TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

For founders, especially those starting companies for the first time, the gyrations of the stock market, the resulting correction in public market tech stocks, and the inevitable impact on private company fundraising might seem disheartening. Founder dilution and investor ownership are part of a long game. million; Airbnb raised $7.2

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And while there’s a long way to go in terms of workplace equality, women entrepreneurs are making their mark on their industries and communities now more than ever. These 20 women entrepreneurs are the ones who are leading the charge—and we think you’ll be inspired by their tremendous impact: Reshma Saujani / Girls Who Code.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

AUGUST 15, 2021

ACT Tulsa is very intentional about creating an on-ramp to trust with founders who are Black and Brown. ACT Tulsa, the six-month cohort-driven accelerator program aimed at cultivating underestimated founders located in Tulsa and beyond, is up and running with its inaugural cohort of nine startup companies. Building trust.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Success of Oklahoma ventures has given me renewed admiration for the entrepreneurs who built those companies. Each time one of these events occurs, I feel renewed admiration for the entrepreneurs who founded and built these companies. Founder’s View. SNT founder Dirk Spiers. “I By Scott Meacham. Dirk went to some shows.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. Many entrepreneurs are reliant on outside funding, whether angel investors, venture capitalists or strategic investors , to keep the venture going. The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 6, 2020

Written for EO by Kalika Yap , an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Los Angeles. Yap is a thriving serial entrepreneur whose businesses include Citrus Studios , Luxe Link , and the Orange & Bergamot. Others recall the 2008 financial crisis. where he addressed the global pandemic. Because there is opportunity.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 11, 2023

However, Adriaanse’s path to uplift South Africa would prove to be a challenging and unpredictable one, a journey befitting a true entrepreneur. However, just as the path seemed paved with success, an unforeseen twist of fate — the 2008 global financial crisis — caused the market to collapse and sales to plummet.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 17, 2022

Contributed to EO by Vladimir Gendelman, an EO Detroit member and founder and CEO of Company Folders, Inc. , Vladimir has shared his expertise to help entrepreneurs get the most for your printing budget and save big on custom-printed materials. The company made the Inc. That year, our growth was a little over 300 percent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Artifact , the new personalized news app from Instagram’s co-founders , is another startup whose funding was caught up in the Silicon Valley Bank failure, and co-founder Kevin Systrom believes there could be more trouble to come for Silicon Valley. As it turns out, Artificat’s financial crisis was short-lived.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Many entrepreneurs prepared for a slowdown in funding, putting hiring and expansion plans on ice as they searched for ways to continue operating in a world that had been remade by the pandemic. The question under consideration this week: How should founders prepare for an eventual retreat in startup valuations and investor interest?

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Roofstock co-founder and chairman Gregor Watson and real estate investor Rob Bloemker started the venture firm in 2021, and had their first close last year. For Watson, formally becoming an investor was a logical move after he found himself spending about 60% of his days meeting with founders and other venture investors. “I

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

New and aspiring entrepreneurs often fall victim to impatience and imperfection. The founders in this piece all faced these challenges before launching startups that earned them millionaire status. Whitney Wolfe, founder of the female-empowered dating app Bumble , stays on track by asking herself the question of nine.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. LibreDigital.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 21, 2023

By Kent Gregoire , a US East Bridge chapter member (and that chapter’s current president) and co-founder of Stakeholder Business and Symphony Advantage , who is on a mission to help entrepreneurs transform their companies for maximum impact. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. The founder negotiated with the fund and ultimately accepted a 15% lower price. This is not without precedent.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

boom, a startup is born… And if you take a long view of their [founders] career, they’re missing out on the depth of things, experience, and authenticity of experience that I think informs the most interesting category-defining companies out there.” founders could build startups for the long term, based on these trends. founders?—?challenges

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The CFE is a unit of the College of Engineering and the Center has helped more than 30,000 researchers and students since 2008. Kate Ryder , CEO and Founder of Maven Clinic – A unicorn-valued startup transforming digital healthcare. Sam, a U-M alum, is the founder and chairman of Equity Group Investments , a private investment firm.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction. I have looked at tech from both sides now (h/t Joni Mitchell ), as a three-time entrepreneur and as a venture investor through two downturns. More posts by this contributor. What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“When you can’t quite make it to product-market fit, there’s a third choice that too many entrepreneurs, and their investors, overlook: selling out,” says Kittu Kolluri, founder and managing director of Neotribe Ventures. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. “How can you choose? .

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Dream It

JANUARY 23, 2019

The founders of Trendkite came into Dreamit six years ago with just an idea on a napkin,” said Steve Welch, Dreamit Co-Founder and Chairman. “It It’s exciting to watch ambitious entrepreneurs take an idea and turn it into the dominant company that reshapes an industry.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 16, 2023

In an interview with AsiaTechDaily, Mun warns against investing in the business rather than the people and advises entrepreneurs to be realistic in their funding requests. I spent the first seven years of my career in corporate finance and advisory, helping entrepreneurs in either raising capital (through IPO) or growth through M&A.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

That’s painful, but for perspective: TechCrunch tracked more than 100,000 tech layoffs between August and December 2008. In my experience, founders and investors usually come out unscathed on the other side of events like these. Jonathan Martinez, founder, JMStrategy. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

This stage starts with the entrepreneurs analyzing and exploring the startup idea more seriously. Tinkering ends when entrepreneurs fully commit themselves to turn the business idea into a reality. Usually, founders haven’t quit their jobs at this stage. Usually, entrepreneurs use bootstrapping to finance their expenses.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Crowd funding enables entrepreneurs to raise money in relatively small amounts from large numbers of interested investors. Recently, entrepreneurs in many countries have been soliciting investment through “crowd funding” websites designed specifically for fundraising purposes. Bill Clark, founder of MicroVenture Marketplace, Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. Sopoong has closed on around $8 million (10.3 Sopoong has closed on around $8 million (10.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Alexa von Tobel, co-founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital, will be joining TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 taking place September 21-23 to help judge the startups competing in Startup Battlefield. She is also the host of “The Founders Project with Alexa von Tobel,” a weekly podcast with Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Much like TechCrunch, Yay is also on a mission to help founders and startup teams. Yay Images was born in 2008 in Oslo, Norway to create an affordable stock media agency with high-quality content.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Seventy-six percent of Colombians use fintech services, according to an Ernst & Young report, the highest fintech adoption rate in Latin America, and from 2008 to 2022, the percentage of Colombian adults who hold a banking product rose from 55% to over 90%. See a16z.com/global-payments for more.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. I only wanted one thing in the deal – Hamet. I stayed close.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. “In 10 days, I can do the primary research and work with the founders to come to a conclusion there. For a larger Series A check. Gupta said.

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StartupNation

JULY 23, 2021

Are you an entrepreneur with a great story to share? New research has also confirmed that women and minority entrepreneurs were key drivers of the post-2008 economic recovery, leading one to logically understand that they could and should play a major role once again in helping us shore up our economy in the post-pandemic era.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan, however, will continue to serve as founder and partner at Initialized – a $3.2 Thus entrepreneur is no stranger to early-stage investing – nor the famed accelerator to which he will soon run.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Did I mention it only took the founder a month? The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. In 2008, people weren't sure if we were heading into a complete financial collapse.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

TechCrunch editors will select 10 founders from around the world to pitch on stage July 9th. The winner will get a feature article on TechCrunch.com, one-year free subscription to Extra Crunch and a complimentary Founder Pass to TechCrunch Disrupt this fall. Ben is a co-founder and general partner at Primary Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

For many first-time founders in fundraising mode, the current market correction for publicly-traded tech companies has been similarly jarring. ” Conditions change, and so do investor expectations, which means founders should reframe their thinking about acceptable entry valuations and revisit their spending plans. . billion. “If

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2018

Written for EO by Heidi Reimer-Epp , CEO and co-founder of Botanical PaperWorks . That’s when I reached out to Kirsten Anderson, founder and CEO of Integrate Play Solutions. Heidi Reimer-Epp , CEO and co-founder of Botanical PaperWorks has been an EO Winnipeg member since 2008. Maybe it was because it was winter.

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