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

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If there’s one thing that we can learn from studying successful startups and corporations, it’s that there’s no singular path to entrepreneurial success. Most startups start with a burst of momentum from the founder, slowly add some customers, and stagnate, before ultimately fizzling out. They Raise More Money.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. The few who did get it felt uncomfortable using video during the interview process.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I presented to 1,000’s of entrepreneurs, talked to 17 startups, gave 12 lectures, had 9 interviews, chatted with 8 VC’s, sat on 4 panels, talked policy with 2 government ministers, 2 members of parliament, 1 head of a public pension fund and was in 1 TV-documentary. Instead the business press dumped on the founders for “selling out.”

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Nicole Price of the Chicago-based International Center for Breathwork. The innovative techniques her group presents have tremendous health and wellness impacts, but also improve work performance and employee engagement.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series, we interviewed Mr. Jay Andreas. The Construction industry contributes significantly to the startup and entrepreneurial ecosystem. alone, there are nearly 700,000 construction companies , with over 90% being “Small”, with under 20 employees.

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View from Seed

MAY 31, 2023

For example, a 2009 study conducted by Paul Gompers and David Scharfstein, “Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship”, found that failed founders have the same chances of success¹ as novice founders, but prior success does increase the odds of future success. I reached out to a dozen founders using the criteria of: 1.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Mike Michalowicz. Mike is also the founder of Profit First Professionals. He is also the founder of profit first professionals. You know it, some employees are great. They were bad employees. Joel's his best employee. This is John Jantsch.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Impact of Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Lloyed Lobo In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Lloyed Lobo. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Cameron Herold. Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. I mean, I'm sure you run into a lot of companies that are still founder driven, very good at selling and they've grown. This is John Jantsch.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 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. Listen to the full interviews with Evangelos and Ashok by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. Clips from their interview are below.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs wireless power company.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. These topics were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Clay Hebert.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2018

I’ll summarize the paper’s conclusions, then share a few thoughts about what they might mean – for companies, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial education. (By People choose to be entrepreneurs when they feel that they are more capable than what employers can tell from their resume or an interview. Entrepreneurial Education.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Steve Hoffman, also known as Captain Hoff. Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company. Anand : Onboarding is when a new employee joins the team. Listen to Anand’s full interview here. Eye on the Prize.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2019

delivered inspirational keynotes and led us through workshops, informative chats, and discussion breakout sessions— along with a startup showcase featuring seven women founders. Although she spent her early years studying to become an astronaut, she realized that becoming a founder was her new calling. Foundries North America.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

14 Revealing Interview Questions | Inc – [link]. More founders reject VC money | Crain’s New York Business – [link]. Do You Have Entrepreneurial DNA? 5 Things Founders Shouldn’t Skimp On – [link]. 5 tips for startup founders from startup founders | Gigaom – [link].

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

As we continue to grow as a company, we will strive to remain a great place where our employees love to work. Our team is growing fast, and we’re excited about the results of our extensive interview process. 15- Feature and interview by SCOOP Founder Phil Stoten. This year has been momentous for my company.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 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. Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. Andy Cunningham.

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The Next Web

APRIL 11, 2013

Michael Mothner is the Founder & CEO of Wpromote, one of the world’s leading online marketing firms with 90+ employees and 2,000+ clients including Wine.com, TOMS, Zenni Optical, Behr, Charles&Colvard, Bayer and Toyota. Entrepreneur Insider Profiles and Interviews' Got a question for Michael?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. To date I have primarily focused on finding your way into an entrepreneurial environment, identifying a good idea, as well as starting your own business with purpose and style. 10-20% for employees. 60-70% for founders.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Carolyn Rodz. Carolyn serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. In this episode, we talk about how HelloAlice helps small business owners on their entrepreneurial journey by providing access to relevant funding networks and technical assistance tools along the way.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

In the summer of 2009, my wife and I caught the entrepreneurial bug and started a company without any prior business experience. Writing up a contract is especially important if you’re working with co-founders. If not, it’s time to get good at finding employees and hire an expert. We’d never hired anyone.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Building and choosing your team is for me the most critical part of an early stage growth business, and even now that we are a little bigger (over 50 employees) I try to be in as many interviews as possible. What I find so valuable about the entrepreneurial journey is the ability to leverage creativity at every turn.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

To give you a head start and to help you avoid some of the pitfalls along the way, I interviewed 5 amazing thought leaders in the Healthcare Staffing Industry. Lack of Balance and Diversification … Bill DeVille, CEO & Co-Founder Health Carousel. C&A Industries, Inc. Health Carousel is one of the 2018 Inc.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

While there are dozens of lessons I could take away from these entrepreneurs’ experiences, I want to highlight three common mistakes founders make in the early stages of a startup. So it is no surprise that many founders put off implementing financial record keeping, monitoring, and budgeting. But this is a mistake. There are 1.7

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

Two aspects of the original vision that deeply depend on the kind of general partners that we hire are: We will help develop founders into CEOs. We will have deep respect for the entrepreneurial process. As a founder who developed into a CEO, I know that there is no manual and it is a nearly vertical learning curve.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Use frameworks in interviews to explain your qualifications and show your thought-processes. In an interview with First Round Capital, Dropbox’s Vice President of Product and Design, Todd Jackson, observed : “The PM role needs to be purposely flexible, almost by design. A PM basically sits at the center of UX, technology and business.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

You interview sales and marketing execs for prior relevant experience and their rolodexes, and hope they execute the playbook that worked for them in prior companies. No newly hired sales and marketing exec is going to tell a founder, “Hey my prior experience and assumptions may not actually be relevant to this new startup.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

What it was like to get out of the research lab to build a startup was the focus of interviews with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Clips from their interview are below. Brandon McNaughton. Brandon : (Nods.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In an interview with GE’s Culture Transformation Leader Janice Semper during Lean Startup Week, Eric Ries remarked, “Listen, that's our specialty here. To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. … Second, don’t simply hire your buddies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2016

Other entrepreneurs don’t even realize that they badly need a co-founder or team leader who can complement their own skills. Thus the burden is heavily on the job seeker to sell their value, and proactively find the roles that will get their entrepreneurial career off on the right foot. Be an expert on new markets and new startups.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Girish and his team are former Zoho employees and bring to their entrepreneurial efforts the perspective and learnings of Zoho, which has been successful in drastically undercutting high-end competitors in a major market, namely CRM, the office suite, and so on. Recordings of previous online roundtables are all available here.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Bill Wood, founder of Silverton Partners and an early General Partner at Austin Ventures before, said something that got me thinking (quoting from the SiliconHills article ): Because it’s easy to startup a company and doesn’t take a lot of money, Silverton Partners sees more startups forming, Wood said. And he’s also taught me a lot.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired. A Day in the Life of A Founder For those of you who’ve never started a company, let me assure you that it never happens like the pleasant articles you read in business magazines or in case studies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 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. Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. Andy Cunningham.

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