Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. And through this industry legitimacy she was able to get the ear of Dany Levy, the co-founder of Daily Candy. How’s that for an ex painter?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the problems in this structure.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

I wonder sometimes if founders even know about the hours their lawyers or advisers put in on evenings, weekends, vacations. I had dinner with my friend Brooke Hammerling , founder of Brew PR recently. One day if you’re lucky you’ll be big enough to work with recruiters to hire senior members of your team or your board.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 8, 2024

Hande Cilingir has the unique and prestigious status as a female-founder of a tech unicorn Founded in 1909 International Women’s Day continues to be both a celebration of women and a rallying cry for women’s equality. In recognition of the day, AI-native platform Insider issued a press release honoring its co-founder Hande Cilingir.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Many startups these days are started by young, technical or product founders who are in the idealistic phase of their lives and careers. I can assure you that move wasn’t a walk in the park for the board. I call it “ the Co-Founder mythology ” and it’s persistent in our startup mythology. Foursquare?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. Seriously, this happens.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. June 19th, 2012. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. June 17th, 2012. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. June 13th, 2012. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. June 10th, 2012. June 5th, 2012.

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HPA

JANUARY 8, 2025

Founded in 2012 by Katlin Smith, Simple Mills is a market-leading natural foods brand offering premium better-for-you crackers, cookies, snack bars, and baking mixes. As HPA reflects on this decade-long journey, we recognize the privilege of working alongside an inspiring founder like Smith. Full press release here.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

Kenna is the founder and chief executive of LinkUp , a company that provides small businesses in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines a digital space to collaborate as well as promote and sell their products and services. I’m taking people on board and asking them, what is your vision for small businesses? I graduated from college in 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. I’m thankful to the founders of the companies that I invested in where the business has been on a crazy growth trajectory over the past year or two. I feel confident in our 2014 plans.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2022

Wellesley High School, 2012. In 2012, he delivered a 12-minute commencement speech at Wellesley High School, in one of the most affluent towns in America. Having recently survived his first bout with cancer, the legendary Apple founder delivered an emotionally vulnerable speech that has become one of the most watched of all time.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Lighter Capital is a RBI VC which has provided over $100 million in growth capital to over 250 companies since 2012. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In fact, most early investor work hard to help their startups get to the next level so it makes no sense for the angel investor and founders to be at odds. Convertible debt WITH a cap is stupid for founders. This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach. What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The founding partner of Upfront, Yves Sisteron, has been a mentor for me since 1999 and was on the board of my first company. And he led what is currently our best performing company out of that 2012 fund – AdoreMe. Many potential investors asked me, “Aren’t you just going to leave and form your own fund?”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. She works as hard and is as committed as any of you founders or VCs out there and she’s absolutely crushing it on impact and results and the better she does — there is no upside for her. She runs a 501c3 (non profit).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Investors sat with the founder & CEO, Jason Spievak, and asked him what he wanted to do about the future. Word travels at light speed amongst this small network of people who all know each other and even though they’re rivals they also sit on boards together and many probably went to business school together.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

We’ve been seeing layoffs and cost-cutting measures across the board as companies look to shore up their balance sheets. Down rounds carry a negative connotation and are often interpreted as the fault of the company or founder. And now, an increasing number of companies are raising money at lower valuations than their last investment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

My strengths as chief executive officer (CEO) of RegioHelden were typical founder qualities: I was good at designing an MVP , persuading customers and employees, raising money and defining an overall vision and strategy. A lot of first-time founders just throw together a job description without thinking much about the scope of the role.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

We spoke with the Gener8tor founders about why they are passionate about thinking about the startup ecosystem a little differently. ” Gener8tor co-founder Joe Kirgues. I talked with the co-founders, Troy Vosseller and Joe Kirgues, to learn more about how it all hangs together and what it sees as the future of its operations.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The climatetech venture builder also has the support of EDB New Ventures, the venture-building arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board. This partnership combines Wavemaker Impact’s strong venture-building expertise and extensive founder networks with EDB’s access to sustainability-focused corporates and insights on climate needs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. This latter bit is very important to us and very hard to achieve.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Founders like to create companies around what they know, and Frank Westermann and Anton Kittelberger know diabetes. They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While Lydia wouldn’t discuss the valuation of the round, its co-founder and CEO gave me a hint. He joined Accel as a venture partner in July and he’s going to join Lydia’s board of directors. They had just released their mobile app in April of 2012,” Jhawar told me in a phone interview.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The round comes less than six months after the company raised $35 million in a round led by Sorenson Ventures, and brings the New York-based company’s total raised to $196 million since its 2012 inception. Accel partner Amit Jhawar will join Socure’s board as part of the funding round. Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Still, Sheel Mohnot, who was formerly a general partner at the fintech fund of 500 Startups, and Jake Gibson, co-founder of personal finance startup NerdWallet, were a little taken aback by investor interest in their fintech-focused early-stage venture firm, Better Tomorrow Ventures , or BTV. SM: We have founders of fintech unicorns.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

He solely represented himself as the CEO of Learn In, while Degreed’s board of directors represented the other side. I was closer and more involved in operations than the rest of the directors but it was in a board member capacity,” he added. Degreed approached Learn In, and the deal closed in less than a week, he said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan, however, will continue to serve as founder and partner at Initialized – a $3.2 Tan was a YC founder in the summer of 2008 and served as a partner there from December 2010 to November 2015.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history. She is also on the board of Nordstrom and previously served on the boards of Dollar Shave Club and Bonobos. Jim Lanzone was named earlier this month as the next CEO of Yahoo Inc.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 16, 2017

When she joined in 2012, her company, CoinX, was in high growth mode, which made support from her EO community an invaluable asset. As the CEO and founder, Megan is known for her ability to push the envelope in security and risk management technology. Learn more about EO today!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

But getting farmers on board has never been easy, Goslinga told TechCrunch. But if they witness any of these climate risks during the season, they would want to get insurance, which is counterproductive to Pula,” said the founder in a phone call. Pula co-founders and Co-CEOs (Rose Goslinga and Thomas Njeru). Image Credits: Pula.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Jack Abraham, co-founder of Found and Atomic managing partner, said the startup was built to address the “challenging” issue of weight care while incorporating telehealth. Abraham also is a co-founder of hims and hers, a telehealth service for wellness and care.). She said she backed Found because its mission resonated with her. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Guo joined Greylock in 2013 as the firm’s first woman partner and will now transition into the role of board partner. She also is a board director at Mystery and 0x Labs. Just last week, Sydney Thomas announced her departure from Precursor Ventures — which focuses on first-time founders — six years after becoming the firm’s first hire.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Direct experience of that was, in fact, some of what drove the founders to start the company: planning a trip to London from Belgium for the Olympics in 2012, Gino Engels and his friends couldn’t find any hotel rooms that weren’t painfully expensive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As a board member, I’ve seen everything from product releases to crucial GTM (go-to-market) changes slip because of billing complexity, even at deeply technical companies with excellent engineers. As a founder, I’ve also experienced these problems myself,” he said. billion in 2012. billion in 2012.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno. When asked what motivated her, Ms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Alisee de Tonnac is co-founder and co-CEO of Seedstars , a Swiss-based group with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. Furthermore, women founders receive less than 3% of all VC dollars. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alisee de Tonnac. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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