TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. More than 380 funding deals were made into Austin startups in 2021 , amounting to $4.9

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 31, 2022

His first major company was Blogger (acquired by Google in 2003) which was where the term “blog” was first popularized. He’s been a titan of silicon valley for more than two decades and was one of the first innovators of the internet. He later went on to cofound Twitter and served as the platform’s CEO.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Ajay has been an instrumental investor since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003. billion fund for seed to growth-stage startups and a $1.4 Long-time, early-stage investor Ajay Agarwal is hosting a roundtable to discuss lessons learned with other Early Stage attendees. Bain’s venture arm raised $1.9 billion across two funds, a $1.4

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Feedough

MARCH 1, 2021

When it comes to startups, there’s never one size fits all. While all disruptive high-growth businesses can be termed startups, it’s still a heterogeneous group with subtypes characterised by the industry served, market disrupted, funding raised, motive, and valuation. Existing Market Startup. New Market Startup.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It is important to consider doing something similar if you are thinking about investing in a startup. Legal and corporate due diligence , which involves a detailed investigation on the startup, the founders, contracts, corporate structure, product, compliance, contracts, offering, and more. What is due diligence?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2022

Startups feel this way today. We’re a company that wants to be weighed, and over time, we will be—over the long term, all companies are. In the meantime, we have our heads down working to build a heavier and heavier company. Company performance exceeds employee expectations, yet the market values the company less than two quarters ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

So as a startup CEO you constantly have to suspend disbelief. ” A startup CEO’s job is to absorb stress so the team doesn’t have to. Startups have to be optimists because no rational person would actually believe you could build Uber into the amazing company that it is today. We just need your $500,000!!”

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Founded by Ashok Babu Kunjukannan, Harishankkar Subramanyam, and Maharajan Veerabahu in 2003, e-con Systems partners with key sensor makers like Sony, Onsemi and Omnivision, and lens makers like Commonlands and Corning, and ISP partners like NVIDIA and Socionext. For more information on e-con Systems, please visit their website at www.e-consystems.com.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Jennifer Queen is the founder of Pina , a PR firm focused on startups and venture capital firms. In 2020, I founded a new growth fund to fill the funding gap in the region, giving me the opportunity to see how startups from recent vintages fared in a scenario of bonanza. He formerly worked with J.P. Jennifer Queen. Contributor.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

in 2003, Sebastian Thrun had just won the DARPA Grand Challenge, right? ” Like, autonomous vehicle is a solved problem back in 2003. It’s exactly economic dislocations that create new startups, not just new technology. And one of the best examples of this is autonomous vehicles or robotaxis.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 17, 2021

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager As an entrepreneur and seasoned angel investor, Bill Payne understands the critical importance of education to make well-informed decisions that determine the success or failure of a startup. In 2003 he was engaged in the formation and startup of the Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

As in the case of many startups, FreshBooks was started to solve a pain point for one of its founders. In 2003, FreshBooks’ co-founder Mike McDerment was running a small design agency. Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment. 1Password first became a unicorn in 2019.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Today, a startup called Ocelot is announcing a big round of funding to build more tools to help in that effort. Prior to this, the Boulder, Colorado-based startup was completely bootstrapped, and as such has been profitable from the start. It’s not disclosing its valuation, nor any other financial terms of the deal.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Natalia Holgado Sanchez is head of capital markets at Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. I am not sure about you, but lately I’ve been hearing the same chatter from friends and colleagues at startups. What was the impact on startups?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

LMS365: Tracking and reporting Image Credits : LMS365 The story so far LMS365’s history can be traced back to 2003, when dentist Bjarne Mortensen founded a company called Elearningforce that was focused squarely on on-premise deployments of Microsoft Sharepoint.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

Inaugural Survey Report ‘India – An Impact Startup Nation’ released at the TiECon 2021. . Inaugural Survey Report ‘India – An Impact Startup Nation’ released at the TiECon 2021. . They launched the Impact Startup Support (ISS) initiative in India as they unveiled. finance, transforming India into an Impact Startup nation.”. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

It’s a very important concept for me because in a startup you are constantly under pressure and have way too many distractions. Commitment & urgency are key drivers of success in startup businesses. I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. You already know it from your personal lives.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

After interviewing several active investors in cannabis-related startups, we learned that the regulatory and functional landscape in Europe is just as fragmented as it is in North America. Does this mean that we’ll see recreational use of cannabis for adults becoming a common policy in Europe? It’s too soon to say.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma? Get started! Oklahoma is very friendly to entrepreneurs.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 27, 2023

Google was about 1,000 people when I started in 2003, which means last week’s layoffs were more than an order of magnitude larger than the entire company I’d originally joined. Originally Published June, 2013 [and lightly edited/updated] hunter@google.com: From 2003–2013, it was a pretty powerful email address for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

What is a startup? In the past, we might have said that once a private-market company earns a $1 billion valuation, it is no longer a startup. But with venture capitalists and crossover investors turning an ever-increasing number of less mature startups into unicorns, that demarcation line has lost its rigidity. That’s about.07

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 16, 2021

Patch has already generated diverse support and identified potential funding, according to their Startup Alleghenies Coach, Blake Fleegle. SAP&DC is the organization that launched the Startup Alleghenies movement. Our goal is to produce and launch our film in 2022, once we have all the funding in place,” said Romani. “Now,

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

That’s why I created a career development model for developers and engineers when I was an Intel Fellow at Intel between 2003 and 2013. This framework has since been put into practice at the three subsequent companies I worked at — Google, VMWare, and, now, Juniper Networks — through training sessions and HR processes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We Ours is: upfront.com/inclusion. We strive to invest in companies that are consciously working to create a diverse leadership team?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

a nonprofit corporation that mentors many of the state’s technology-based startup companies. She was the first of many strong and independent women in our family — my great-grandmother, grandmother, and ultimately my mother — who had and continue to have such an impact on me. What are we waiting for?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

It was June of 2003. Similarly, picking seed investors for your first startup in and around the craziness of an accelerator demo day can be just as scarring over the long term. Trivia question: What active startup investor has the most tats? ). I sat in a little ink shop on Rivington Street called Porcupine Tattoo.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. Its portfolio now has eight startups. The fund is targeting $50 million and has already brought in $11.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I work with a lot of startups. I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. Startup Advice' I start to notice when bad behavior creeps into the system as a whole.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

The great startup plans may never develop into profitable businesses without a strategy and some financial measures. Make a list of one-time startup expenditures and monthly or one-time yearly expenses. You’ll need to get a business license, form an LLC, and buy other startup supplies and equipment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The startup, which finances electric vehicles and has plans to build, own and operating the corresponding charging infrastructure, came out of stealth on Wednesday with an initial $200 million in capital commitment. ” Inspiration aims to cater for three types of customers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For the first part of this talk, I’m going to argue that the capabilities have all been there, but the economics just haven’t for startups. The AI mediocrity spiral If you step back and you look at the standalone case for AI economics—not what a big company can extract from it, but a startup—it’s actually not been great.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2016

Salesforce’s initial public offering in 2003 demarcated the beginning of a new era, the era of Software as a Service. In the 13 years that followed, many startups have followed their path to build innovative software that has transformed their respective industries and sectors. In 2003, Salesforce kicked things off.

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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 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. 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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago.

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