TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Dear Sophie: How did immigration change for startup founders in 2020? Dear Sophie: I’m on an F1 OPT and am about to incorporate a startup with my two American co-founders. Dear Sophie: How did immigration change for startup founders in 2020? Image Credits: Sophie Alcorn. Ambitious in Albany.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

The New York City-based company peaked at some 60 employees before it was acquired in December 2011 by Internap Network Services for $35 million. First, these wildly different founders ended up both working on key internet plumbing. “It was a business sort of built out of love for the tech, and love for solving problems.”.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Startup founders will work with Google engineers and receive mentoring from over 20 teams at Google, as well as outside experts and local mentors. Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people [under 22] who want to build new things.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Alex Wilhelm hears from one startup founder who has taken a bit of an alternative approach to building a SaaS company. We have a lot more planned across Equity, Extra Crunch and more, and she’ll be able to tie it all together around her daily coverage. How to bootstrap to $200m+ in revenue.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. I recently had coffee with a young friend who just finished his first startup. I didn’t sleep much back then. And so it goes again. You’re where you should be. From the Instagram and the Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

His startup was a member of the YC Winter 2011 cohort, and was sold to Rackspace a year later. One was owned by a private equity firm, and one was owned by another company when they were sold, so they had been around the block and knew what it was like to report to someone else.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

These include a product design company called Meikesen Technology (founded in 2011 in China), an international trading company named MERSAIN (established in 2009 in Hong Kong), a precision manufacturing company called RES (founded in 2014 in China), and a smart electronics company known as COLORPIK (established in 2019 in New York).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. I recently had coffee with a young friend who just finished his first startup. I didn’t sleep much back then. And so it goes again. You’re where you should be.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Startup founders will work with Google engineers and receive mentoring from over 20 teams at Google, as well as outside experts and local mentors. Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people [under 22] who want to build new things.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I joined in 2011, and when we got acquired by Google three years later, we were still only 22 people. I’m a strong proponent of interviews being bi-directional — candidates should take the time to really get to know the startup, founders, and team. That meant a lot to me.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2015

To calculate the data, I filtered all the startups who had been acquired for undisclosed amounts and raised less than $6.5M (the sum of the average seed round in 2014 and the median series A ). Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014. Q2 2010, Q2 2011 and Q2 2012 all saw similar drops before the levels rebounded.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

but a majority stake in its India and SAARC business was acquired by Indian company SAR Group in 2011. Sharma co-founded an EV startup called Revolt Motors in 2019 ( sold to New Delhi-based RattanIndia Enterprises in January). Jain also has accessories-focused startup Play Design Labs, which produces wearables and audio devices.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

Craig Hall, the writer of Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups , shares his view on the current state of entrepreneurship in the U.S. . In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. What prompted you to write Boom ? was in trouble.

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