Well known startup investor and VC Brad Feld also supports this view with what he calls his Boulder Thesis (amazing 3-minute video by the Kauffman Foundation with narration by Brad here).
Occasionally well-known startup COOs or heads of engineering finagle their way into this position.
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But there is another type of successful startup as well, that is often a higher-risk gamble for investors.
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The shift will create openings for new competitors such as CoverHound, a well-funded San Francisco startup that has built a multiple-carrier comparison engine.
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It might as well be fodder for a startup-spoofing meme.
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If you are a good communicator and understand the startup arena and players well, both sides really benefit from this set-up.
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Sze also talks in the video about what he looks for in startup founders, as well as his views on how Greylock is different in the venture industry.
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That's all well and good for an edgy startup, but could be an issue that needs to be tackled as Yahoo aims to appeal to as many advertisers as possible.
Roeding is also, naturally, well-aware of how fast his startup is developing.
We spoke to Virginia Iranzo-Diaz, the company's marketing and communications manager, as well as CEO Javier Paso about the startup's immediate plans for growth.
While the European startup market may not be as well known to those in the U.S., Rimer is bullish on opportunities there.
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These declines pre-date the current recession, and besides, startup activity has always held up well in past recessions as unemployed workers try entrepreneurship as a path back to prosperity.
In future posts I will share stories and content from my book as well as from my research on the Lean Startup movement and other ideas which are all very similar and share the same message: there is a better way to be an entrepreneur.
These suggestions are the building blocks to a well-defined decision-making process, something every startup needs to achieve sustainable growth at scale.
Inside its current East Village offices, programmers mix with well-credentialed music obsessives in surroundings that resemble a tech startup.
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The startup is competing with other LED lighting startups as well as industry giants such as Philips and Toshiba.
Most of those who know Rathmann well are betting he will be as successful with his second startup as he was with his first.
Professors at the medical school, for example, may also hold faculty positions at the Salk or Scripps institutes, as well as sit on the scientific advisory board of a biotech startup.
In the previous posts in this Series we established the mindset and awareness required as well as the immersion you need to inititate in your local startup ecosystem in order to greatly increase your chances of success as an entrepreneur.
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New York City startup Raketu offers VoIP calls on certain BlackBerrys, as well as the iPhone and iPod touch.
Yet he still dashes around Amazon with the intensity of a startup boss trying to make his first payroll, as well as the glee of a teenager discovering all the fun you can have at overnight camp.
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Well before the iPhone was introduced I worked with the CEO of a startup in the area of mobile technology.
Being on the sales side, Abdul was well-known in the medical fraternity, and that goodwill gave his startup an edge.
Well, in 2006, Marc Benioff was head of this fast-growing startup, but he saw that it was rapidly becoming just another slow-moving bureaucracy that was unable to innovate.
Yet failing in a startup is practically a rite of passage, according to investors, as well as successful entrepreneurs.
Competitors include small firms such as Farmlogs, a Web startup that focuses on crop data, and software maker Farm Works, as well as John Deere, which has software and Web support for managing crop production and machinery.
As a startup founder who handled the public relations in-house for my own business as well as someone who plays the outsourced function to other founder teams, I can identify with each perspective.
Competition included software giants ADP (where the startup's chief executive had spent 13 years) and Reynolds and Reynolds, as well as smaller firms like Autobytel.
As in, how well do you fit in with the quasi-corporate culture of that app developer, incubator or social media startup you just applied for.
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