Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

We spent most of that summer developing the product while carving out time to meet investors and try to raise funding. But 2012 me, a first-time half-Latino half-African-American founder from Costa Rica, coming from a university these guys had never heard of, nope. If you can't build the best business you can create.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn was tired of the gray and dreary design aesthetic edtech companies used to emulate universities. Instead, he and the company’s early team sought inspiration from games like Angry Birds and Clash Royale, looking to build a class that screamed more cartoon anarchy than lecture hall.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 28, 2025

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm, says, “The thing that gets me most excited is the founder whos obsessed with solving a problem that matters, and is determined to keep going no matter what.” Learn what investors want to hear that triggers their investment decisions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Aytekin Tank is the founder of JotForm , an online form builder. Founders from around the world arrive in Silicon Valley with visions of record-setting A rounds and billion-dollar valuations. If you’re a SaaS founder who’s wary of VC funding, here are my best bootstrapping tips. Share on Twitter. Keep your day job.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

million global downloads, according to app intelligence firm Sensor Tower. million downloads for Poparazzi, which is largely in line with the startup’s claims, as these estimates aren’t an exact science.). He, along with his brother, co-founder Austen Ma, went through several pivots to get to Poparazzi, he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

A developer can, on a whim, change their mind and do whatever they want with their open source code that, most of the time, anyway comes “as is” without any warranty. Developer Azer Koçulu ran into a trademark dispute with messaging app Kik because his npm package was called “kik.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Maybe small amounts of money for what founders reading these pages dream of but life-changing for many. ShayCarl (a Maker Studios co-founder) in particular. most Internet connections have been asymmetric & optimized for downloads). And the show develops like this. Gangnam Style Meets Torso TV. billion views.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

Nate followed through on his views by investing in LA accelerator Science , run by the venerable Mike Jones , who is a former founder (UserPlane, sold to AOL), tech exec (at AOL and later at MySpace) and one of LA’s most prolific (and well liked) angels. You can watch on YouTube or download the podcast (for the gym!)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Mage , developing an artificial intelligence tool for product developers to build and integrate AI into apps, brought in $6.3 Founder Tommy Dang started the company at the end of 2020 after working together to build internal low-code tools at Airbnb. million in seed funding led by Gradient Ventures. Mage dashboard.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Register According to iLife * founder Nelson Lee, roughly $200 billion in premiums are signed annually in the U.S. ” This early exposure to entrepreneurship also helped Nelson develop a keen ear for listening to user needs, allowing him to create a product that vibes so closely with real-life demands.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And while the Australian agency was recommended to TechCrunch via our our survey to identify software development partners for startups , it could just have well have come through our survey to recommend growth marketers, which you can answer here. MacRae: The vision for Appetiser was never to be an app development company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices. Co-Founders Michael Clark (ex-Photobucket), Geoffrey Arone (ex-DanceJam).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. You can watch him on YouTube , download in iTunes (for gym or commute) 3/31/11 edition. . Passion is infectious – people respond to it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. The Draft team will answer questions there and so will Greg and I if you have anything for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly. I like that.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In one of the more recent developments, a language learning app called EWA — which has built a media-based approach to language acquisition, with excerpts from films and TV, and books, to familiarize learners with vocabulary and speaking — has passed 51 million downloads and picked up 3.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

of developers responding said that they expect to use APIs more or the same as in 2021, while only 3.8% Some developer teams are struggling to make APIs useable as a result, leading to duplicated efforts, wasted engineering hours, and missed revenue opportunities. When asked to predict API usage in 2022 in a recent survey , 90.5%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

CEO and co-founder Aaron Polhamus said he, Miguel Arroyo and Jaime Rodas were driven to start Mexico City-based Vest in December 2020 because of their belief that while Latin Americans work hard for their savings, “historically their savings have not worked hard for them.”.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

However, the journey can be a steep learning curve and present numerous challenges, especially for first-time founders. This article explores five of the most common mistakes startup founders make and how you can steer clear of them. They can, however, be a good option for founders as a vehicle to hold shares in their company.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Metabase was developed within venture studio Expa and spun out as an easy way for people to interact with data sets, co-founder and CEO Sameer Al-Sakran told TechCrunch. To date, Metabase has been downloaded 98 million times and used by more than 30,000 companies across 200 countries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Other investors in today’s funding round include Singular, King, the founders of FuboTV and Daniel Ek’s family office. In particular, back in February 2021, the company said it managed to generate 250 million downloads. It has developed its own tech stack that optimizes the performance of each game.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Davit Buniatyan, founder and CEO at the company says the company developed out of research he was doing at Princeton where saw the need for a streaming database of unstructured data like images and video specifically designed for AI use cases. The program has been downloaded 300,000 times so far. Activeloop image database.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2024

Over the years, I have developed several best practices for setting annual goals and wanted to share them: Don’t Be Busy : Make 2024 the year you stop answering every “how are you?” The past few years, I have developed a one-page plan of three or four high level goals for the year that are most important. with “busy”.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

The investment will be used for product development initiatives. ShoeDazzle has Kim Kardashian as a co-founder / company as a spokesperson as well as Brian Lee who was a co-founder at Legal Zoom. My understanding is that OpenCandy is a software download where the service gets to better understand you as a consumer.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 3, 2025

Check contacts in LinkedIn and any business social media You can download your list of contacts from LinkedIn. Check out options to download your contacts from any other relevant personal or business social media accounts. Then youll have a database of clients ready to download. Mary Crampton, founder of Magnify Consulting.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2023

The capital will be used to expand Overplay’s team and accelerate product development and user acquisition. Needless to say, the Wefunder results excited co-founders Dan Projanksky and Caroline Strzalka. Strzalka is a two-time founder and business development executive who has built partnerships with Netflix, Hulu and YouTube.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Rak Garg is a principal at Bain Capital Ventures where he leads early-stage investments in developer tools, data infrastructure, cybersecurity and enterprise software. The median Series A round for a developer-tooling company was $47.5 Contributor. Share on Twitter. But it’s not impossible. Remember, not all users are created equal.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The startup’s journey encompasses introducing four open-source large language models and ongoing efforts to develop two proprietary platforms. The success of their open-source models is evident in the download count, with two of them amassing over 6 million downloads.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

million Series A to help companies build apps on top of Airtable databases; Appsmith secure a $41 million Series B to power customized internal business apps; Retool attract a $45 million cash injection for a similar proposition; and Thunkable lock down a $30 million investment for a no-code mobile app development platform.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 2, 2023

As the Regional Development Agency, Te Puna Umanga/Venture Taranaki is powering up the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Taranaki so that fresh thinking and innovation can continue to thrive in the like no other region. Morgan Maw, Boring Oat Milk. It’s an incredible story. This one has it all!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

As a company founded by data scientists, Streamlit may be in a unique position to develop tooling to help companies build machine learning applications. For starters, it developed an open-source project, but today the startup announced an expanded beta of a new commercial offering and $35 million in Series B funding.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Artem Konovalov, the co-founder of Spellar AI , a groundbreaking technology that’s transforming how people communicate across languages and cultures. If you had to share “words of wisdom” with a founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be?

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Sketchfab has been building a platform to upload, download, view, share, sell and buy 3D assets. The deal makes a ton of sense as Epic Games has been developing — and acquiring — some of the most popular creation tools. It’s clear that the company wants to build an end-to-end developer suite for the gaming industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Alex Circei is CEO and co-founder of Waydev , a Git analytics tool that measures engineers' performance automatically. Use Git data to optimize your developers’ annual reviews. For many founders, Y Combinator is a coveted milestone on the entrepreneurial road. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine , which has been operating for about six years. Last year, the co-founders realized there was a growing opportunity to address the creator space with a slightly different product. The paid plan offers full catalog access and no download limit.

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