VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

But are these trends here to stay? billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 Caution – there’s a lot of hype here! Trillion Hours, 218 Billion Downloads – demand for new apps and games still grows globally, up 7% YoY. 2020… where to start?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, product designers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Mobile Mondays : Boston chapter of the world’s largest Mobile professional community. Boston is a great place to start and build a company. The Grand-daddy.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2017

Today Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) announced their support for Global EIR , a cause for which I care deeply. As you may know, over breakfast in 2015 Jeff Bussgang and I launched Global EIR with the hope of advancing the startup visa effort on a local and state level after it stalled in Congress. For some, education brought them here.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

Here are the entrepreneurs and business owners, other entrepreneurs considered to be successful. #1- She is an author and founding partner of Y Combinator, which Lovd.com (W21) was lucky enough to be a part of as well as 3,500 other companies including Airbnb, Instacart, DoorDash, Coinbase, Dropbox and many others. 6- Muhammad Yunus.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Old and new friends have reached out to welcome us to their community and share ideas about how we could play an impactful role in this remarkable city and state. Even in 2020, a difficult year by any measure, the Austin community has surpassed all of my expectations. Charles Holley, Joe Ogilvie, Ross Perot Jr.,

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. I’m partnered with four great organizations to deliver the program. If you can’t see the video above click here.).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2020

This struggle pales in comparison to what the Black community is suffering through. We must educate ourselves on the systemic issues the Black community faces and has faced regularly. I am fortunate to have colleagues at LTSE who put some thoughts together for our team and gave me permission to share them here.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

She is the CEO & General Partner of the investment firm Street Global. Her online radio show: Global Fireside Chats, brings together global industry titans to share insights on our fast-changing world. She is the CEO and general partner of the investment firm, street Global. Like this show?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2016

But other emirates, such as Ras Al Khaimah , offer competitive advantages for founders and investors alike. One of the biggest advantages is the opportunity for founders to have 100% foreign ownership in their venture. The competition is fierce and investors are just as savvy here as they are in London or Silicon Valley.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

From environmentally conscious practices to community engagement initiatives, they are actively incorporating social causes and CSR into their daily business activities. We collaborate with various local and global non-profits, offering pro bono or reduced-rate services in branding, web design, and digital marketing.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

We have now grown into an overnight hit, as we had built up a huge community of black women with skin conditions years before even launching Topicals. One of our marketing strategies was to partner with an underwear company, and have models do deliveries in the underwear. Thanks to Omid Semino, Diamond Mansion ! #7- Photo Credit: ????

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. And many great consumer companies have indeed been launched and grown right here. (If

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This essay is based on a Greymatter podcast episode, which you can listen to here. These are really good founders and I think this is an interesting space.” This time, I said, “Look, here’s the way the space was pitched to me,” and I explained why I didn’t think much of couchsurfing. HOW GREYLOCK INVESTED IN AIRBNB.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Support the ATX Startup Community by voting for this selection of panels featuring Austinites. Once submitted, the community is allowed to chime in and vote on what topics capture their interest. Once submitted, the community is allowed to chime in and vote on what topics capture their interest. We reached out to the M.io

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

It’s for people who are doing this work day in and day out, and who want to be part of an organization that's trying to do that globally and accelerate the pattern of change. I would love to see a truly cooperative, truly participatory organization at a global scale that exists expressly for the purpose of making the world a better place.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

For the whole program, please take a look here. Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Greylock Partners will be talking about “blitzscaling” with his co-author Chris Yeh, and Stanford Professor Bob Sutton. Co-founder Holly Liu will walk us through the the decisions that led to that outcome.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

The sudden arrival of the global pandemic has shifted the playbook for founders and venture capitalists. As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. I can have a wider reach and a higher volume of 30 minute meetings with founders.”.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! SXSW and Edelman have partnered to launch a special report of the Trust Barometer?—?Edelman’s

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 24, 2013

oi and Cristian Strat, founders of Summify (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Two years ago , Danny Robinson, Maura Rodgers and myself started to lobby for a Startup Visa Canada that would make it easier for foreign (tech) entrepreneurs to start their company in Canada. In addition, Startup Visa will create good Canadian jobs.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2020

I want to reach out to see who has been affected by the Coronavirus / COVID-19 and let everyone know how the Capital Factory community is rising to the challenge. If a member of our community has the virus or has been exposed to it, we want to know about it and we want to help. We are entrepreneurs!

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. I'm so excited to be here. Where can they find big ideas? (12:50):

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Carolyn serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. 16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to? [18:16] She serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. She had this big macro view of what entrepreneurship really could do for a global economy. Marketing Podcast with Carolyn Rodz.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about their best business or entrepreneur turnaround story and here are the responses. #1- Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Photo Credit: Brian David Crane.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the future trends entrepreneurs see in their industry and here are the responses. #1- Thanks to Sarah Farrant, NINICO Communications ! #9-More I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2017

Some of the best mission statements also extend themselves to include fourth and fifth dimensions: what the company does for its community, and for the world. Don’t undervalue your business: You don’t have to cure cancer or stop global climate change to be doing good. If your business is good for the world, incorporate that here too.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Through mentorship and taking proactive steps towards empowerment, women and men can make a meaningful impact in their lives and communities. I'm excited to be here. And we have a lot of people in the Boss Beauties community that have gotten the book for their daughters, or maybe a woman they mentor, someone that they work with.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2012

But connecting with consumers and brand advocates directly, in active online communities, is the real secret sauce, especially for B2C startups with an online presence. And certain non-profits’ knack for touching the consumer directly and involving them in the social story behind the cause has, in turn, inspired for-profit founder.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2019

Over the years, I’ve written about my belief in the importance of giving back to your communities and #givefirst. In this spirit, one of the key organizations my partners at Foundry Group have helped create and nurture is Pledge 1%. Pledge 1% Colorado has now distributed over $8 million back to various organizations in our community.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. Our customer engagement has been solid, as has our engagement with partners.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

One of the best ways to promote your business and increase its name recognition is by joining business organizations and/or communities or associations. For business owners under the age of 45, it provides access to a global network and instructional programming. For me, that’s where professional communities come in.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

So I’ve packaged them all up for you here in my first book, The Entrepreneur’s Essentials , publishing it live on Medium as I went. The delivery model was superior to our competitors and eventually we disrupted them and became one of the global market leaders. Facebook partnered with us and keynoted one of our Client Summits.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It provides clarity on how a company plans to succeed in the marketplace and is essential for attracting investors, partners, and customers. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners which business model is best for their business and here are their responses. #1- Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. You can register for the survey here. Greylock Partners. VC Firm. $ 17% (13 / 80).

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

ShareVolution As for the pitches today, first, Daniel McPherson from Australia pitched ShareVolution , an app store for the Microsoft SharePoint community. partners to help bring his product to market. The recording of today's roundtable can be found here. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. .

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

I wanted to point out a couple things in the updated guide, but the general theme is that we are simply seeing more, bigger, and better things happening here in Boston. These companies have a long way to go until global dominance in many cases, but they are all growing, hiring, and strengthening the local community right now.

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