TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Tetra Insights co-founders Michael Bamberger and Panos Rigopoulos raised a $5 million Series A last year, and the duo said cold outreach was a key part of their strategy. TechCrunch+ roundup: Attention metrics, growth through retention, cold-calling advice by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

How has your investment strategy changed? What advice would you give your portfolio startups to continue growing at this time? Compared to 2019, what were the most notable investment trends in India in 2022? How has your investment strategy changed? Do you expect these trends to continue into 2023?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

We help co-lead the execution of Startup Aotearoa, a one-to-one program for first-time entrepreneurs to get coaching and advice from a startup advisor or mentor as they navigate the first time they’ve gone through the journey. Irina Miller from Daisy Lab, Janine Granger from Easy Crypto are some good examples there.

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StartupNation

JUNE 22, 2021

A 2019 trend report from Forrester Research predicted in 2020 that consumers would search for “deeper meaning” in the products and services they purchase, going on to explain, “More than 55% of consumers will consider company values when making a buying decision.” You will need the help and advice of others.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In 2019, Italian startups attracted $850 million, compared to just €140 million in 2017, as the VC ecosystem became less insular and more international investors arrived. Milan tends to attract the lion’s share of VC funding — in 2019, startups located there received €311 million, according to NGP Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

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.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? We lowered our check size per company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

This continues the firm’s strategy from its first fund which raised $15 million and started deploying in 2019. “I would say that money trickled in a lot more strongly in 2019 when I raised Fund I,” Winfield said. Winfield isn’t fully avoiding the hype though.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 2, 2020

In the second article in our series about podcasts , we talk more with two EO members who launched online audio shows in 2019. He launched his daily Flash Briefings Journeyto100million.com podcast in early 2019. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO ENTREPRENEURS WHO WANT TO LAUNCH A PODCAST? WHY ARE PODCASTS SO POPULAR TODAY?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 26, 2022

I want to be 2019 Jeff Bezos. Why Channels Matter More Than Products The number one reason why I believe in a channel-first strategy rather than a product-first one is because: You’re more likely to fail from the lack of a distribution channel than from an inability to build a product. Looking back, I know my mistake.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. and StartupAmsterdam, there are 1,661 tech companies in Amsterdam, while the city ranked fifteenth in Startup Genome’s 2019 report “Global Startup Ecosystem Report,” moving up four places since 2017.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The news comes on the heels of dramatic growth for the company, which has seen its user base grow from 150 million users in 2019 to 350 million today. For more context, PitchBook estimates that the company was valued at $180 million in its last round, a Series C of $30 million in 2019.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Los Angeles-based company was started in 2019 by a group of five Snap alums working in various roles within Snap’s revenue product strategy business. Users even receive news via their dashboard around their specific marketing strategy, he added.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

On March 1st, 2019, Ginger was with him at a speaking engagement when he took out a lip balm. Advice on Starting Your Own Beauty Brand. I know everybody wants to start selling on their website, but if you are even considering selling your products in Sephora or Target, you need to have your pricing strategy right as well.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Tapping into someone else’s experience is a tried-and-true method, which is why two-time Y Combinator participant Chris Morton wrote a guest post for Extra Crunch with advice for founders hoping to be accepted by the famed accelerator. Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

But when your team is the larger organization, you can’t use this strategy. If I could give 2014 Kieran one piece of advice from 2024 Kieran, it would be to center this much more explicitly in how I approached my job as CEO. My teams always had a recognizable identity and subculture. This work is my zone of excellence.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

On March 1st, 2019, Ginger was with him at a speaking engagement when he took out a lip balm. Advice on Starting Your Own Beauty Brand. I know everybody wants to start selling on their website, but if you are even considering selling your products in Sephora or Target, you need to have your pricing strategy right as well.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 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.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

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.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Besides the standard slides for TAM and GTM strategies, their presentation does a compelling job of describing the problems to be solved and why they believe they’re poised for success: “We’ve felt this pain personally.” To wit: Five Flute, an issue-tracking platform for hardware product managers, recently raised a $1.2M

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Seek outside advice. Outside professional advice to draw up a plan is essential. If your startup is a family business, you’ll need to take extra steps to avoid burnout, ensure on-the-job harmony and attract advice from business experts outside the family circle. Originally published in August 2019.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The startup’s co-founder and CEO Mostafa El-Beltagy told TechCrunch that the mortgage financing plan is part of their strategy to introduce new products that are aligned with clients’ needs, ensuring sustainability for their business. And using all of that information, we can start to give some very real financial advice,” said El-Beltagy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

“As the venture landscape becomes more a meritocratic environment where resumes and institutional affiliations matter less, these strategies can make the difference between a successful fundraise and a fruitless meeting,” says Agya Ventures co-founder Kunal Lunawat. ” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Having worked in a luxury firm, as an investment banker at JP Morgan and her own consulting firm, Bardet decided to start Susu in 2019. Care bundles are basically medical calendars composed of doctor consultations, nurse visits, medical advice sent by SMS and a combination of other medical activities for patients. “A Susu founders.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

As Our Colleague Kate Stern Departs Homebrew To Go Back to Company Building, Here’s Her Advice. And that’s what we had the chance to do in early 2019 when Kate Stern joined Homebrew. Early in my career, I might have thought this advice was silly. I think these trends apply to pet health too.

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Feedough

APRIL 24, 2021

If you have zero financial setbacks, unlimited resources, and bottomless funds that will finance your business’ operations through failures ( In 2019, the failure rate of startups was around 90% ), then stop right now and go back to whatever chore you were doing. A simple solution to this dilemma is to seek expert advice.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Wefarm , a social networking platform aimed at independent farmers to help them meet each other, exchange ideas and get advice, and sell or trade equipment and supplies, has raised $11 million funding to continue expanding its business, which now has 2.5 million users. Wefarm has raised $32 million since being founded in 2015.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

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.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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StartupNation

MAY 24, 2021

It didn’t dry up: Venture investors poured $150 billion into North American companies in 2020, up about 7% from 2019 levels. in the third quarter of 2019. Use the following five strategies to find the perfect VC partner for your business: Do your research. In the third quarter, for example, only 23.7%

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Early-stage startups tend to claim that their go-to-market strategy is fully operational. In 2019, she left Facebook, where she was VP of technology communication, and joined Coatue Management as a general partner. Greylock’s Mike Duboe explains how to define growth and build your team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up. Its investment activity started picking up again starting in late 2018 and the bank backed 30 startups in the fourth quarter of 2019 alone.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Tetra has raised $7 million to date, beginning with $500,000 from friends and family in 2019 and a $1.5 So he changed strategy, implementing a three-step process that allowed him to identify investors that would be interested in his startup. His advice for cold calling? million seed round in 2020.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 16, 2024

If 2024 Max could magically whisper one learning, or piece of advice, into the ear of 2019 Max, what would it be? Recently I asked him to join me for Five Questions where we could talk a little bit about his journey. Hunter Walk: Your startup Warmly recently turned four years old. There’s also a silly stigma around pivoting.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Ferrier told TechCrunch that a business can see where they are on the sustainability journey and is provided with personalized, clear advice on what they can do to reduce their carbon emissions and waste. From its consumer app trials, the company saw that it was able to help shoppers reduce the emissions of their purchases by 23%.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

What strategies did these founders use to secure their funding? Will the slow down affect their plans moving forward, and what advice can they offer early-stage founders contemplating their first venture play in a sluggish market? Hezarkhani’s Parthean, raised $1.1 Learn more about the folks who will break it down for you.

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