TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Jose Cayasso is the co-founder and CEO of Slidebean. 5 critical pitch deck slides most founders get wrong. Financial projections are essential for any business, but in the case of tech startups, a financial model is one of the most important and overlooked tools available to a founder. Share on Twitter.

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500

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Startup founders often have ambitions not just to make money, but to change the world. So, how do we help these founders accomplish these goals? Enter ImpactAIM Indonesia, a program forged from a partnership between 500 Startups and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. “There’s a massive early-stage funding gap for African startups. Adopting syndicate funds for African startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Alvaro Gutierrez is co-founder and CEO of Barkibu , which uses data to make pet care better, more affordable and personalized. Alvaro began his career providing acquisition financing for M&A at JP Morgan before co-founding Spanish pet retail giant Kiwoko, which in turn acquired 12 other companies and was eventually sold 5x.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

A lot of the pitch decks I see, however, make me wonder if the founders have really thought through what they are doing. The corollary of that is that I suspect a lot of founders don’t really know how venture capital works. That’s a problem for a number of reasons. So let’s take a look at how it all hangs together!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. She found non-traditional financing. Without this money she wouldn’t have been able to finance operations. She now recognizes the need to have co-founders. She never gave up.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Personal finance is hard – and that’s a tale as old, and difficult to disrupt, as time. And while Nagpal agrees that there’s no “north star” company that has shown how to tackle finance literacy at scale, he’s hoping that Ocho’s 10-person team may just have a not-so-boring wedge that changes that. Image Credits: Ocho.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” Top founders want to live in a place where employees are serious about working hard. Startup founders always need help. You need both.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new company recently emerged that is targeting a popular startup niche, wanting to exclusively help early-stage SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies with their financial needs. Even in a zero interest rate environment, dilution is extraordinarily expensive for startup founders. How it’s different and the same.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The fundraising environment isn’t getting easier, and that’s adding even more pressure on founders and startup teams to make the most of their current cash reserves. Treasury management should be top of mind for startup founders by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. How to strategically manage your startup advisor’s compensation. I’ve been recommending that founders plan to have at least two years of runway in the bank (ideally three).

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

John Weaver is CEO of 22 Ventures , an angel firm that offers founders connections, entrepreneurial experience and a genuine concern for their well-being. For founders, this drop may spark concerns around how to secure capital, making them more likely to bend to investors’ terms and ignore details they wouldn’t otherwise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Miguel Fernandez is CEO and co-founder of Capchase , which provides non-dilutive financing to SaaS and comparable recurring-revenue companies. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. But in recent years, more options have become available to founders. What is revenue-based financing?

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 24, 2023

From trying to take on too much by yourself to overlooking crucial elections, here are nine answers to the question, “What are some unhelpful tax mistakes that every startup founder should know and avoid?” This includes purchases made with company funds and any costs that may have been covered by the founder out-of-pocket.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

It took years before my startup Anchor began to gain real traction. Most founders I speak to agree that the startup journey is generally discouraging, overrun with unsolvable challenges and many many mistakes. Chang Kim (CK) , Tapas  — Founders need to keep practicing compartmentalizing their brain. my friend asked.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Welcome to the future.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Andy Areitio is a partner at the early-stage fund TheVentureCity , a new venture and acceleration model that helps diverse founders achieve global impact. Fundraising is distracting for founders and can even hurt their company in the early days. Founders tend to make a series of classic mistakes when raising funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Very few founder CEOs go into the job ever expecting to give up their seat. To be a founder in state of mind.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We are proud to announce the close of our 7th early-stage fund with $280 million to invest in seed and early stage founders. The Upfront VII and Growth teams are made up of 10 partners: 6 leading investment activities & 4 supporting portfolio companies including Talent, Marketing, Finance & Operations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Few people are more knowledgable on the topic of how founders should manage their finances than Alexa von Tobel. At Early Stage 2021, she gave a presentation on how founders should think about managing their own wealth. At Early Stage 2021, she gave a presentation on how founders should think about managing their own wealth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Billy Libby is the CEO and co-founder of Upper90 , a $1.5 billion hybrid fund that provides founder-friendly credit and equity to top disruptors in e-commerce and fintech. Founders should think about their business as four distinct parts. Tailor your funding plan instead of financing everything. Billy Libby. Contributor.

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Founder Bounty

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its essential to adapt to a world that is constantly changing and we have a few of the best ones around which include themes around tech and finance as well as how to build a business. The best accelerator out there with billion dollar exited startup founders.   YC newsletter The one and only YC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

I wrote a blog post about being hands on where I argued that startup founders need to be hands-on or in my words, “you can’t run a burger chain if you’ve never flipped burgers.&#. I once had a startup team pitch me for an investment where the President of the company led the first call with me on his own.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

More posts by this contributor Treasury management should be top of mind for startup founders The recent banking sector developments that sent founders scrambling for places to diversify their cash reserves left markets wondering if the Fed would follow these events with another rate hike.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” The narrative of this discussion is something like this: I meet a 35-40-year-old founder with two kids and mortgage. ” (Warren Buffett).

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 15, 2022

YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Gusto co-founder and CPO Tomer London to talk about building for new customer segments and the future of embedded finance — sharing advice for startup founders and CEOs along the way. When you have a grand vision, where do you start as a founder?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

And so, generally, the people who invested in tech companies — the traditional venture investors — could tap their extended talent networks and apply their knowledge to bring talented people into startups, or at least coach the founders on how to select the right talent to scale and grow. It’s a great time to be a founder.

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Onevest

APRIL 21, 2015

By Michael Whitehouse If you are considering investing in a startup company offline or online with platforms like 1000 Angels , a private investor network that connects startups with investors, the sheer number of what’s available can be both daunting and comforting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

More debt financings means flat is the new up. Last week, I wrote about Founderpath , an Austin-based company that offers debt financing to B2B startups. Some founders might be struggling to raise venture dollars, while others don’t want to — preferring not to dilute ownership. This could be for any number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the world moves into economic head-winds and geopolitical uncertainty, European founders must get used to taking tough decisions to ensure the survival of their startups. He added that startup founders currently in fund-raising mode should raise right away: “The biggest issue with down rounds is that people leave them so late.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

What’s the board’s role in an early-stage startup? Startup founders frequently ask me about the role of a board of directors. A board can be a crucial asset in an early-stage startup. The needs and composition of the board will change depending on the startup’s stage, management and financing history (e.g.,

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Watch/listen to the Interview: In this interview Richard Liew talks with James Burnes , Chief Executive at Ministry of Awesome , a Christchurch New Zealand based startup hub helping high growth startups throughout New Zealand to start, grow and scale up.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That was the takeaway Raghunandan G , the founder of ride-hailing firm TaxiForSure ( sold to local giant Ola ), returned to India with after a trip. As part of the announcement, Raghunandan said two-month-old Zolve has raised $15 million in a seed financing round led by Accel and Lightspeed. Banks in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Jonathan Greechan is co-founder of the world's largest pre-seed accelerator, Founder Institute , has run over 100 webinars including 100,000+ live attendees, and is one of Meetup's most active organizers. Startup investors can be the financial backbone for mass disruption. Jonathan Greechan. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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