ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Money wasn’t an obstacle for the Chicago-based founder, but as a black woman in technology, networking in a new city might be. “We In a perfect world, Brooks’ startup would be defined by its merit, not the demographic background of its founder. Invisible Barriers. But in reality, Brooks is an anomaly.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. View More in Boston ›. View More in Detroit ›. New York ›. San Diego ›.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Last up, Ashesh Patel from Oakland, California, pitched StyleShop247.com StyleShop247.com.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 15, 2018

Central Texas founders and investors will want to catch the ACE opening session at 10:00 am on Thursday, April 19. The last session of the event begins at 5:00 pm on Friday, April 20 and features a Pitch Competition showcasing three cannabis-based startups from around the United States: Lumen (Oakland), BDTNDR (Austin) and FLUX (Dallas).

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Austin Startup

APRIL 18, 2018

Said another way, these changes offer some tremendous opportunities in the increasingly legal cannabis market for founders and startups with innovative and original entrepreneurial ideas. In 2017, this business was estimated to be worth $7 billion and had a growth rate of close to 30 percent.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 6, 2020

San Diego, California San Diego is California’s only representative in the top 10 (Oakland is next in 12th). At 86.3%, the gender pay gap could be obliterated in the city by 2030 if the current trend continues. Much of that is down to a top place finish for female-owned businesses. Growing by 1.87% to 21.1%

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

An entire entrepreneurial ecosystem was built up around this model including venture capitalists who would fund the big investments provided there was a big market, entrepreneurs who would start the companies and seasoned executives who would take over once the business outgrew the founders. Spend nickels like they were manhole covers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the military or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. Can it be self-directed?

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

Joining me in the investment is fellow Brooklyn native, Mitch Kapor , as well as KEC Holdings and Stickerbrush—but this wasn’t an easy round for Founder Raul Gutierrez to close. Tinybop raised a seed round of about $800k last fall. When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea."

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Diego Basch

MAY 20, 2019

It is obvious that you do not need to be rich in order to become a successful startup founder. However, it is also easy to prove (by sampling of successful founders) that privileged backgrounds are over-represented. This is one, on 42nd St (Oakland). I have one final beef with this whole thing. pic.twitter.com/sfKVt4eALU.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 22, 2014

Satya and I visited Blue Bottle’s Oakland HQ a few weeks back and I love talking with retailers about the way technology is changing their business (such as this previous post with a SF-based bakery owner ). DB: I met James Freeman, our founder and CEO, through one of our investors in the summer of 2012.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. And in fact, my co-founder is one of those, right?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I mean, number one, having a co-founder who has always held that space of look, we've got each other's back, and that has been absolutely key.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2014

About Brad Jefferson, CEO and co-founder, Animoto. Brad graduated from Dartmouth College and currently resides in Oakland, California, with his wife and their two children, both of whom are stars of his frequent Animoto video creations. If you haven’t discovered video for yourself, there’s no better time than now to get started.

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K9 Ventures

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

A founder who’s in it to make money will take too many shortcuts. Not many folks know this, but Lyft ‘s co-founder Logan Green has been passionate about transportation for a long time. Logan’s co-founder John Zimmer studied hospitality at Cornell. There are no shortcuts. Start with Mission You Care About.

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

Entrepreneurship is often born of founders’ sheer frustration with the status quo. One class of clear business opportunity, which wouldn’t exist in an ideal world, is created by the service that seemingly makes it as difficult as possible for potential paying customers to make it take their money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. They co-founded it with former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. She served as the U.S.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. We frequently promote this idea at Palo Alto Software; our founder Tim Berry even wrote the book on it. However, the interest in cat cafes stateside is certainly growing.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Danny Haber is the founder of oWOW, a B2B and B2C concern which is directly involved in building modular units for resale to property developers, and as new housing for consumers. Who is Danny Haber and What is oWOW Doing to solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Or the founder, or the product, or the market – no metrics can measure those intangibles. Until 2002 – when the Oakland A’s’ baseball team took advantage of analytical metrics of player performance to field a team that competed successfully against much richer competitors. Startup success is all about the team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Investors are the “who’s who” including: Steve Case, Ron Conway, Jack Dorsey, Dave Morin, Betaworks, Founder Collective, AOL Ventures. - $1 million seed round. Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com. TechCrunch article.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

In addition, 83% of companies had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian, while only 12% of founders were Asian and less than 1% of founders were African-American. Conventional Founder Background. Quadrant I : Most VC-backed companies, e.g., Mark Zuckerberg, Founder/CEO, Facebook. Non-Majority Markets.

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