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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

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Startup founders always need help. What I would say isn’t as important—for one, government intervention directly into the startup community. Mayors don’t build startup cities. In 2005, it was a risky bet to join Union Square Ventures and plant my VC career here in NYC. They can’t make a place a “bitcoin city”.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. In the middle of the year I was introduced to Tim Schigel , the founder & chairman of ShareThis who had become the manager of a Cincinnati-based fund called Cintrifuse. None of us are derivatives of Silicon Valley.

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Meet the Black Female Founders from TC Include at TC Sessions: Justice 2021

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We partnered with various founder organizations — who in turn nominated promising early-stage startup founders — and collectively provide educational resources and mentorship to help these young founders develop and succeed over the course of the year. Founded by Denise Umubyeyi. Go Together, Inc. :

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TechCrunch+ roundup: VC ‘bottom feeders,’ valuation calculator, think like an investor

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Farmers don’t get embarrassed when the price of corn drops; similarly, there’s no reason for startup founders to lose their joy because publicly traded tech stocks are undercutting their valuations. If making as much money as you can is your primary goal, however, prepare to be disappointed.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

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Pre-seed round funding is under scrutiny: Is VC pandemic posturing here to stay? Amid the pandemic, investors became laser-focused on sections of the pitch deck that address monetization and business viability — signs that founders need to come to the table with better-defined businesses in order to succeed.

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Japanese insurance company Tokio Marine launches CVC fund to back early-stage startups 

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Corporate venture capital follows the same trend as other VC markets: Up. “The global investment opportunity for early-stage innovative startups in the United States and emerging markets is immense,” said Yoshida in a statement. ” How to approach (and work with) the 3 types of corporate VCs. .

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. “Yoon has been a Venture Investor and strategic partner to many Silicon Valley startups/founders for 18 years prior to Muirwoods.