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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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VCs at Freestyle, Plexo Capital and Sequoia join Startup Battlefield judges

TechCrunch

The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups. In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. Buy your pass today , and find out why Disrupt is where startup founders go to grow.

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Accel, BoxGroup, Cowboy Ventures, Pear VC and Yahoo to judge Startup Battlefield at Disrupt

TechCrunch

All right, here are the final five business Brahmins who will help judge the Startup Battlefield pitch competition. Mar Hershenson , co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC. Rich Wong joined Accel as a partner in 2006. Buy your pass today , and find out why Disrupt is where startup founders go to grow.

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Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut and GP Viviana Faga take you from wedge to TAM at TC Early Stage

TechCrunch

Early startup founders may truly believe they’ll become the dominant player and capture their total addressable market (TAM). Since founding Felicis in 2006, he earned notoriety as an early backer of iconic companies, including Credit Karma (acquired by Intuit), Fitbit, Opendoor and Shopify.

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Austin emerges as a city of unicorns and tech giants

TechCrunch

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. VCs invested over $5.5

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My First 16: Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury’s Immad Akhund

Andreessen Horowitz

All of these tools that were useful as startups for running your business had improved a lot. When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. Immad: So during that year and a half, I talked to about 100 startup founders. I’m curious when you actually started investing in a go-to-market effort?

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts.