Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

Craig Hall, the writer of Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups , shares his view on the current state of entrepreneurship in the U.S. . In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. What prompted you to write Boom ? was in trouble.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Money to build the business is the number one challenge for most startups. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. June 19th, 2012.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Gumroad , a startup that helps creators sell their work, is raising $6 million at a $100 million valuation. Now, investors and founders can raise up to $5 million per year from crowdfunding, up from $1.07 If this works, startup founders will start to be able to go direct more frequently,” Lavingia said. revenue multiple.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 13, 2020

I used this title for possibly the most regrettable blog post I have written on AVC back in 2011. Alex starts off his post with this assertion: 2019 was the year when VCs and startup founders soured on paid acquisition. I am not sure if that is true, but if it is, it suggests a dramatic change in the startup playbook.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We’re diving right back in next week with another installment in season two of Extra Crunch Live , our regular interview series with startup founders, venture capitalists, and other leaders from the technology community. Das as invested in companies like MuleSoft ( sold for $6.5 This is going to be a good one.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos. First, these wildly different founders ended up both working on key internet plumbing. The cohort of founders is fascinating.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. I recently had coffee with a young friend who just finished his first startup.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Alex Wilhelm hears from one startup founder who has taken a bit of an alternative approach to building a SaaS company. Chatting with CEO and co-founder Tomas Gorny, I got to dig a little under the skin of the company’s history. How to bootstrap to $200m+ in revenue. How did it all happen?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

His startup was a member of the YC Winter 2011 cohort, and was sold to Rackspace a year later. One was owned by a private equity firm, and one was owned by another company when they were sold, so they had been around the block and knew what it was like to report to someone else.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. You have secret doubts about your co-founder. It’s not.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

At a startup, you get to contribute to just about everything. James and Andrew [the co-founders of Firebase] really treated me like a peer. I joined in 2011, and when we got acquired by Google three years later, we were still only 22 people. One of the founders put a description on HackerNews and then tweeted it.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2015

To calculate the data, I filtered all the startups who had been acquired for undisclosed amounts and raised less than $6.5M (the sum of the average seed round in 2014 and the median series A ). Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014. Q2 2010, Q2 2011 and Q2 2012 all saw similar drops before the levels rebounded.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The troubles with sales also started to flare up tensions between founders and executives, which in turn impacted Micromax’s attempts to raise capital. All of this was being played out amid the ambitions of Micromax’s founders and management. Other Indian vendors were also impacted, he added.

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