View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

For creatives, we’re a premium, value-aligned partner to help grow their networks and portfolios, and monetize their passions. EP: I went off to the University of Michigan for college and last year made my way back to Santa Monica after 4 years of working at Meta in Digital Marketing in Austin and San Francisco.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 1, 2011

At today's roundtable, we announced 1M/1M Premium company Freshdesk's $1M funding from Accel Partners. Freshdesk is a social customer support startup offering a SaaS solution to small businesses. Also notable is the "affordable SaaS" opportunity, exemplified by Zoho and Freshdesk, that Indian entrepreneurs are zeroing in on.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2012

I really didn’t have much of a resume – four years in the Air Force , building a scram system for a nuclear reactor , a startup in Ann Arbor Michigan but not much else. It was at my second startup in Silicon Valley that my life and career took an interesting turn.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews series , we sat down with entrepreneurs Sam Simon and Nasutsa Mabwa, the co-founders and owners of ServiceMaster By Simons. We had $125,000 startup money from a small neighborhood bank near the restaurant’s location. He invited me on board as a junior partner.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

Some mentors may become an active participant in a startup that comes out of the class. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. A successful outcome is a startup or a patent or technology license to a U.S. Given that most of them didn’t know what a startup was coming in.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This will require new partners, new skill sets, and new business model innovation. We moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore in 2015, and it was a great decision for us. What has the startup experience taught you about life? When I grew up we used “sisu” to describe surviving winter in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Other universities doing classified ELINT and Electronic Warfare work attended including University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology and Cornell. Stanford Industrial Park was the first technology office park set up to house local and out of state microwave and electronics startups.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

My fourth book, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City comes out at the end of the month. The Startup Revolution has begun. George), Vermont (Burlington), and Michigan (Detroit) in October. Launching Startup Revolution. , and MakerBot launches several magical things on Wednesday.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Being a native of West Michigan, I know a lot about snow! My business partner always points out that “The saying don’t put all of your eggs in one basket assumes you have multiple eggs” This is a great twist on an old saying, and one that casts doubt on some conventional wisdom. Same with agencies or partners.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

We’ve had a little change at Brandanew , and have a new office now in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States. From managing a baby Startup to the most effective content marketing strategies, read through further… Say hello to the new office! hello #annarbor #smallbiz #startup #remoteworking pic.twitter.com/zDXWvSd1I8.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

But as I tried to find my own path in this, it became clear that there are MANY resources for small startups in Ann Arbor, and today throughout Michigan. I got helped with talent search, boot camp for small startups, microloan…the list goes on and on. There are many more, just in the state of Michigan.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

Coursera makes college courses from elite universities, including Princeton University and the University of Michigan , available online for free. Elite education is too expensive, and it’s available to too few,” said John Doerr , one of the venture capitalist partners backing Coursera.

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Up and Running

JULY 4, 2016

In addition to this extremely high honor, Life Saver is also a partner of the National Drowning Prevention Alliance. See Also: 7 Startup Lessons from an Inspiring Entrepreneur. He enjoys being able to walk the production line in Michigan to personally shake the hands of the employees and thank them.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 25, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Tell us about the startup ecosystem there. The startup journey is a lot like dating. The startup journey is a lot like dating.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was visiting his and my alma mater in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, where I had just graduated a few months prior and was bumming around getting my own startup off the ground. Comedian Heather Campbell is a fellow Project Glass explorer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

He thought about the plight of his long-time partner and her desire to spend time with her family. How about a policy that they could be guaranteed to stay if they moved to high unemployment zones and created startups there? We need more high-caliber people in Ohio, Michigan and other mid-Western states.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. A consistent theme we recognized at NSF, was that a lot of the startup companies [we were funding] really weren’t practicing what we knew to be the best and most effective way of taking technologies out of labs. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ideally, your business planning process coincides with your startup process, but even if you’ve been in business for a while, it’s never too late to create a plan for your cannabis business. Research key partners and start networking. So spend some time looking at your startup costs and thinking through your cash flow projections. .

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC is a small, home-based company in Michigan specializing in all-natural, preservative free, and healthy dog treats. Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them. Thanks to Nancy D.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. Koller said of her company’s partner institutions. The article explores some major players and their actions.

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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 was an intern at a then 30 person startup called General Magic (GM) while I was a student at Stanford Business School. Nest is a very special company with a truly exceptional team… a VC’s dream.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2022

As my startup works on a biometric photo app for documents, mainly passports and visas, I needed to find a name to answer the customer’s questions at sight. Growing up, my friends shortened the sound of my name nash-a-nee-an to Nash, so when I opened my first business in Ypsilanti, Michigan, I decided to name it Nash Contracting.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I saw a business plan for a high-end boutique for men’s underwear, catering mainly to the wives and partners and significant others of relatively well-to-do men. Or Hell, Michigan. It happens a lot. If they’d have called it Victor’s Secret, it would have been legal. And ours, while a problem, could be a lot worse.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. No one will say work less and go home and spend time with your partner and/or family. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

We’re proud to share that our members, startups, entrepreneurs and Innovation Council partners submitted a total of 17 proposals to the SXSW PanelPicker this year! FUNDRAISING IN THE SOUTH AS A FEMALE FOUNDER SXSW Conference | Track: Startups Speakers: Brittany Barreto , PhD., Innovation Strategist at TMCx Sarah Hein, PhD.,

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 19, 2016

After spending 6 months on the market validation I pitched them my idea and partnered with the first investors. I followed this gut instinct and launched HourglassAngel.com during the summer of my junior year at the University of Michigan: a site created with just a $4,500 investment. Thanks to Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, ProducePay. #4

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. We been managing the field by plan more than 75 enterprise customers and channel partners. Why listen? Especially if you don’t normally listen to podcasts?

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Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2013

” “Do you trust – really trust – your prospective business partners and cofounders?” Translation: A startup’s success, and its very character, are defined by the clarity and focus of its mission, and then by how well the business’s leaders stay true to that focus and steer clear of distractions. Fire quickly.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Frontline Foods has now partnered with World Central Kitchen. I am one of the original organizers of Frontline Foods and prior to this had spent six years as a general partner at RedPoint Ventures. I love startups and starting things. You threw this pizza party.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Ten years ago I started thinking about why startups are different from existing companies. I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. He called it the “Lean Startup.”. Sign up here.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

Even if they were, startup employees usually don't hold more than 10% of the company's overall stock and less than 10% of the company's employees were black at the time of the IPO. Today's startup founders and leaders are more empathetic than ever before and to be successful in managing more diverse workforces they will have to be.

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