Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2022

It was late 2017. Ash Ali, my friend, and investment partner was talking about a huge 3-day international startup summit in Dubai, where he was going to be flown in as a speaker and mentor to thousands of tech startup founders in attendance from all over the world. This was only a few years ago.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Builders VC led the round, which included participation from Celtic, Newfund and Wish co-founder Danny Zhang. Stella Wu, who formerly worked as a growth product manager at Wish, got firsthand experience of the pain points related to the process when she bought her own house in 2017. “I

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. How to strategically manage your startup advisor’s compensation. I’ve been recommending that founders plan to have at least two years of runway in the bank (ideally three).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Kathy Hannun is president and co-founder of Dandelion Energy. In May 2017, Kathy launched Dandelion as an independent startup. I closed two major rounds of funding for my geothermal energy startup, Dandelion Energy, while pregnant. That same summer, in 2017, I became pregnant. Kathy Hannun. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

CEO Omri Mor and CTO Tom Harel founded Routable in 2017 after previously working at marketplaces and recognizing the need for better internal tools for scaling business payments. The Series B comes just over eight months after Routable came out of stealth with a $12 million Series A. As mentioned above, the B2B payments space is white-hot.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

In the interview below, he explains why and how startups should work on this from their very early days. TechCrunch is asking founders who have worked with growth marketers to share a recommendation in this survey. Laja is the founder of several marketing and optimization businesses: CXL , Speero and Wynter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Analytics startup Mixpanel burst out of the gate in 2009, scoring big wins as it scooped up new users and approached the $100 million ARR mark, but by 2017, “it lacked focus, it was losing customers, and many of the customers it had weren’t terribly pleased with it,” reports Ron Miller.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 13, 2021

Running a Remote-First Startup: Do’s and Don’ts We’ve been a remote-first startup for 3 years, here’s what we’ve learned. We’ve been a remote-first startup from day one at Uizard ?—?since Put simply: because we are 4 co-founders, and each of us has a different nationality. Remote water cooler.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Houseparty founder Ben Rubin emphasized decentralization as Web3’s central feature. That’s because only 7% of the startups that raise seed rounds are able to grow their companies enough to land a Series C investment, according to a Dealroom study. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for?

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Y Combinator

JUNE 17, 2020

This change will allow us to serve many more founders than the traditional annual course we’ve been running since 2017 and better support startup founders year-round. Startup School’s video lectures and text library are our differentiator. These updates encourage founders to talk to users and launch quickly.

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

billion the week it was supposed to go public in 2017. The fact the numbers are the same was not lost on Bansal, and in fact the Cisco deal closed at the end of March in 2017, almost exactly five years ago. As an experienced startup founder, Bansal has given a lot of thought about how to build a diverse and inclusive company.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 17, 2021

Netscape founder Marc Andreesen, now a prolific startup investor, describes entrepreneurial risk management in terms of peeling an onion. On day one of a startup, you have a bulb full of every possible kind of risk. If you’re a typical tech startup founder, by the time you launch, you can expect to: .

venture capital

TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

For companies in India, founders no longer have to spend three months away from their customers or teams. Covid has also taught us that building a program that is remote and more software based makes YC more accessible to founders around the globe,” the firm said in a statement to TechCrunch. That is an important skill.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Harvard Business School grad Cameron Johnson is a former institutional real estate investor and Greystar exec turned startup founder who realized that very often, “renters would try to rent the model apartment.”. So in 2017, he came up with the idea of Nickson , a Dallas-based startup that fully furnishes apartments on demand.

real estate

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Delegate Connect founders Jordan Walsh and Jacob Thomas. The Melbourne-based startup announced today it has raised $10 million AUD (about $7.3 The Melbourne-based startup announced today it has raised $10 million AUD (about $7.3 Delegate Connect is the latest virtual/hybrid events platform to land funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

From the stresses of being a startup founder I began to have pain in my chest that I became worried was heart trouble. And the week we finished our 2016 Summit, Stuart had already survey attendees for feedback, completed an analysis of what worked and what didn’t and identified the dates for our 2017 Summit.

energy

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Alex Wilhelm hears from one startup founder who has taken a bit of an alternative approach to building a SaaS company. Chatting with CEO and co-founder Tomas Gorny, I got to dig a little under the skin of the company’s history. How to bootstrap to $200m+ in revenue. How did it all happen?

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

ABOUT MY FIRST 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So I had this idea for Mercury in 2013, but it didn’t start until 2017. Immad Akhund: Sure.

incumbents

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

CEO William Sankey co-founded Northspyre in 2017 after spending six years as a New York City real estate developer and project lead. . Image Credits: Northspyre CEO and co-founder William Sankey / LinkedIn. French startup Seyna landed Eur$33M to modernise infrastructure for insurance sector . YC-backed Duplo raised a $1.3M

real estate

TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Whether you’re in people ops, a founder or seeking a job in Silicon Valley, I would love to answer your questions in my next column.”. Sophie Alcorn.

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FundersClub

JULY 6, 2017

" Mentat launches Mentat Junction , a technology-driven outplacement service to help startup founders during a reduction in force on ProductHunt. " Christoph Janz of Point Nine Capital talks a bit about his view on Product/Market Fit and how they try to detect it when looking at SaaS startups at his firm in " WTF is PMF?

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FundersClub

JUNE 14, 2017

tech startups, offer a unique view on how different factors may affect the gender diversity of a startup’s employees. technology startup founders and how that affects the gender diversity of the employees they hire. technology startups with no female founders, and. The founders of nearly 100 U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Despite their varied backgrounds, each panelist agreed that it’s important for founders who aren’t from privilege or wealth to understand and accept that systemic bias is real. When Feinzaig was fundraising in 2017, “I expected that it would be hard. But I also expected that it would be fair,” she said. ”

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Y Combinator

APRIL 21, 2022

Brex went through YC in Winter 2017, and now serves over 50,000 companies, and 40% of US startups. Last week they announced the launch of Brex Empower , a software platform that helps scaling companies manage their spend and stay financially disciplined while still moving at startup speed. You can listen here on Twitter Spaces.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So the first startup was technology that could apply software updates without rebooting. Waseem: Absolutely.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A report from the Aldermore Future Attitudes revealed that in 2017, UK small businesses launched in spring tended to triumph over companies created during other seasons. 5 Mistakes Derailing Startup Founders. Outside of the U.S., spring is said to be the favored time to start a business in the United Kingdom.

entrepreneurs

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The issue of women startup founders not receiving equitable venture funding is a shortfall of the West: It’s here, everywhere in the U.S., of all venture funds in Europe, a number on par with what they raised in 2017, 2018 and 2019, which saw these teams pick up 1.5%, 1.8% and over there, all throughout Europe.

VC

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

By now you probably know that we’re hosting two TC Early Stage events this year — one on April 1-2 and another on July 8-9 — each with its own set of topics, speakers and content — both designed to help nascent startup founders build a better, more successful business. You’re just beginning to build your startup — what could go wrong?

pitching

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As often as the ‘R’ word is bandied about in tech, a survey of 450 early-stage founders found that only 12% plan to hire fewer workers and 6% have laid people off. ” Eighty percent of the seed-stage and pre-seed founders who responded to January’s survey have less than a year of runway left. Which way is up?

SaaS

TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The troubles with sales also started to flare up tensions between founders and executives, which in turn impacted Micromax’s attempts to raise capital. All of this was being played out amid the ambitions of Micromax’s founders and management. Other Indian vendors were also impacted, he added.

disruption

TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Dear Sophie: How does International Entrepreneur Parole work for startup founder immigration? office for your startup. Sophie Alcorn.

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