TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Amazon’s first foray into the world of accelerator programs, designed to help early-stage startups build and launch, was focused on conversational AI back in 2016. Announced today, AWS has created a 10-week program for generative AI startups around the globe.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2020

By the time a company is successful enough to IPO, the many doubts and uncertainties of the early stage startup are largely forgotten, replaced with a hindsight that makes their path to success seem so much more obvious and predictable. Once the applications are all reviewed, we invite the top startups in for a ten minute interview.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Venture capitalist Soraya Darabi of TMV will join us today to discuss strategies early-stage startup founders can deploy to get their first “yes” from an investor — and which founder mistakes often lead her to say “no.”

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

Eunjin Son, CEO of MegaStudy, expressed their enthusiasm, stating, “We are excited to embark on this new fund and eagerly anticipate discovering innovative startups that are revolutionizing different sectors.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“My work with startups and the ecosystem began in 2016 when I founded Startupmedia to help startups and the ecosystem tell their stories and school myself in starting/scaling businesses. In the early stages, it’s really all about the founder/founding team.”

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

We’ve been talking about the unique challenges facing women founders for years, but the pandemic was particularly hard for women looking to start their own companies. Last year, during Y Combinator’s Future Founders Conference , a16z’s Sonal Chokshi led a conversation on “Leveling the Playing Field” with Anu Hariharan, YC Continuity Partner.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com , a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. Momentum is the single most important factor that helps startup founders raise capital. He is also the host of Foundersuite’s How I Raised It podcast.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. It’s a city of unicorns and tech giants.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Limited partners in the vehicle include Mizuho Bank, Mitsubishi Estate, Shinsei Bank, Pavilion Capital, Founders Found, Dai-ichi Life Insurance, GREE, and undisclosed domestic and international institutional investors. We want our founders to focus on building without the pressure of a VC looking for a quick exit,” Riney told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, the bank has financed more than $430 billion worth of fossil fuel projects, according to the most recent Banking on Climate Chaos report , far exceeding its peers. It’s also a great opportunity for startup founders.” But there’s some evidence to suggest the bank is turning a corner.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

technology startup founders and how that affects the gender diversity of the employees they hire in " The 2017 US Startup Team Gender Diversity Study. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. What are the most common mistakes you have seen growth stage founders make? " Investor Thoughts.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

From the stresses of being a startup founder I began to have pain in my chest that I became worried was heart trouble. And the week we finished our 2016 Summit, Stuart had already survey attendees for feedback, completed an analysis of what worked and what didn’t and identified the dates for our 2017 Summit.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

What we saw in 2015 and 2016 is the world moving in a direction where that complexity was unavoidable, whether in a heightened interest in being able to do things like breakdown by customer ID or this exploding complexity that was about to come onto the scene driven by Kubernetes, microservices and containers. Slide 17] Look at that!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Maybe Benioff finally gets Twitter, a company he desperately wanted in 2016, as Casey Newton suggested in The Platformer this week. When fundraising, New Zealand startup founders should play the “Kiwi card” Image Credits: Jami Tarris (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Me and my cofounders back in 2016 Owning a business isn’t just about making money or being your own boss. But if there’s one lesson I’d like to pass on, it’s this: value the journey as much as the destination. The journey is the real lesson; it shapes you, molds you, and prepares you for the peaks and troughs of the business world.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Consiglieri to startup founders and investors alike, attorneys assist in the negotiation and are privy to the terms of investment. The median growth in startup valuation has fallen from a high of 74% in Q2 2016 to 39% in Q4. Attorneys witness the changes in the fundraising market from a unique vantage point.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

The biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government, supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), will be held for 3.5 Shin is now part of our Advisory Board,” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda, the top winner of KSGC 2021.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The co-founder, CEO and managing partner at York IE , a strategic growth and investment firm for technology companies. Kyle is also co-founder of York Real Estate and of his 3rd-generation family business, YORK Athletics MFG. What motivated you to launch your startup? In 2016, we were acquired by Oracle. Be likable!

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

They were in the Summer 2016 batch of YC and you can check them out at Meesho.com. 41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? 43:30 – Can foreigners come to India and start a startup? 44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. Vidit is co-founder and CEO of Meesho.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitalists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. no-equity stipend + corporate pilot opportunities with our founders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The issue of women startup founders not receiving equitable venture funding is a shortfall of the West: It’s here, everywhere in the U.S., and over there, all throughout Europe. It’s hard to say that some of these metrics represent investors simply pulling back when data shows the bias has historical precedence.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

One of the most important qualities of a startup founder is financial control. Originally published April 29, 2016. You have been running the business with your own funds up until now, so you have had your share of successes and failures. Your projections must be based on those experiences and must sound absolutely realistic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

First, on Wednesday at 12:00pm , TC+ Editor in Chief and Equity co-host Alex Wilhelm is talking with Mamoon Hamid, partner at Kleiner Perkins, and Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global. The two are longtime veterans of navigating the Silicon Valley waters and can speak directly to founders who are uneasy about the future.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

TechCrunch Live records live today and tomorrow at 12:00 PDT, and you’re invited to pitch your startup. Participants have a chance to practice their pitch by presenting to another founder and investor. Participants have two minutes to pitch their startup to the guests, and they’ll receive four minutes of feedback.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

It wasn’t enough, though, and by 2016, Taneja was out. The third big blow came in September 2016, when billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries introduced Jio, its 4G network. All of this was being played out amid the ambitions of Micromax’s founders and management.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Some light reading for the new year : Anna and Alex collected them and now share some of the books startup founders and venture capitalists could not put down this year. Startups and VC. TechCrunch Early Stage focuses on fledgling founders , writes Lauren S — come along and surround yourself with startup smarts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

For years, Austin has made headlines as an evolving tech hub where startups, large companies and investors alike have flocked to set up a presence. But as 2022 closes, the Texas capital is in the news for a very different, tragic reason — being home to the sudden death of a startup founder at the hands of a police officer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

And startups such as Grammarly, Ajax, People AI and Preply, backed by some of the world’s biggest VCs, are scrambling to support employees and operations amid the invasion. What I’m hearing from sources is that startup founders are mainly offering financial assistance to employees who are in Ukraine or neighboring countries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

When Parker Conrad founded Rippling in 2016, the HR company initially focused on the process of onboarding employees. I think that people have for 20 years told startup founders that what you want to do is to build something extremely narrow. I think that a lot of the advice around how to build technology companies is wrong.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Over the last few years, startup founders have exerted tremendous leverage in the fundraising market by taking advantage of the supply/demand imbalance. Too much capital chasing a sliver of exceptional startups. There may not be a BATNA, another investor in the lobby, in 2016.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

If I made a word cloud of the terms in 2016 that dominated Startupland, burn would be among them and perhaps the largest. In parallel, startup founders and CEOs have markedly shifted the way they communicate and manage their businesses. But the business of managing startups is different than that of public companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Starry-eyed newlyweds routinely sign prenuptial agreements without losing their sense of idealism, and startup founders should do the same, advises Yonaton Aronoff, a partner at litigation and employment law firm Harris St. ” Why your startup needs a prenup. Laurent & Wechsler. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Whether you’re in people ops, a founder or seeking a job in Silicon Valley, I would love to answer your questions in my next column.”. Sophie Alcorn.

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