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The Myth of the Young Startup Founder

Ian Hathaway

Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion. are started by founders who are much older than the popular narrative suggests.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. She actually IS the prototypical entrepreneur. But Tracy did what entrepreneurs do. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs.

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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

Hunter Walk: Before we dive into your company Greenhouse , give me one story from your childhood that foretold you were going to end up a startup founder. HW: Greenhouse, which powers the hiring process from sourcing to onboarding for thousands of companies, will soon be a teenager, having been founded in 2012.

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history. Lanzone has a long history in media and as an entrepreneur.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. June 19th, 2012. Money to build the business is the number one challenge for most startups. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. June 17th, 2012.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 2021 edtech report, UBS-Wealthfront deal, falling startup revenue

TechCrunch

Madrid headquarters of IBM International Business Machine, the American multinational of informatics and technology consulting services, Spain, November 2012. It’s still a great time to be a startup founder. Specifically — an early-stage startup founder. Image Credits: Cristina Arias/Cover/Getty Images.

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

Gust

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare.