StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

The founders in this piece all faced these challenges before launching startups that earned them millionaire status. Whitney Wolfe, founder of the female-empowered dating app Bumble , stays on track by asking herself the question of nine. New and aspiring entrepreneurs often fall victim to impatience and imperfection. billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

To help our founders in transition , some of which are interested in becoming scouts. Our goal is to invest in, coinvest with, and/or recruit founders in transition. We’re launching our own scout program, and want to benchmark compensation and structure against our peers. But how do you do that? . Monetizing our deal flow.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. I read Andy’s post with a knowing smile on my face. But VC is like congress. It’s easy to hate it en masse yet many people love their local congressman.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Howard Lindzon weighed in with his comments : “As a CEO of a venture backed business myself and founder of many others, I would add one thing… Thick Skin. My primary role was “chief psychologist&# and as I’ve learned over the past few years the same has been true as a VC. Both are basically people businesses.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Kevin’s a partner at YC and co-founder of Wufoo. Brian’s the CEO and co-founder of HubSpot. I’ll tell you one thing that’s interesting about HubSpot, is both founders are introverted, but one is far more introverted than the other. You can try it out at HubSpot.com. He also runs a public company.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 9, 2012

First, the fact the Meetup.com was a NYC company and that the founder, Scott Heiferman worked with Dawn Barber to create the NY Tech Meetup was really significant. These days, it's kind of hard to miss what's going on in the NYC startup community. It wasn't always like that, though.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Craig Cannon [00:00:40] – Matt Hackett, who is Casey Neistat’s co-founder. 00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 1:10 – Being part of the software industry while critiquing it. 3:45 – How he got into programming. 6:10 – Moving to California. Google Play. SoundCloud.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2021

Six Apart, the makers of Typepad and Vox (a different Vox), which were meant for indie and small bloggers, raised $12mm from August Capital in 2006. Having been a blogger for almost 17 years now, I couldn’t agree more—and it doesn’t stop with podcasts. ( One company seemed to be a bet on everyone blogging. Most don’t stick with it.

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