Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model. Many entrepreneurs have a passion and an idea, or even invent a new product, but are never able to execute to the point of creating a startup.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Dr. Frida Polli, co-founder and CEO of pymetrics which utilizes neuroscience.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Amy and I decided to match all of the funding for first-time projects in Colorado on DonorsChoosee.org. The criteria for our match is that these are projects put up by new teachers on the DonorsChoose.org platform. We’ll match those projects as well, so getting more online is an awesome thing.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Today, Amy and I are announcing a matching gift from our Anchor Point Foundation to the Startland News’ Give A Start donor campaign. We will match any contributions from this point forward, up to $25,000. The post A $25K Matching Gift To Boost Entrepreneurship in Kansas City Through Storytelling appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2017

In response to this opportunity, SVB is joining Amy and me in a match challenge to raise $300,000 for Global EIR. So – your $1 donation gets a $2 match. The post Global EIR and Silicon Valley Bank Funding Match appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Fred Wilson , Joanne Wilson , Amy , and I are doing our second Monthly Match. We will be matching $20,000 of contributions that our respective communities make to NILC. Since we are matching 1:1, each dollar you contribute gets NILC another dollar. That will register it for our match.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2017

So, your Monthly Match team ( Fred Wilson , Joanne Wilson , Amy Batchelor , Susan Danziger , Albert Wenger and me) is launching this month’s match for Planned Parenthood. Here is how the monthly match works. Go to our match offer page and click the big Donate button.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 21, 2010

I guess it was bound to happen, I now seem to be writing a series of posts around Matching. This is where I’ll keep my list of these posts, related articles and posts from other sources: Social Media Matching – Looks at how in many ways, everything is matching. Social Filtering – Content matching based on social signals.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 21, 2019

The post Why Blockchain and Remanufacturing are a Perfect Match appeared first on ReadWrite. Remanufacturing is common for such products as medical devices, wood, computers, machinery, vehicles, toner cartridges, and much more. Blockchain technology can ultimately revolutionize the […].

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Because I was the Acting CTO for eHarmony at it's start, I quite often get introduced to people who have an idea for a startup company that is based on some kind of matching algorithm. Each of these startup ideas has at it's core a matching algorithm that reduces the friction between a consumer and some need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Find the right investment advisor, or member of your advisory board, and the “match-making” will happen. entrepreneur startup angel funding match Paul Graham business' These are angel investors who are private, meaning they don’t go to meetings, but will invest if someone they trust brings them an attractive opportunity.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2017

Our month match for June is The Human Utility. Fred Wilson, Joanne Wilson, Amy Batchelor, and I are matching up to $20,000 of contributions via our #GiveWater campaign. To donate and have your contribution matched, go here and hit the big blue Donate button. Access to water has always been something that Amy and I support.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2020

Startup Mental Health Match takes inspiration from dating sites, connecting therapists and individuals using an innovative profiling model. Regardless of background, Mental Health Match finds therapists available who specialize in an individuals’ own unique situation?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 30, 2010

Everything is Matching The real promise comes about as we get better tools for navigating all of this. If you know me - which you might not because you only have a thin relationship :) – you know that I’m going to say that a lot of this comes back to Matching Algorithms. Some days I start to feel that everything is matching.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 22, 2010

One of the common questions that I commonly get is: Tony, what inputs should we use as the basis for our matching algorithm? The people asking the above question don’t have that research and they also don’t really know how the matches should occur. How should the resulting algorithm use those inputs to form matches?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2010

I’ve had several recent conversations with startups who are building companies based on matching. One of the things that I think gets commonly missed by these companies when I first talk to them is that they need more than providing matching, they need performance support. What do I mean by this?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 5, 2013

Over the past few months I’ve watched several powerful and successful VCs and entrepreneurs damage their reputations by having their words not match up with their actions. And having them match your actions matters matters even more. The post Your Words Should Match Your Actions appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2014

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a post Your Words Should Match Your Actions. In my book Startup Life (that I wrote with my wife Amy) I said that one of the key things that has made our relationship work is that I realized “my words had to match my actions.” But then their words and their actions don’t match up.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2023

Here are some tips to build the chemistry that lets your interviewer know you’re the right match. Going for a job interview? The post The Secret Chemistry That Will Make Interviewers Love You appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2014

Ideaspotting Asia interns internship job Malaysia skills matching startup' Launchpad is also supported by Cradle, an agency under Malaysia’s Ministry of Finance, which manages the Cradle Investment Programme.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2019

This is a relatively new forex trading method used by beginner investors to match up the success of experienced ones. The post FinTech and Forex – A Match Made in Heaven appeared first on The Startup Magazine. So, what is copy trading?

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

To help match business sellers with buyers, Flippa created an online marketplace for businesses and digital assets. The Internet has enabled all kinds of new businesses from blogs to shops to apps to flourish. Many of those businesses pull in revenue from consumers, advertisers, affiliates, and more.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This is one of the reasons why Irvine, California-based online local media company Local.com has launched its suite of integrated Exact Match local business solutions, targeted at small and medium-sized businesses. Guarantees prominent, first-page ranking on one of the major search engines, including Google, Yahoo!

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Do your keywords match what people are typing in the search box ? Having Broad and Modified Broad keywords increases your odds of Google interpreting your keyword as a match to someone’s query. This is how closely the wording of your ads matches the keywords in your ad groups. How Modified Broad Match Works.

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deal architect

MARCH 9, 2015

My friend Josh Greenbaum writes Implementing SaaS: If it’s easy, it’s because you’re not trying He makes the case SaaS is an complex as on-premise, may be even more so. He cites The other way you can tell that complexity. Cloud Computing, SaaS Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP)'

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2015

Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to pick the startup model that best matches their real motivation. The exciting part about being an entrepreneur is that you can tailor the role to match your real motivations. Here are six considerations to get you started on the right startup: Invented a solution to a painful existing problem.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2019

The post Oracle & The Cloud: A Match Made in Heaven appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Small businesses no longer have to buy onsite servers. They can simply subscribe to a larger storage option whenever their customers increase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

There is no time to be changing your culture to match the lifecycle. As companies grow in today’s high-speed Internet environment, with constant pivots and new products, they won’t even see the lifecycle phases flashing by, and in fact may be experiencing all of them concurrently. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2012

Founded in 2010, Las Vegas-based startup ExhibitMatch ( www.exhibitmatch.com ) hopes to solve that particular problem – it is a global online interactive bidding platform that matches trade show exhibitors with stand builders from around the world.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 8, 2014

No matter how comfortable we may have gotten in the business world, it is still important to pay attention to your attire and match it to your client’s expectations. But the closer you can come to matching the attire of those you are meeting with, the more likely it is that they will feel you are one of them. Well, kind of.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2021

It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. Most people, especially women, don’t even want to feel like they can be ‘matched’ by a computer. The latest is Facebook Dating , unveiled a couple of years ago, to help you find the perfect match on the social network. Sophisticated search engines.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

While there are many programs that match students with internship opportunities at large, established companies - including, of course, the traditional campus job fair - it can be a challenge for small companies, startups, and non-profits to find qualified interns. The service is free for students.

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Gust

MAY 10, 2023

is the world's first value-based AI job matching platform. Traditionally, the hiring process focuses on whether a candidate's skills and experience match the job description, and the process of screening candidates can be labor-intensive. Enployable, Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2023

Here are some tips on the right approach and the right points to hit: Match your material to the time allotted. Then match your pace to cover all the material. Investors are more interested in your solution and your business, rather than your technology. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Today it was announced that some top Venture Capital firms will provide matching investments. The Capital Factory Fund will match that $50K with another $50K. The benefits of putting your tech startup into the Capital Factory incubator continue to grow.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2018

by Gregg L. Witt, author of “ The Gen Z Frequency: How Brands Tune In and Build Credibility “ Most people, at some point, have experienced a form of bullying. In fact, a lot of bullies were bullied, and they are just doing what they were taught.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 17, 2015

We will keep talking and help him through that process, but right now he has identified a great problem space but hasn’t matched it with a compelling product solution. The best business opportunities match great problem spaces with compelling product solutions. That’s fine.

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