Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Founders and other startup leaders, just fill out this quick survey with a few more details to help us find the right ones. ” The software development agency has worked on more than 350 digital products since its founding in 2009, for startups of all sizes. Recommended by: Andre Eikmeier, founder of Good Empire.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

TechCrunch Live is a free weekly event featuring investors, founders, and startups with the goal of helping entrepreneurs build better venture-backed businesses. But most of all, he will go out of his way to help newcomers (as well as veterans) of the Austin tech scene whenever they need help or advice or counsel,” Forrest said. “We

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

What encouraged me to start creating services and technologies that can analyze and provide advice on these, after a lot of practice and effort to get scores. It analyzes only players for a team’s advantages such as who is more active on a game, who is faster and who to choose to win a game.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Software can be licensed to corporations to benefit employees and uses behavioral science to understand the reasoning behind financial decisions people make and to help democratize financial advice for the masses. Pocketnest was founded by a woman, Jessica Willis, who is a fantastic mentor to local founders. Apply now to Pocketnest.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Back to top The History of the ACA's Public Policy Efforts The Angel Capital Association was a nascent organization in 2009-2010 when Congress developed the bipartisan Dodd-Frank Act in response to the fallout of the great recession. ACA continues to follow the SBA’s lead in recruiting more diverse investors and founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. 5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

“Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? Founders will continue to take the “growth at all options” path that leads to privacy & trust creep at places like Quora. It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. Technical founder. When you meet with founders, do you just see all across the board, like this guy you mentioned with the mortgage, or who wants a mortgage? [00:32:26] You remember what 2009 was like, right?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. You don’t. Get over it.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In the early spring of 2009, the fundraising nuclear winter of the previous year hadn't yet thawed. Most firms still have founders involved and they live fund to fund the way startups live customer to customer. That product isn't money--it's their time, attention, sound advice and network.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2021

Kent Gregoire is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member and founder of Symphony Advantage, which helps CEOs achieve ongoing success through strategic thinking, advice and planning. Example: In 2009, Southwest Airlines decided to go against industry standards that were shifting toward fees for checked luggage.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Chris Dixon made the point that he thinks investors should look for the founders to have the domain knowledge rather than them having domain knowledge themselves. But while I prefer a certain naive optimism in founders I can’t see the logic that this extends to angel investors. As tempting and as deserving as it might be.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

It offers information on loans and grants and is accompanied by a quiz that provides specialized answers for founders regarding their capital needs and wants for expanding their businesses. The Tory Burch Foundation, which was launched in 2009 by fashion designer Tory Burch, has a long history of supporting women entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was hanging out the other day with my buddy Jody Sherman, founder & CEO of EcoMom. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. Jody self-funded the company and worked from his spare bedroom in February 2009. My Personal Take on AngelList.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Chris Dixon made the point that he thinks investors should look for the founders to have the domain knowledge rather than them having domain knowledge themselves. But I prefer a certain naive optimism in founders but I can’t see that this extends to angel investors. And resist the temptation to extend thy middle finger.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Equally silly were advisors & entrepreneurs insisting that founders use convertible notes but we funded a few of those, too. Whom you take advice from really matters. But my advice to entrepreneurs – stop sweating the silly optics. It’s more likely a negative signal to VCs than a positive one. __. Reblogged via [link].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. VC went to startups with at least one woman on the founder team.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Who is one of your founders you think we should watch? Nancy Lublin, CEO of Loris.ai, is definitely a founder to watch. Taskrabbit; Nov 2009 What is one question you ask yourself before investing in a company? Is this a founder I want to work with for ten years? What is one piece of advice you’d give every founder?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Prior to joining the company, he was the co-founder and CEO of Imeem (a social media website acquired by Myspace in 2009) and the co-founder and CEO of App.net. He’ll also offer advice on how — once you’re there — you can optimize your time to set up your company for success.

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OkDork

JULY 31, 2024

This was the dilemma Peter Maldonado (interestingly he has almost no social media) faced in March 2009. 15 years later, hes the co-founder and CEO of Chomps , a meat stick company on pace to do $500M in revenue this year (!!) But then the housing market bottoms out and youre forced to file for bankruptcy. How do you respond?

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

One of the best graphic depictions of the cone of venture funding was done by CB Insights, which tracked a cohort of the 160 American tech startups that closed on seed funding in 2009. Only 4% of the 160 startups from the class of 2009 completed a 6 th funding round by April 2014. The graphic follows those startups until April 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are too many pulls & tugs at our elbows for time, for coffee meetings, for advice or speaking engagements or cocktail parties or dinners. My general advice is to do less. I offer the same advice for many of my friends who are newer VCs. The best of the best in our industry are feeling it, too. Easier said than done.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Equally silly were people insisting that founders use convertible notes but we funded a few of those, too. Whom you take advice from really matters. But my advice to entrepreneurs – stop sweating the silly optics. It’s more likely a negative signal to VCs than a positive one. Startup Lessons'

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. .&# That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw. They should heed the age old advice that raising slightly more money while you can is always better than trying to optimize future valuations.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In fact, most early investor work hard to help their startups get to the next level so it makes no sense for the angel investor and founders to be at odds. Convertible debt WITH a cap is stupid for founders. This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. A group of founders also invested in the company, including those from Plaid, Cash App, Ethos, Instacart, Front, Flatiron Health and Tango. We also feel it when they call and ask for advice and even try to beat their deadlines.”. according to Statista.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The fund was oversubscribed, according to QED co-founder and managing partner Nigel Morris. As evidence of that, the firm led Credit Karma’s Series A in 2009; led Remitly’s Series A in 2014 and participated in Nubank’s Series A in 2014. the United Kingdom, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Many VCs can offer capital.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

In July of 2009, the UK instituted a new network known as Faster Payment Service with same day settlement to replace their equivalent of ACH. Many blame Dodd-Frank and the consolidation post 2009 for the loss of free checking. I can ping Madagascar from my desktop in California in 368ms, but it takes 72 hours for a U.S.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

This morning, we published an interview with growth expert Julian Shapiro , a founder and angel investor who also advises startups on the best way to present themselves. Last week, Kickstarter announced that people have backed more than 200,000 projects with $6 billion in pledges since the company launched in 2009.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 12, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. In 2009 and 2010, the company recognized more revenue from services than subscription.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

And a great product starts with the founder. They have advice to share. Ask them for advice. Most Venture Capital “A&# rounds (as of 2009) seem to start around $3 million pre-money and may go as high as $5-6 million pre-money if you’ve made a lot more progress or for some other reason the deal is “hot&#.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. You’re going to get lots of different advice. Jason: I think it’s a several things.

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