StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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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. a startup that IPO’d for billions. It was late 2017. They’ll love you.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

At the same time, to respect founders’ time, scouts should mention their real ability to make an investment happen. I heard that from THREE founders today.”. In the startup funding landscape, I would compare AngelList and Gust to dating sites. The parallel in startup fundraising are firms like Superscout and Landscape Openscout.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

The findings may not be troubling if these respondents were millennial startup founders, years from leaving their companies. Sooner or later, everyone in the C-suite today — including startup founders — will depart. For the sake of everyone they’ll leave behind, they should begin prepping for that day now.

leadership

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. When I founded my first company along with Brian Moran (whose idea it was) I had no real experience running startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Why ADD Might Actually Benefit Startup Entrepreneurs. I also became more aware of the impact of food on my body overall after being diagnosed with acid reflux in 2000. From the stresses of being a startup founder I began to have pain in my chest that I became worried was heart trouble. The “shaping.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the world moves into economic head-winds and geopolitical uncertainty, European founders must get used to taking tough decisions to ensure the survival of their startups. He added that startup founders currently in fund-raising mode should raise right away: “The biggest issue with down rounds is that people leave them so late.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 15, 2022

YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Gusto co-founder and CPO Tomer London to talk about building for new customer segments and the future of embedded finance — sharing advice for startup founders and CEOs along the way. 5:00 - Why did you decide to pursue startups as the company’s first target audience?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. Our 2000 fund is the single best fund of its vintage. Earn the right to the intro.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

PJM Consulting’s Morettini is Excited to Work With So Many Startups I had the pleasure of interviewing Phil Morettini, CEO & President of PJM Consulting. In 2000 he founded PJM Consulting, a startup advisory and consultancy that provides practical, hands-on assistance to companies in the technology industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Founded in 2000 by Vikas Jain, Rahul Sharma, Sumit Kumar Arora and Rajesh Agarwal, Micromax first started life as a small IT firm, making its first move into phones only in 2008. That was despite the fact that the founders were working on separate businesses simultaneously.

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