Eric Friedman

JUNE 26, 2017

We started Expa Labs to help founders build and ship new ideas. Just like a startup, Expa continues to iterate on making our program better for the creation and scaling of companies. A stealth neural training company. (PS — if Competitive to one of our stealth studio companies. Earlier today we announced this at Expa.com.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). Shopateinment – Shopping will become a top priority for social media companies – from TikTok to Facebook and Snap – video will be a big driver for product discovery, as Andreessen Horowitz partner Connie Chan points out.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Five years ago, as the mania around seed fundings was accelerating, Founders were very eager to announce their seed round to the world. And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. Inbound partners. Here’s why.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. Our partners include IBM and one unannounced Fortune 50.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ).

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Sunday, August 15, 2010.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Currently in R&D mode and working with select partners. CrowdSpot -credit verification through your social graph, started by Yaron Samid – founder of TechAviv and former co-founder and CMO of Pando Networks. Self reported: smart product sourcing (that’s it!).

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Currently in R&D mode and working with select partners. CrowdSpot -credit verification through your social graph, started by Yaron Samid, founder of TechAviv and former co-founder and CMO of Pando Networks, and Raphael Ouzan. Also: &# Personal finance security startup powered by crowd-sourced consumer vigilance.&#.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

Today is the day that eight hopeful startups got to pitch their ideas to investors at startup accelerator Springboard’s Internet of Things (IoT) demo day in Cambridge, England. But with mentoring and show and tell behind them, today is the day they get to pitch their ideas to investors, so, here are details of seven of the startups.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have built relationships with a set of service providers specializing in startups, and have pre-negotiated discounted rates with them. We think coaching is a key lever for doing this, with our own team or through outside partners. Startup companies inherently have no brand; we leverage our brand and networks to promote theirs.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

I was to be the alternate so if any of the other 3 startups pitching couldn’t present, then I would take their spot. Moderator Matt with 4 relieved Founders Weekly 5 am Skype calls began and I’d jump online blurry-eyed to see a bunch of smiling faces who’d already put in big work days. Sprung in stealth mode!

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

It’s a common question that every VC fields from founders — and founders field from other founders, and marketers field from founders, and PR people field from founders. So, when should they — or any seed-stage startup — think about drumming up some PR and making noise around funding?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!,

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Last week, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Ten Little , came out of stealth and announced its public launch. . Investing pre-launch is largely about building conviction around a founder, and we’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to get to know Fatma over the past 9 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always surprised by the fact that some never seem to be able to that first startup going, while many others never seem to stop, starting their second or third initiative before the first one is fully hatched. I’m now convinced that serious entrepreneurs relish the startup process more than success.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

And they should be; the feeding frenzy in the innovation economy is in some cases because startups are eating the lunch of more established companies. Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. New York Times’ timeSpace is a good example.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2020

I then had a couple other interim leadership roles, first as interim CEO of another tech company in New York, then in March as the founder and interim leader of Colorado’s COVID-19 Innovation Response Team, which I wrote a series of blog posts about ( this is the final post in the series, which links to the whole series).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

by Falon Fatemi , founder and CEO of Close. If so, you can thank the founder Nick Swinmurn. If there’s a way you can help a potential business partner early in the relationship, do it. Have you ever purchased shoes from Zappos? I met Nick several years ago when he consulted with me about one of his companies.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers. All is not lost!

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. We’re hoping to work with more startups affected by this fundraising crunch. I should make clear that we are not life science investors.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

A couple weeks ago my colleague Dimitri Dadiomov published a post on NextView’s “View From Seed” blog which answered the question “Should we take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders?” From the group, over 260 founders have launched around 90 startups, raising more than $2.5B in capital. Quite the contrary.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2016 was a banner year for boldstart , and we could not have achieved any of this without the amazing support of our boldstart family and the founders who have given us the opportunity to invest in and partner with them. Enterprise companies get more comfortable purchasing from startups. and we expect this trend to continue.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I was recently speaking with some founders about their fund raising process. As in real life – those that rush into marriage often find out what their partner is really like after the fact. How do you then reference check your VC to be sure that you’ve chosen a good firm and partner? When the world was ending?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. -

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

by Lihi Pinto Fryman, Co-Founder and CMO of Syte. The truth is, we operated in stealth mode for three years to make sure that our product could stand up against the solutions created by the likes of Pinterest and other monolithic companies. The truth is, there are so many startups making incredible products and guess what?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 4, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event on March 10 and 11, 50 startups from around the world will attempt to impress a panel of judges with their skills, creativity and innovation. AirPop’s co-founder Chris Hosmer (pictured above) answered our questions for this interview.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Amy Keller’s startup PurePlus transforms produce that would be wasted into healthful candy The Forrest Four-Cast: February 24, 2020 If food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind China and the U.S. PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. Female entrepreneurs must have grit.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

by Lihi Pinto Fryman, Co-Founder and CMO of Syte. The truth is, we operated in stealth mode for three years to make sure that our product could stand up against the solutions created by the likes of Pinterest and other monolithic companies. The truth is, there are so many startups making incredible products and guess what?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Israeli startup FootTraffic offers advertisers a performance marketing platform for location-based offers. That’s the problem that Israeli startup FootTraffic wants to solve. This would require some heavy lifting on the business development front, but FootTraffic is confident in its ability to create value for its partners.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

By Lihi Pinto Fryman, Co-Founder and CMO of Syte. Startup success depends on a many factors related to your vision, product, and market opportunity. The truth is, there are so many startups making incredible products and guess what? Partner with Big Brands. Don’t Make Case Studies an Afterthought.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Now, 150 days after October 7th, the Israeli startup ecosystem is once again in a tough spot. Creating companies, raising funding, completing multi million M&A deals.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

We have over 20 years of experience backing bold founders with big visions. BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. Here is our attempt and then I will break down how it all ties together: boldstart''s messaging.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. You’ll be the only startup there. No one funded us.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

That company, which now has a client list of more than 200 companies and additional offices in the Philippines and New York, takes on the startup projects that Kayweb Angels selects. In exchange for $150,000 to $300,000 of work, each startup has given Kayweb 14% to 40% equity. Have an account?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 13, 2014

As investors in the company since the early days, we here at Lightspeed have been honored to be a partner of Nest. I first met Tony Fadell, co-founder and CEO of Nest, in the summer of 1991. I was an intern at a then 30 person startup called General Magic (GM) while I was a student at Stanford Business School.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. million in a second round led by previous backer Genesis Partners and joined by T-Venture , the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom.

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