Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Companies like DogVacay solve a real need in the market. I told her the story of Aaron, the company, the reviews, etc. It’s true that I’m not an investor in DogVacay but I am a huge fan of the CEO, Aaron Hirshhorn and of the company and concept. I said, “This category is going to be huge.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. My firm was an early investor in Overture (then called GoTo.com) who created this category.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Privacy and IP controls.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

He is the founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners , an affiliation marketing company. While many businesses will struggle with the shift to a stay-home economy, both companies and content publishers in these 10 verticals are poised to thrive, especially though a relationship called affiliate marketing. Food Delivery.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’ve always been a big believer that just a couple of key individuals make all of the difference in a company’s success. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. Patron Companies. The ingredients are all here.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Project management template example To illustrate, here's an example of a project management template in action: A marketing executive for a software company uses a project plan template to start every new campaign proposal. Update branding: A project management template should match your company's visual identity.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. My earliest encounters with a personal computer, initial uses for the Internet, and 12+ years of product work [Second Life, AdSense, YouTube], were all driven by the conviction that everyone deserves the chance to be creative. A singer who wants to sing. An animator who wants to draw.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Like other Founders Fund companies, Palantir and Anduril, Varda takes its name from the novels of J.R.R. Named for the Elf queen who created constellations, the company has set itself no less lofty a task than bringing manufacturing to space. Initially, they’ll be unmanned, according to a blog post published by Fifty Years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. We list here all the active flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: Revenue-based. They share their learnings on flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Versatile VC runs a no-cost community for founders in transition, “ Founders Next Move “ We have collected a wide range of resources for founders who may be considering launching a new company ; angel investing/becoming a VC ; buying a company ; joining boards ; consulting ; serving as an interim executive , or just getting a job.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The initiative aims to broaden students’ understanding of entrepreneurship, innovation, and collaboration. This initiative aligns perfectly with i2E’s mission to help develop Oklahoma’s next generation of entrepreneurs,” i2E President Rex Smitherman said. The MidAmerica Cup was a great learning experience for our entire team.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What is Product-Market Fit The product-market fit describes the stage of a startup company where they have successfully identified a target customer and serve them with the right product. There are examples of companies that were sold without achieving a product-market fit, usually because they went viral. No market = no need!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. But for some reason, when you’re talking about a company that had achieved the highest-ever valuation for a privately held startup, it sits differently. Will it raise or go public?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. When I described to people why I initially invested my calls went something like this, “He’s taken kicks to the face for nearly 2 years and is still standing. Through this process he raised $2 million.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

Zzapp’s artificial intelligence helps eliminate the disease, based on technology developed by its parent company Sight Diagnostics , an OurCrowd portfolio company. CEO Laura Flanagan was CEO of Foster Farms with $2B revenue and 12,000 employees, while CFO David Cooper has taken six companies public. Featured Speakers.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

On-site SEO: Everyone has a website and a blog, yet not nearly enough Web3 marketers devote mind-share into making their websites and apps search friendly. People always remember which companies went dark during the bear market, and which projects continued to stay active and top-of-mind.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. The advantage of Web Stories is that you can condense existing blog content or other content for easy sharing on various social media platforms.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VII: Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability. We list here all of the active Flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: revenue-based; compensation-based; and blended return streams. (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Read what happened when Forbes magazine met Shivani Siroya, visionary CEO of Tala , a company that’s upending the world of digital credit. Over the past 9 years since the company was founded, it has served 4 million customers and raised $200 million in external capital,” reports Meghan McCormick. . . Top Tech News. and Singapore.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VII: Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability. We list here all of the active Flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: revenue-based; compensation-based; and blended return streams. (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2022

As the company looks to expand into the US and seek FDA clearance, it has signed an agreement with Israel’s largest HMO, which will use its technology in hundreds of procedures at top hospitals. This new company, based in Abu Dhabi, will develop artificial intelligence for business. UBS joins Shield investors in $20M Series B

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

4:00 – From project to company. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. The main evolution is that now we work with companies as well, not just investors. When you look at the video game space, how does a company like Zynga. 00:45 – Where did the idea come from? 11:30 – Their first customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. 5000 companies, only 6.5% Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? These variations in founder alignment allow flexible VCs to specialize in the types of companies they work with.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 25, 2024

Generative AI offers founders an opportunity to completely reinvent workflows — and will spawn a new cohort of companies that are not just AI-augmented, but fully AI-native. There are a few key features we believe products in this category will have: Generation tools that kill the “blank page” problem.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The company was savaged by critics for its initial mishandling of the incident; reportedly, she got little response or assistance until she published a blog post on the subject, which spread virally and became a serious embarrassment to the company. (I

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

i2E Receives 2024 Excellence in Economic Development Bronze Award from the International Economic Development Council IEDC’s annual Excellence Awards honor the economic development organizations, government entities, initiatives, and programs that have demonstrated consistent, exemplary performance in the profession i2E, Inc.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. No awkward sidebars or out-of-place menus here, please.)

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

5000 companies, only 6.5% Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Funder Category.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

VII: Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability. 5000 companies, only 6.5% Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? To put things into perspective, the company has 7.7 More on that later.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.” You are defined by how you serve the companies that are struggling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. We discussed how initial investments and follow-ons work in this short 2-minute clip.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

When Twitter first became popular with niche crowds in 2007 it seemed to take hold initially with bloggers. People had been steadily blogging for 2-3 years and this crowd seemed to bifurcate. On the one hand were the blogs that “blew up&# and became real businesses like TechCrunch, GigaOm or TalkingPointsMemo.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. Yet in LA we have hugely successful entrepreneurs who have built big companies like Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, TicketMaster.com, LowerMyBills, Commission Junction, eHarmony and on and on.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Unfortunately, our current linear economy produces enormous amounts of waste—and electronic waste is one of the fastest-growing categories to address. Kilkelly’s company focuses a keen eye toward manufacturing methods and supply chain control that maximize the life cycle of ATMs, allowing for simple refurbishing and repurposing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

I felt dismayed at the idea that my company wasn’t a “real” business. Conference and webinar registration forms ask for name, email address, company and job title. Or perhaps you created a fictitious company name when you registered your business. That choice puts you squarely in the freelance category. What’s in a title?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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