Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

We’re clearly in the early stages on Twitter monetization but let me offer some views on why we find Ad.ly But 70% of my investment decision in early-stage companies is the team. But as with any early-stage company: it’s a bit of skill, a bit of timing and a bit of luck. We think we know.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2018

This article, which originally appeared on our LivePlan Blog , is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! For those early-stage startups, this step of the meeting may be the most important step and take the longest. They’re right.

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The Next Web

JULY 4, 2014

Social sharers to spread your message and curate your content. Communities work because they’re built on relationships, and during the early stages of any new project, you need all the strong relationships you can get. No matter what you do in life, chances are good you’re reliant on some kind of a community. The community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

These trusted sources are a new breed of professionals who may soon carry the new title of “information curator,” evolved from the “museum curator” role, where a domain expert filters and communicates the important elements of a past civilization or technology. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.” Marty Zwilling.

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The Next Web

JULY 17, 2014

Most startups that hop into the a Y Combinator term are trying to get their business plan and product together, up-voting product curation site, Product Hunt already has buzz around it thanks to curated early adopters of founders, tech journalists, and VCs. Product Hunt isn’t the first established company to join Y Combinator.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Meet the Locals Here are the most active early stage investors in town that you should meet while you’re here and do deals with. It’s a robust ecosystem so I’m only listing the ones we’ve done the most deals with here but Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas so this is a good sampling.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Contributors include dozens of TechStars mentors and founder alumni, including Dharmesh Shah the founder and CEO of HubSpot and the curator of the OnStartups blog and community. A common reason for startup fatalities, particularly in the early days, is some sort of conflict between co-founders. If so, how is this to be treated?

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Gust

JUNE 25, 2014

Both are useful additions to the early stage entrepreneurial ecosystem. Because of the many, many thousands of companies that create profiles for their ventures each month, it would obviously be impossible (or at least of very limited utility) for either platform to send every new listing to every potential investor. Gust News'

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Here’s what you’ll learn how to do: Use LinkedIn, and later other social networks like Twitter, to curate a list of high-value, warmly-connected prospects. We’re not shotgunning emails to the masses, and 150-300 per week is a list you can curate. Step 5: Curate your list and make LinkedIn connections. The strategy in a nutshell.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That means both making people comfortable who wouldn’t otherwise feel welcome in the “tech community” and curating for top tier doers and the most successful. That’s why you also need super early stage investors who can lead rounds, being willing to place bets when there isn’t much there there. Angels can’t do it alone.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It will be an improvement over mammography by detecting abnormal cells in an early stage, is radiation-free, and is 2-5 times less expensive than mammographs. Real-time conversations and dynamic curation of news stories empowers people to expand their social networks and personal expertise about topics important to them.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

It could be that you are in the early stages of considering whether or not your idea for a non-profit organization is viable or not. For the very early stages of your non-profit organization, you may be able to work out of a makeshift office at home. Either way, congratulations. you will find yourself needing space.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

With outsource partners available to provide almost any kind of work that you will need from content curation to website and app design, knowing when and what to outsource to others can actually help your business to cut early costs. Outsourcing.

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Argona

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Squadhelp has reviewed more than 1 million names and curated a collection of the best available names on the web today. We are also the world's leading crowdsource naming platform, supporting clients from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies.

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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. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav.

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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. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

And besides, obtaining early-stage investment is no guarantee of success, either. These technology publications must do a better job of curating, so we as readers and consumers can learn about the start-up businesses with real potential, which are gaining real paying customers. Surely we can do better?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. framework for both presenting and analyzing early stage venture investment opportunities. and easy to remember?—?framework

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they needed a process that operated with speed and urgency, and innovators and stakeholders who curated and prioritized their own problems/idea/technology. A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation. As the head of the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Looking back seven years later, I’m immensely proud and satisfied with the impact Techstars has had on the world of entrepreneurship, especially at the early stages of company creation, and look forward to our goal over the next seven years of building the most powerful and connected early stage startup network in the world.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Startups, especially early stage startups, are in the weird position of simultaneously trying to reduce known risks while embracing new risks. As investors, we hope to help founders see around corners in order to assess and predict outcomes. Support not just sales, but item rental, item exchange and so on.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Moreover, as an early stage investor the late stage valuation issues don’t directly effect us. Proprietary product or uniquely curated experiences. Operational excellence. I couldn’t agree more.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2019

Sales-focused businesses can use CRMs to curate customer lists and help track every step of your sales process to ensure no lead goes unfollowed. Your CRM in the early stages. You can categorize contacts for future marketing purposes, and pull up reports to see who hasn’t been contacted in a while.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

Founded in 2010, MentorMob essentially curates and aggregates content such as YouTube videos, Wikipedia and About.com articles into intuitive, how-to courses or what they call “learning playlists” This makes it easy to find and learn a new skill, hobby or technique, say, salsa dancing, golf or a new language.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

But ultimately great people drive the ideas and Highland Capital is proactive in reaching out to entrepreneurs even at early stages. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. The curated approach gives advertisers and publishers more comfort in knowing the quality of content they will be amongst.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The goal here at ReadWriteStart over the last year or so has been to provide a place where first-time entrepreneurs and early-stage startups can find curated advice, tips and information to help them launch successful ventures. believes there is a science to it all.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When you first start a company, the corporate brand hasn't yet developed a reputation or any customer momentum, so most early-stage companies leverage the brands of the individuals involved for credibility. Aggregate and curate to reinforce. Refine your personal elevator pitch.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2018

One of your most important roles as a business owner is defining and curating the culture of your organization. Though most founders would agree culture is important in an organization’s success, it often takes a back seat to product development and generating a profit in the early stages of an organization’s life.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Note: Today, I am pleased to announce the “soft launch&# of a new channel of original and curated content of best practices, profiles, features, and commentary, covering the rapid transition to the mobile, app-based economy, aka, the appconomy. This interview is cross-posted from The Appconomy channel.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Similar to the discussions I did with Pocket Sun and Ellie Galbut of SoGal, I will invite a curated group of entrepreneurs to join me in a discussion with Pedro. About Pedro (from his personal website pedrosorren.com & his words): Pedro Sorrentino is a Venture Associate at FundersClub, focused on early stage and series-A investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He had pitched me in the past and I told him that for a variety of reasons his company was too early stage for me but that I would happily keep track of their progress. In an email you can have curated links - So at the risk of sounding contradictory, I still think press coverage is important to VCs.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 26, 2013

Consider an early stage company - and assume they have 2 choices, pursue crowd-funding or raise VC money. Equity crowd-funding as a broad asset class is similar to VC in that it seeks to take a stake in early stage startups and hope for big liquidity events down the road. Let’s discuss the quality challenge. Conclusion.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

GV (formerly Google Ventures) – Started in 2009, GV is Alphabet’s venture capital fund, focused primarily on early stage in diverse fields: from life sciences and healthcare to robotics and entereprise tech. Gradient Ventures – an early stage fund backed by Alphabet, investing exclusively in AI first companies.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Are you still in the early stages, when that development money would be better spent on advertising and growth, or is it time to streamline your store and prepare to scale quickly ? More than 40 percent of web traffic today is mobile, which means your website is already curating to mobile customers.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

It also includes some non-Israeli startups, mostly still at a very early stage. Here's the latest batch, curated by VC Cafe. Staying on the topic of sustainability, Deloitte partnered with Inbev to map the 2021 sustainable supply chain startups. Smart logistics innovation. Startup landscape maps can help.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The goal was to mobilize and educate the angel community in Boston to become more comfortable and more active investing in early stage internet, mobile, and software companies. Because of space constraints, the attendee list with be curated to manage an effective mix of angels, aspiring angels, founders, and students.

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