Startup Blogpost

JUNE 23, 2023

To help startup leaders create a healthy and sustainable work environment, we gathered advice from 14 experienced professionals, including CEOs, founders, and HR directors. Promoting this mindset among senior staff and encouraging its adoption throughout the business can significantly reduce the stress levels of employees.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt — taking place October 18–20 in San Francisco — is the world-class tech conference where startups go to grow. Building a startup is no easy task — not exactly a newsflash, we know. And it’s why we want to direct your attention to the companies we partner with to make it happen. Sponsored by Moneygram.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 2, 2021

5 Ways to Encourage More Women Into Careers in Venture Capital It’s time to tear open the seemingly impenetrable ‘old boys’ network It’s no secret that founders seek out investors who value diversity and recognize the success that comes from having diverse teams. In situations like mine, remember to shift your focus.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

Jill Soley, an executive at Issuu unpacks how we can get more startups to not fail. But, for whatever reason, your creation isn’t flying off the shelves. The scary startup failure rate. Like so many others, you’ve worked hard to realize your vision and bring your product to life. The keys to startup marketing.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Photo by Matthew Osborn on Unsplash As founder of six startups, advisor to founders, and a startup strategist at IMD ( #1 ranked business school ), I see many mistakes being made and have made many myself. You might have identified an exciting market and now need to test your product in a structured way.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Rachel is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, senior executive, published author, and investor passionate about innovation, effective strategy, and successful execution. What motivated you to launch your startup? What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Most VCs did well academically and had enough career success that a venture firm was willing to give them an investment role or they were able to raise their own fund. So I tell people we’re fundamentally in the people business. The biggest difference we can make is helping support talented teams with complementary talent.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Early-stage startups tend to claim that their go-to-market strategy is fully operational. Finding GTM fit is a milestone for any startup that includes everything from expanding the engineering team to launching your first media buy. These simple metrics will tell you if your startup is ready to scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. For starters it brings a mindset to startups that not all of them have innately.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 9, 2022

Just keep your head down and do the work!” Netflix’s culture was so different than the more secretive culture I experienced before at Amazon. It contrasts with the more secretive culture at Apple and Amazon. It contrasts with the more secretive culture at Apple and Amazon. Don’t be ungrateful for what you have!”

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Many Gen Zers are also watching businesses make significant pivots with their business models and may be inspired to make similar moves. Why wait for a dream job when you can start your own dream business? Choosing a business model. Drafting a business plan. Picking a business structure.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is higher than 50 percent.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Levinson was heads-down on an idea that wasn’t just likely to fail, it almost did: Zoox’s Series C fell apart in March due to the pandemic: Korosec: What was your trick or how did you remain focused for six years on something that is futuristic, expensive and possibly could fail? Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In his post he asserts, “You get the VCs you deserve” and the corollary “You get the performance out of your board that you deserve.” By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. My first startup was no different. We focused together on improving our sales methodology, our training and our comp plans through a larger than life ex country manager from PTC named Kai Krickel. Startups are the art of the possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

When it’s in your blood, it’s in your blood. If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. Can handle rejection, being told “no&# often and yet still have the confidence in your idea. A high level of confidence in your own ideas and ability to execute.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

Table of Contents What makes a “Dream Team” a dream team? The 4 critical components of every Dream Team 5 steps to building your Dream Team for fast, aligned results Common pitfalls to avoid when setting your team up for success Every startup begins with a close-knit team.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Also, don’t forget to mark your calendar for the upcoming TC Sessions: Robotics event, which will feature such guests as Amazon’s VP of global robotics and the director of Carnegie Mellon’s robotics institute.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. We have a busy slate for you today, including news sure to annoy the blockchain faithful, new funds, Facebook’s latest rebrand and more. It’s worth reading regardless of your priors. Startups/VC. The result?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

When I was running startups I felt like a horse with blinders on because I was super focused on the content management market and ignored many other markets. I get to do a deep dive on their business model, product roadmap and competitive positioning. Then I spent many years as a startup CEO.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A smarter and faster path to entrepreneurial success. Kicking off a speech to several hundred entrepreneurs at a global summit in Montreal, Canada, I asked the exuberant attendees these questions: “How many of you run companies that offer great products and services and deliver exceptional value to your customers and clients?”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 kicks off in just four days, startup fans. Please bring your ticket and a government-issued photo ID to pick up your badge. If you do contract COVID prior to the event and cannot attend, please email events@techcrunch.com with a copy of your proctored-PCR test to discuss your options.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. Most traditional, bricks-and-mortar businesses have substantial, often enormous hard assets, such as raw materials and supplies, work-in-process, inventory, manufacturing equipment, real estate and more, as well as armies of employees. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. What kind of risk do we run of being put out of business by others’ IP rights ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ?

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Before Twilio had a market cap approaching $56 billion and more than 200,000 customers, the cloud-communications platform developed a secret sauce to fuel its growth: a developer-focused model that dispensed with traditional marketing rules. Can you imagine making 13 attempts at something before attaining a successful outcome?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. My first startup was no different. These days there are even startups like SalesCrunch to make this easier for all of us. Back then it was a larger than life ex country manager from PTC named Kai Krickel. Here are mine.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The poorest households describe a stark choice — between ‘heating or eating’ Into this grim maelstrom a new London-based startup, called Nous , is hoping to throw households a life-raft by offering a free personalized report that explains how price rises will affect their costs and gives advice on how to adapt to inflation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

When it’s in your blood, it’s in your blood. If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. Can handle rejection, being told “no&# often and yet still have the confidence in your idea. A high level of confidence in your own ideas and ability to execute.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Often times we see “success” and think that it was “overnight” We forget that most of the business success we see, was a slow and steady progression of mistakes, of learning. Alisa Gumbs: The managing editor of Black Enterprise. How to build a brand that will benefit your business?

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

. “Its technology is almost certainly integrated into the smartphone you’re carrying and many of the devices you have lying around,” Managing Editor Danny Crichton writes in a four-part series that studies the company’s origins and ensuing success: Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Contributed by Kady O’Connell , founder of Kady Creative , which helps passionate businesses succeed with strategic branding, powerful websites, and click-worthy content. As an entrepreneur running a business, you must overcome the fear of growing your brand online. It’s not about poor time management. And that’s OK.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 24, 2011

On Friday, Matt Blumberg from Return Path came to talk to a group of First Round portfolio companies on scaling your organization from a management perspective. What struck me in Matt’s Talk was how early he started putting together some of the management and communications processes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Based in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, the startup recently announced promising phase 1b clinical trial results for their use of CRISPR-Cas3-enhanced bacteriophages as a treatment for urinary tract infections caused by escherichia coli. That’s our secret sauce,” said Garofolo. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

There is a telltale sign of an inexperienced startup entrepreneur. You know, they get so excited about doing deals all the time instead of doing the hard work of figuring out their businesses. As a startup you shouldn’t focus on buying other companies until you’ve figured out your own business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

I recently wrote a post about how to manage relationships when you’re at a startup or are busy executive. I had images in my brain of all of the stresses I had placed on my wife in the heyday of my startups. A spouse’s hints for surviving an incredibly busy start-up person. Short, sweet and actionable.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

BTW – if anybody at Twitter reads this you need to fix your “embed Tweet” code because as you’ll see from above it doesn’t properly embed when you have a quoted Tweet. **. How do you have time for all your entrepreneurs? How do you have time for your freaking families?!?! HSzvQK63th. Ezra asked.

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