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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. 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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Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave

Revolution

While a few iconic brands including Uber, Airbnb, and Square emerged successfully from the last downturn, most venture-backed companies struggled during this period, and many ended up pursuing M&A strategies. Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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“Yoon has been a Venture Investor and strategic partner to many Silicon Valley startups/founders for 18 years prior to Muirwoods. ” Mar is a successful serial entrepreneur, with numerous industry accolades. ” Expert panel of judges. Yoon Choi — Muirwoods Ventures. Mar received her Ph.D. He holds a B.A.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. And then I got into strategy consulting, and I wanted to go into strategy consulting, and they said, “Yeah, but you’re a tech guy. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.”

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

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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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

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. But this strategy great depends on point 3. it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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