In 4 days, it will be the 1 year anniversary of launching BizeeBee , my second startup.
By comparison, the second startup, made up of Valley veterans, one of them the vice president of a multibillion-dollar corporation, struggled.
His second startup, Affinia, provides customized shopping portals for small Web sites.
Most of those who know Rathmann well are betting he will be as successful with his second startup as he was with his first.
The first generation who made it with Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Sina and Renren are moving on to do their second or third startup in China.
Today NY Angels has 75 active members, Large firms are moving to NY in droves with offices, and New York has pulled ahead of Boston as the second largest and fast growing startup community.
The second place winner at the Husky Startup Challenge, genius.box, takes that basic concept but replaces the Fruit of the Looms with simple to perform science experiments.
Second, using a crowdfunding portal does not derail a startup from the money train of ever-larger institutional investors.
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Currently, he sits on the advisory board for Tout, a social-media startup that lets users make and share 15-second videos.
Startup veterans, for the most part, move on to second careers as angel investors, from which new position they now compete with venture capitalists, often trying to engineer early-exit scenarios at lower multiples, and effectively allying themselves with the big acqui-hiring companies against the traditional VC class.
In fact, Chinese companies like Changhong Electric are fast becoming leaders in the Smart TV field, recently announcing a partnership with San Francisco startup Flingo (a developer of Social TV apps) to better enable second screen engagement for Asian consumers.
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