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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait on how AI is changing human resources and weaning his company off venture funding via private equity

Hunter Walk

I *think* Daniel and I met at a VC happy hour many years ago. He’s founder and CEO of Greenhouse , a ‘hiring operating system’ for companies which spans recruiting and onboarding tools for enterprises and SMEs. What does 2023 Daniel know that 2012 Daniel didn’t? Daniel Chait: Oh man, I have a ton of these!

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Daily Crunch: Twitter removes live audio chat after CEO joins Space with banished reporters

TechCrunch

Startups and VC. Despite shrinking investment into startups in 2022, venture capital funds of all sizes are still being raised. The rules of VC are changing: Here’s what founders should be considering in the new era. The rules of VC are changing: Here’s what founders should be considering in the new era.

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Founders’ character, right valuation are attractive to investors – Bernard Moon, Co-Founder & Partner, SparkLabs Group

AsiaTechDaily

Register Startup founders looking to attract investors need to show proof of an outstanding team and must be realistic with their valuation numbers, said Bernard Moon , Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Group , a South Korean accelerator and fund network. What mistakes do you see founders make when raising money?

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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. The reason is that no VC wants to see the venture debt provider get burned if you become bankrupt.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. As I’ve written about before, You’d Have to be a Big Baby to Complain about Being a VC. 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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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors.

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