Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

As I was trying to figure out the role I wanted to play in the VC world I decided I wanted to focus on businesses that were building deeply technical products to solve problems for business users. VC is a long-term business Some businesses are overnight successes but few of them really move immediately up and to the right.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 28, 2021

To succeed in entrepreneurship, solve a problem that lots of businesses have. You can be even more successful, if the business you are solving that big problem for is in an industry that is about to take off. Together they built a successful blacksmith business in Perry, OK. By Scott Meacham. Opportunity Recognized.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It is the latest startup feeling some investor love as it develops a software stack designed for business-to-business marketers, hosting interactive virtual and hybrid events, to use go-to-market channels and actionable account-based insights for sales teams to show the pipeline impact of events. Goldcast’s founding team.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

million home service businesses just in North America, and some $600 billion is spent annually on home services — and so the opportunity that Jobber and its investors see is as clear as a new window pane. But the market is massive — there are around 6.2 and Canada are by far its biggest countries.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 27, 2017

Monique’s social enterprise, Waste2Weave, got its start after she discovered fabric made from recycled plastic and witnessed the abhorrent conditions suffered by artisans in India’s handloom industry. I am an entrepreneur who strongly believes that it’s possible to have a great, profitable business while accomplishing good things.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

This morning Wisetack , a startup that provides buy-now-pay-later services to in-person business transactions, announced that is has closed a total of $19 million across two rounds, a seed investment and a Series A. Wall Street hugs Affirm as it starts life as a public company. Say, plumbing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Businesses today feel, more than ever, the imperative to have flexible e-commerce strategies in place, able to connect with would-be customers wherever they might be. The plan will be to grow that business as part of its wider expansion, tackling a market for e-commerce software that is estimated to be worth some $7 billion annually.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

But I want to start with you, because you actually have a very fascinating story. She did the masonry work, she did the roof beams, she did the plumbing work, she painted the walls. And so, Silicon Valley started with defense, we all know this. Many have probably read a lot about California Forever. Katherine: Yeah.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Let’s start by working backward. Ken Norton, former director of product at Figma who recently left to solo advise and coach product managers, says companies can start by defining what PMs are not: The CEO of the product. Whether your new hire needs to have a technical background. The best questions to ask in an interview.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

But that’s just the start. But on the side, he started dabbling in building a distributed functions-as-a-service system, first based on Docker, which proved to be too slow, and then, eventually, around WebAssemly. Suborbital is nothing if not an ambitious project.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

To understand my perspective you have to rewind to the late 80′s / early 90′s in business computing. In busy times compiling a program could take more than an hour, so we obviously didn’t submit often and if our program had errors and was unable to compile it was devastating. Sound familiar? It was wonderful.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

CEO Mike Bignold teamed up with David Vass to start CostCertified in 2017 after running his own construction business and realizing the need for contractors to provide estimates in a more modern way. “I He teamed up with Vass, who had helped him get that contracting business “to the top of Google.”. Image Credits: CostCertified.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

20 Tips for Pitching New Business Ideas to Potential Investors To provide you with the best advice on pitching new business ideas to investors, we asked twenty CEOs, Founders, and other professionals for their top tips. Most of the time, investors are putting their faith in personnel more than the idea or business itself.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2021

The nascent company had already created sample pre-fabricated rooms and was about to start leasing property when the COVID-19 lockdown hit New York City in March 2020. Home kitchens start out by serving DishServe’s own white-label brand as a trial run before it opens to other brands.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Entrepreneur Kuljeev Singh has had a three-course meal in the restaurant business. ResQ’s business is split into two parts: a software platform and contractor marketplace. The platform allows restaurants to request, manage and pay for a service that they need done, from plumbing issues to electrical mishaps.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Streamline , headquartered in San Francisco, recently raised $4 million for its business-to-business-focused payments product suite. “Pagos allows businesses to see what’s going on inside a payments stack,” Bäck said. billion valuation. “Backend financial infrastructure remains critical.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Of the sub-verticals in construction that tend to cost the most (structural support like concrete and steel or mechanical and plumbing), not many can be automated because of the complexity of the task. These will be the winners in the space. It’s not about the robots but the solutions they provide, saving time, labor and money on a job site.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Last July, I launched a business. Requesting help on social media and through Help a B2B Writer , I got 45 answers from all kinds of individuals: the owner of a plumbing company, a jeweler, founders of SaaS companies, heads of growth, and digital agency owners. For others, it may be gardening, sketching, or starting a puzzle.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The company is currently raising a seed round of funding and signing up companies in the Bay Area and further afield in California for multi-unit tests that will start in early 2022. I understand how that can be a complication to a business model,” Foley says, citing his experience installing kiosks and parking structures for Jump Bikes.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

How do you go from $50,000 in DEBT to a thriving $40 million business? Tommy Mello shares his story and insights that can help YOU grow your business. Smart Hustle Small Business Podcast · Tommy Mello – Building A Machine not a Hobby. So, tell me, give us a bit of the story of how it started. Video interview.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

Xbloom says that its app will be fully brewed by the time the machines start shipping to new customers. My business prediction is that until Xbloom launches its more affordable version of the machine, I’m not sure it’ll be able to find the next 10,000 customers.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 15, 2022

If you’re a small business with an online presence, then you know that SEO is essential in order to be found by potential customers. These eight tips are easy to implement and can make a big difference for your business. Try brainstorming a list of potential topics that would be relevant to your business and target audience.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

One of the great things about editing all of our deep-dive EC-1 startup profiles is that you start to notice patterns across successful companies. It was a business sort of built out of love for the tech, and love for solving problems.”. First, these wildly different founders ended up both working on key internet plumbing.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

In this session from the American Dynamism Summit , Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) discuss why the United States must strengthen its technological advantage in areas like AI, develop next-generation manufacturing capabilities domestically, and rethink how Silicon Valley does business with China.

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