Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. You didn’t join startups then. You joined a startup if you couldn’t get a real job.

Cofounder 337

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Every town has firms that focus on startups – find them.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

No startup business encounters seas like glass forever. Some of them will be with you for the long-haul, and perhaps even become partners with you. Your overhead will grow as your startup business does, but you can’t totally understand what it’s going to be until you get started. Image by rawpixel from Pixabay.

Software Review 85

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

How can a tech startup engage with a Fortune 500 company for mutual benefit? The chasm between the typical Fortune 500 company and a startup is typically too vast for a standard partnership. I worked with our intern team to look for the Fortune 500 companies making the strongest effort to reach out to the tech startup community.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Startup businesses can benefit from the new tools in gaining root in the market. Considering the technology saves on time and money, it would be wise for startups to adopt it. From the database, you are able to take inventory of your business goods. It is now possible for companies to run effectively and become profitable.

Global 95

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2018

The business began to grow, as did his database of college students, their emails, cell phone numbers, and social media handles. Since we’re talking about raising money, what route do you think startups should take in getting off the ground?

Developer 159

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Here are six results that you can achieve by building a prototype, which are really the reasons that investors and partners will give you a whole new level of credibility as they evaluate your startup for potential funding: Something you can touch and feel helps validate opportunity. As a startup, you need all the leverage you can get.

Angel Investor 276

Angel Investor Database Cofounder Distribution 276

NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

IP steps for startups should be the same as for large multinationals, but within their budget. On the flip-side, the brand may play an important role in the value of the startup eg, TradeMe, Xero and 42 Below. Startups cannot afford to have such speed bumps. Startups cannot always afford a full suite of IP protection.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

In turn, your development partner delivers a high-quality software app for a lower price in comparison to in-house development. This option is called software development outsourcing and nowadays, it is one of the most common and most profitable options business owners worldwide use for their development tasks.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

Apollo.io, backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Y Combinator, has introduced an intelligent sales platform that is self-service and provides 50 free credits per month. The startup has received $9M in funding and is an alumni of Y Combinator, having been one of the few accelerator alumni profitable upon graduation.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2019

A VDR is an online database in which businesses can share and store confidential information, usually used during a financial transaction. For startups and larger enterprises, engaging in fundraising rounds is often key to growing a company. Below, you can find the most common uses of VDRs. Fundraising. Strategic Partnerships.

Intellectual Property 113

Intellectual Property IP Software Review Security 113

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have built relationships with a set of service providers specializing in startups, and have pre-negotiated discounted rates with them. We think coaching is a key lever for doing this, with our own team or through outside partners. Startup companies inherently have no brand; we leverage our brand and networks to promote theirs.

Portfolio 60

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

That's when I was struck by the idea: Why not provide a legit B2B customer database that is neither dodgy and nor a bad fit for a business? Feeling motivated by this realization, I connected with my brilliant Co-Founder Amy Yuan, who then built a massive database consisting of reviews, assessments, and scientific research related to skincare.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur B2B Database Technical Review 131

The Startup Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

Choosing the Right Data Management Partner. When a company is choosing the right partner to help manage their data, they need to look into the company’s current clients. These companies must be able to create master databases that make sense for the company’s daily use.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. He wanted to raise angel money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Here are six results that you can achieve by building a prototype, which are really the reasons that investors and partners will give you a whole new level of credibility as they evaluate your startup for potential funding: Something you can touch and feel helps validate opportunity. As a startup, you need all the leverage you can get.

Angel Investor 312

Angel Investor Database Cofounder Distribution 312

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Affectiva ’s database of facial emotional responses is in this category, as are Pallas Ludens (end to end data annotation service), and opensensors.io (adding value to public sources of sensor data). This is an underserved application area in terms of number of startups. Atlassian, readying itself to float ). Exploiting emotion.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s fairly rare in a startup or scaleup that you, as a CEO or CXO (Chief [fill in the function] Officer) of any kind, will have significant one-on-one time with other members of the executive suite; instead, you’re most likely to spend time with the team in executive meetings, at offsites, or during all-company events. Do they add up?

Metrics 62

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In a nutshell, cloud migration is a potentially complex process where a company completely or partially shifts its services, databases, applications, resources, and more to the cloud. Without the right cloud migration partners, you may also face issues such as security risks, compliance problems, insufficient training , and more.

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Cloud Database Salary Business Model 134

Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

rather than simply being screens to edit data from a database. The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Highland Europe. It is hard to find narrowly defined or walled-garden applications that do this effectively. Please share or subscribe! Originally published at [link].

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For a lot of startups, a few cold emails have made a world of difference in a multitude of ways. Specific templates include link building, sales follow-ups, fundraising emails, of course, the cold emails, partnering with influencers, and onboarding emails. Klear is an influencer marketing tool with an in-depth influencer database.

Email 133

Email Database Startup Search 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

Here are the key objectives that you can achieve by building a prototype, which are really the reasons that investors and partners will give you a whole new level of credibility as they evaluate your startup for potential funding: Something you can touch and feel helps validate opportunity.

Startup 263

Startup Angel Investor Database Cofounder 263

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We are very excited to partner with Sanjay Beri, founder and CEO of Netskope. To name a few: Ravi Ithal was an early engineer at Palo Alto Networks (PANW), where he architected their database and analytics systems. BYOD Cloud mobile Security security startups' Krishna Narayaswami was most recently a Sr.

Cloud 161

Cloud Security Analytics Mobile 161

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2019

What’s more, startups founded by women are 20 percent more likely to be revenue-generating and bring 35 percent higher returns to investors than all startups combined. Targeting funding opportunities aimed specifically at women-owned businesses should be a priority funding strategy of any women-led startup or small business.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Unfortunately, most of the databases out there dont quite make it easy for you to just say, "I'm X, who is looking for me?" Search LinkedIn posts for “VC lists” and you’ll get a lot of public postings like this one : There’s also Shai’s list of sub $200mm funds , this VCSheet database , this list of VC lists , OpenVC , etc, etc.

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ChatGPT Database Salary Naming 78

Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Having taken stock of the main legal documents and actions involved in forming and operating a new startup, let’s crack open the “case” (disregarding the warnings about voiding your warranty) and examine a few of the steps, documents and key decisions to be made in getting a new startup ready for business. Let’s start with your name.

Naming 141

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I have to start with a major negative: if you have to ask if your startup can get venture capital, then it almost certainly can’t. Venture capital is a very rarified atmosphere of high-end startups and emerging businesses with experienced management teams, high potential growth, secret sauce, and so on. How to find venture funding?

Software Review 124

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Elevator Pitch 124

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

It was like cancer,” recalls my business partner, who dealt with the situation. “To David Maman, founder and CTO of database security company GreenSQL , said our hack was the “old-fashioned” kind. Today, with a successful SQL injection hack, there will be no sign that someone has retrieved your entire database.”. We Were Lucky!

Small Business 60

Small Business Software Review Database Technical Review 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2013

Social relationship management platform Nimble is launching a program that would see it offer startups a year of free access to its social relationship software. With Nimble , companies can build their contact database of not just potential sales leads, but also influencers both online and offline, analysts, editors, bloggers, and partners.

Software 124

Software Startup Database Global 124

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 21, 2023

It’s this part: “I’m getting inbound from investors…” Nearly all of the inbound VC interest happening out there is from non-partner investors (i.e. All they’re doing is filling a database. A check-writing partner reaches out to you. professionals who can’t write a check) and they’re doing it systematically.

Cap Table 78

Cap Table Term Sheet Database Option Pool 78

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? A tech Startup OTOH may find themselves having to pivot as new players and innovation come into their market. And Good luck!

Naming 94

Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

In addition, in light of increasing competition in the startup funding space, a methodology for helping portfolio companies consistently is a strong competitive advantage. So how can VCs help their startups? Lowering that failure rate would be highly impactful on venture capitalist returns, if we could figure out how to do it.

Portfolio 144

Portfolio Private Equity Venture Capital Early Stage 144

mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Small startups rarely have a recruiting professional on their team — or even someone who has enough spare time to imitate a recruiting professional. One effective strategy is to recruit job seekers who already have their hearts set on working for a startup. The site grew out of Startup Digest , a mailing list of startup events.

Coder 60

Coder Technical Review Social Media Technical Cofounder 60

Board Effect

JUNE 10, 2019

The scariest part of starting a business is having enough startup funds and cash flow to get the business going before it can actually start to turn a profit. Business startups should be aware of the pros and cons of grants and other potential funding options. What Makes Grants So Attractive for Startups? Is There a Downside?

Small Business Administration 70

Small Business Administration SBA Startup Database 70

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Austin CityUP partners with the City of Austin on a continual basis, helping to help define our community’s smart city civic priorities and develop tech-forward means of addressing community challenges. Austin Tech Alliance is a member of Austin CityUP. Council passed Resolution No. Has the press written anything about this?

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Technical Review Austin Database Community 48

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

Here are six results that you can achieve by building a prototype, which are really the reasons that investors and partners will give you a whole new level of credibility as they evaluate your startup for potential funding: Something you can touch and feel helps validate opportunity. As a startup, you need all the leverage you can get.

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