YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Luck Companies , an aggregate business headquartered just outside of Richmond, Virginia, believes, to quote CEO Charlie Luck, that “all human beings have extraordinary potential to make a positive difference in the world.” Falling into this trap will blind you from seeing what matters to employees beyond external motivators.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2017

I met Jessica Alter when was running FounderDating, which helped solo founders discover their perfect cofounders. It’s the model we’ve used in Virginia for their 2017 elections. We’ll have done 35 projects on 15 campaigns (including the caucus) in Virginia alone by November 7, 2017.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 22, 2018

By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News From dog walking services to robot teaching assistants, 10 startup founders pitched their ventures at the sixth annual Techstars Austin Demo Day. This year’s class included six teams from the Carolinas and Virginia and four from Austin and half of them had female founders.

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VC Adventure

MAY 12, 2021

As most readers know, the book focuses on entrepreneurs from a diverse set of backgrounds – people that truly represent the next generation of founders in the United States. Fred Sachs on Grapewood Farm in Virginia. I was struck by how thoughtful, determined, and gritty they were.

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The Next Web

MAY 8, 2016

Since its humble inception, Nathan has grown Heyo from his dorm room at Virginia Tech to 10,000 paying customers, $2.5 Then, late last year, Nathan got the email every founder dreams of:… This story continues at The Next Web. million in venture capital, and over $5 million in revenue.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

Currently this structure is available 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 pending legislation. What about the rest of us?

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Everyone can be a creator now on the Internet, said Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit. When Ohanian and his University of Virginia roommate, Steve Huffman, pitched their idea […] The post Be a Creator and Change the World Says Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder of Reddit appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 20, 2014

For Will von Bernuth, co-founder of Block Island Organics, a family-run sun care startup, the flexible schedule allows him to help his parents. There are some monetary incentives to starting a business as well, says Fernando Campos, co-founder of Topwick, a members-only journal site that offers insider pricing on certain brands.

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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. West Virginia. West Virginia. Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen , co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. “American democracy was born of no theorist’s dream; it was not carried in the Sarah Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.”

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entrepreMusings

JULY 6, 2013

Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities. (San The top performing cities were Austin, Virginia Beach and Houston. It’s a bit dated but still useful especially since Austin, Texas made the list for being one of the most friendly places for small businesses! San Francisco, Calif.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He's the founder of GrubHub and he founded in his spare bedroom and grew it to a multi billion dollar online food delivery. I rode my bicycle from Virginia to Oregon. Marketing Podcast with Mike Evans.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Here are two good courses you might consider through Coursera: Business Strategy, offered by the University of Virginia. Originally created as online support for co-founder Lynda Weinman’s books on web design, the site has grown into a major learning destination. ” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

There’s something wrong when the cost of entry of Palantir , SpaceX and Anduril as new DOD contractors required billionaire founders.) For example, the F-35/B-21/KC-46 aircraft, Ford-Class Carriers, Columbia-class SSBN, Virginia-class SSN, M-1 tank upgrades, etc. New startups/companies rarely break into the system. Slides 35-37.

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Diego Basch

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Well, it’s always hard to start a business that gets really big regardless of the number of founders. Paul doesn’t address the implied question: how much harder would it be for a single founder? Regardless of the answer, I know first hand that it’s possible to be a successful single founder of a startup.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Bill Austin March 22, 2007 11:08 AM Dennis McDonald in Alexandria, Virginia USA said. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. There has certainly been a storm of activity over this question.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2012

I learned this lesson from Dave Lindsey, a successful entrepreneur and founder of Defender Direct in Indianapolis. The best way to keep these flames from permanently harming your business is to “leave a fire extinguisher behind” after putting out each fire. Do so and you’ll turn each one of them into an opportunity to improve.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Calxeda’s business purpose is to remove barriers to innovation by supplying super-efficient technologies that deliver the performance businesses and institutions need, with an order of magnitude improvement in energy and space efficiency.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Here are two good courses you might consider through Coursera: Business Strategy, offered by the University of Virginia. Originally created as online support for co-founder Lynda Weinman’s books on web design, the site has grown into a major learning destination. ” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. The carefully evasive proposal included intriguing tidbits: Jeff Bezos laughed when Mr. Kamen assembled an It for him [.]

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

by Sam Michaels, founder and managing editor of Cloud Accounting Today . Sam Michaels is the founder and managing editor of Cloud Accounting Today (www.cloudaccountingtoday.com). He has previously worked as a CPA and currently works as an accountant at a software firm in Northern Virginia.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. The carefully evasive proposal included intriguing tidbits: Jeff Bezos laughed when Mr. Kamen assembled an It for him [.]

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2018

When pitching a new client, I think it always comes down to trust,” says Graham Anthony, the principal and founder of Anthony Advisors, a mergers and acquisitions consultancy based in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Do Do they have the ability to do a good job?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 8, 2019

14.7%) New Mexico (7.14%) Virginia (14.3%) Four Industries General (28.57%) Healthcare/Life Sciences (28.57%) High Tech (28.57%) Social Impact (14.3%) 58% Female Founded “The amount of attention given to female and minority founders is long overdue,” said Sara T. Brand, general partner at True Wealth Ventures.

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

You can contact Adam J.August at 1600 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 700 | McLean, Virginia 22102 Phone 703.720.8059 | Fax 703.720.8610 adam.august@hklaw.com | www.hklaw.com Affinity Lab is an entrepreneurial launch platform serving a rich community of Washington DC businesses, non-profits and start-ups. Interested?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

There’s something wrong when the cost of entry of Palantir , SpaceX and Anduril as new DOD contractors required billionaire founders.) For example, the F-35/B-21/KC-46 aircraft, Ford-Class Carriers, Columbia-class SSBN, Virginia-class SSN, M-1 tank upgrades, etc. New startups/companies rarely break into the system. Slides 35-37.

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aweissman.com

JANUARY 18, 2021

Winter was outside and the view from the windows of the Dulles, Virginia office reflected the black and cold early evening. Mark Randolph, the co-founder and initial CEO of Netflix, writes about this in his book, That Will Never Work. Bob Pittman, the President of AOL, walked around the corner and stood in the doorway.

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2017

When pitching a new client, I think it always comes down to trust,” says Graham Anthony, the principal and founder of Anthony Advisors, a mergers and acquisitions consultancy based in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Do Do they have the ability to do a good job?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. The phrase “reddit” came to RedditM co-founder Alexis Ohanian while in the library of the University of Virginia in 2005. Insomnia Cookies.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). To address this problem, the NSF collaborated with Steve Blank to adapt his Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford for NSF-funded founders. The SBIR/STTR program.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 6, 2015

The founders early on identified the core issues and articulated the “problem;” they recognized the “opportunity” represented by the immense resources of the colonies; and they designed a “solution” in a new kind of government, ruled by the people themselves.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

million as a Kickstarter funded project, Virginia entrepreneur Alex Hawkinson has put together a promising partnership with If This Then That , a service that also ties other services together. The app has an unusually young founder, 22 year-old Lucas Duplan, who has somehow raised over $25 million to help start his company.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

As a black guy, in central Virginia, solving poor people’s problems, I was 0 for 3!” First, we need to intentionally recruit a different and broader pipeline of founders. Recruiting founders requires investment (Nike and Adidas invest billions of dollars a year in talent pipelines), and I’m seeing Austin do just this.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Students with entrepreneurial inclinations should find inspiration in Majora Carter’s fascinating tales of some impressively enterprising individuals from Chicago, Los Angeles and Whitesville, West Virginia. Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex. Jessica Jackley: Poverty, money — and love.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. BC: Yeah, Reid. But we saw it, we were really concerned.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Watch this video with the site’s founder and CEO where he talks about how he launched everything solo and wound up with an entire company built around one idea.

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