YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In my time as a Fractional CFO , I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of entrepreneurship. You will find valuable connections in the most surprising places – for example, my first referral came from a co-worker I had not seen in 5 years. Is it crazy to start a business during the Covid-19 pandemic? Ask for help.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 15, 2021

5-My co-founders’ wife came up with it. As much as I would like to take credit for the name it was my co-founders’ wife that thought of it. The thoughts were LI Shades Co, Island Shades, things like that. I named my business, ReCreate—a transformation company focused on optimizing business and leader.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2018

My co-founder, Jason Novek, and I got into Y Combinator when there were 27 total companies in the batch and only four YC partners in existence. The product was simple, and didn’t work every time, but after three months we had several newspapers cranking and it was enough to let my now co-founder quit his job in the “real world.”

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. When I started my first company in Berlin, I lived and worked in my apartment with one of my co-founders. Co-Up , mobilesuite , Raumstation. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. However, those templates were usually ugly and limited. Viktor Marohni? Once Mambo, Joomla, Drupal and similar systems entered the market, website creation sped up dramatically.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Important Questions Startup Co-Founders Should Ask Each Other - [link]. Klout, Kred and the Ugly Truth About Social Influence Measurement - [link]. CrowdSourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald - [link]. New Business Plan Format is Concise and Personal - [link]. by @msuster) - [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2011

Attention, interest, desire, and action are the key elements of selling — you can ask for or tell just about anything as long as you do so honestly and spell out the good, the bad, and the ugly. “No” Michael Feuer cofounded OfficeMax in 1988 starting with one store and $20,000 of his own money, a partner, and a small group of investors.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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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. Your company is a fragile ugly thing in the beginning. There were a number of reasons for this: 1) We had no idea what we'd do with the money. Montana photo by C.S.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. 2019: Profitability Rears Its Ugly Head. Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 7, 2014

Check out these two stories from a story on Larry Page (Google co-founder) in Slate : In 1999, for instance, the method by which large Web companies such as eBay, Yahoo, and Google added server space had become fairly routine. They looked ugly. “Why would you ever want to turn a server off?” he reportedly asked.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

According to Devon Fanfair, co-founder of startup studio Devland , “building companies that demonstrate enterprise value is the best path for new builders because they generate revenue with very little investment. Usually, a product they can see, use, or touch will not be enough.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Having spent close on a decade working in and reporting on our small but burgeoning startup ecosystem, and a decade before that “building my chops” in other various entrepreneurial endeavours, I am familiar with the toll that entrepreneurship can exact on founder mental health. If your business is a success you are a success.

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A Crowded Space

JUNE 13, 2012

There was a pretty major theme I saw from a founder’s perspective: . I know that a startup at the early stages is the founder’s baby. It’s about whether we like or dislike the founder. And here is the dilemma: What do you tell a founder when you’re passing because of team issues? .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

If the deal is from out of your geography and/or out of your focus area or a deal is being referred by a well-know investor who normally co-invests with similar syndicates – at least ask yourself, “Why am I so lucky to be getting this call.” ” I don’t give a s**t what other investors think about a deal or market.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. We have co-founders of QDVision and Innovalight, both nanocrystal technology companies that were acquired on our advisory board. From the outside it looks great, but most of the time it’s extremely stressful, lonely, ugly, and physically painful.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

According to Devon Fanfair, co-founder of startup studio Devland , “building companies that demonstrate enterprise value is the best path for new builders because they generate revenue with very little investment. Usually, a product they can see, use, or touch will not be enough.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. 2019: Profitability Rears Its Ugly Head. Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2013

Mike McQuary , co-founder of Mindspring and founder of Wheego electric cars, did not expect his largest consumer base would be retired people. Creating something from scratch is an ugly process. Maintain the ability to adapt. Other people are able to see issues (that I am blind to) with a clarity. Force a Process.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I’ve been to countless conferences over the past 20+ years and can now decipher the good from the bad from the downright ugly. Bloguettes Co-Founders Sakura Considine and Lorena Garcia will explain how to use social media to snag sales like never before. ⦁ New marketing tactics will come to you. You’ll be inspired to rebrand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Its slowing down the system, wasting resources, creating ugly code and uglier scaling problems. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Faster but."

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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. If you just throw a minimum viable product out the door to see what sticks, wont that necessarily be ugly and badly designed? Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 2, 2010

Every founder struggles to find a great name for her company. Often it's the first source of good-natured strife between co-founders. Come see the new website — it's neat to see something start out so ugly and terrible and end up as the banner of what is already a massively successful, many-million-dollar business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Almost every PHP-based website is burdened with ugly URLs that contain the name of the file that implements each page. Youre right php can get ugly when used inline with html. PHP is a terrible, ugly, bloated language. PHP can be ugly and a complex scripting language. January 16, 2009 2:54 AM DROCKsaid.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. As founders invest massive amounts of time into their start-up, how critical is it for them to come out of their “hermit caves” and network?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

And then it can get ugly. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. March 5, 2009 9:39 PM Eric said. Anonymous - appreciate the thoughtful comment.

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

This week, we present Jessica Livingston , the Co-founder of Y Combinator , the author of the book Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days and indeed an extraordinary individual. Even if you are Airbnb, you are going to start out looking like an ugly duckling to most people.” I hope you enjoy it.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2016

by John Thies, CEO and co-founder of Email on Acid. Below is proof that even bigwigs like Google sometimes fail to properly test their email, and the results can be ugly. This may be the quickest way to end a relationship before it even starts. He resides in Denver, Colorado with his wife and son.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2016

by John Thies, CEO and co-founder of Email on Acid. Below is proof that even bigwigs like Google sometimes fail to properly test their email, and the results can be ugly. This may be the quickest way to end a relationship before it even starts. He resides in Denver, Colorado with his wife and son.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

Realizing you need help and learning how to ask for help are crucial skills for a founder. 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. Steve Sims , founder of Bluefish executive concierge service.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. Interview: Naval Ravikant, Co-Founder AngelList and Co-Maintainer Venture Hacks. |.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 7, 2017

A recent George Washington University grad student has launched a social venture (Halona Foods) to get more value out of ‘ugly’ produce. Westhelle is the co-founder and CEO of Halona Foods, which she founded just a little over a year ago. As my research on student startups highlights, food ventures are popular.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2013

These three co-founders even headed out west when they scored an interview with Y-Combinator. I don’t know what to do with it, it’s ugly as hell, and I want it to be sexy. Exversion not only made it into the StartupBus finals at Rackspace , but hundreds have already requested invites to their private alpha.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In the last 10 years, 7 times more founders have been exposed to the good, bad and ugly of starting and growing a venture funded company. Each of those founders had to recruit employees and build teams funded by their venture investors.

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The Next Web

MARCH 7, 2014

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. Get your ugly ideas out. I’ll usually send a draft out to one of my co-founders or a few trusted friends. That annoying little curser. Blinking at you.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

This article was a guest post by Bronson Taylor who is the host and co-founder of Growth Hacker TV , where the experts on startup growth reveal their secrets. Ugly growth, as long as you are growing, can be celebrated as a bootstrapper. Escape velocity, in physics, is basically the speed needed to break free from gravity.

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