Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Co-founder Paul Graham got his Masters and Doctorate degrees from Harvard. Robert Morris, another co-founder, was a professor at MIT. Why do startups join the Ycombinator program?

incubation

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. All of these industries have something in common.

startup founder

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

James Sutcliffe is the founder and CEO of The Founding Network , a collaboration platform for high-growth founders. If I were to pick one thing that unites the global tech scene in terms of culture I would point to the respect and reverence accorded to startup founders. A similar study conducted in 2015 by Dr. Michael A.

founder

TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

You don’t need to move to San Francisco to launch a startup, but working here does have some advantages: moderate weather, natural beauty, great food, and sure, the world’s largest concentration of venture capital. “Middle-stage startups today still look rather expensive,” he writes.

pitching

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Now that the world has embraced remote work, are visas as critical for startup founders who want to succeed in the United States? Just don’t let it be the only one,” suggests Brian Rothenberg, a two-time founder who’s now a partner at Defy. 5 factors that can make or break a startup’s growth journey.

real estate

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

What we saw in 2015 and 2016 is the world moving in a direction where that complexity was unavoidable, whether in a heightened interest in being able to do things like breakdown by customer ID or this exploding complexity that was about to come onto the scene driven by Kubernetes, microservices and containers. Slide 17] Look at that!

pitching

Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? 43:30 – Can foreigners come to India and start a startup? 44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. 45:45 – After Meesho, what’s the most exciting startup in India? Vidit is co-founder and CEO of Meesho.

founder

Onevest

MAY 7, 2015

By Tim Houghten Every serious angel investor and startup founder needs to be in the San Fran stadium on July 18 th , 2015. Those that show up will experience an event that could dramatically alter their startup, and startup investing performance. 4 Reasons to Run with the Spartans 1. In fact; she tells Inc.

entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We are proud to announce the close of our 7th early-stage fund with $280 million to invest in seed and early stage founders. That was a question I had been asked by LPs in 2015 when we began our Early Growth program. What do you do with a $650 million platform? In short, In Venture Capital, Size Matters Size matters for a few reasons.

ventures

TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

As the Latin American startup scene has matured, founders and executives of multi-billion dollar companies in the region have started to move on to new ventures. One of its co-founders is Ariel Lambrecht, who also helped start mobility startup 99, Brazil’s first unicorn.

founder

Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Created by DocSend It’s clear that 2020 has thrown a wrench in the gears of startup fundraising; conferences are canceled, meetings are virtual and spontaneous, in-person investor/founder meet-and-greets are almost completely nonexistent. Founders can learn from the experience of other startups to best navigate this situation.

founder

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Akshay Chaturvedi, founder and chief executive of Leverage Edu, told TechCrunch in an interview that he believes that eventually the firm that is going to serve the students best and emerge most successful will be the one that is physically closer to them, and not to the universities.

mentorship

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Blomstedt told TechCrunch that he originally got the idea for SpringTime after moving to Colorado in 2015 after a career in the energy business in Texas. He started attending happy hours to get to know people in his new community and met a bunch of startup founders who all shared the same problem. Blomstedt saw an opportunity.

ventures

TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Upsie , a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. Bethea’s background is not the same as a “typical” startup founder, which also was viewed as an advantage by True Ventures. “He million in a Series A round led by True Ventures. .

VC

TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

How can fintech startups outlast the VC winter? Peter Hazlehurst, co-founder and CEO of BaaS startup Synctera , shares his thoughts in this TC+ article here. All this leads Eric to ask: “ With JP Morgan suing a startup founder, will 2023 be the year of accountability? Reports CFO Dive : “Wilmington N.C.-based

incumbents

TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

As I started thinking about debt and credit facilities as increasingly attractive alternatives for startups who are seeking capital — especially during a downturn such as the one we are currently experiencing — I realized that the number of companies that were securing debt capital or credit facilities appeared to be on the rise.

finance

TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance — such as SaaS startups — in particular can benefit from debt financings, Alex points out. . The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath.

SaaS

Y Combinator

APRIL 24, 2024

While there I worked in what would become Sebastian Thrun’s AI research lab — he was one of the co-founders of Google X, and their self-driving car project that became Waymo. I went back to Google for a bit and I had that realization that I wanted to be working with startup founders again. Oh man, so many things.

founder

Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

At a startup, you get to contribute to just about everything. James and Andrew [the co-founders of Firebase] really treated me like a peer. January 17, 2015. When I started, it was just me and the founders and they were going through the S11 batch. One of the founders put a description on HackerNews and then tweeted it.

founder

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We want to know how the founder hooked the VC, what makes their partnership work and how other founders can improve their storytelling and pitching. We have Agility Robotics’ co-founder and CTO, followed by Snorkel AI presenting an early pitch deck, which laid the groundwork to raise $135 million in two years.

founder

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

He led the platform from its launch in 2006 until he passed the torch to co-founder Ev Williams two years later. In 2015, Dorsey returned to the role after Dick Costolo’s stint, even though he was simultaneously serving as CEO of fintech platform Square. Amanda Silberling: Founders aren’t rock stars. Committed COO.

B2B marketing

Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

On the contrary, burn would be absent from the 2015 list, replaced by unicorn. Starting in the end of 2015, Public companies have markedly shifted the way they manage their businesses pushing toward cash flow positive and net income positive. Growth Burn includes the marketing and sales costs of new customer acquisition.

SaaS

Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2015

After writing about the Seed Market in 2015 , I wondered whether I could find some data to support Sam Altman’s observation that acquihires have fallen in frequency over the past year by 66-75%. Or perhaps, startups founders understand better when their idea or technology or team is better suited as part of a larger entity sooner.

startup

Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Over the last few years, startup founders have exerted tremendous leverage in the fundraising market by taking advantage of the supply/demand imbalance. Too much capital chasing a sliver of exceptional startups. The 16%+ drop in Q4 2015 figures indicate some softening in the venture market too.

sustainability

TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

By 2015, it was selling millions of mobile phones a month and generating around a couple of billions of dollars in revenues in a year. The troubles with sales also started to flare up tensions between founders and executives, which in turn impacted Micromax’s attempts to raise capital.

disruption