Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But there is a trend that feels inevitable to me: “Startups everywhere.” When the phrase “Startup Communities” started to become mainstream around 2012, I made the strong assertion that you could create a startup community in any city with at least 100,000 people. Or maybe toss SOMA in.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2013

About a year ago, Rachel Brooks was poised to bring her startup to the next level. In a perfect world, Brooks’ startup would be defined by its merit, not the demographic background of its founder. In other words, 20 tech startups that may have never existed if it weren’t for Digital Undivided’s network and resources.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

Why Do Startups Need Insurance? Having the right kind of insurance will provide a startup with peace of mind that its assets will be protected if it sustains a loss or a claim is filed against it by a third party. What Types of Insurance Do Startups Need? Employment Practices Liability. Important Tips to Keep In Mind.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

With the recent influx of startups, there is a lot of competition for venture capital funding. Latinos in particular are more likely to be organized as sole proprietorships, but by getting a partner you will have a whole new network to work with and have help in getting your startup off the ground. and represent 8.3% PitchBook News.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

home Breaux Capital Breaux and Company is a creative agency and social justice startup incubator. We are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. New Age VC About This is just a start.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. So, today we’d like to highlight a few main points to consider when building your startup team. Startup’s can be stressful and there may be many times when people want to quit.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

By contrast, I’ve had a chance to co-found a number of startups and found this type of entrepreneurship to be extremely difficult. Data suggests the few startups that do succeed rarely reach a sustainable level. And of the many startups that fail, almost half fail because they simply run out of money.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 31, 2017

By Mary Scott Nabers | 10/30/2017 Startup companies of all types are hot topics today. They dislike bureaucratic processes even more, so the government marketplace has never been an attractive option for startup firms. Last month, the General Services Administration posted a guide to help startups navigate government contracting.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2013

Richard Florida continues to write amazing stuff about Startup Communities in The Atlantic Online. For a long time I’ve suggested that an interesting measure of entrepreneurial density would be ((entrepreneurs + employees of startups) / total population). High-Tech Challengers to Silicon Valley. This data was slanted to Boulder.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Startups ›. View More in Startups ›. Coats says a final bit of inspiration actually came from reading “Moneyball,” which describes how the Oakland A’s used “Sabermetrics”—essentially a whole new dimension of player statistics—to upend 100 years of conventional wisdom about evaluating baseball players. View More in Mobile ›.

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Diego Basch

MAY 20, 2019

What does this have to do with startups? It is pretty clear that the odds of startup success are dependent on factors that are outside of everyone’s control. I suspect that the sweet spot in terms of predicting first-time startup success (all else being equal) is some sector of the middle class that has: enough desire.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

And the odds of learning from faculty who actually had experienced the chaos and uncertainty of building a startup was low. Can you learn entrepreneurship without taking an experiential hands-on class or better, actually be part of a startup? Challenge three – Today, investors willingly fund startups to do anything on day one.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Last up, Ashesh Patel from Oakland, California, pitched StyleShop247.com StyleShop247.com.

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Austin Startup

MAY 13, 2019

This year, Oakland and San Francisco, California, and Somerville, Massachusetts, all banned the government’s use of facial recognition technology and others are ‘pausing’ its use. This decision is being talked about a lot and it’s easy to see why. Originally published at [link] on May 14, 2019.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 6, 2020

San Diego, California San Diego is California’s only representative in the top 10 (Oakland is next in 12th). At 86.3%, the gender pay gap could be obliterated in the city by 2030 if the current trend continues. Much of that is down to a top place finish for female-owned businesses. Growing by 1.87% to 21.1%

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Austin Startup

APRIL 15, 2018

The first-ever Austin Cannabis Entrepreneur (ACE) Conference comes to the Hyatt Regency on April 19–20, bringing two days of content focused on startup opportunities in this fast-growing market. Whichever of these three startups most impresses the ACE judges receives a $1500 cash prize!

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Austin Startup

APRIL 18, 2018

Said another way, these changes offer some tremendous opportunities in the increasingly legal cannabis market for founders and startups with innovative and original entrepreneurial ideas. He will discuss “ Raising Capital at the Crossroads ” at 2 pm on Friday, April 20. Green Austin!

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

In some ways it reminds me of that Michael Lewis book Money Ball and how the Oakland A’s found ways to win with a small payroll. Anyway, so that’s my crack at “what’s next in tech.&# What do you think Scott? And, oh, by the way, come to the event on June 25. Bookmark the permalink.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

Raul is a 46-year-old dad, experienced in entertainment, media, and startups. Through this investment, I met Mitch for the first time, and I admire his efforts in the education space and his interest in turning Oakland into the “next Brooklyn.”

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

That explains why my first business in Austin wasn’t a tech startup, but a sneaker boutique, and why back then you were probably more likely to find me at a late-night show at Club DeVille or Momo’s than at a tech meetup.) But I remain attached to this city even when I’m thousands of miles away. but it’s always my choice. Is Austin Racist?”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

The question for a chef who wants to start her own restaurant today is how to build an engaged and loyal audience and do so with less risk and lower startup capital. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

The question for a chef who wants to start her own restaurant today is how to build an engaged and loyal audience and do so with less risk and lower startup capital. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2011

Just as Silicon Valley actually represents a corridor of companies, institutions, and cities from San Jose north to San Francisco (and, if you want to be more broad-minded, on north through Oakland up to Livermore), we need to think of Austin as a hub of a regional tech eco-system.

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K9 Ventures

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

There are many things about doing a PhD that have helped me to better understand how things work or should work in a startup environment. Doing a startup is hard. Well, you can fly from San Francisco, from San Jose, from Oakland. .” Sounds simple enough doesn’t it? Beware of the Wantrepreneur. You can drive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

11:54) Raylene on how USDR has been built like a startup and the exponential rate of growth. (12:44) I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52) 2:52) Raylene describes her background in tech and policy. (3:17) 9:30) USDR origin story.

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

Well executed, the development and testing process yields the kind of product that Steve Jobs made famous at Apple — and that startups such as Square seek to replicate — that just works: Simply, elegantly, effortlessly, or at least relatively painlessly. On a customer satisfaction scale of 1–10, this experience scored a zero.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 15, 2006

I have heard numerous stories over the last few months about smaller, innovative startups having a hard time bringing on qualified engineers as Google and Yahoo are offering 3 year packages of a $1mm or more in salary, restricted stock, and signing bonus. Just remember Billy Beane and his Oakland A’s.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

It’s about the Oakland A’s and their General Manager Billy Beane. Obama’s own campaign used Moneyball and Lean Startup strategies to win the ultra high stakes Presidential Election. One guy w anting to make startup investing more like moneyball even started a service for this. What’s Moneyball?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

We are seeing families and individuals line up at 3:00 AM and wait eight hours on a daily basis to collect food; whether it's at food banks or whether it is at school feeding sites across the country, from San Antonio, Texas, to where I'm from, to New Orleans, to New York City, to Oakland.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2016

One of the most difficult and time consuming decisions we had to make as a startup was to select a company name that would reflect our product and brand. The name, Saranap dates back over 100 years when a commuter train cut across California, connecting Oakland to Sacramento. Thanks to Mari Anne Snow, Sophaya. #12

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

on the Richter scale, but it severed the Bay Bridge, flattened a section of freeway in Oakland, and killed sixty-three people. A more urgent question may be: what might happen to San Francisco if current trends continue? The Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 registered a mere 6.9 or the 1960 Chilean earthquake (approximately 9.5)

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