TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

According to Startup Genome , Beijing, London, Silicon Valley, Stockholm, Tel Aviv are some of the world’s best startup ecosystems. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year. . A three-way marketplace.

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Revolution

AUGUST 2, 2022

miles to visit founders, college campuses, co-investors, ecosystem builders, and communities in rising cities. The panel took place at The Ion, a 266K-sqft space designed to bring together Houston’s entrepreneurial, corporate, and academic communities. While we may not show up on a big red bus every time, showing up?—?figuratively

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? This isn’t surprising.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Sadness for the loss of a bright young New Zealander who had so much going for him, for the terrible loss for Jake’s mother and his whanau and friends, and for the loss of an up and coming innovator and entrepreneur to our business community. It also made me angry. If your business is a success you are a success.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

The Angel Capital Association (ACA) Summit represents a beacon for black investors, founders, and high-growth startups. The summit offers an unparalleled opportunity for learning, networking, and investment discovery, specifically tailored to empower the black entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With an impressive 60% of startups hailing from outside South Korea, COMEUP 2023 , embraces its 2023 theme, “We Move the World,” underlining its commitment to continuous innovation and nurturing the global startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Boston has long been one of the most important startup ecosystems in the United States. TechCrunch Live is thrilled to be hosting an event featuring Boston-local investors and founders. Apply to participate below: Are you the founder of an established Boston-area startup and want to participate in the pitch off?

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Tom Shields, Executive Recruiter & Founder of Shields Group Search , a search firm specializing in supporting the hiring needs of early-stage startups. Before founding Shields Group Search, Thomas hired the founders of companies for a VC studio at the inception stage.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

We can’t wait to welcome you and more than 10,000 other attendees to our flagship event — the epicenter of the startup ecosystem. . We’ve come up with a bunch of exciting changes this year, in part to celebrate a return to live events but, more importantly, to deepen and expand our support for the global early-stage startup community.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

As French financial newspaper Les Echos pointed out, these four French Tech founders have another thing in common: They founded a unicorn on the first try. If it’s possible for a first-time founder to build a billion-dollar company, why don’t we talk about it more often? This post isn’t about young founders.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In the first three years of Startup Catalyst, there was only the Youth Mission (now called the Future Founders mission) sending 20 people at a time to Silicon Valley. Graham Fellows went on the Startup Community Leaders Mission which featured Boulder, Denver, and San Francisco. Roles within the ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Flexible VC: A new model for startups targeting profitability. Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify Boston has had a thriving tech startup ecosystem for a while, but things can change fast. Boston remains a vibrant startup and VC market in 2023.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 5, 2022

COMEUP Stars are promising startups that are bound to lead the global startup ecosystem and are hand-picked annually by professional judges consisting of well-known VCs and founders. 30 Rookie League and 40 Rocket League companies will be selected from a pool of startups.

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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 Here’s the skinny on passes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Join us for two program-packed days dedicated to founders in the earliest stages of startup life (pre-seed through Series A). Early Stage 2021 is an intensive, one-stop entrepreneurial shop where you learn from seasoned experts, founders and investors. Build community and expand your network. The TC Early Stage Pitch-Off.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the scuffle, VCs are turning to scouts to do the legwork, but that has meant being yet another step removed from their founders. I’ve sat at both sides of the table as a founder and a VC, and I understand how difficult it is to get them on the same page. Techstars Equitech Accelerator ) and women founders (e.g.,

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The real super power of ecosystem mapping is how the mapping process and the actual map are used by the community as a catalyst to collaboratively strengthen the ecosystem. There are many benefits to ecosystem mapping. Most obviously, ecosystem maps can serve as a resource guide for entrepreneurs in the community.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

Meet the five winning founders from Rise of the Rest 8.0 At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Why did you launch your startup in your city? Why did you launch (or land) your startup in your city?

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Committing to enabling startups When Kickstart was established in 2012, the Philippine startup ecosystem was at its nascent stage. Ambitious and promising startups abound, but none managed to scale as fast or as large as those in neighboring countries. on its first year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Like, yes, there’s a huge hype cycle around AI and I think people are flocking to Hayes Valley for some reason, but from the smattering of founders I’ve had coffee with lately? It makes me think: Cities never leave our lives, they simply teach us lessons about cyclic moments, transient friendships and how community can be fickle.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Back when I was pitching my previous startup to investors, it had never really dawned on me that they had experienced what I was going through--and that a VC firm was essentially a startup. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The area is home to a number of investors, successful tech founders and an eager local government. We spoke to the following investors: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder and managing partner, Clerisy. Maya Baratz Jordan, CEO and founding partner, Founders Factory New York. Laura González-Estéfani, founder, TheVentureCity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

” Joyce Sidopoulos is a co-founder of MassRobotics, a community and advocacy group for the sector’s startup ecosystem. Our panel started out with some of the most obvious technical considerations founders need to keep in mind when shifting from a research to a mass production process.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Further insights from our 2020 Pitch Deck Interest metrics also indicate that the experience in the seed round is amplified in an unprecedented market environment. Data shows that white, younger male founder teams from the West coast tend to raise more money, more easily.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s a decent metaphor for our startup ecosystem: Just as there aren’t enough sandbags in San Francisco to keep everyone’s house dry, rising interest rates, skittish investors and looming economic uncertainty are poised to bring valuations down even further in 2023. Happy new year! Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Disrupting the traditional MBA may be the most tried, tested and tweaked edtech startup pitch out there. The startup’s initial raise, a $1.5 Between cohort 1 and 2, only 40 out of 100 people opted into the startup’s career services, 38 of which made the transition into a new role.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

In less than 24 hours, thousands of new startup founders from around the world will tune in to day one of TC Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising. Buy your ticket , join your community and learn the best startup practices from those who earned their expertise by doing. Finance for Founders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This Space is not a forum for pitching an article — if you’d like to submit your post for consideration, please email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com. Ask @YourProtagonist tomorrow, October 19 at 3 pm PT/ 6 pm ET during our Q&A (but please save your pitches to send over via email!) — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) October 18, 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Here’s the agenda , and these are the companies that are pitching at the event. Startups and VC. Ex-NBA and Team USA basketball star Michael Redd is now the co-founder of 22 Ventures. In his newest TechCrunch+ column, he advises not to abandon founders in a downturn, and suggests 3 ways to support your portfolio.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019. When I started angel investing, I knew my objective was two-fold: I wanted to support the startup ecosystem in MN and I wanted to (eventually) have a good financial return on my investments. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” A lot of new things.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. It’s a city of unicorns and tech giants.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. Fuelfinance Their pitch: “We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automation.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I run PEVCTech , a community focused on this area. Investors [and founders] will follow a power-curve, like any other data set. Ideally, we wanted to pull in data from outside databases , including data about limited partners and more broadly the startup ecosystem (e.g., from AngelList , Gust , or Kite ).

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

We organized a series of HBS Angels pitch nights, joint with a range of affinity groups for HBS Alumni: HBS African-American, HBS Healthcare, HBS LBGT, and HBS Latino. – SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks.

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