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The Founder’s Playbook: Winning Mindsets & Startup Strategies

American Entrepreneurship

This mindset is not just for business owners; it’s valuable for startup founders, intrapreneurs (employees who innovate within companies), freelancers, and even students. Risk-Taking: He reinvested his entire PayPal earnings (~$180M) into Tesla and SpaceX, nearly going bankrupt in 2008.

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

TechCrunch

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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How May Ph.D. Startup Founders Build for the Long term?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

What does data from the leading investors suggest Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash The current context supports research-heavy startups, there is even a special term for them?—?the the ‘deep tech startup’ search query is reaching one peak after another on Google Trends. Startup Founders Build for the Long term?

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What Drives The University Of Michigan’s Entrepreneurial Success

HPA

The CFE is a unit of the College of Engineering and the Center has helped more than 30,000 researchers and students since 2008. Sara Spangelo, CEO and Co-Founder of Swarm Technologies – An industry-leading cube-sat producer that was acquired by SpaceX last year. In the mid-2010s, that focus began to evolve.

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15 Years of Founders’ Co-op

Founders Coop

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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Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha: I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now

TechCrunch

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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As fundraising gets harder, founders should ask investors for a flat round

TechCrunch

How to strategically manage your startup advisor’s compensation. With the economic downturn and associated uncertainty, startup founders at every stage have been rushing to shore up their balance sheets and extend runways. Remember, if you don’t ask investors for support now, someone else in their portfolio will.

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