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5 Mistakes Derailing Startup Founders

StartupNation

As a consultant to many of the world’s most innovative global brands as well as motivated founders looking for a jump-start, it’s important to be able to know what steps along the way are absolutely necessary and which ones are nice to have. Being an entrepreneur can be the hardest, most thankless job you will ever have.

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The Myth of the Young Startup Founder

Ian Hathaway

And while the story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook has undoubtedly inspired an entire generation of young entrepreneurs and reshaped their imaginations about what’s possible, people too easily forget that a big part of what makes the story compelling is that it’s so unusual. This restricted-use dataset at the U.S.

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Alumni Ventures launches Women’s Fund 1

American Entrepreneurship

billion from 10,000 individual investors since its founding in 2014, the firm has funded to date over 350 companies founded or led by women of its 1300+ current portfolio companies. Data about Funding Women Founders While data analysis shows that female startup founders are very strong candidates for funding, biases in venture capital remain.

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How May Ph.D. Startup Founders Build for the Long term?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

. % of founders with a doctoral degree out of all founders associated with companies backed by selected investors annually It also appears that when the right supporting infrastructure is in place, more PhDs start their own companies. To pick the best prospect, entrepreneurs need to hustle more. link] only US investors selected.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. Angel and venture capital investments are made into women entrepreneur-led companies.

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Founderpath secures $145M in debt and equity to help B2B SaaS startup founders avoid dilution

TechCrunch

As mentioned above, the CEO is eager to help founders not make the same mistakes he did as a young entrepreneur. million post-money valuation in 2014. “I After starting his own SaaS company when he was a 19-year-old student at Virginia Tech, Latka thought he was “on top of the world.”. “I

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

StartupNation

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .