K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Stef Lewandowski , co-founder of Makeshift.io, which has launched apps attending.io , hiremyfriend.io domain also references “input/output”, something that Courtney Boyd Myers , founder of audience.io says founder Kellee Khalil. My co-founder] Gavin thought of it, but really knew we wanted a.io “These new.io io” as well.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. I have thought a lot about the issue of how to stimulate a region's entrepreneurship over the years. It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

taxes are a company’s biggest worry, it might think about incorporating in the Cayman Islands or Ireland. A major reason for incorporating is to have the founders assign their IP to the company; it is far easier for a business to contract with a startup when the IP is owned by one entity. If high U.S. However, the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Howard Lindzon weighed in with his comments : “As a CEO of a venture backed business myself and founder of many others, I would add one thing… Thick Skin. My first company was founded in Ireland, headquartered in England and had country operations in the UK, France & Germany. If you fail, you need to start all over.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

Thanks to Struan Baird, Luxury Ireland Tours ! #4- If you are looking for an industry to invest in, as a founder, one fast-growing industry to consider is the cybersecurity industry. 4- Eco-conscious Industry. Photo Credit: Chris Roth. Photo Credit: April Maccario. Many industries have declined in growth over the past years.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

And a great product starts with the founder. Hairy dentists / Pig farmers – I told the story last night how when I set up my first company the seed investor was a pig farmer from Ireland. It helps that my first company was actually founded in Ireland! Great companies are built by having great products.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

by James Clarke, owner and founder of Biocell Water. Despite this, the non-biodegradable plastic beads are only banned in Canada, the United States, the Netherlands and Ireland , with the UK planning to ban them at some point in 2017. James Clarke is the owner and founder of Biocell Water.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded. Reach out to the founders, not the staff. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons. Building companies is hard work. I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We were unprepared.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The company raised the money from Brad Feld, Bebo Founder and CEO Michael Birch and Federico Pirzio-Biroli, an angel investor in London, Boulder VC Bullet Time Ventures, Hallett Capital and a new fund in Northern Ireland, TechStart NI and SparkLabs Global. Brewbot, a Techstars Austin startup, just landed $1.5

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Startup founders and investors across the world love The Next Web, and we love them right back. We’re teaming up with local partners who know the scene well – in fact we’re still looking for great partners in Ireland, Russia and Turkey. You can find a list of locations below.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

I have lived (England, France, Italy, Spain, Japan & the US) and worked (Ireland, Germany, India) around the world. It also demystifies any assumptions that our founders were “puritanical” – they were anything but. I adore accents. I listen not only for the country but the region.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

You can watch the video of them presenting to the panel of judges featuring Cyan Banister from Founders Fund, Roelof Botha from Sequoia Capital, Jeff Clavier from Uncork Capital, Aileen Lee from Cowboy Ventures, and Matthew Panzarino from TechCrunch here: video (sorry, couldn’t find a way to embed the video). Immigrant Founders.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2018

by Michael Budden and Johnny Clarke, founders of Locate A Locum . Both are based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Starting a new business is a complex process, with many moving parts. There are always questions worth asking. For example, you’ve probably already asked yourself “Who’s going to buy this?”

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

As an aside, the other SaaS conference you should attend is called SaaStock in Ireland.) My talk was focused on walking entrepreneurs through how investors think about their portfolios and how founders can use this information to his/her advantage to raise money.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We have a group of amazing founders from all over the world,” Blake Yeager, managing director of Techstars Cloud wrote in a blog post. startups from Spain, Taiwan and Ireland are […] The post Techstars Cloud Selects 11 Companies to Participate in “Cloud 2016” appeared first on SiliconHills. In addition to the U.S.,

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 17, 2014

Apparently, leading entrepreneurs and innovators like Ingvar Kamprad (founder of Ikea), Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson, and Emil “Jay” Freireich (who discovered major breakthroughs in curing childhood leukemia) belong to this category of misfits.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

There is a new breeze blowing in the once troubled land of Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It would be interesting to know how he recruited speakers from the UK like the head of the Barbican, Sir Nicholas Kenyon , Fiona McAnena , founder of London-based Clearhound (a Derry native) or San Francisco based digital star, Daniel Burwen.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Noire by Virsix Games (Austin, TX) Wriveted (Sydney, Australia) Alternates for Entertainment and Content The Last Gameboard (Boulder, CO) Side Door (Halifax, Canada) Ryff (Los Angeles, CA) Health, Wearables & Wellbeing Milis Bio (Cork, Ireland) Radiobotics (Copenhagen, Denmark) Safe Health (Los Angeles, CA) Sisu Global (Baltimore, MD) TruPigment (..)

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

So, if you were the founder of a green energy startup in Sydney, Australia, you would Google “green energy business incubator in Sydney, Australia.”. At Bplans, we believe founders know their businesses best. The Local Enterprise Office provides support and advising to anyone starting a new small business in Ireland.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The Google for Entrepreneurs team (and the hundreds of Googlers who spend time mentoring and volunteering at Campuses) deserve a huge amount of credit for continuing to innovate and finding ways to support entrepreneurs, whether they are moms, seniors, or first time founders looking for advice. If you love *something* let it go.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

by Thomas Smale, founder of FE International. What if there was somewhere you could go where you can be surrounded by founders just like you? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Dublin, Ireland.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

1) Silicon Valley / San Francisco is too expensive With the high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area these days, a lot startup capital must now go towards founders’ rent. This will make it harder for SF to compete for startup founder talent. This is absolutely insane.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

1) Silicon Valley / San Francisco is too expensive With the high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area these days, a lot startup capital must now go towards founders’ rent. This will make it harder for SF to compete for startup founder talent. This is absolutely insane.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

Related to that, my post on ‘ Lean Market Research ‘ was a summary of a talk I gave to entrepreneurship students at London Business School and is a good first step when you’re entertaining a startup idea as a founder or investor.

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

Also notable: 20% of the startups participating this time around have female founders (LaunchBit, Snapette, Vayable, Cardinal Blue and Culture Kitchen) and three of those teams (LaunchBit, Snapette, and Culture Kitchen) are 100% female.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

Anecdotally, one founder complained to me that this has shorten his runway by 30%. Several discussions on social media have founders asking if they should hedge their FOREX risk. The plethora of established companies and unicorns in these spaces should continue to create the next generation of founders. Global tech correction.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Luckily for our community the founders decided they wanted to build their company in LA regardless of not having local funding from LA. ” The VPs of SnapChat will be LA’s great founders 5 years from now. Silicon Valley is littered with startups where the founders were originally in LA.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Welcome to the future. Co-Working Space.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2012

I talked to my co-founder Brian Moran (we launched the company in Ireland) about it. Now we move to definitive documents (long-form legal docs) and the whole freakin process starts again. This is not atypical and I found it very frustrating.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan).

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

6- Used a love and connection-themed name Photo Credit: Mollie Newton I'm Dr. Mollie Newton, founder of PetMeTwice and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM). After travelling to Ireland and London and admiring the colourful doors I was keen to add a colourful front door to my home. Thanks to Ian McKenzie, Fintech Compass ! #6-

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder. Enterprise Ireland is another example. Determined Founders. They burnt their ships behind them. Scaling internationally is easier.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder. Enterprise Ireland is another example. Determined Founders. They burnt their ships behind them. Scaling internationally is easier.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark. Co-founder, Polyvore. Founder, Monsoon and Badmash. Founder, Tout. Founder, Crowdvine. mashagenzel How $40 Saved Us Nine Months and $2MM Paul Howe.

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