Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. The expected lull between “seed” and “harvest”. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2020

He is the founder, CEO, and ten percent owner of Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce retailer, with an estimated employee count now approaching one million. For example, he continues to invest in space travel and energy harvesting ( Blue Origin ), even though we haven’t yet run out of energy, and we still have space for growth.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2020

by Dr. Jim White , founder and president of JL White International and bestselling author of “ Opportunity Investing: How To Revitalize Urban And Rural Communities With Opportunity Funds “ COVID-19 has disrupted the business world, and the “normal” of a few months ago may never return. and Growers Ice Company, Inc.,

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 12, 2021

MIKE ANDERSON, founder of Leading Great Learning, leadinggreatlearning.com. DR. KEVIN LEICHTMAN, co-founder of TLC Education, tlceducate.com. MONEY-MAKING TIP: Understand the principle of seed time and harvest time, or sowing and reaping. Be consistent and take the right, small steps every day, and a great harvest will come.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

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. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. It says what?!”).

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Austin Startup

JUNE 20, 2020

Maybe your business is involved in social impact initiatives, or maybe your teas are harvested in the US, or maybe your teas have been formulated to reduce stress. Take a look at the visual branding of your three closest competitors, and consider how you can amplify the strengths that make your business different.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

Harvesting unbiased, objective opinions from across your target audience will help you to spot any flaws in your idea while there’s still time to fix them. Alex Friedman is the co-founder and managing partner of Jackson Hole Economics, a private research organization that develops actionable market intelligence for policymakers.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Daily Harvest I don’t remember why I decided to join but I remember joining initially and immediately cancelling because I realized that it came shipped frozen. Daily Harvest is the only thing I can plan to have shipped each month as I know I start craving for ice cream at some point. Well, you guessed it. That’s how they get you!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The Founder’s New Insight Smart founders are never satisfied with simply executing their current business model, they are constantly observing, orienting and deciding whether their current business model can be made better. But the purpose of this post is what happens when a founder (or large company CEO) finds a better business model.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2020

by Jack Colton, founder of SilentRich.com. A few weeks later, you’re waking up freezing in a bathtub full of ice in Tijuana with a note taped to your forehead telling you to “get to the doctor fast if you want to live,” because your new friend just harvested your kidney and took equity in your new company. We’re smart after all.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2017

by Darshan Mehta, founder and CEO of iResearch. Winery location no longer matters like it once did, and the blending technique helps protect winemakers against a bad harvest. From tikka masala macaroni and cheese to garlic-kimchi pizza , “Frankenstein” food combinations are all the rage.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2012

“I was raised in the country and had the pleasure of jogging past and interacting with farmstands every morning growing up,” explains Todd Greenfield, founder and president of Stonington, Connecticut-based America’s Farmstand. That’s where America’s Farmstand comes in.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2011

This is probably the weakest link of most technical founders. Sow the seeds & harvest the dealflow later. One aspect of this is understanding when to be flexible with the entrepreneur and how to deal with the situation when things get tough. Help and mentor on how to build a sales organization.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Planning for a Harvest. In a lot of startups (especially good ones) the founder/CEO/leader is a customer-oriented sales person. But.for a company with investors who expect a "harvest," just as things get good on the revenue side, the strategic plan for the companys future becomes very important. Planning for a Harvest.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2013

It was about the founder of Sriracha sauce, David Tran, displaced from Vietnam when the North’s communists took power. Uncompromising product quality (he processes his chillies the same day they are harvested). . “We don’t make mayonnaise here.” If you don’t like it hot, use less,” he said.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

According to Glossier co-founder Emily Weiss , “one of the things that we really rely on is our customers as co-creators and sort of co-conspirators of our company.” Think of wood (which can be grown, harvested and regrown) as opposed to coal (a finite resource ) which will inevitably run out. Know what matters.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc. The patent-pending AVA Byte knows exactly what you’re growing and will adapt the light and water schedule to nurture the harvest. Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc., Do you lack space, time, and skill to garden indoors? AVA Technologies Inc.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc. The patent-pending AVA Byte knows exactly what you’re growing and will adapt the light and water schedule to nurture the harvest. Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc., Do you lack space, time, and skill to garden indoors? AVA Technologies Inc.

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Austin Startup

JULY 12, 2010

Andy Meadows is the founder and CEO of Bearhug , an Austin-based customer engagement platform launching today. And there are definitely some good guys out there – like Prefinery , BatchBlue , Beanstalk , Chargify , Freshbooks , and Harvest , that make open data a commitment, not just a buzzword, and are growing quickly as a result.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

NBD Nano co-founder Deckard Sorensen was inspired by the beetle to the point that he created a self-filling water bottle, which he hopes to bring to the market by 2014. The Namib Desert beetle lives in an area that only gets half an inch of rainfall per year, and so it draws 12 percent of its weight in water from the air to quench its thirst.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

HOF Capital has experimented with using services for targeting institutional LPs ( e.g., CEPRES , Drooms Dealflow , Harvest Exchange , Palico , Trusted Insight ). Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments. are using AngelMob.co

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Some of these changes included downsizing wardrobes, harvesting rainwater and carpooling. link] “I believe everybody should have access to beautiful, functional, healthy living spaces,” said Miguel Vasquez, founder of Waterloo Tiny Homes. So, are tiny homes the environmentally friendly and economical housing solution of the future?

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

The Apple analogy is a good one because that company and its founder Steve Jobs were especially skilled at timing their product innovations just right. In other words, they knew how to push the envelope on the leading edge, but not the bleeding edge. Lesson #2: Attack a vulnerable flank.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

2/ Transforming Old Industries: It’s almost cliche to hear founders and investors talking about their love of “unsexy markets” and using technology to transform old industries, and now in PlanGrid, we have a very large and notable example which should give other players hope in thinking this type of event can happen in their industry, too.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  At the financial level , and assuming a harvest of the investment in the company without the need for further financing, two terms stand out as driving economics: the dividend and the liquidation preference.   You can see how these affect the harvest proceeds and investor multiples achieved at various levels.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2017

6 – Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. I am a Financial Educator & Coach and the founder of Youth Smart Financial Education Services. I’ll call this the harvest. Once the credit score increases, that’s their harvest. Image Credit: Roslyn Lash.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

It can take people from being unemployed or underemployed to having their talents fully utilized and this stands to harvest the most from a workplace that recognizes the critical importance of the mind-body connection. The society that harnesses human capital to assist people with mental wellness will maximize potential.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2011

No one wants to plant the wheat or harvest the wheat or grind the wheat. Joel Nielsen is the founder of MediaShark, LLC in Salt Lake City, Utah. You will be thought an idiot until you start making money. I only have one book that is mandatory reading for my staff: The Little Red Hen. Business ownership is exactly like the story.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Weaknesses inside the founder team kill startups. The truth is, sometimes you need to replace your co-founders and start over. Usually it’s because the founders were doing exactly what they needed to do to raise money. Burning Up All of their Runway – Founders can also go out of business but then everyone loses.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

Usually unbeknownst to all, the decision around pursuing or accepting a venture capital round will be the most important factor in determining the investment return for the founder and the original angel investors in the company. But here is the key – contrary to popular wisdom it is negatively correlated. Venture capitalists Cut Tough Deals.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. And I found a like-minded co-founder in Nikolai, Nikolai Eroshenko, whom I mentioned before. HelixNano was founded to develop cancer vaccines.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

As a bootstrapped startup, the only accountability you have is to yourself and to your co-founder if you have one. Now as a bootstrapped business, you’re still giving away equity, but instead of for money, you’re giving it away for time, to your co-founders and others you may work with. Do you know Danny Wen of Harvest?

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 22, 2014

DB: I met James Freeman, our founder and CEO, through one of our investors in the summer of 2012. It starts with education about coffee from our buying team: where it grows and how it is harvested, processed, bought, shipped, roasted, brewed, and enjoyed. Espresso and milk are hard.

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SVPG

DECEMBER 11, 2011

If you’re in one of these companies that has gone many years without new sources of revenue, and are harvesting the innovations of the founders, and you’re wondering if it’s possible for your company to learn these skills, one of my favorite examples today is the team at Barnes and Noble.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia ( source ) Michael Eisenberg, co-founder of Aleph, an Israeli venture firm, said in a recent post: “What is the elevator pitch for investing in Israel for the next decade? credit rating forecast dropped in November, and since then the S&P 500 index has jumped by 15%.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Daily passes are $30, but you can harvest an entire month’s worth of visits for $310. Check out our latest ebook by crowdspring founder and CEO Ross Kimbarovsky titled STAND OUT: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting, Growing, and Managing a Successful Business.

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