Hunter Walk

JANUARY 19, 2023

In their 2015 introductory blog post , the group said We’re hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Especially when hundreds of millions of dollars (billions?!?) What does ‘Open’ aspire to in this case? might be up for grabs.

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MAY 11, 2012

You know, because sometimes startups just simply don't make it [shrug] but you gotta watch out for those financial hucksters who are looking to take your money and run off to kick it in Fiji. 25 people I've actually placed at companies as part of a message of how I help startups. I can't tell you anything about it thanks to the SEC.

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APRIL 6, 2015

He found me through my blog and I didn''t think he was real. Hunter Walk can''t be any blog commenters real name, can it? Turns out that not only is he real, but he''s one of the most genuine, thoughtful, and egoless people I''ve met in the startup world--a real breath of fresh air. I''ve known Hunter Walk for almost a decade.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

During his free time, he started a blog to tell his friends back home about his life out west, and also to recommend TV shows. Slowly, Mike’s Bloggity Blog became one of Canada’s premier entertainment sites, and Morrison found himself with a local newspaper column as well as regular television and radio appearances.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. AngelList’s recently closed early-stage venture fund brings back one of my favorite conversations within the world of early-stage startup fundraising: to data, or not to data. 1 million lasts a million times longer than before.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The consumer fintech company is focused on helping people build credit and raised $30 million in June 2021. In June of 2021, the company raised $150 million at a $2.17 The B2B payments company raised $200 million at a unicorn valuation in 2021. million Series A raise back in 2020. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

The startup, which raised over $400 million according to Crunchbase data , makes networking ethernet switches optimized for the cloud. The company, which was founded in 2014, raised more than $143 million last year on a post-money valuation of $1.3 billion in an all-stock deal. billion, according to PitchBook data.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. blog here ). And yes, I mean $10 million.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

From content marketing being the ‘buy-in’ to many startups failing due to lacking in this area, here are 19 answers to the question, “Why is content marketing crucial for startups?” As a startup, it is the best way to gain traction and create raving fans.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Indeed, per Crunchbase data , it only raised a handful of millions during its private life. million of convertible notes (which we also refer to as a Simple Agreement for Future Equity agreement (SAFE)) in a private financing round in August 2021, we had raised less than $3.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and struggle to get out of a debt cycle. One startup is developing financial products targeted toward this segment of the population, with the goal of helping them build credit, save money, access funds and plan for the future. Now, it’s launching to the public with two offerings.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Microsoft acquired gaming studio Blizzard for $68 billion to provide the building blocks for its Metaverse play, while Apple CEO Tim Cook declared the Metaverse “very interesting” and told investors the company will “invest accordingly.” Meanwhile, NFTs of Bored Apes began selling for millions of dollars apiece. Early days.

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OkDork

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Conor McGregor is a professional MMA fighter and boxer with a net worth of around $200 million dollars. Conor McGregor’s net worth is around $200 million—which is impressive for any athlete, but especially a fighter. He’s one of the top paid fighters in the world and has made around $100 million dollars just from one fight.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

According to Asparouhov, that background, and the time that Bruey spent running his own angel syndicate and working at Bank of America getting a grounding in finance and startups, made him an ideal candidate to run the next startup to be spun out of Founders Fund. Tolkien. .”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” But not everybody has the right skills to build a highly successful and valuable startup from scratch. million property buys you what you imagined $250,000 would have.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

In 2010, I funded his company, Backupify , which has gone on to raise over $19 million in funding and is set to have their best year of revenue to date. We just hung out in a small group of nobodies, having chatted a bit through our respective blogs before. I can''t guarantee you''ll sell something, win VC dollars, go viral, etc.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. Hey Jane , a digital health startup that scales access to abortion pills, makes sense. Wade is set to be overturned, and the world’s future could clash with the startup’s mission to expand healthcare. More layoffs in startupland.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Surprisingly, however, in spite of the fact that we’re still very much in the throes of a global pandemic, 2021 hasn’t been punctuated by as many high-profile losses in the startup world as the year prior. Total raised: $12 million. This is a major sputtering in what has been an otherwise remarkable year for robotic startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. If you raise millions of dollars from professional investors it is no longer “your” company but a shared company that you control.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

This is somewhat changing in the world of crowd funding where people actually raise money so that they can build products but at a minimum your product design ought to be complete and ready to execute. So if you have no money then get to work with a small bit of your time building relationships. In a startup this is a mistake.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? million monthly active users who are creating more than 32 million text messages per day! OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? games company that sold to EA for $680 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Abodu , one of a slew of startup companies pitching backyard homes and office spaces to Californians in an effort to help address the state’s housing shortage, has instituted a new “Quickship” program that can take an order from contract to construction and installation in about 30 days. trillion-dollar industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Maker announced it has raised $62 million this year, acquired an amazing off-YouTube distribution network and grown its business in monetary terms by almost 300% year-over-year off of an already large base. So can you successfully build a YouTube network? I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post.

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MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share).

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

To be fair to TigerText they build a company focused on the healthcare industry and HIPAA compliance. What I *SHOULD HAVE* considered was that I was in college in a time when there were no digital cameras and I’m very thankful for that or I likely wouldn’t be writing this blog post today. What if text messages disappeared?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

I built it on a platform given to me for free by a company that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars of which I receive value. They allow my to drive traffic to my blog, to websites or anywhere I want as long as the audience will click. So what should a startup developer do? Startup Lessons'

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. Mea culpa and get right back into line.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Now among the most popular dating apps on the market, Wolfe Herd’s shift in dating app etiquette has impacted not only its 22 million users but also brought a US $1B valuation —and Wolfe Herd’s continued success as an entrepreneurial queen. Enter Werk Enterprises , a tech startup founded by Anna Auerbach and Annie Dean.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But outside of the history, he’s one of my favorite people to chat about the roller coasters of company building. Hunter Walk: Before we dive into your company Greenhouse , give me one story from your childhood that foretold you were going to end up a startup founder. I *think* Daniel and I met at a VC happy hour many years ago.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In this week’s edition, we discuss all things 6-figures: Building a 6-figure consulting business Six things you need to give up to make 6-figures online Selling your online business for 6-figures ( In partnership with our friends at They Got Acquired ) Let’s get to it. Follow these steps: Start by building your distribution channels?—?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Eric Ries on Lean Startup methodology, via Wikipedia. I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Invested Interests agile entrepreneur lean startup pivot'

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2010

Over and above that, it seems like they’re on a clear path towards a million dollars. So, great… One day, you’re a bunch of tech dudes hacking away at a hardcore grad math program and the next day, you hit the proverbial startup lottery and you’re sitting with some major coin in the bank. Think I’m poking the bear? You watch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Nearly every startup I have spoken to over the years – including some where I’m a co-investor – talks positively about the support they’ve gotten from A16Z. Of course not every VC has the fund size or the fee size to build services at this scale yet many provide extremely well-regarded programs that are valuable.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s really difficult for me not to get into the thick of discussions about whether or not you can and/or should build a company in New York City. I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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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. I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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