Category Archives: guest posts

From the Netherlands to 500 Startups

Posted on November 4, 2011 by max| 1 Comment

Khuram Hussain is the co-founder of Fileboard. Previously he co-founded Inbox2, email startup, technology in use by 60 million people. Khuram also held BD and product roles at companies such as Shell. We are a team of three from Europe. … Continue reading →

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Entrepreneurship == Lewd Jokes + Product/Market Fit?

Posted on July 21, 2011 by 500 Startups| 7 Comments

Saumil Mehta is the Founder of LocBox, in addition to being a Housekeeper, Frequent Complainer, Occasional Janitor and Producer of Egregious Software Engineering Bugs. He has never been referred to as a visionary founder internally or externally and is rather miffed … Continue reading →

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Cohort Metrics For Startups Revealed – Part I: Plain English

Posted on July 13, 2011 by 500 Startups| 18 Comments

Meet Silver Surfer aka 500 SuperMentor Dan Martell (@danmartell).  Dan is the Co-Founder of Flowtown, a social marketing application for businesses.  Self diagnosed as having intense ADHD, you can either find him hosting dinners, speaking about marketing or jumping off … Continue reading →

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The Designer-Driven Startup

Posted on July 5, 2011 by 500 Startups| 2 Comments

The author, Zach Weiner is the co-founder of Storytree, one of the first d.funded companies.  Zach is the product of the Stanford Symbolic Systems program, equal parts computer scientist and designer.  This post is the second in a series about the design-driven startup. … Continue reading →

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Recruit Top Talent Like Ari Gold From Entourage

Posted on June 28, 2011 by 500 Startups| 6 Comments

This post was written by Ethan Bloch. Ethan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Flowtown where he built the company to 26,000 businesses, profitability and a team of 8 in less than 11 months only to be faced with the … Continue reading →

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Startup Dad Gives Baby Up For Adoption

Posted on June 24, 2011 by 500 Startups| 1 Comment

Meet Professor X, aka 500 SuperMentor Hong Quan (@hongdquan). An entrepreneur and recruiter building cars and startups, Hong has even hired a real honest-to-goodness rockstar (#3 on Billboard charts).  He uses his superpowers of recruiting and abilities to read and influence … Continue reading →

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Never Been a Better Time for Women Entrepreneurs

Posted on June 22, 2011 by 500 Startups| 2 Comments

Meet Phoenix (Jean Grey) aka 500 SuperMentor Wendy Tan-White. Wendy is Founder of Moonfruit, a simple and powerful website builder for SMBs who expect better design tools to produce better designed sites. Moonfruit was founded in 1999, survived the Dotcom crash in … Continue reading →

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Celebrate The Small Victories

Posted on June 14, 2011 by 500 Startups| 5 Comments

Meet Lion-O aka SuperMentor Brenden Mulligan (@bmull). Brenden founded ArtistData, a music industry startup that enables artists to easily keep their content up-to-date across multiple marketing channels and consumer touch points, which was acquired in May 2010 by Sonicbids. More … Continue reading →

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Word To Your Mother – Mobile Moms Are Early Tech Adopters

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Christine Tsai| 1 Comment

Happy Mother’s Day! Today’s post was written by Avishai Shoham. Avishai is a dad and also founder & CEO of Evoz Monitors, a 500 Startups company. Two of the biggest consumer tech trends today are mobile connectivity and personalized data collection. … Continue reading →

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