American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

Women-founded startups show measurable positive results compared to those of men Alumni Ventures (AV), the most active venture firm in the U.S. billion from 10,000 individual investors since its founding in 2014, the firm has funded to date over 350 companies founded or led by women of its 1300+ current portfolio companies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

A number of local governments have also implemented programs to help startups. If you’re a startup founder ready to gain the tools you need to get to the next level, check out the EO Accelerator program. Learn more and apply for the program. What happens when the entrepreneurial spirit and sense of innovation diminish?

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

How the Midwest Startup and Tech Scene Boomed in 2021. It’s 2022 and already local VCs, angel investors, startup founders, incubators and accelerators, and more are pushing hard to make their startups go. Now this company raised over $40 million in funding since they launched in 2014. Good morning, Paul!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Non-profit organizations such as Asan Nanum Foundation , established by Hyundai Group, and D.Camp , as well as startup founders and executives, including the co-founder and former CEO of Krafton, Gang-Seok Kim , also joined Sopoong’s climate fund, Han continued.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 26, 2021

On November 17, we are hosting our second Aspiring Founders Forum for women who aspire to become a startup founder. The event will be online, and whether you are curious about launching your own startup or are in the early stages of building one, you’ll walk away with the knowledge to define your own path.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

When I joined YC in 2014, I thought I was transitioning from the management role I had as a startup founder to a job where most of my time would be spent doing office hours with YC founders. My goal was to raise a family and give back to the most important institution in my professional life - Y Combinator.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 15, 2020

On November 18, we are hosting our first Future Founders Conference for women who aspire to become a startup founder. The event will be online, and whether you are curious about launching your own startup or are in the early stages of building one, you’ll walk away with the knowledgeable to define your own path.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Non-traditional startup founder to an angel investor.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

During the early recovery, however, VC-backed M&A rebounded and skyrocketed: Annual deal values eclipsed $30 billion in 2010, holding steady before ballooning above $70 billion in 2014. Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. How can you avoid this unnecessary fate?

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are. This is the period when the speed of the game is so fast and there is so much to do that a founder could easily work around the clock. Leverage?—?and

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 1, 2014

In 2014, the median founding CEO equity stake after raising a Series A is 21% up from 15% in 2009. On the whole, the founder stakes for founding VPEng and VPProduct have remained relatively stable. The gray shadows around the lines represent the 95% confidence intervals. The trend is similar for Series B companies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

If you’ve been watching the recent wave of shows on disgraced startups (from Theranos to WeWork), you might be under the impression that startup founders have no sense of responsibility. In a 2014 post on TechCrunch , VCs John Backus and Hemant Bhardwaj coined a new term for these fund makers: “dragons.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Andrew has been investing in startups at Sequoia since 2014. She knows what it takes for a business to get startup capital. After the 30-minute chat with Christina and Andrew, selected founders will have two minutes to pitch, and will receive four minutes of feedback. You do not need a pitch deck to participate.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2022

whereas in 2014 around 71% of teens used Facebook, the study says in 2022 that number has dropped down to 32%. Magnus Grimeland, founder of the early-stage VC firm Antler, lays out some of the key principles to keep in mind. other stuff. million investors losing $5 billion collectively.”

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. It was launched by President Barack Obama and the Prime Minister of Malaysia in 2014.)

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 1, 2022

But, as strange as it may sound, since 2014 (when Russia started sending its troops to the eastern regions of Ukraine and annexed Crimea), we have gotten used to these emotions and the danger coming from our so-called “neighbor”. All our ideas seemed so exciting, and the future looked so bright.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2024

Takeshi “TK” Mori and Clancey Stahr met in 2013 at a cafe on Stanford’s campus and worked together on various investment projects before deciding to launch GoAhead Ventures I in Q4 2014. Generally speaking, startup founders are some of the most passionate people in the world, and they’re often tackling humanity’s biggest problems.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2014

Each time, I’m impressed by the intelligence, ambition and the polish of the founders presenting companies only a few weeks or months old. To get a sense of the broader trends in YC companies, I’ve compared the Winter 2012 class and the Spring 2014 class by sector (consumer v.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Image: Author Startups are supposed to be about an innate drive to change the world. That was my mindset in 2014 as my co-founder Lee Silverstone and I started Gymtrack, a startup that lets gym members automatically track their workouts. Founders of billion-dollar startups have previously founded a successful startup.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2021

On November 17, we are hosting our second Aspiring Founders Forum for women who aspire to become a startup founder. The event will be online, and whether you are curious about launching your own startup or are in the early stages of building one, you’ll walk away with the knowledge to define your own path.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The heavy-lift rocket has been under development since 2014. (H/T Found is a show about founders and company-building, featuring people actually doing the work. H/T to the numerous space reporters who reported from the conference live.).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014 , then-CEO of Pure Storage, Scott Dietzen, was asked about the possibility of exiting via acquisition. ” That doesn’t sound like getting acquired is the best thing that could happen to your startup, but this is only one perspective on the matter, and perhaps it depends who you ask.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

So whilst in some senses the cost of building a startup has fallen, such as access to certain tools, at the same time salaries have gone up a lot. So, startup founders back in 2018-2019 might have paid themselves £30-40,000 [annually], you see founders now being paid maybe £60-70,000.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

Secondly, I think so much about being a startup founder is really about being optimistic about the future, and believing in your vision when no one else does — and most people don’t in the early days. The third trait founders need is resourcefulness. This was 2013, 2014.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

With Silicon Valley Bank now being shut down, startup founders who have been unable to access their accounts are getting increasingly nervous about the status of their capital. And while others have managed to get some funds out, the ripple effect of SVB’s downfall is reverberating throughout the tech sector.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

What motivated you to launch your startup? In 2014, my elderly great aunt was forced out of her apartment in Istanbul in an effort to build a new shopping mall in its place. If you had to share, “words of wisdom,” with a Founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be? Thank you so much for joining us!

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

In 2014, Micromax poached Samsung’s country head for mobile and digital imaging Vineet Taneja and appointed him the CEO. The Indian government, in September 2014, introduced its flagship ‘Make in India’ program, schemes to incentivize global manufacturers to localize production in the country.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 11, 2024

BIGO Technology (BIGO) has rapidly ascended the ranks of the social media and livestreaming industry since its inception in 2014. Founded on the principle of empowering users with a dynamic […]

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Y Combinator

JULY 7, 2022

They flipped the equation of a typical startup founder: instead of raising money to enable a certain amount of growth, they eliminated the assumption of fundraising, controlled their spend, and evaluated how to ramp up spending based on what the business was bringing in. seed round in 2012 and has been profitable since 2014.

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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. 2014 saw a modest drop to 61. Startups are raising less and less before being acquired.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

We worked together, so we knew each other very well, but that time, we were not thinking about doing startups. Vidit Aatrey [19:37] – Starting startups was not a cool thing to do. That started after Flipkart became bigger about 2014, 15, and after that, the IT’s like, hey, everyone wants to do a startup.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Dame was founded in 2014 by CEO Alexandra Fine, who initially wanted to be a sex therapist. Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders. Dip is priced at $49, which is about $50 less than similar Dame products. We are trying to not get so caught up with what everyone else is doing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

February 2014 seems so long ago. Dear Sophie: How can early-stage startups compete for talent? Dear Sophie, As a first-time, early-stage startup founder, I find it difficult to compete against other startups on compensation. Eight years into his tenure, Satya Nadella looks to diversify.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

The Artemis Fund : founded by Leslie Goldman Tepper, the firm leads seed rounds for diverse tech founders with wild ambition in fintech, commerce, and care building the economy of the future. military veterans, LGBTQ+, and the permanently physically disabled.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Syndicate leads are often experienced angel investors or successful startup founders. They have a wealth of knowledge from playing different roles in the building of a startup ecosystem. Bosun Tijani talks strategy as CEO of Africa’s new largest tech hub.

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