crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2019

Techstars Studio will then launch new startups and source talent and capital from the Techstars worldwide network to run the new companies. We are investors in PSL (in Seattle) and High Alpha (in Indianapolis). The Techstars Studio will then build prototypes, test market adoption, and select the most promising concepts for launch.

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Indianapolis Seattle Cofounder Leadership 135

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. For better or worse, the city and the Bay Area are now synonymous with entrepreneurship and innovative thought leadership.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

These designers help small to mid-sized brands design/develop quality product by exposing them to big company best practices and a global network of factories, trim suppliers, fabric sources, etc. Working at a mighty mid-sized agency provides employees the unique opportunity to grow within their positions and assume leadership roles.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Technical Review Harvest Portfolio 89

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

Geekwire named Outreach one of the top 10 transformational Seattle startups , and Top Hat got some great press from the Globe and Mail and Financial Post for its success in the Edtech market. Clio and Top Hat ranked in the Deloitte Fast 50. Both Outreach and Top Hat added some star power to their teams. It’s recommended reading for everyone.

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Seattle Portfolio Seed Stage Canada 130

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky. For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. I saw too much of myself in Hamet. And he followed through.

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Partner Los Angeles South Africa Cap Table 340

Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Incubator Entrepreneur New York City Silicon Valley 147

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

By age 25, Robinson Lynn had assumed leadership of a Manhattan training and development company, acquired a second location for it, doubled its client base, and reinvigorated its philanthropic activities. Momentum currently has a graduate base of 30,000+ and growing with offices in NYC, DC, Seattle and Los Angeles.

New York City 118

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Lack of Technical Leadership In my definition, to call a company a tech startup, there must be some significant technology that gives you an advantage. A Large Number of Ex-Employees With social networks like LinkedIn, its easy to get a rough idea of how many people work at a given company. leadership) problem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

So, SF New Deal is important not just for the work it does directly, but as an archetype of the kind of leadership we are going to need to get out of the crisis. So, I do think the tech companies here certainly took leadership in just deciding this is good for public health. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

By age 25, Robinson Lynn had assumed leadership of a Manhattan training and development company, acquired a second location for it, doubled its client base, and reinvigorated its philanthropic activities. Momentum currently has a graduate base of 30,000+ and growing with offices in NYC, DC, Seattle and Los Angeles.

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New York City South Africa Los Angeles New York 108

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

But it's also a really interesting story, because Los Angeles was very early in rolling out drive-through testing for the City of Los Angeles, thanks to the leadership of Mayor Garcetti. I had a fever, had a really strong headache, and this was when the first cases in Seattle were happening. Fred had had.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And if you look elsewhere at places like Seattle you see the same pattern; Microsoft may have been built in Redmond, but Amazon and many of the more recent startups like Zillow, Redfin, Zulily, etc are all in Seattle’s downtown core. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago?

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. Enter Box. They gave me a shot. Working at Box was a revelation. We recently announced Coalition Fund I, a $12.5M

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 12, 2011

On January 5th, he left a friend’s home in Seattle having given away his own home, cars, and possessions and with just a laptop, $10 is cash and a backpack with a few changes of clothing. Over the next two months I donated everything I owned, flew to Seattle, and launched the experiment on January 5, 2011.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) True Wealth Ventures focuses on funding companies with women on the leadership team. Agave is a new fund focused on funding Black and Brown founders.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The leadership centers of the microcomputer world shifted from Albuquerque to the San Fernando Valley (LA), the Bay Area, and Seattle. All my colleagues tended to live in the same “Telco Heights” areas of the cities of the year, and their personal networks were contained inside Ma Bell. Deals were getting done there.

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Atlanta Albuquerque Incubator Austin 48

www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times. Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Professional networks are the starting point (and growth engine). For many, that transition was possible not just because of quality work but because of a network built over a career. Bill Sebald of Greenlane Marketing explains: Bill Sebald, Greenlane Marketing: “I had a network of people I built through previous jobs.

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SEO Hiring PPC Leadership 110

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Professional networks are the starting point (and growth engine). For many, that transition was possible not just because of quality work but because of a network built over a career. Bill Sebald of Greenlane Marketing explains: Bill Sebald, Greenlane Marketing: “I had a network of people I built through previous jobs.

SEO 49

SEO Hiring PPC Leadership 49