Y Combinator
DECEMBER 9, 2020
The founders are likewise transformed by the many years of struggle and personal growth necessary to build and successfully lead a large business. Gone is the uncertain new startup founder, replaced by someone almost impossibly formidable and experienced. They wisely ignored that bit of advice.
Jason Malki
JANUARY 15, 2024
Takeshi “TK” Mori and Clancey Stahr met in 2013 at a cafe on Stanford’s campus and worked together on various investment projects before deciding to launch GoAhead Ventures I in Q4 2014. Generally speaking, startup founders are some of the most passionate people in the world, and they’re often tackling humanity’s biggest problems.
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Y Combinator
MARCH 30, 2021
Last year, during Y Combinator’s Future Founders Conference , a16z’s Sonal Chokshi led a conversation on “Leveling the Playing Field” with Anu Hariharan, YC Continuity Partner. Frankly, we’re still thinking about Anu’s incredible advice for women founders. The third trait founders need is resourcefulness.
Y Combinator
APRIL 24, 2024
In 2013, Bump was acquired by Google. I went back to Google for a bit and I had that realization that I wanted to be working with startup founders again. It’s just super reassuring — all the things that we tell startups? We’re consuming our own advice. It was a long process. Last question!
Andreessen Horowitz
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
So I had this idea for Mercury in 2013, but it didn’t start until 2017. All of these tools that were useful as startups for running your business had improved a lot. Immad: So during that year and a half, I talked to about 100 startup founders. We’d love to hear any advice that you have for early founders.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 20, 2022
He previously founded Zenefits, which actually launched on the Disrupt stage at Battlefield in 2013. I think that a lot of the advice around how to build technology companies is wrong. I think that people have for 20 years told startup founders that what you want to do is to build something extremely narrow.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2014
So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. One measure of CincyTech’s overall impact is that in 2013, its portfolio companies represent 80% of total seed and early stage capital invested in Southwest Ohio. They often fly back at least once if not twice a year to see family.
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