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. billion.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2018

I’m in Seattle for the next few days. I’ve built this trip around Techstars Seattle Demo, a bunch of time at PSL, and a Moz board meeting. While we don’t have an office in Seattle, I’m confident we have a comfortable place to hang out when we are in town. Amy’s is Paris; mine is Seattle.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. This means there MUST be a technical founder in a startup. Yeah me neither.

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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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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. billion.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 10, 2020

The stock market had already had a 15% or so drop but there were less than 10 deaths (all in Seattle) from Covid in the US. The leaders have been remarkable and I continue to learn about leadership by working closely with them. As we discussed the potential impact of Covid, we talked about the current state of things in the US.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. Startup DNA. He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky. I was the first operational startup partner added – having built and sold two software companies.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. The strongest impact on improving this situation is Silicon Valley and Seattle companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and others are making enormous investments in building So Cal as a software town. What is Drupal?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2013

A company I’ve been involved for a long time with – Rally Software – is taking a leadership role in this. Rally’s product development team is devoting their talent and energy to participate and host the Boulder, Denver, Seattle, and Raleigh event ( join up at these locations.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. 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. Look, I know it sounds cliché, but one person really can change the world.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. First, congrats! Enter Box.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

This will not be a personal essay about that move, which is motivated by family and opportunity, but it does give me reason to address the decision process about where to locate your startup. The leadership centers of the microcomputer world shifted from Albuquerque to the San Fernando Valley (LA), the Bay Area, and Seattle.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a student of leadership and communication, he learned to elevate the way Amazonians write, collaborate, innovate, pitch, and present. He created a scalable model that grew from a small team in a Seattle garage to one of the world’s largest employers. Yeah, it that he built in the garage of a rented home in Seattle.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 18, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO Before Founding Konamoxt, my last gig was the Chief Technology Officer for a local Seattle Startup. Mr. Startup CEO, I’m here to tell you, you can’t afford to hire a CTO. This philosophy can apply to a lot of things about startups.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Urbanization of Startups. I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, April 13, 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. in terms of time spent on the sites.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2016

As an example, consider the public relations coverage earned in 2015 by Seattle payment processing company Gravity Payments when its CEO announced that every employee of the company would earn at least $70,000 within three years. Change the Perception of PR. Jess Harris, Content & Social Manager at Kabbage, Inc. ,

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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. And, listen, I tell the stories of startups going fast for a living. Fred had had. Celine Halioua : Yep.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

I profiled one of these interactions from when I last visited Seattle. Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness (Tiger Moms & the true definition of success). I find no better way to get a feeling for local communities than to sit with a group of early-stage entrepreneurs and talking about the local scene.

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Austin Startup

JULY 15, 2017

Screen capture of a rather “familiar” article on Texas Monthly’s website It’s now been exactly a month since I published an article about RideAustin , one of the local ride-hail startups that launched in Austin last year after Uber and Lyft left town. (NB: Every founder screws up at some point; almost none of them do so on purpose.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

We do like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Elon Musk touts launch of ‘SpaceX Seattle’ | Business & Technology | The Seattle Times crowdspring.co/1BadR6p. crowdspring.co/1Ez2Stn.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Taylor was recognized by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) in its Commercial Space Leadership Awards in January 2020, receiving the Commercial Space Business & Finance Award for his business and financial leadership in commercial space activities that have benefited the industry as a whole. Niche recycling.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In 2011, “I was speaking at Mozcon in Seattle,” remembers Conversion.com ’s Stephen Pavlovich. I would have been better suited choosing a business lawyer and accountant with startup experience and asking for more hand holding. Instead, I focused my efforts on building thought leadership. Critchlow) “Leadership.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

my new startup is keeping me pretty busy these days, so vegas was off the calendar. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times. Future value is key. Entrepreneurs are generally too focused on pre-money valuation, and VCs know this. Where entrepreneurs are often overly optimistic, VCs take the realistic approach.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In 2011, “I was speaking at Mozcon in Seattle,” remembers Conversion.com ’s Stephen Pavlovich. I would have been better suited choosing a business lawyer and accountant with startup experience and asking for more hand holding. Instead, I focused my efforts on building thought leadership. Critchlow) “Leadership.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Yet every source of advice for startups advises against being too protective of the company’s mission and plans. Clearly, the situations are not totally comparable, but do see situations where startups should be careful about not giving too much information away? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2019

by Lindsay Pedersen, author of “ Forging An Ironclad Brand: A Leader’s Guide “ In late 2008, Seattle’s adored Washington Mutual Bank (known locally and affectionately as WaMu) failed and was subsumed in a shotgun wedding with Chase Bank. ” “ Now helpful banking?” It was called WaMu.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Working at a mighty mid-sized agency provides employees the unique opportunity to grow within their positions and assume leadership roles. We create a culture of leadership through our comfortable environment where everyone from a new intern to the CMO can share ideas and brainstorm with the executive team. 13 – Take Our Time.

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