TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Our team has been involved and invested in crypto since 2012, so we’ve been excited about the industry for a long time. 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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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

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. By that summer, Zuckerberg moved himself and the company to Silicon Valley and never looked back.

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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’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian. How’s that for an ex painter?

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

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. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. June 13th, 2012. June 10th, 2012.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Tsai joined Duolingo in 2012 as one of its first engineers, and firsthand witnessed the growth of the company from a scrappy startup into a 400-person global business. If you’re an early-stage startup founder based in Pittsburgh, you should apply to pitch your startup ( click here to apply ).

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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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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

We worked together, so we knew each other very well, but that time, we were not thinking about doing startups. It’s not just us, this is 2008 to 2012. Vidit Aatrey [19:37] – Starting startups was not a cool thing to do. But when you go and meet these founders, you understand what’s happening.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In a data-driven piece that looks at post-money valuations, deal size and dilution going back to 2012, Mitchem says we’re now heading into a “growth at reasonable costs” era. Three more from the TC+ team: Moar money, moar startups : With IT spending forecast to rise in 2023, what does it mean for startups?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dear Sophie: Does the United States have a startup visa? If not, what are the best visas for startup founders? who is undocumented but wants to found a startup, is it possible? Some of the basics to see if your friend might qualify for DACA are if they were under the age of 31 on June 15, 2012; if they came to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Japanese startup ecosystem is striking its stride now compared to 9 years ago, Riney said. As Riney and Sawayama started investing in seed and early-stage startup companies back in 2012, the startup world was a black box in the country, according to Riney.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

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. And Introhive was the company that they formed in 2012 to address that.

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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.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. 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. I didn’t sleep much back then. And so it goes again. You’re where you should be. From the Instagram and the Twitter.

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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. 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. I didn’t sleep much back then. And so it goes again. You’re where you should be.

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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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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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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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