Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

Angel Investor early stage founder Hawaii SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO Tom Nora angel investor CEOing first revenue leadership software Software Development The Next Level tom nora twitter venture capital' I wonder where it will go next, what the next big change will be to make todays capabilities obsolete.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 7, 2018

That’s Cyndi Thomason, founder and president of Bookskeep, standing in front of Pyrocumulus clouds at the Kileaua eruption in Hawaii. I think it looks a lot like that still from Gone With the Wind, the one taken just after Scarlett O’Hara says, “As God as my witness, I’ll never go hungry again!”. That’s not Scarlett in the picture.

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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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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

AdTech Angel Investor Business Development CEO Succession early stage founder Hawaii Launch SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO Tom Nora venture' Don’t compromise here. If you don’t have 5 then go find them. Contact me at t@tomnora.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We tend to stick by founders in tough times and often roll up our sleeves in the darkest hours. A Sense of Purpose. Great leaders are doers.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

When I hear “just start a company, you have nothing to lose” know it won’t ring as true to the realities many founders come from and what they need to overcome. But still, she’s been to Hawaii three times already. And this influences in an emotional, sometimes irrational way, the types of decisions they make.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In other words, Ben asserts that bringing in a professional CEO should be a last resort for a founder. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 18, 2017

When live in Hawaii and you don’t stay at a resort, you can’t help but ignore the unemployment and poverty in some areas that is directly relevant to education. Tell us about your business and what you do. . . What advice would you give to aspiring millennial entrepreneurs? .

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). Andy Sack, Dave McClure, Brad Feld & Jason Nazar (photo by Jolie Odell).

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2013

My Answer to Quora Qeustion: I’ve advised several founders from 500 su and they’ve all said Dave is fair, honest, easy going, and lets you know when you’re cheating yourself. Most venture capitalists will take a little advantage of naive entrepreneurs so this was surprising to hear over and over.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Angel Investor Business Development CEO Succession early stage founder Hawaii Launch SaaS Uncategorized Entrepreneur funding startup' If we saw each other on the street or lived on the same block we probably would just walk on by. So get out there, go to things that you like and are interested in. Barriers will melt. @tomnora.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. The company offers a tech-enabled full service pharmacy currently available in every state except Hawaii. Walmart’s $3.3B

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Next Year - Many possibilities – basic web design training, a 2 day conference in April, another 2 day conference in Hawaii in May. Cost is $10 plus food cost. Only a few spots left. If you want to be involved in any of these please contact me. There’s no pay but many other benefits.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. I’ve seen many first-time founders who had fallings out with their co-founders, had lawsuits, had investors bail on them, lost market momentum. But I’ve been thinking a lot about failure in the past year or so. I fund both types all the time.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

APRIL 5, 2010

companies include at least one founder who was born outside of the US. York, New Jersey, Florida, and Hawaii. One study found that 25.4% of engineering and technology. Here are a few more quick facts: Immigrants represent 12.5 of all business owners. Immigrants are 30 percent more likely to. start a business than non-immigrants are.

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entrepreMusings

JULY 6, 2013

In contrast, small business owners gave Hawaii, Maine and Rhode Island an “F,” while California and Illinois rounded out the bottom five, both earning a “D” grade.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Angel Investor Business Development CEO Succession Drupal early stage founder Hawaii Jobs Launch Revenue Growth Scalability startup startup CEO Tom Nora Uncategorized venture acquisition angel investor CEO blog CEOing CoFounder google income iOS leadership Silicon Valley tom nora venture capital'

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. MOST READ on FOLIO: F+W Acquires Aspire Media. Merging Brands with Technology. Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. Reports: Major Layoffs at Spin. FOLIO: Alerts & Newsletters. Sign up for our news alerts, special offers & feature updates: Your Email Address. Trade Show.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 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. Tina Fitch , co-founder of Hobnob , an app that lets users send and manage event invitations via text message. Alice Brooks is the co-founder of Roominate.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 16, 2016

Before I started my business I went to a conference in Hawaii called Worthshop and one of the speakers was Jody Burr who talked about finding your inner CEO. My co-founders and I considered lots of potential names, but knew we wanted something unique and interesting. In the end the answer was right in front of us all along.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Continually push more for diversity in students/founders; older people, Hispanics, women, brown and black – people of all of all flavors. Reach out to older/retired entrepreneurs, find them and put them into the mix as mentors, sometimes as founders and coaches and so forth. Students/Teams.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 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. Tina Fitch , co-founder of Hobnob , an app that lets users send and manage event invitations via text message. Alice Brooks is the co-founder of Roominate.

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Being the CEO of a startup is crazy, fun, very hard work, inclusive, humbling and of course can be quite rewarding. Weekends are meaningless. There is a continuous decision stream where each decision informs the next. Your mind is thinking 24 hours a day, even when you sleep.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects. Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do. For Twitter Founder, Its Hip to Be Square Inc.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

As such, in addition to being named after myself, the founder, the name of the company is a metaphor for what we endeavor to do for our clients. I took a cue from a company I used to work at, CaptionMax, whose founder and president was named Max. Therefore at White Rose, we focus on pure, properly layered strategic plans.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2016

Guest post by Melissa Moore, co-founder of Lean Startup Co. AOL co-founder Steve Case , who just released his new book, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future , is one of the big thinkers we’re excited to team up with. We billed ourselves as an international mail-order company.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 19, 2013

I attend and host many meetups and conferences for startups, and consult to several startups, and every founder is inevitably talking about Cash. Cash through investments, revenues, borrowing from F&F, VCs, convertible notes, deal terms, angels, etc. All of these things are magical words to early stagers. Cash, Cash, Cash.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 8, 2018

He is the CEO and Co-Founder at CoSchedule. Garrett Moon: Yeah, I mean, the story, me and my co-founder ran a marketing agency and had a lot of the problems that many marketers do on a day-to-day basis, and thought, “There’s got to be a better way to do it.” Transcript. ” So Garrett, thanks for joining me.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

I’ve interviewed several founders of successful travel agencies who can give you the advice you need to get started, and I’ve also included plenty of links and resources to help you work through the process of starting your own travel business. In California, Washington, Hawaii, Iowa, and Florida, you’ll need a Seller of Travel license.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Read also: Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. Peter: Yeah, that’s a perfect question for a recent article we posted called Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. The second reason is actually still a part of team but it’s the single founder. Startup Incubators – (2:13).

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Scalable Startup

MARCH 7, 2013

What are people doing now because your product doesn’t exist, what is the pain you will solve? What is it that you know about your specific niche that other companies do not? How and when does this make revenue and profits? What is the growth graph? tomnora.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 1, 2013

A great and very current case study of So Cal audacity and incredible success is Sophia Amoruso, founder of the Nasty Gal clothing dot com. Angel Investor Business Development early stage founder Hawaii Scalability startup startup CEO Tom Nora Uncategorized angel investor Cash Flow CEO CEOing CoFounder leadership Nasty Gal The Next Level'

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford. Let me preface by saying I obviously have a vested interest in being wrong about tough times ahead but as the old saying goes, “hope for best, plan for the worst.”. We took $2.3

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

9- Be the #1 Small Giant in Hawaii. You see like Silicon Valley, Hawaii is becoming its own startup paradise. That’s why my BHAG for Brandalaxy is to be the #1 brand strategist firm in Hawaii. That still feels like a huge and worthwhile objective to me. Thanks to Robert Stolk, Pointer Brand Protection ! #9-

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 28, 2013

Founders, Co-Founders, next employees, Investors, Etc. The founders of SmartAsset went through this process and decided to open it up to the world. One of the top 3 to 5 worries when launching a startup is is “Who gets how much stock upon start or joining?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

I chair a medical data research lab called WAMRI, and probably best known as the co-founder of fast.ai, although increasingly finding myself known, surprisingly enough to me, as the co-founder of this thing called #Masks4All. Jeremy Howard : I'm Jeremy Howard, a research scientist at the University of San Francisco. Good Lord, no.

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