Monthly Archives: November 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Conflicting Advice

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Christine Tsai| 21 Comments

Joe Heitzeberg, AKA Aquaman (@jheitzeb) is a 500 Startups SuperMentor and Chief Piston at MediaPiston, a new crowdsourcing platform for content projects (pre-launch).  Prior to MediaPiston, Joe was the CTO at WhitePages.com and co-founder and CEO of Snapvine.com (acquired by … Continue reading →

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How to Interview a Designer

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Christine Tsai| 6 Comments

Written by Jason Putorti, a 500 Startups SuperMentor, Venture Advisor and Founder of Votizen. The post below is cross-posted from his blog. These are the tenets I give people when they ask me how to evaluate a user experience designer for … Continue reading →

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Still A Lot Of Love In Your Inbox

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Christine Tsai| 2 Comments

Posted by Jared Goralnick, founder of AwayFind. In addition to being a 500 Startups Founder, he is also one of our SuperMentors. Last night 80 people gathered to talk about email at the launch event for Inbox Love.  Turns out that … Continue reading →

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100 Billion Reasons to Build (Kick Ass) Solutions for the Events Industry

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Christine Tsai| 3 Comments

Please welcome Christen O’Brien to 500 Startups! Christen recently joined the 500 team as Director of Events. You may recognize her work in recent 500 events such as Warm Gun and SMASH Summit. Look for an exciting 2011 filled with equally … Continue reading →

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Hacking Away At Facebook Hackathon

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Christine Tsai| Leave a comment

A few 500 Startups folk hacking away at tonight’s Facebook startup hackathon. Notice anything out of the ordinary?

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What Does that “Business Guy” at Your Startup Do, Anyway?

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Christine Tsai| 15 Comments

Meet Plastic Man aka 500 SuperMentor Charles Hudson (@chudson). Charles is the Co-Founder of Bionic Panda Games, a new mobile games startup. Prior to Bionic Panda Games, Charles was the VP of Business Development at Serious Business (acquired by Zynga … Continue reading →

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Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Christine Tsai| 21 Comments

OnStartups recently published an article entitled “The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur.” Certainly all of them hit home for anyone who’s ever tried to start a company. So a few of the 500 Startups founders decided to share … Continue reading →

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Livin’ La Vida Startup – in Beantown

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Christine Tsai| 8 Comments

Meet Optimus Prime, aka 500 SuperMentor Roy Rodenstein. Roy co-founded Going.com, a pioneering startup in local events and ticketing acquired by AOL in 2009, and led product and online marketing. Before that he led product marketing at a search startup … Continue reading →

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Go F*#% Yourself! Unconventional Ways to Bootstrap Your Startup Idea

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Christine Tsai| 4 Comments

(…and by f*#%, I mean “fund!”) Meet Zorro, aka SuperMentor Rob Garcia. Rob oversees product strategy at Lending Club. Rob has over 12 years of experience building extraordinary digital user experiences as a consultant and entrepreneur. His super powers include … Continue reading →

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