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Pitch Deck Teardown: Honeycomb’s $50M Series D deck

TechCrunch

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. “Who is this product for?”

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DoorDash from application to IPO

Y Combinator

The founders are likewise transformed by the many years of struggle and personal growth necessary to build and successfully lead a large business. Gone is the uncertain new startup founder, replaced by someone almost impossibly formidable and experienced. ” Later that week they had their big TechCrunch launch.

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Indy VC firm Sixty8 Capital launches $20M fund aimed at underrepresented founders

TechCrunch

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. That led to the development of a startup incubator focused on Black founders and later a pitch competition.

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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

But what about those minority founders who don’t have family, friends or connections to lean on for the first $250,000? Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Realize you are up against an outdated system. These discussions then bring further biases to the surface.

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Fab founder Jason Goldberg is back with Moxie, a new live-streaming fitness marketplace

TechCrunch

It’s a compelling proposition, even while other startup founders are also chasing after it. Not deterred, in late 2016, Goldberg launched a messaging app called Pepo that enabled anyone to create and join live messaging communities and that raised around $3 million from investors, including Tencent.

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From Student Startup to Million-Dollar Journey: My Story

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Very few of us could establish a legal entity and start working on a startup in a real environment. A year before starting my first company, my cofounders and I were pitching our startup to every startup competitions we knew about. On most of them, we got one of the top three places and a $2–5k reward. It changes you.

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Austin emerges as a city of unicorns and tech giants

TechCrunch

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.