Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Co-founder Paul Graham got his Masters and Doctorate degrees from Harvard. Robert Morris, another co-founder, was a professor at MIT. Why do startups join the Ycombinator program?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” Top founders want to live in a place where employees are serious about working hard. Startup founders always need help.

communities

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. Why are you being president of a startup? Technical founder. You have been at five startups, you had an exit at your last company where you were the Chief Revenue Officer. You’re 42.

startup

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

AUGUST 3, 2022

Andreessen Horowitz’s recent hire of former Jordan Park Group Chief Investment Officer Michel Del Buono suggests the venture capital firm is getting into startup founder wealth management. This is just one of the numerous internal programs that the venture capital giant offers to founders. billion, according to Bloomberg.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “ Today’s abrupt slowdown in VC investment suggests a post-recession-type M&A wave is on the horizon. How can you avoid this unnecessary fate?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

How Mixpanel got its startup groove back by focusing on its core product. Founders should use predictive modeling to fundraise smarter. Founders should use predictive modeling to fundraise smarter. Image Credits: Carol Yepes (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Dear Sophie: Marriage-based green card versus EB-1C green card?

strategy

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

startup

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We are proud to announce the close of our 7th early-stage fund with $280 million to invest in seed and early stage founders. In fact, I am still active on two boards where I first invested in 2009. We feel blessed to work alongside startup founders who are really rising to the challenge of the more difficult funding environment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ahuja is a serial entrepreneur, co-founder at X10 and founder of Byond Travel. In mature Western economies (the US, UK, Canada, for example), it’s almost twice as costly to operate a business in 2019 as it was in 2009. 45 days for a typical startup to hire a technology engineer. Written for EO by Vikram Ahuja.

culture

TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley has announced that he is stepping back from his full-time role at the company. During the first seven years of the company, he was the startup’s Chief Executive Officer. He’ll remain on the Board of Directors as co-chair with Factual founder Gil Elbaz. Foursquare merges with Factual.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 1, 2014

On average, founders retain 30-33% more equity than 4 years ago through those first two rounds of institutional investment. In 2014, the median founding CEO equity stake after raising a Series A is 21% up from 15% in 2009. On the whole, the founder stakes for founding VPEng and VPProduct have remained relatively stable.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 24, 2024

Last week we shared some awesome news: David Lieb, the creator of Bump (part of the summer 2009 batch!) While there I worked in what would become Sebastian Thrun’s AI research lab — he was one of the co-founders of Google X, and their self-driving car project that became Waymo. Largely by accident.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Venture capitalists and startup founders alike went into 2023 eagerly hoping for the return of the industry’s exit environment — specifically, the resurgence of IPOs. This plummeted to 28 in 2022, the lowest number recorded since 2009, amid the financial crisis.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

What’s it like to be a startup founder? Each episode features an interview with an early-stage founder to tell the story behind the startup. Currently a partner at Pillar VC, Wilcox commercialized electronic paper displays by founding E Ink, which Amazon acquired in 2009. Not the hype, not the spin.

VC

Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Business credit is traditionally underwritten based on the founders’ FICO scores. As international founders with less than a month of credit history, their chances of getting approved were slim to none, despite having $125K in the bank. Brex gave startup founders a daily view into the month’s cumulative expenses (vs.

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