TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

With a drier than normal investment scene, founders are looking for more effective ways to reach the right VCs. To that end, over the past few weeks, thousands of founders have applied to land capital through a common app, but instead of hoping to land into a university, they’re hoping to land capital from top investors.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Use the information you learn to refine your product, approach, and pitch.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 21, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask startup founders and innovators from around New Zealand, What is one piece of advice you would give to people working on their first startup and why? Tina Chou – Founder.

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Gust

JUNE 8, 2014

Experts on this subject, including Yael Zofi, in her book, “ A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams ,” has identified eight key characteristics of high-performing virtual teams that I have observed, and every startup founder should understand and enable: Members exhibit a global mindset – they look outward, not inward.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 5, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Matt Miller – Founder. ” Samantha Gadd – Founder. BrakeAce. “My

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Onevest

APRIL 23, 2015

Something that we state to our members at 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors, is that If you are a new investor in the startup marketplace, then you will need to quickly familiarize yourself with each round. This is why series A investment is often sought by startup founders.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They learn how to assess startups’ products, management, market opportunities and business models; how to perform due diligence, evaluate an investment pitch, and make informed investment decisions. SDAC is about community building as much as portfolio expansion. It’s inclusive, transparent, and welcoming. We ‘get to yes!’

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

boom, a startup is born… And if you take a long view of their [founders] career, they’re missing out on the depth of things, experience, and authenticity of experience that I think informs the most interesting category-defining companies out there.” founders could build startups for the long term, based on these trends.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Successful startup founders do not spring fully formed from the head of whatever god or goddess keeps tabs on entrepreneurs. Here’s the great news — TechCrunch Early Stage, taking place April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts, is designed to help both early and future founders accelerate the learning curve.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

We hear startups pitch everyday and far too often founders end up joining the meeting late. They can take 2-3 minutes of time away and cause you to miss key insight investors need to make more informed decisions. Investors don’t want to hear pitches from founders who look like they’re in the witness protection program.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Having spent close on a decade working in and reporting on our small but burgeoning startup ecosystem, and a decade before that “building my chops” in other various entrepreneurial endeavours, I am familiar with the toll that entrepreneurship can exact on founder mental health.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

This is part of a series of advice for founders who need to raise money from venture capitalists. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them. I always tell founders … “An investors job is to deploy capital and make a return. This is where most founders err.

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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

MARCH 10, 2023

Prelaunch.com is an Armenian startup that has developed tools to help startup founders figure out what’s worth building — and just raised $1.5 One of the angels investing was Vahe Kuzoyan, co-founder of Service Titan ,” Vardanyan said. million to further develop its product and services.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Join Seraf for an engaging and informative webinar on VC investing in BRICS countries, with an emphasis on the exciting opportunities in Brazil. This event is tailored for venture capitalists, startup founders, and investors eager to delve into the high-growth potential within Brazil's dynamic market.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2022

With down rounds looming, startup founders have a lot less dealmaking leverage than they did in 2021. The information may have been forgotten during the last cycle, but at least it’s available, which is less the case for university spinouts and M&As. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

These are the kinds of things you learn when you back founders that are essentially students of agricultural commodities to build a new exchange. If you're a startup investor, you have to take risk somewhere. You might take first time founder risk if you think they're coachable. You can thank the Onion Futures Act of 1954.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Raising funding is no easy feat, especially for first-time founders. Yet founders often trip up when it comes to investor relations — the ongoing communication and relationship building after that first check clears. Being aware of this bias can help founders take a balanced perspective. However, not all money is created equal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The venture capital market could be seeing a shift in power dynamics away from founders and more toward investors, data indicates. Founders were able to raise successive rounds quickly, often at attractive terms, and at times with slim due diligence.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We’re looking for trendsetting, game-changing, later-stage startup founders and ecosystem experts — of every stripe — to apply for the opportunity to share their hard-won expertise at our annual founder summit. It’s like a mini masterclass in entrepreneurship.” — Ashley Barrington, founder, MarketPearl.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher noticed chatter about Silicon Valley Bank in a YC founder WhatsApp group. Seltz-Axmacher, as well as hundreds of other founders, couldn’t have predicted what would transpire over the next 36 hours.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 12, 2022

dating app My pitch to investors I want to tell you my story as a founder and CEO and share some examples of my f**k-ups. There have been many victories and defeats throughout the journey, but I want to highlight three mistakes that led to detachment between the founders. The skills of the technical founders allowed us to do this.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. What we’re doing at Meebo is trying to socially enable websites by allowing them to immediately get not only the social graph information but to do useful stuff with it. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2011

I covered what I call “the co-founder mythology.&# Either you’re not technical and you think you need a technical co-founder or vice-versa. It is increasingly popular to have “founder dating&# or “startup weekend hackathons&# of some variety or the other. Hire your co-founder.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Founders’ Chat is a series where we share the entrepreneurial journey of founders from the GridAKL start-up hub. As a startup founder, your time and resources tend to be limited. Informal 1:1 interviews work great and so do group situations for different tools. Tell us about Choice. We pick and choose as we go.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

“My desire for this “Opposing Views Reader” is related to my concern about information cascades. And that has had me thinking about the tech sector and how dismissive both startup teams & VCs can be about both their competition and the “hot” companies in any sector. How about “agree” and “disagree” buttons?

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2024

HW: You’ve been a startup founder as well as an executive at larger tech companies. Especially if, say, it’s someone who has only done startups making the case they now want to be at a BigCo, or even more commonly, the BigCo person wanting to join a startup.

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Gust

JUNE 23, 2014

The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. Most of the people you would want as co-founders are now cruising the relevant blogs for ideas and partners. No person and no blog puts your startup at the bottom of a long list.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The biggest challenge for a startup founder is knowing where to focus. Though startup coaching has boomed during the pandemic, many founders are turned off by high-pressure sales tactics, a lack of widely accepted industry standards, and as many amateurs as experts. As a founder, it’s your job to listen, adapt and act.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Paul Graham’s assertion that “any startup founder can tell you the most common question they hear from investors is not about the founders or the product, but “who else is investing?&# When I’m in, I’m in. rings true to me. Investors who commit early deserve to have a lower price.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The Series A round has become a serious milestone for startups, new data shows how to get it done. Created by DocSend By Russ Heddleston , Co-Founder and CEO of DocSend As a founder, you have many “firsts” to look forward to on your journey to entrepreneurial success?—?from

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

However, despite the immense volume of valuable data generated from these trials, searching and collecting relevant information has proven to be an uphill battle due to limited digitization efforts. Through these programs, I had the opportunity to learn essential information about starting a business.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

As the name implies, the new fund will focus on investing in women, as well as other historically excluded founders “of all ages, life stages, ethnicities and sexual orientations,” the company says. “Peanut’s StartHER fund opens the door to founders looking for that early funding.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 17, 2020

This change will allow us to serve many more founders than the traditional annual course we’ve been running since 2017 and better support startup founders year-round. In addition to this change to continuous admissions, we’ve revamped the Startup School experience to double down on the things our founders have found most useful.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

, it’s time to map out strategies to transform your early-stage startup dream into reality. If there’s one thing every early founder needs it’s information, and you’ll find it in abundance at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021. Listen to what these early-stage founders said about TC Early Stage 2020. “I

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