Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Company reports 250,000 users in 49 countries with 1mm+ application downloads. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Competitors: Skype.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

There’s also a neat DeFi event coming up , and TC Sessions: Mobility will feature Nuro co-founder Jiajun Zhu , which is fun as the company is worth $8.6 Founders who take a mindful approach can turn customers into assets, says Khan. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

“Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? As a person who spends much time thinking about the venture capital & startup community and who has seen good times & bad times across many economic cycles the article is well written. Fooling us into downloading an app to watch a video and afterward feeling duped.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

He penned a great piece on the LA tech community here in Forbes. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. Consider the case of Tradesy founder Tracy DiNunzio who could only launch her startup by giving up her bedroom for a year and earning $28,000 that allowed her to not have a full time job that year.

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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.

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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). Aren’t all online communities like this?). Gangnam Style Meets Torso TV.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 29, 2021

Much of what we do as startup community builders requires in-person interactions through workshops, meetups, and other events. But the Covid pandemic pushed the big pause button on in-person events that are the beating heart of many startup communities. We’re leaning heavily on our digital platforms to keep the community engaged.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With a focus on designing, building and growing mobile and web apps, Appetiser’s co-founders Jamie Shostak and Michael MacRae were endorsed by several clients who worked with them from the earliest days of their projects. MacRae: On the App Store, you’ve got seconds to convince a user to download your app.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Monthly active users have almost doubled to 120 million this year and the company has seen 800,000 downloads a day thanks, in part, to the wildly popular game Among Us (which received a ringing endorsement from the popular congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ). AOC’s Among Us stream topped 435,000 concurrent viewers.

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Gust

MARCH 9, 2014

When questioned, founders usually mention word-of-mouth, viral marketing, and a top quality product. These founders need a reality check on what recognized brand names have spent to reach that threshold, and how long it is likely to take. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

We talked with kids attending 30 or 35 different high schools,” co-founder Florent Sciberras told me. “We They built a quick version of the app, put together a Discord community to spread the word and shared a few videos on TikTok and Instagram. In just a few weeks, Revyze managed to attract 35,000 downloads.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

While many communities of gamers already share content on Twitch, Discord and Reddit, there isn’t a dominant mobile app focused on gaming. In August 2018, the company raised a $400,000 pre-seed round with Kima Ventures and the co-founders of Zenly Antoine Martin and Alexis Bonillo. The idea behind Powder started in December 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Today’s chip shortage is just the latest sign of that,” co-founder and CEO Matthias Wagner said in a release tied to the news. Flux says its technology is supported by “all modern browsers,” requiring no downloads. “The world has changed dramatically since the first commercial chip developers opened shop in the 1970s and 80s.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine. The founders realized there was an opportunity to put their expertise to work to address the growing need to offer a free music resource for the creator space. mo) provides full access and unlimited downloads. (A million GBP ($6.15 The Premium subscription ($6.99/mo)

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On a community level, however, designers and others were upset: They had adopted Figma precisely because it was not Adobe. Launched a year ago, the startup has seen tens of thousands of downloads and 15,000 “stars” on GitHub. Even before the Adobe-Figma news hit, Penpot had been making a name for itself.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Sketchfab has been building a platform to upload, download, view, share, sell and buy 3D assets. We built Sketchfab with a mission to empower a new era of creativity and provide a service for creators to showcase their work online and make 3D content accessible,” Sketchfab co-founder and CEO Alban Denoyel said in the announcement.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

??You shouldn’t have to onboard a technical co-founder just to test a business idea. There are a number of no-code platforms out there, but I started using Bubble last year and have built several projects on it (including the MVP of my startup Gaya : a platform enabling people in close-knit communities to share their cars with each other).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

It has also built a community around users so they can learn from each other (something another Robinhood competitor Gatsby is also doing). Over 1 million users have downloaded the platform globally. You’ll hear firsthand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 24, 2022

About seven years ago, Dremio’s founder Tomer envisioned a product that would enable customers to manage data and compute separately. Arrow alone is downloaded millions of times per month. Today, the company announced its Series E at $2 billion valuation. Today, we call this idea the data lakehouse and a query engine.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The app, which seeks to support those struggling with mental health issues, was built by Balvin and his two co-founders Mario Chamorro, a creative wellness activist and acting CEO; and Patrick Dowd, a creative strategist, and the company’s COO. The company says that, while a co-founder, Balvin will be chief dream officer, or CDO.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

“Every enterprise we speak with says the same thing — ‘we have a long backlog of internal tool tickets that are holding us back’,” Budibase co-founder Joe Johnston told TechCrunch. “Employees from some of the companies mentioned are active in our community,” Johnston said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The company says it has more than 80,000 downloads, 15,000 registered users and over 1,000 families paying for the subscription. David Franklin pitched knowRX Health , which connects with sponsors and collaborates with physicians and builds a community of patients for clinical research. million in pre-seed funding rounds.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. With barriers like these in place, it should be no surprise that 77% of founders are white, and mostly male — despite the attention diversity and inclusion initiatives receive in tech culture today. Diversity is the key to unlocking both.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

So our goal is to make developers more productive and more focused on their natural language processing, so basically understanding large volumes of text, and training machine learning models to help with that and automate some processes,” company co-founder and CEO Ines Montani told me.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Mammoth is a free Mastodon app for iOS that makes it easier to get started The new Mammoth founder’s background is both in open source and consumer apps, in addition to entrepreneurship. ” a title that’s seen a billion-some downloads by now. “It reminded me of Firefox 0.7, And it’s decentralized.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2020

Among founders, only over one in five respondents (22%) launched their business because of a layoff. It turns out that for many founders, the inspiration and vision to kickstart a company already existed. Founders said they started a business during the outbreak because they: Wanted to work for themselves (63%). The kicker?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It’s been amazing to watch Rec Room grow from a tiny collection of mini-games into a global platform with millions of experiences built by the community.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

At the time, the massively popular left-pad package had raked in more than 15 million downloads , and even today the library continues to be downloaded millions of times weekly. It puts extra scrutiny on any, and all, versions of the sabotaged project and it can hurt the community’s trust in the developer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

It was a humbling year that, for much of the tech community, was mostly spent inside, away and alone. There is this expectation that a startup, with one or a few founders and a couple of employees, is somehow going to build a perfect product on day one that mitigates any potential problem even before it becomes one.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 1, 2022

I’m Ramon Ray founder and editor of Smart Hustle, this year has been tough for me, in some regards. If you’re a solo business owner, you can download Grow Your Solo Playbook to become more successful this year. Happy New Year from Smart Hustle! YET it’s also been a year of success and amazing growth! Smart Hustle Podcast.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

” Even after talking to the company’s founders and investors for an hour, I still couldn’t wrap my head around exactly what the tool is, nor who it is for. Facet is about to have a big impact on the creative community and the wider web. It all became a lot clearer when I got a chance to play with the tool for myself.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

I think for me, psychedelics help to accelerate that process,” explains Joshua White, founder and executive director of Fireside. The two founders have an interesting background and context for how they ended up dedicating their lives to psychedelic medicine. Very few people in the LGBTQ+ communities.

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