ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Chennai and TiE Mumbai.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 Prince: Business History.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

The funny part is that I didn’t realize Eventbrite had male cofounders since Women 2.0 always spotlighted Julie Hartz, cofounder and wife of Kevin. I liked hearing the who’s who of Silicon Valley in his stories, but more importantly he had really good take aways. Keep a watch out!

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. One of the easiest mistake to fix is timing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. Fellow co-founder Dixon Chan believes that the application taps on existing consumer habit of taking a picture of their meal before digging in.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture means that others will help when you’re starting up. Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . Joining me this week at the Stanford University studio were: Wayne Sutton , co-founder of BUILDUP VC.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Carmen Medina , co-author of the book Rebels at Work , spent 32 years at CIA. Don Burke , digital architect for the Central Intelligence Agency.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. Fellow co-founder Dixon Chan believes that the application taps on existing consumer habit of taking a picture of their meal before digging in.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. Author howerl. Read More ».

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Find free office space at Loosecubes. Thats real money."

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

’s Bravo television network is launching a reality show based on the lives of little-known Silicon Valley entrepreneurs this year. co-founder Steve Jobs are in the works. Then came “The Social Network,” the 2010 film about the origins of Facebook. Facebook Inc. ” Ms.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders. It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . Whether your organization is a start-up or a large enterprise, SMSS will provide you with relevant case study examples, interactive workshops and engaging sessions to boost your social media marketing efforts and reach your company’s business goals. Venture Summit Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). The tone of the panel was set by David’s announcement that he was relocating to Silicon Valley (and dragging Geni & Yammer with him).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. There is really no other place in the world like Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2019

Throughout the 20th Century, scientists around the world explored social networks and the influence of technological development on human connections. He is co-founder and Chief Learning and Innovation Officer at SingularityU Nordic , a collaborative venture with Singularity University in Silicon Valley.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely —a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. . Instead of relocating your business to Silicon Valley or large, expensive tech hubs, staying local helps keep the talents in your local community.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

With a little research I found a few notable ones, including the following: Scott McNealy, Chairman of Sun Microsystems , which he co-founded along with three partners in 1982. McNealy's background is surprisingly all business, rather than computer science or programming, unlike most members of the Silicon Valley community.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

FitzGerald is the co-founder and CEO of Submittable , a cloud-based submission platform used by thousands of publishers for accepting and curating digital content. But we did eventually raise capital outside Silicon Valley. There were a number of reasons for this: 1) We had no idea what we'd do with the money. in revenue.

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The Next Web

JULY 6, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Aaron Pitman , an angel investor and founder and partner of RA Domain Capital. You don’t have to be located in Silicon Valley to take part in a great startup community. What kind of community you join is very important,” says Gediminas “Lucas” Sukys, co-founder of StarterPad.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. It would be ideal if Yale built a similar tool which allowed students to filter for companies with a) quality teams, b) >10 employees, c) backed by a credible VC, and d) (optional) a Yale cofounder. Founder community.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It will enable the naturally creative but geographically and socially disenfranchised to make money doing what they love – participating. Maybe small amounts of money for what founders reading these pages dream of but life-changing for many. ShayCarl (a Maker Studios co-founder) in particular. billion views.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. On Sushi and VC.

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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. At yesterday's private roundtable we also had this discussion, so I thought I would mention it in today's recap.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ProfessorVC. Thursday, September 16, 2010. Are DEMOs days numbered? There wasnt a lot of buzz in the air.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons. I can do that.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

It follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Nigel and Vaugn Caldon , co-founders of BallStar social network for basketball players. Kerry Frank co-founded Comply365 in 2007 with her husband.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

MAY 10, 2010

The best place to do networking is in the Silicon Valley area because we have the best, brightest people around. Here are my observations of people trying to start up: Finding co-founders is harder than you think, there’s a reason why there are events just for finding co-founders.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In this essay, which is based on a Greymatter podcast episode I recorded with my Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh, I discuss why it’s so lonely to be an entrepreneur, how I dealt with this challenge through both success (LinkedIn) and failure (SocialNet), and how entrepreneurs can find allies and aid in their struggle against loneliness.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Guest Post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co., First up in our speaker spotlight series is an edited transcript of our Q&A with Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , a non-profit working to distribute beneficial goods to rural communities in Kenya. with Kirsten Cluthe as Contributor.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It Instead, Silicon Beach, a roughly 3-mile stretch of sand from Venice to Santa Monica , is home to Viddy and a host of other young tech companies with an entertainment, celebrity or mobile edge. Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising. Silicon Valley Bank seems interesting. I been trying it for a while.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Those were CEOs of public companies and founders or executives of some of the fastest-growing and most successful tech companies in Austin and tech.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. Worse, I think its a dangerous idea to promote." startupcto

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