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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Since Etsy went public in 2015, companies like Poshmark, The RealReal and thredUP followed suit, attracting even more investors to the sector. As a result, “the average Black founder raises less than around $1,000 from family and friends,” reports Dominic-Madori Davis. Median liquid wealth for a Black family in the U.S.

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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.”. We did our first investment in January 2015.

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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.

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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. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Moreover, the world’s population of those who are 60 and older is expected to reach 2 billion by 2050, up from 900 million in 2015. In many ways, a startup is a clean slate, and they need to learn from the trials of their more established peers. The World Health Organization says people aged 60 and older outnumber children under 5.

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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? Last year, startups based in Southeast Asia raised more than $8.2 billion, a 4x increase from 2015. On Tuesday, September 14, at 2 p.m Image Credits: Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Silicon Valley-based A16z provided an initial investment for Yuno as part of the firm’s program for fintech startup founders. Despite its only recent inception, the concept behind Yuno came to Ortega as early as 2015 when he helped start Rappi. Monashees and Kaszek followed as co-leads in the investment.

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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. .”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Fortunately, DocSend’s new report on seed-level fundraising provides some helpful insights and guidance for startups on what constitutes a successful fundraising process. seed startup founders caught between the pressure of more discerning and decisive investors and increasingly demanding market expectations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

All this leads Eric to ask: “ With JP Morgan suing a startup founder, will 2023 be the year of accountability? When we started out in 2015, we were primarily providing back office payment infrastructure for banks and needed an apt team, hence the name TeamApt.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. Why do startups join the Ycombinator program? It is like a 3 month boot camp for startups. Ycombinator brings in the most successful startup founders to share their experiences building startups. They got their initial funding of $1.2M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

In announcing its latest financing, the company said it has had more than 400,000 users since its 2015 inception and more than $3 billion in funding across an ever-evolving suite of investment products. In February, TechCrunch reported that FVS had named Cameron Peake , a former startup founder and advisor, as its newest partner.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

TechCrunch Live helps founders build better venture-backed businesses. We do this by bringing together startup founders and the investors who back them to talk about what, precisely, helped close the deal. What questions did the founders answer that made the VCs want to learn more?

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

I’m excited to have Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, which was founded in 2015, and you went through YC in 2016. Yoday, Meesho is probably one of the hottest startups in India, if not the hottest startup. Back in 2015, doing O to O, hyper local, was very popular in India. All right, here we go.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

January 17, 2015. I’m a strong proponent of interviews being bi-directional — candidates should take the time to really get to know the startup, founders, and team. The support from @Firebase is incredible. I loved them before, but right now I’d almost marry them. Highly, highly recommended. StartupAUS.

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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.

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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.

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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. Jack Dorsey was Twitter’s first CEO — and also its fourth. Committed COO.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

He says it’s particularly good at cybersecurity with companies with almost 100 startups headquartered in the city, per Pitchbook data. Examples of security companies based in the city include Snyk , a late stage startup, Rapid7 , which IPOed in 2015 and Carbon Black , which VMware acquired for $2.1 billion in 2019. “I

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

I got really diluted and sold the company in 2015,” he said. “It That same year, Latka launched a podcast and has since interviewed one SaaS founder nearly daily — recording 2,500 episodes to date that have had 18 million downloads, he said. “I bootstrapped it to like a million bucks in ARR,” he recalls.

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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.

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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. Sharma co-founded an EV startup called Revolt Motors in 2019 ( sold to New Delhi-based RattanIndia Enterprises in January).

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Y Combinator

APRIL 24, 2024

David on stage announcing Google Photos at Google I/O 2015 So you’re at Google, you build what becomes Google Photos — an absolute monster success of a product, even today. I went back to Google for a bit and I had that realization that I wanted to be working with startup founders again.

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