Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

Networking Opportunities with Industry Leaders and Peers The ACA Summit stands out as a prime networking event, offering black investors and founders the chance to engage with a wide range of industry experts and peers. Here are a few benefits that can be experienced by attending this dynamic event.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Meet Dotfile , a new startup backed by eFounders that just raised a $2.7 If you’ve talked with fintech startup founders, they probably have told you that there are dozens of small and big companies working on identity verification processes. Dotfile’s founders. million funding round (€2.5

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

What does it say when we tell them their ideas and dreams are unworthy because they don’t fit into some narrow model of a startup founder? In our ecosystem, this includes black, Latinx, LGBTQIA, people living with disabilities, and women founders. “In It’s not an afterthought. It is the whole thought.

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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

JULY 30, 2021

Yet we found that tech execs appear just as unprepared for C-suite transitions as their peers in other sectors. The findings may not be troubling if these respondents were millennial startup founders, years from leaving their companies. Jason Dressel. Contributor. Share on Twitter. They’re far from it.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 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. ” Abbe Hyde – Founder. Luke Campbell – Cofounder. My Auto Shop.

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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. Tracy was an artist throughout her 20′s but she watched her then husband found a tech startup. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian. She hasn’t raised any venture capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 21, 2023

Register Unlocking growth is a critical milestone for startups, marking their journey from survival to prosperity. It entices potential champions and stimulates demand, setting in motion a growth flywheel that can drive transformative outcomes for startups. Here are the three steps which will guide startup founders to unlock growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

But as a “company town” where most engineers come for a well-paying job, not as founders seeking like-minded peers, our region’s entrepreneurial support systems are surprisingly weak. Startups are defined by velocity and growth, learning and adapting faster than your competitors on the path to dominance in your chosen category.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Endeavor ScaleUp Growth Program is a non-dilutive (does not invest in the chosen company/without equity) accelerator program that provides startup founders with access to resources, successful industry leaders, and numerous mentors throughout Endeavor’s local and international network in order to scale the business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

According to data collected by Carta , a unicorn startup that provides equity management and other services to private companies, round sizes from the Series A to C stages in the United States are in decline, while valuations attached to those deals are also falling. For investors hunting for a deal, the pricing reprieve may be welcome.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Startup accounting firm Kruze Consulting just updated its annual CEO salary report and has some interesting insights to go with it. The firm reports its figures based on an anonymized dataset comprising more than 250 startups. The firm reports its figures based on an anonymized dataset comprising more than 250 startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship. Like, a hiring bounty system.

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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. He was at a low point: overwhelmed, sleep deprived, stressed… I listened, nodded, and said, “I remember those days.”

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

His journey, transitioning from a driven professional to a successful entrepreneur, encapsulates both the challenges and rewards of the startup ecosystem. What motivated you to launch your startup? What are your future plans for your startup? What is it that excites you about what you’re building?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 19, 2020

i2E’s e3 , formerly known as the Venture Assessment Program (VAP), has been a great tool for helping Oklahoma startup founders rigorously perform structured market validation of their ideas and solutions before they start creating products that the market does not want to buy. The deadline for applications is May 26th.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL, MN – The Forge North startup coalition announced the first close of the MSP Equity Fund – the first-known venture capital fund of funds in the country designed to invest across race, place, and gender. Research has shown that diverse-fund managers often outperform their non-diverse peers.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

What motivated you to launch your startup? The anticipation of the mathematical community’s response when we disseminate our findings in peer-reviewed forums is exhilarating. From Dorm Room to Dominating the Finance and Tech World: A Deep Dive with Michael Mills, CEO of Infinitary Fund I had the pleasure of interviewing Michael E.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Startups need data to grow, and Pareto CEO Phoebe Yao wants to make that as easy as possible. She then decided to drop out of school and focus on the company, which was becoming a service startup founders would use. She started the company in 2020 to provide virtual data analysts for businesses.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In my former role as the founder and CEO of Hello Parent, I struggled to find and learn from other startup founders in the Cincinnati ecosystem who were experiencing some of the same issues that I was going through. We continue to grow and scale startups to date. To you, what is an Ecosystem Builder?

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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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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. After setting records in 2021 as “Zoom investing” took off, how are local startups faring in 2023?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Source: DocSend At DocSend , we spend a lot of time analyzing the data behind what it takes for startup founders to market their ideas, land meetings with VCs, and in turn source and close deals?—?from An inside look at how successful VCs are courting the small world of big investors. from pre-seed to Series A.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Earlier this week I asked startups to share their Q3 growth metrics and whether they were performing ahead or behind of their yearly goals. Regardless, the data set that came together felt worthy of sharing for its specificity and breadth — and so other startup founders can learn from how some of their peer group are performing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

James Sutcliffe is the founder and CEO of The Founding Network , a collaboration platform for high-growth founders. If I were to pick one thing that unites the global tech scene in terms of culture I would point to the respect and reverence accorded to startup founders. This compares to 48% of the general population.

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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. Now you’ve got to convince your peer group to quit their respectable jobs and career arcs and join you. Of course not.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2022

Ash Ali, my friend, and investment partner was talking about a huge 3-day international startup summit in Dubai, where he was going to be flown in as a speaker and mentor to thousands of tech startup founders in attendance from all over the world. I didn’t think I could compare to Ash who headed up the growth of Just Eat?

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Startup Blogpost

JUNE 16, 2023

How to Deal With Imposter Syndrome as a Startup Founder To help you conquer imposter syndrome as a budding entrepreneur, we’ve gathered advice from 11 successful startup founders and CEOs. Build a supportive network of mentors and peers who understand your challenges, share experiences and seek advice.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Given the recent failure of crypto bank Silvergate and SVB’s own troubles due to its exposure to the venture capital and startup ecosystem (which hasn’t been doing well), investors understandably got jittery and started selling SVB stock. A week later, we can all agree they were right. billion charge from the sale of some assets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

He is also a co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and chair of the GAAD Foundation. The world of accessibility has experienced a tipping point thanks to the pandemic, which drove people of all abilities to do more tasks and shopping online. of the websites evaluated. What does this mean for you? Why should you care about this?

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

A while back, I published an article on “ Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art ,” describing what investors do to validate your startup before they invest. I’ve had startup founders tell me that it’s only about the color of the money, but I disagree – particularly if you are desperate.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. But who’s talking about the power of exits to change the playing field for diverse founders?

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

That’s the reality most startup founders face: They’re routinely bombarded with feedback from investors, customers, peers, mentors, family, friends, and sometimes even random people on the internet. After our first meeting together, a founder asked me if I had any “immediately actionable” feedback for her company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

But not everybody has the right skills to build a highly successful and valuable startup from scratch. 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.” Of course you could start your own company.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 20, 2021

Photo from Pixabay Tell me if this sounds familiar, as a startup founder, you are constantly juggling many hats: marketing guru, product owner, growth hacker, sales master, accountant, and the list goes on. Common Data Pain Points Below are the top five data pains experienced by many startup founders.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 21, 2020

The i2E e3 Series helps Oklahoma startup founders perform market validation of their ideas and solutions before they start creating products that their customers may not want to buy. Our peers’ input and feedback helped us shape our approach and brought new perspectives to our business. ” said LaManque.

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