TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

By this point, most startup employees have worked remotely. With that in mind, SaaS startup Wingback made a fractional head of remote its first hire, “and it was the best decision we made,” said Yann Leretaille, co-founder and CTO. “A As part of an ongoing series of interviews with transportation startup founders, ??Rebecca

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

In a recent Twitter thread , he highlighted common stories and narratives that startups can use, such as “challenging the way things have always been done” or “irreverence,” and came up with examples of companies that employ these tactics. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.). Seven hours of video.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

If you have access to post-revenue SAAS or ecommerce companies, you can easily make $1k to $10k per company within a few days.” . Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally. It partners with technology founders at Series A and beyond. Anthos Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Mixing the personal with the professional in startup fundraising. The pandemic has rewritten the way investors and startup founders do business, but “chemistry is important,” notes Brian Heater. Mixing the personal with the professional in startup fundraising. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Their discussion, which took place at TechCrunch Disrupt, also addressed the value of using test suites and selecting a reliable continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) framework. Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market. founder Manu Bansal.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Three startups in the current batch are planning to disrupt this market, which is largely commanded by state and bank-backed insurers. Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston shares actionable advice for startup founders. Triomics is operating a SaaS platform for end-to-end automation of clinical trials.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As if you won’t find plenty to keep you occupied at TechCrunch Disrupt — which kicks off in less than a week on October 18–20 — take a look at this list of receptions and happenings that complement and coincide with your Disrupt experience. Access: Registered Investor Badge Holders Only, Startup Battlefield 200. Date/Time: Oct.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

You have four — count ’em, just four — more days to take advantage of early-bird pricing on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Knock this easy task off your to-do list now, and come September, join a global gathering of more than 10,000 startup founders, makers, investors and entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Alex shared some thoughts on what Affirm’s stock dip could mean for startups in his piece so I won’t delve too deeply there. CRV led a $25M round for Northspyre Note: I had wanted to cover this but just ran out of time…Northspyre, as described CRV’s Anna Khan , is a vertical SaaS real estate play out of NYC.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Advising and investing in hundreds of startups, primarily in B2B SaaS, Kyle is a board member for several portfolio companies. We wanted to disrupt that industry that prioritizes many vanity metrics that aren’t actually helpful to an entrepreneur’s success. That is why we launched York IE.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 25, 2015

Noam Wasserman, the Harvard Business School professor and author of The Founder’s Dilemmas , found an interesting trend in the tenure of startup founder-CEOs: in his analysis of more than 200 startups, fewer than 50% of CEOs remained after three years. This number dropped to 40% after four years and 25% through the IPO.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

If your startup impacts the robotics ecosystem, we want to see it! TechCrunch’s audience of investors, builders, corporate partners and tech enthusiasts are keen to find the next best robotics startup. Be incorporated anywhere (recording will take place virtually).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt, Rippling unveiled what Conrad describes as the “biggest launch” of his career — its new global payroll product. He previously founded Zenefits, which actually launched on the Disrupt stage at Battlefield in 2013. I swear this is the world’s first global payroll system.”

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

As international founders with less than a month of credit history, their chances of getting approved were slim to none, despite having $125K in the bank. Cards are particularly a must have for young companies because large vendors don’t often accept ACH and other forms of alternative payment from early startups. It wasn’t just them.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a first-time startup founder. Finmark co-founder and CEO Rami Essaid wrote a post for Extra Crunch that candidly describes the traps he laid for himself that made him a less-effective entrepreneur. ” The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a first-time startup founder. citizenship!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

I’ll end with this: Successful startup founders are innately ambitious, finding opportunity in moonshots and convincing others that the odds are in their favor. If you enjoyed the event (or missed it), don’t worry: Disrupt is almost here. Buy a pass to Disrupt 2021 and get a free Extra Crunch membership. Across the week.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

So our investors are some of are our [limited partners], but the vast majority are long-only funds, alternative investment managers and people who are really excited about technology as a long-term disrupter and want to be aligned with this next generation of iconic companies. Check out the whole thing on TechCrunch. billion this week.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

. “Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) on everything you have,” said Katie Moussouris, founder of Luta Security. ” Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt, Moussouris and Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft, spoke about the need to invest early in locking down their systems, starting with MFA.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

” So, Harris stepped out of his role as a Grammy-winning media executive and into the shoes of an early-stage startup founder. Now, Adventr is a drag-and-drop SaaS tool for creating, viewing and sharing interactive media — people can interact with the videos through touch screens, clicks, and even their voice. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Capita3 : co-founded by Pamela York and Sara Russick with a focus on early-stage venture capital fund investing in women startup founders in innovative health sectors such as digital health, telehealth, health tech, human health, genomics and bioIT, food-as-medicine, and other health sectors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

” “We have very diverse customers, from solo startup founders to bigger companies like BBVA, Mintel, Senuto… in all sorts of sectors (banking, public relations, market research),” he adds. Sometimes it’s from tech teams who want to leverage NLP out-of-the-box without hiring a whole data science team.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Our portfolio is heavy on SaaS, which has weathered things well. So for our founders, it’s mostly about keeping churn-and-burn rates low to survive. In some cases yes, including our e-commerce SaaS companies and my recent Bitcoin exchange investment (MiraiEx). Dignio (SaaS/medtech). Maybe, maybe not.

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