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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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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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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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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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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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. 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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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Since 2012 Vilnius’ population has been steadily growing 0.3% Who are the key startup people in your city (e.g., investors, founders, lawyers, designers, etc.)? Top are startup founders like J. However, I’d say that a lot of focus goes to B2B/enterprise software. every year. Janauskas from Vinted, T.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

. “We are convinced that startups will continue to be key in providing the innovation required to finally bring the digital world to the real world, and that they will help produce industrial goods in a sustainable manner and thus strengthen supply chains and tackle climate change.”.

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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

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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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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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

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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