Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 18, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we share: How VCs choose which startups to fund. How you can sell your startup to VCs with a one-pager. He also teaches us something new about the startup/VC world every week in his column.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. The investment platform I founded and run, VenturePole, is the investment partner of HealthInc, the health tech accelerator of Startupbootcamp, the biggest startup accelerator organization in Europe. Be the learn-it-all.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

David Frykman, general partner, Norrsken VC. Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders. The old saying, “build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” does not apply to startups in the sexual wellness category. Thai Nguyen, partner, MCJ Collective. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

At TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 , a virtual bootcamp experience in two distinct parts, you’ll learn from leading experts across the startup spectrum — including prominent founders ready to share their personal experiences and hard-won advice to help you avoid costly missteps. What’s more, you’ll learn from the best of the best.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? She has a quote from literally every major VC from whom you’d want to hear. And many of the best women founders. ” [it's short, you should read it].

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

5 myths to avoid on the 1st leg of your entrepreneurship journey What you don’t have to eat to pursue your passion (Image from WikiMedia Commons) There is a path to entrepreneurship promoted in Hollywood and there is a path for the rest of us. This 500+ year old tale designed to promote sharing reveals the soul of entrepreneurship.

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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. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. She hasn’t raised any venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I will even take to emailing people I don’t know offering small bits of advice. I try to take time out of my week to occasionally meet with startup founders – even those that haven’t been introduced. I’m a university student working on a project on entrepreneurship - could you help? Should you?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

What advice would you give your past self? It took years before my startup Anchor began to gain real traction. I posed a question to twenty-one other founders, across many different industries from media to finance, from SaaS to urban farming. Matt Lieber , Gimlet  — My advice to my younger self is to seek help.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Moreover, founders must learn to embrace the challenges of fundraising, honing their pitching and networking skills in the process. Koh urges startup founders to “put on their big person pants and git gud at it”, emphasising the need for them to showcase their abilities and dedication to their business.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Early-stage startup founders have just a few ways to recruit and retain employees: Offer a competitive salary. In a TC+ guest post, Kirsten Prost, vice president at VC/PE firm Tercera, lays out detailed steps for designing your equity program. A startup founder’s guide to allocating equity grants.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections. The pressures facing first-time founders are enormous. ” What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections. .” Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week! Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Reporter Lucas Matney spoke to Caryn Marooney in August at TechCrunch Early Stage about how startup founders who hope to expand their reach need to do a better job of connecting with journalists. “People just fundamentally aren’t walking around caring about this new startup,” she said. “Actually, nobody does.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In a post that identifies embedded finance’s top providers and enablers, he offers advice for startups and established brands that are hoping to “earn and build customer loyalty while generating new revenue streams.” ” From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. Image Credits: Sophie Alcorn.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

But since I’ve never actually done those things, I would encourage you to ignore any advice I have to offer. Trusted advice comes from experience. But during a Series A fundraise, napkin-stage ideas don’t make the cut — a founder needs product progress, numbers and revenue (or at least a plan to eventually generate some).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

“As a startup founder, how do you prevent leakage after spending significant resources to acquire people at the top of the funnel?” Investors who have an entrepreneurial background possess unique insights into the fundraising process, so we have two posts by Gaetano Crupi, a partner at VC firm Prime Movers Lab.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. it would make more sense than “me.”

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