Y Combinator

APRIL 19, 2022

grew when I succeeded him as CPO in 2002, as he left in search of new adventures. PG, in his seminal essay “ How to Start a Startup ”, said you should always look to find “animals” as your co-founders, and Tim is an animal in the best of all possible ways. My connection to Tim and what he meant to Yahoo!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

But at TechCrunch Disrupt, where Adventr is one of 20 startups competing in Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield, founder and CEO Harris unveiled an element of the product that will set Adventr apart: a patented voice-control technology that lets users dictate the course of a video.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

startup that connects users with a registered dietitian (RD) via telehealth and helps them get their consultations covered by health insurance. The startup’s CEO, Aidan Dewar, told TechCrunch that “94% of our patients are fully covered by insurance and pay nothing out of pocket. Enter Nourish , a U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It’s addicting. 8 beers that night.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This time, the ICC is suing UpCodes for false advertising and unfair competition, claiming that the startup’s copies of building codes are “incomplete and riddled with errors.” ” He added, “It’s a model of how open government data can drive new innovations and successful startups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Most companies don’t announce their first venture investment after almost 20 years in the business, nor do they announce that round is the equivalent of a good startup’s entire private fundraising history. CEO Adam Schwartz founded the company with his life savings in 2002 and hasn’t taken a dime of outside investment since.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Iyuno-SDI Group was formed after Iyuno Media Group completed its acquisition of SDI Media last month.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s impossible to plan for everything that can go wrong while building a startup. ” Mentors and advisers come in handy, but startups move at breakneck speed. .” ” Mentors and advisers come in handy, but startups move at breakneck speed. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It’s far from the only teletherapy company looking to capitalize on a boom in venture capital investment in mental health startups , but it’s operating in a hyper-specific sphere: therapy for kids. . Should startups build or buy telehealth infrastructure? Those range from unicorns like TalkSpace to other startups. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In total, Flutterwave has raised $225 million and is one of the few African startups to have secured more than $200 million in funding. . Flutterwave’s $170 million mammoth raise and its billion-dollar valuation represent a landmark achievement for the African startup scene. How African startups raised investments in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Site59 was acquired for $43 million in 2002 by Travelocity, where Harris served as SVP of strategy and distribution prior to Expedia’s purchase of Travelocity in 2015. Khan did stints at startups including Stunable and Rocket Fuel Inc. Harris also started Intent, a data science company for online travel providers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The creative community has been a ripe target for startups building tools and services to serve their interests and needs as they transition from their traditionally offline practices into a digital present and future. Another is the startup’s focus on e-learning. billion valuation. (Its Image Credits: Domestika.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2014

Last week, we analyzed the fund raising history of billion dollar SaaS companies and determined SaaS startups are raising nearly twice as much capital as 16 years ago before going public. Given that trend, I wondered if there is there any truth to the idea that startups today require less capital than before to succeed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It’s addicting. 8 beers that night.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 11, 2021

4,371,752 is just one of the more than thirty-three patents issued to Tulsa born and raised inventor and entrepreneur Gordon Matthews (1936 – 2002). a nonprofit corporation that mentors many of the state’s technology-based startup companies. There is no single path to entrepreneurial success. Contact Meacham at i2E_Comments@i2E.org.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. Why does vintage matter to you?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. For others it feels like a two-speed economy, where rules apply to hot tech startups that don’t apply elsewhere. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2014

Last week, we proved SaaS startups are raising more than they have in the past and newer SaaS companies seem to be generating more revenue per dollar invested. Because startups are going public earlier and therefore release information about the earlier years of the company, we have more data on the newer cohorts. 1998 34 11.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35). 6:00 – 7:30). 16:35-19:35).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

But many startups take this too far and I would actually encourage a dose of enemy & friend. We all know that the existence of startups is all about limited resources, huge time pressures and a constant struggle to time market adoption and investor financing. In the early days at my first startup I purely demonized competitors.

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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.” In fact, I would argue that most people don’t.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The company counts Microsoft and Salesforce (prolific strategic investors in the startup world) among its partners and sometime customers today — as well as acquisition offers from enterprise resource planning companies due to its traction and presence in the market.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2014

One of the cloud’s great promise has been cost-reduction and for a while, we’ve chanted a mantra that startups require less capital than before to get started and ultimately succeed. The first row contains data from IPOs between 1998-2002, the second bucket contains data from IPOs between 2002-2006 and so on.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The FDA approved ketamine as a treatment for medicine-resistant depression back in 2019, and startups like Mindbloom have popped up to fill that gap in the market. I started having my own psychedelic experiences many years ago, the first one was in 2002 I think. MDMA (ecstasy) is hella illegal, (it’s a Schedule 1 drug in the U.S.,

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

Eric demonstrated a unique passion for startups and entrepreneurship from an early age. After graduating from Stanford in mathematical and computer science when he was just 19, Eric joined the newly-formed enterprise software company Loudcloud (which became Opsware in 2002). He stayed briefly at HP as a vice president.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

The initial two meetings of this fledgling group were held at the MIT and Stanford Faculty Clubs in 2002. As one of the old timers in angel investing, I have fond memories of the early days just prior to the formation of the Angel Capital Association,” said Hambleton Lord. “As

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Shleifer focused on China; Fixel focused on India, and the rest of the firm’s support team (it now has 22 investing professionals on staff) helped find deals in Brazil and Russia before beginning to focus more aggressively on opportunities in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

That project was so successful that when the two joined Google in 2002, Sergey Brin and Larry Page personally stopped by to tell the new hires how much they liked it and explained how they used the program to create the first Google logo. Cockroach Labs was started by developers and stays true to its roots to this day.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year. M&A Outlook for 2010 / 2011 – Tags: SoCal Stuff VC Industry LA SoCal startup technology vc venture capital.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2014

Google had grown from $220k in revenue in 19aw99, to $19M in 2000, to $86M in 2001, to $347M in 2002, to $961M in 2003, and would record $3.2B More importantly, I hope more founders and leaders of startups will post their values publicly and use them to inspire their employees to build great, enduring and unconventional companies.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 30, 2023

There is a limited number of exemptions primarily for larger companies, not startups. The CTA will have far-reaching implications for startups and early-stage companies. The CTA mostly impacts startups and small businesses. Unincorporated general partnerships will not have to make these filings. See the attached appendix.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Written by : Regina Beach Propel(x) curated a list of five startup-led tech trends in the 21st century that transformed industries. This list primarily looks at deep tech sectors, with many of the mentioned startups having grown into household names and multibillion-dollar companies today. Startups raised $342.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Llamasoft was founded in 2002 in Ann Arbor, Michigan and has raised over $56 million, according to Crunchbase data. LLamasoft provides these capabilities with an AI-powered cloud platform that empowers companies to make smarter supply chain decisions, faster,” the company wrote in a statement.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

There has been a lot of discussion recently of where the choke points are in the cone, and I believe we’re headed into a period in which the Series B venture round will be more of a choke point than it has been in the past, especially for American startups. The graphic follows those startups until April 2014. Certainly not.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The startup acquisition market is poised to have its best year in nearly a decade. If acquirers maintain the same pace from the first nine months of the year through Q4, more than 450 venture-backed startups will have been acquired, generating more than $25B in proceeds. The past four years have been great liquidity years for startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. I also walked the conference pit a little bit and let random people tell me about their startups. I had drinks one night with my old pal Errol Daemelin founder of the hot UK startup Wonga. Startup Advice' Boy, that’s a tough job.

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