TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As director of Techstars’ startup pipeline, Saba Karim spends much of his time touting the ways entrepreneurs can benefit by joining an accelerator. But is it the right choice for every founder? If you’re not living and breathing your startup, you’re going to struggle anyway,” says Karim. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

Earlier today Michael shared an update with the YC community, outlining a shift to his role within YC moving forward. After 8 years as the Managing Director/CEO of the YC accelerator, I’ve decided now is the right time to hand over my leadership responsibilities.  Effective   – Garry Tan

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Y Combinator

APRIL 12, 2023

If you want to learn more about what it takes to start a startup – or how to get a job at one – join us: Join the YC Summer Conference You'll have the chance to connect with YC startups across various stages and learn from the founders’ experiences. Apply to join us!

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

Powered by gener8tor and the GREATER MSP Partnership, the fund will invest in leading local and national venture-capital funds that commit to investing a portion of their capital into high-growth startups led by Black, Brown, and Women entrepreneurs that are headquartered in Minnesota or willing to relocate to the state.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

Venture capitalists and founders across all fundraising stages spoke to current investment strategies when it comes to investing in this cohort of startups. The days are long but the years are short in crypto,” Stan Miroshnik, partner and co-founder of 10T Holdings, said to TechCrunch. And web3 is all about the community.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For the uninitiated, TC Early Stage is our annual founder summit. Workshops, breakouts and roundtables — led by established founders, leading subject-matter experts and VCs — cover core entrepreneurial topics across fundraising, marketing and operations. Check out the agenda ! Each breakout occurs once during the event.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship. During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Many of the founders had just an idea or MVP when they applied to YC, and now they are some of the fastest growing companies in the YC portfolio, joining the ranks of YC alumni like Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox. We are incredibly optimistic about the opportunities that are open to founders in India over the next decade.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You’ll hear from and engage with the top minds, makers and investors in the space community. Connect and build relationships and opportunities with the global space startup community. An early-stage space startup burns through money like a rocket burns through, well, rocket fuel. Top innovators in the space scene.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 3, 2023

Why we take that with a grain of salt at our consumer startup Photo credit: Derek Liston You hear it constantly in the startup community — “just ship it!” Am I being duped by Twitter-speak and startup mentor nonsense spouted by people with no skin in my game? But, this is really difficult to do as a startup founder.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

When Female Invest launched in 2019, it did so with the goal of creating a community where women who wanted to invest in the stock market, but weren’t sure where to start, could gain the knowledge and confidence to take the plunge. ” The team at Gaia felt the same way, Mads Sverre Willumsen, a co-founder and CTO told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But what if, instead of being honed years later at an accelerator, that initial idea was supported on campus while the dreamer was still enrolled? Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe was a University of Maryland student before dropping out to launch a startup. The company went on to be a part of Y Combinator and raised $13 million.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

While founders are adapting to quarantine in style, a group of college women in their 20s aren’t waiting until they are done with undergraduate to plunge into the lifestyle themselves. Startup founders set up hacker homes to recreate Silicon Valley synergy. So, they started their own program. A team photo.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 1, 2022

Register Ten industry-neutral firms (not fixated on one specific industry) have been selected to participate in the ScaleUp Growth Program Batch 3 by Endeavor Indonesia, the world’s premier community of high-impact entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

, it’s time to map out strategies to transform your early-stage startup dream into reality. If there’s one thing every early founder needs it’s information, and you’ll find it in abundance at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021. Think of it as a condensed accelerator experience packed with workshops and highly interactive Q&As.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Kate Ryder , CEO and Founder of Maven Clinic – A unicorn-valued startup transforming digital healthcare. Kate Ryder , CEO and Founder of Maven Clinic – A unicorn-valued startup transforming digital healthcare. Sam, a U-M alum, is the founder and chairman of Equity Group Investments , a private investment firm.

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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. In addition to this change to continuous admissions, we’ve revamped the Startup School experience to double down on the things our founders have found most useful.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Speaker: Sophie Alcorn, founder and CEO, Alcorn Immigration Law 17 Roundtables vying for a spot at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 These should pique your interest.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, as she began working and learning about the local transportation needs of Detroit’s residents, Robinson recognized the opportunity to not only make a difference in the mobility sector, but to also be involved in a meaningful way in making positive change in her newfound community. “I other cities in the country.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Venture capitalist Soraya Darabi of TMV will join us today to discuss strategies early-stage startup founders can deploy to get their first “yes” from an investor — and which founder mistakes often lead her to say “no.”

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In my former role as the founder and CEO of Hello Parent, I struggled to find and learn from other startup founders in the Cincinnati ecosystem who were experiencing some of the same issues that I was going through. We continue to grow and scale startups to date. What motivates you as an ecosystem builder?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Join us for two program-packed days dedicated to founders in the earliest stages of startup life (pre-seed through Series A). Early Stage 2021 is an intensive, one-stop entrepreneurial shop where you learn from seasoned experts, founders and investors. Build community and expand your network. Special Breakout Sessions.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2022

The event, which showcased the firm’s portfolio of 21 companies, combined panel discussions, workshops, and pitching sessions, which were organized around four key themes: life tech, community economy, supply chain transformation, and breakthrough vision.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A Memphis, Tennessee, company called UpSquad certainly had near-universal appeal in mind as its founders explored how to reduce common struggles faced by businesspeople. After completing a $10-million Series A round in March 2021, the startup expanded into Greenville, South Carolina, its fourth market so far.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The bill includes $440 billion for communities and small businesses. Klain has been a key player in investor and AOL founder Steve Case’s Revolution fund and Rise of the Rest program. Are you a startup founder, innovator, startup community leader, or ecosystem builder? trillion Covid-19 relief bill.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

My hope is that this book will appeal to a broad audience that includes entrepreneurs, policymakers, the business community and all citizens who are passionate about preserving the American dream of starting your own business for future generations. A number of local governments have also implemented programs to help startups.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2021

Accenture Ventures leader Kathryn Ross has advice for black founders that could be initially deemed counter-intuitive. In the middle of the pandemic, Ross says it’s time to actually buckle in and accelerate. There, she leads the Black Founders Development Program , launched just in September. Black Founders Development Program.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Google for Startups Accelerator.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are plenty of reasons why Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, has an increasingly visible startup sector. The country’s startup-friendly regulatory environment, a beautiful medieval town center, over 20 business hubs and accelerators and strong rankings in intellectual property production are most obvious at a high level.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

TechCrunch Early Stage is the ultimate educational resource for a founder who is just getting started. We’ve tapped experts across myriad startup core competencies, from fundraising to operations to marketing, to outline step-by-step guides on how you can set up and grow your business. We’ve got a session for it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Today’s round comes on the heels of the startup’s $30 million Series B last June, and brings the total raised to $103 million, according to the company. ”Similarly, the groundswell on the community and the open source adoption has been phenomenal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

I urged founders to think less about how to bundle and unbundle lecture experience, and more about how to replace outdated systems and methods with new, tech-powered solutions. The same startups that hit billion and multi-billion valuations during the pandemic are scooping up new talent to broaden their service offerings.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitalists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Google for Startups Accelerator. We offer 7.5K

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Sesie Bonsi.

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