Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

And I actually think we could learn a lot from public investors even if we don’t always feel culturally aligned. We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. Some companies have to go first.

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StartupNation

JULY 19, 2021

Generation Z (2001-2020) = 5%. Fun fact: Gen Xers make up the highest percentage of startup founders at 55%. Here are four challenges multigenerational workforces must consider: Company culture. Cultural expectations. Breakdown of workforce by generation : Traditionalists (1925-1945) = 2%. Traditionalists.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In a study conducted by Cambridge Associates, researchers found that the real failure rate hasn’t gone above 60% since 2001. According to Griffith, the 90% failure myth serves to soothe the bruised egos of those startup founders who failed. But startup failure isn’t a natural law like gravity,” says Griffith.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a first-time startup founder. Finmark co-founder and CEO Rami Essaid wrote a post for Extra Crunch that candidly describes the traps he laid for himself that made him a less-effective entrepreneur. ” The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a first-time startup founder.

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