Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

This is a riveting read and tale of ego, bad business practice and shady ethical behavior – if the article is even 50% true. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. I agree with him.

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Dream It

APRIL 21, 2020

This framework helps founders position their fundraising targets and avoid red flags with investors. Keep in mind though, the “20% ratio” is generally only relevant for earlier stage startups and rounds. If you want to dive deeper into terminology and how it impacts fundraising strategy, here’s a relevant Hackernoon article.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I’ve gone through this discovery process for dozens of startup ideas, potential features, and market opportunities. To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship. You can’t buy a community, so make it worth it.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

19 Strategies for Managing Risk in a Startup In this article, we explore nineteen different strategies for managing risk in startups, shared by founders, CEOs, and other industry professionals. This way, we made more informed decisions and reduced the risk of failure. Services should always be profitable. Products take time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Omnitron Sensors. Apothecary.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

For example, American micromobility company Spin is working with Drover AI, a computer vision startup, to pilot camera-based safety systems in a few markets, and European operator Voi is doing the same with Luna in the U.K. This article has been updated to reflect new information from Beam.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

Jill Soley, an executive at Issuu unpacks how we can get more startups to not fail. The scary startup failure rate. In the book, I brought in 50 business leaders to advise you on how to grow your business from your basic idea through to your eventual exit and summarized it into a step-by-step framework. You are not alone.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Photo by Matthew Osborn on Unsplash As founder of six startups, advisor to founders, and a startup strategist at IMD ( #1 ranked business school ), I see many mistakes being made and have made many myself. Good leadership is the secret sauce of a successful startup. You don’t even need a real product. Just not too often.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Venrock Vice President Todd Graham has some frank advice for founders at venture-backed startups: “It would be wise to generate a return at some point.” When VCs turned to Zoom, Chicago startups were ready for their close-up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

history is going to reshape the startup ecosystem for years to come. Finding your startup’s valuation: An angel investor explains how TechCrunch+ roundup: Beyond the Turing test, 3 VCs on SVB, usage-based pricing tactics by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch But that’s just one street corner.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Register The startup ecosystem, including Pangyo Techno Valley, is rapidly aligning with the ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) trend. Moreover, governments worldwide are laying down frameworks for ESG-related protocols. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

It’s too early to determine whether SVB’s downfall heralds a new era for venture capital, but based on anecdotal evidence, off-the-record discussions and chats with co-workers, it seems like we’re back to business as usual as far as pre-revenue startup fundraising is concerned. Más o menos.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

There’s no magic formula for creating a winning pitch deck, which is why most of the articles we run on this topic continually emphasize the fundamentals. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. “I once had an LP ask, ‘Have you invested in any startups I’ve heard of?'”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

As is our custom, you’ll see quite a few TechCrunch+ articles in the coming days that share predictions for 2022. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. When fundraising, New Zealand startup founders should play the “Kiwi card” Image Credits: Jami Tarris (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Still, most startups persist in releasing products aimed at serving younger users, says Lawrence Kosick, co-founder of GetSetUp, an edtech company that targets 50+ learners. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. 3 lies VCs tell ourselves about startup valuations. Image Credits: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

Companies in other industries are on a hiring spree, but startups like Robinhood, Better.com and Peloton are laying off thousands as FAANG companies slow down their recruiting and look for places to save money. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Finding your startup’s valuation: 5 factors to consider.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Startup culture is informal, which is why some workers end up with job titles like “customer delight manager” or “product whisperer.” Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. “Perhaps even more than the name of your startup does.” Thanks very much for reading! Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

You don’t need to move to San Francisco to launch a startup, but working here does have some advantages: moderate weather, natural beauty, great food, and sure, the world’s largest concentration of venture capital. ” Thanks very much for reading. Have a great weekend! Median liquid wealth for a Black family in the U.S.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 30, 2024

“I remember reading an article…where they measured the efficiency of locomotion for all the species on planet Earth. Can startups build bicycles for healthcare minds? And the condor won. Humans came in about a third of the way down the list, which was not such a great showing for the crown of creation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. What’s your ideal product use case? Use case/audience. Possible outcomes. yourprotagonist. Do you have any advice?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

He believes that when startup founders know how to raise money, they can find the freedom to approach investors with confidence and raise the capital they need to grow their company. Tal developed his methodologies in the course of leading five startups over more than 20 years. Iddo Tal has an infectious enthusiasm for fundraising.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Startups and VC Bringing us a reminder that a company’s services may be at the mercy of state governments from time to time, Pakistan has “degraded” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” and warned of fully blocking the site if the online encyclopedia fails to comply with the directions, Manish reports.

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 29, 2020

This article originally published on the Center for American Entrepreneurship Ideas Blog My new book with CAE Advisory Board member Brad Feld published yesterday. Although it’s important for policies to help ensure the “parts”—startups, organizations, programs, etc.—are Each startup community is unique.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription Business schools teach the basics, but Mysty Rusk, who’s reviewed around 4,500 deals over the last 20 years, says the most important lessons she learned were the result of mistakes she made along the way.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Berlin-based Jina.ai , an open-source startup that uses neural search to help its users find information in their unstructured data (including videos and images), today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series A funding round led by Canaan Partners. New investor Mango Capital, as well as existing investors GGV Capital, SAP.iO

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Startups and VC. There is plenty of evidence that things are changing, with countless startups raising large sums of cash to help the construction industry modernize. 3 methods for valuing pre-revenue novel AI startups. ” 3 methods for valuing pre-revenue novel AI startups. That’s on purpose. You can sign up here.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article originally appeared on the PixelEdge Blog. “[The The PixelEdge] workshop and canvasses provided an easy structured framework to work through our evaluation and customer discovery process. PixelEdge workshop If you would like a guided IdeaPAD workshop like the one featured in this article, Contact Us.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Similarly, in a down market, SaaS startups that help clients make incremental improvements to cash flow are in a much better position to ride things out. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. You don’t need a degree in computer science or an MBA to launch a successful startup. yourprotagonist. “Why?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

which helped cement our way of thinking and get a framework for planning goals. Meet another husband-and-wife business partnership in the Octane article about EO Atlanta member Kelvin Slater. article, “Do Life Partners Make Good Business Partners? Once you graduated from EO Accelerator, you both joined EO as full members.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

However, many industry experts question the accuracy of early-stage market data, given many startups are no longer filing their Form Ds. Should Private Startups Be Issuing More Bonds? Startup investors should consider revenue share when equity is a bad fit. I posted this as a contributed article in Techcrunch.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

For those of us in that category, we’re not really in a position to write $50K–$200K checks, and honestly, we don’t want startups to have crazy cap tables loaded with small-volume investors. Not having an appropriate framework by which to evaluate the opportunity. The majority of investors, something like 80%, have a net worth of $5M.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. “So we had three BNPL players with known earnings, and I had just covered a startup funding round in the space.” As BNPL startups raise, a look at Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay earnings. As BNPL startups raise, a look at Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay earnings.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. The best way to find marketing hacks is by using “stringent experimentation frameworks to run countless A/B tests,” he advises. 5 key IP considerations for AI startups. ” 5 key IP considerations for AI startups. TechCrunch Disrupt 2022.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The unprecedented rush of venture capital into startups is having an interesting knock-on effect: “Venture capital investors are racing to pay more to buy smaller pieces of startups that are less profitable than before,” writes Alex Wilhelm, who studied Silicon Valley Bank’s State of the Markets Report Q4 2021.

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