre-seed rounds .

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. View More in Seattle ›. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Seattle Events ›. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2011

If you are a first-time entrepreneur, I often recommend that you team with a co-founder with experiences, connections, and a skill set that complements, but doesn’t duplicate yours. If you live in the middle of nowhere, your chances of finding the right co-founder for your new high-tech startup are poor.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Some friends in the impact investing world have recently started talking about generating giant returns by investing in Zebras (such as a nonprofit building in rural Colorado) and Ponies (an immigrant restaurant in Seattle currently using payday lending at 35% for their working capital). This conference is not just about Coloradans.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. Upcoming Events. Disrupt NY 2013.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

If you are a first-time entrepreneur, I recommend that you team with a co-founder with experiences, connections, and a skill set that complements, but doesn’t duplicate yours. If you live in the middle of nowhere, your chances of finding the right co-founder for your new high-tech startup are poor. Get it written down.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Home About Contact Make It Happen: How to find a Programmer My weekly post on Seattle 2.0. The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

M&A experience (Morgan Stanley and later co-headed M&A for Barry Diller at IAC). Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio). She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2016

by Ned Ryan, CEO & co-founder of Breeze. My co-founder Charlie and I launched Breeze just two years ago, and since then, we’ve attracted capital from investors like Mark Cuban and have launched in 6 major U.S. As a founder, you’ll want to be involved in every decision – big & small. and Boston.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2014

TA was a co-founder and the CEO. He’s been deeply involved in Techstars Seattle since inception. A year ago he co-founded RivalIQ. .’” I’ve worked with TA since we invested in Gist in 2009. When RIM acquired Gist, he ran a big software team within RIM for two years.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. I believe investors had forced him to do this. I stayed close.

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