TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction. What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital? 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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Non-traditional startup founder to an angel investor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

When people think about startups, the word failure isn’t too far back in their minds. I myself often cite the age-old statistic that peppers headlines, confidently claiming 90% of startups are doomed to die. According to Griffith, the 90% failure myth serves to soothe the bruised egos of those startup founders who failed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Looking back at the burst of the first internet bubble in the early 2000s and the 2008 financial meltdown, Chaddha notes that we can expect roiling public markets and “geopolitical challenges” to inform the size of seed and Series A rounds. Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction.

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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. The U-M’s Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) is one of the key engines driving that growth.

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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

One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors. 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The move comes as the fintech startup leans into payments, both in terms of facilitating them itself and aiming to help others do so better and faster. According to a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, 72% of startup founders are affected by mental health issues. billion this year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. Tech startups are now global, meanwhile, and plenty of countries are working to keep their unicorns closer to home than New York. Subscribe here. ai, Roblox, and Wish.

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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. of all venture capital, according to PitchBook data. Even in 2008, all-women U.S. of all venture capital, according to PitchBook data.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. Meet Natasha Mascarenhas, your future Startups Weekly newsletter author. Alex Wilhelm hears from one startup founder who has taken a bit of an alternative approach to building a SaaS company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Mayopoulous, meanwhile, is tapping into his experience during the 2008 recession to guide the new bank through the crisis. The executive was part of the leadership suite at mortgage financing company Fannie Mae in 2008, and then went on to serve as chief executive of that same business.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

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. DoubleVerify and early investor Blumberg Capital is speaking on how they’ve worked together since 2008. days of 2008.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Others that are experts in this field include Matt Harris at Village Ventures and Jim Robinson at RRE. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. So why would raising venture capital be any different. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular.

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