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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Reporter Lucas Matney spoke to Caryn Marooney in August at TechCrunch Early Stage about how startup founders who hope to expand their reach need to do a better job of connecting with journalists. “People just fundamentally aren’t walking around caring about this new startup,” she said. on Sunday, Dec.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Ben Herman and Adam Gefkovicz launched Jumpstart in 2017 with a clear mission: to make the world more equitable via a more fair and balanced hiring process. Over the years, the startup’s mission has evolved beyond helping college grads to helping all employees — regardless of career stage — get a fair shot at jobs.

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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.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 17, 2021

Cold-pressed juice was a growing market in 2017, and the idea was to have it available on demand in your home or office. If you’re a typical tech startup founder, by the time you launch, you can expect to: . StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

.” VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags Funds offering ‘friends and family’ checks could bring the change underrepresented founders need Image Credits: Overearth / Getty Images America’s long-standing wealth gap between white and Black households contributes to the lack of diversity among startup founders.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

BBG Ventures : co-founded by Managing Partners Susan Lyne and Nishua Dua, the early-stage fund focuses on consumer internet and mobile startups with at least one female founder. 90% of their funded startups are led by women or people of color.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

According to rating agency ICRA, insurance products had reached less than 3% of the population as of 2017. ICRA estimated that of those Indians who had purchased an insurance product, they were spending less than $50 on it in 2017. Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston shares actionable advice for startup founders.

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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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Melbourne-based startup announced today it has raised $10 million AUD (about $7.3 Other participants included Skip Capital, TEN13 and Australian startup founders like LinkTree’s Alex Zaccaria and Go1’s Andrew Barnes. It also plans to open a United States-based office soon.

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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. Hiring remains one of the most difficult challenges for startup founders.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

We asked him to expand on some of his thoughts and recommendations for startup founders. Your site’s tagline tells startups that “product-based differentiation is going away” and that they should “win on messaging.” David Cancel, the CEO of Drift, said that famously in 2017.

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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

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

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Alex Wilhelm hears from one startup founder who has taken a bit of an alternative approach to building a SaaS company. Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. How to bootstrap to $200m+ in revenue.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So I had this idea for Mercury in 2013, but it didn’t start until 2017. All of these tools that were useful as startups for running your business had improved a lot. And it just seemed obvious to me that someone would make a better bank product for for startups and for entrepreneurs. Immad Akhund: Sure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas.

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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 . One way it’s doing this?

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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 where my co-founders and I were based at the time?—?the Uizard is an easy-to-use AI-powered design tool for non-designers.

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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.

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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.

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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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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?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Join @YourProtagonist and Silicon Valley-based attorney and @TechCrunchPlus columnist @Sophie_Alcorn as they discuss immigration-related issues and answer questions relevant to startup founders and workers. As a result, customers are spending 53% more on software licensing today than in 2017.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

So we started the company basically in January, 2017. And the first thing we did is we called up startup founders in our network. And so if you can actually master the motion for the technology startup, what you know is that you can cover a wide range of scenarios. Waseem: Absolutely.

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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. " Investor Thoughts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

With margins shrinking at the company, in February 2017, Mathur left and was not replaced. Some former executives believe that Micromax’s founders could have handled the situation better if they had given a free hand to others coming on board. Micromax eventually sunset its global business operations.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Even though IEP has been available since 2017, the previous administration had unsuccessfully tried to eliminate it. Only recently did the Department of Homeland Security withdraw the proposal to rescind the IEP program, which has been available since 2017, and the the Biden administration announced it would fully implement it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Which form of venture debt should your startup go for? Startup founders have more options than in years past when it comes to fundraising, thanks in large part to a surplus of liquidity. Gharegozlou and the team at his startup, Dapper Labs, shipped the blockchain world’s first popular game, CryptoKitties, back in 2017.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Dear Sophie: How does International Entrepreneur Parole work for startup founder immigration? The ban had been in place since 2017 and nearly 42,000 visa applications were denied, according to the U.S. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: What is a diversity green card and how do I apply for one? Department of State.

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