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5 Mistakes Derailing Startup Founders

StartupNation

Way back in 2014, an aspiring entrepreneur came to us with an idea for SMS customer support as a service. That prototype (and his incredible energy) got him in the door for demos with some pretty incredible companies for a newborn startup. The post 5 Mistakes Derailing Startup Founders appeared first on StartupNation.

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Alumni Ventures launches Women’s Fund 1

American Entrepreneurship

Women-founded startups show measurable positive results compared to those of men Alumni Ventures (AV), the most active venture firm in the U.S. 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.

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The Myth of the Young Startup Founder

Ian Hathaway

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. businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007-2014). This restricted-use dataset at the U.S.

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

TechCrunch

million post-money valuation in 2014. “I Founder and CEO Pat Matthews told TechCrunch he has known Latka for over a decade and even invested in his first startup. Plus, Matthews himself spent the first half of his career as a bootstrapped SaaS founder. (He “I bootstrapped it to like a million bucks in ARR,” he recalls.

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Charting the Path to Success in Tech Investing: An Exclusive Interview with GoAhead Ventures’…

Jason Malki

Charting the Path to Success in Tech Investing: An Exclusive Interview with GoAhead Ventures’ Founding Trio GoAhead Ventures (“GoAhead”) is a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm founded by three Stanford graduates: Takeshi “TK” Mori, Clancey Stahr and Phil Brady (the “Managing Partners”).

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

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

TechCrunch

“It is a significant signal for large South Korean corporates participating as limited partners of environmental and climate tech-focused venture capitals like us,” Han said. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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