Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Founders’ Co-op turns fifteen this year. We started the firm in 2008, on the cusp of the Global Financial Crisis, and it’s somehow fitting to be entering our 15th year as the laws of financial gravity reassert themselves once again. By contrast, venture capital is a craft that defies both speed and scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. And will produce healthier cohorts of startups that get back some of the magic of being scrappy and shed some of the extra pounds we gained when the market was ebullient.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction. As a venture investor, I have invested in over 60 companies, and while many have gone public or been acquired, the journey has included pivots, near-death experiences and navigating through the 2008/2009 downturn. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. How to strategically manage your startup advisor’s compensation. I’ve been recommending that founders plan to have at least two years of runway in the bank (ideally three).

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

.” The ticket sizes will range from $20,000 to $100,000, focusing on startups in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and North Africa. Soyombo is one of the few founder-cum-investors on the continent, despite his company not being the traditional VC-backed startup the world has become accustomed to.

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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. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

According to a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, 72% of startup founders are affected by mental health issues. inflation remains above 7% and short-term borrowing rates are at their highest level since January 2008. Image Credits: Co-founders Carolina Nucamendi and Brenna Curran / Waivr. for their company.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? 43:30 – Can foreigners come to India and start a startup? 44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. 45:45 – After Meesho, what’s the most exciting startup in India? Vidit is co-founder and CEO of Meesho.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

This is part of my startup advice series. It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. Why do job hoppers make such bad employees at startups? -. You’re a startup founder. You start fighting with your co-founder whom you thought you understood.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

The company is not disclosing valuation but CEO and co-founder Jody Glidden tells me the company is doing well. The idea for Introhive came as many do to enterprise startup founders: they identify something that doesn’t quite work as they want it to, and then start a new company to try to fix it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Alex Wilhelm hears from one startup founder who has taken a bit of an alternative approach to building a SaaS company. Chatting with CEO and co-founder Tomas Gorny, I got to dig a little under the skin of the company’s history. How to bootstrap to $200m+ in revenue. How did it all happen?

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 25, 2015

Noam Wasserman, the Harvard Business School professor and author of The Founder’s Dilemmas , found an interesting trend in the tenure of startup founder-CEOs: in his analysis of more than 200 startups, fewer than 50% of CEOs remained after three years. This number dropped to 40% after four years and 25% through the IPO.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The report, titled Europe and Israel’s Startup Founder Factories , was produced by VC firm Accel with heavy support from startup and VC data platform Dealroom. Unicorn founder factories: Cohort distribution Image Credits: Dealroom / Accel. Founder factories by city Image Credits: Dealroom / Accel.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

According to Griffith, the 90% failure myth serves to soothe the bruised egos of those startup founders who failed. But startup failure isn’t a natural law like gravity,” says Griffith. In 2008, I was a medical device salesman frustrated with the fabric, fit and functionality of my undergarments,” says Patterson. “I

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. It’s just a part of your ongoing activities as a founder. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular. Earn the right to the intro. Recognize that fund raising is a part of your ongoing duties.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The VC and founder winners in Airbnb’s IPO (EC). “All told, we’re seeing some familiar names in the mix, but 2020 isn’t 2008,” Taylor Hatmaker explains about potential presidential appointments from the industry. Against all odds: The sheer force of immigrant startup founders. Airbnb files to go public.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We want to know how the founder hooked the VC, what makes their partnership work and how other founders can improve their storytelling and pitching. We have Agility Robotics’ co-founder and CTO, followed by Snorkel AI presenting an early pitch deck, which laid the groundwork to raise $135 million in two years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Still, some founders tell TechCrunch that they are struggling to access their accounts and waiting for wires to officially clear. Mayopoulous, meanwhile, is tapping into his experience during the 2008 recession to guide the new bank through the crisis. “Silicon Valley Bank, N.A. SVB was seen as the second-biggest US bank failure ever.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The issue of women startup founders not receiving equitable venture funding is a shortfall of the West: It’s here, everywhere in the U.S., Even in 2008, all-women U.S. and over there, all throughout Europe. founding teams raised 1.2% of all venture capital, according to PitchBook data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

And basic searches on the Micromax brand on Google from 2008 — its first year in mobile — lay bare the general decline in chatter about the company. 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.

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