TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She now recognizes the need to have co-founders. How’s that for an ex painter?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

The company is not disclosing valuation but CEO and co-founder Jody Glidden tells me the company is doing well. The idea for Introhive came as many do to enterprise startup founders: they identify something that doesn’t quite work as they want it to, and then start a new company to try to fix it.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2014

Each time, I’m impressed by the intelligence, ambition and the polish of the founders presenting companies only a few weeks or months old. To get a sense of the broader trends in YC companies, I’ve compared the Winter 2012 class and the Spring 2014 class by sector (consumer v. I’ve been attending for six years now.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The issue of women startup founders not receiving equitable venture funding is a shortfall of the West: It’s here, everywhere in the U.S., In 2012, they raised 1.8%, then 1.7% and over there, all throughout Europe. Even in 2008, all-women U.S. founding teams raised 1.2% of all venture capital, according to PitchBook data.

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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. it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Andrius Milinavicius , founder, Baltic Sandbox. Jone Vaituleviciute , partner, Startup Wise Guys. Who are the key startup people in your city (e.g., investors, founders, lawyers, designers, etc.)? Founders: Justas Janauskas, Milda Mitkut ? Andrius Milinavicius, founder, Baltic Sandbox. Rokas Tamoši?nas

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Y Combinator

JULY 7, 2022

They flipped the equation of a typical startup founder: instead of raising money to enable a certain amount of growth, they eliminated the assumption of fundraising, controlled their spend, and evaluated how to ramp up spending based on what the business was bringing in. seed round in 2012 and has been profitable since 2014.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Welcome to the future.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Whether you’re in people ops, a founder or seeking a job in Silicon Valley, I would love to answer your questions in my next column.”. Sophie Alcorn.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

“The additive manufacturing industry has shown steady and strong growth over the last decade and startups have played a crucial role during this time,” Arno Held, co-founder and managing partner at AM Ventures, said in a statement. I spoke with Arno to find out what’s happening in the land of 3D printing.

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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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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? 43:30 – Can foreigners come to India and start a startup? 44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. 45:45 – After Meesho, what’s the most exciting startup in India? Vidit is co-founder and CEO of Meesho.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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. Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? Do you expect to see a surge in more founders coming from geographies outside major cities in the years to come, with startup hubs losing people due to the pandemic and lingering concerns, plus the attraction of remote work?

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