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How a Company Becomes a Pillar of Its Local Community

Revolution

The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts. Today, cities around the country are entering a period not unlike early-stage Detroit.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. The first to spot the weakness were startup founders.

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Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave

Revolution

The process starts slowly, but as the chart below shows, venture-backed M&A plummeted during the recessionary period, when venture investing also slowed. Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. How can you avoid this unnecessary fate?

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a16z now wants to manage the money of the entrepreneurs it backs

TechCrunch

Andreessen Horowitz’s recent hire of former Jordan Park Group Chief Investment Officer Michel Del Buono suggests the venture capital firm is getting into startup founder wealth management. Meanwhile, Sequoia’s business unit, Sequoia Heritage, was formed in 2010 and currently manages $16.4

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How May Ph.D. Startup Founders Build for the Long term?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

What does data from the leading investors suggest Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash The current context supports research-heavy startups, there is even a special term for them?—?the the ‘deep tech startup’ search query is reaching one peak after another on Google Trends. in 2010 to €9.6B How May Ph.D.

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history.

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Jay Samit: How Startup Founders Can Avoid Getting Disrupted

WSJ - The Accelerators

According to a recent USA Today survey , more than 50% of today’s college students want to be entrepreneurs, and more than 1,200 startup incubators have sprouted up around America like dandelions in summer to assist the legions of hopefuls. This newest form of fundraising, while limited to just accredited investors, is expected to top $2.5