Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Aviel and I are both self-taught VCs: the parts of the job we learned as founders and operators of our own companies covered just a fraction of what it means to be effective money managers, fundraisers, board members and trusted partners within the tight-knit community of professional investors. Here’s to the next fifteen years!

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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. Yet, things are accelerating across the board in crypto. But having 20 to 30% ownership of a token or of a network is very bad and frowned upon by the community.

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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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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.

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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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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

By 2030, India will be one of the most important economies in the world, and the Indian startup founders of today will play a huge role in accelerating the country’s growth and global reach. The strength of YC has always been its community of founders — and we’re excited to be building YC’s community in India at this time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Heather Widman, Building Ventures As a partner at Building Ventures, Heather Widman spearheads the firm’s investment activities within the real estate and real estate tech community. Don’t miss your chance to accelerate your startup dream. Tambe, TechCrunch Akin to an in-house VC, Neesha A.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It seems like a lot of startups are born from an idea someone had while in college. 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? It’s very active and focused on the early stage, and we run two accelerator programs.”.

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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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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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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. “I didn’t become a founder in the first place to be a founder,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

“There are a lot of [programs] that target younger women to get them into coding in high school, and there’s a lot of syndicates and founder groups for women late into their careers,” Titus said. Startup founders set up hacker homes to recreate Silicon Valley synergy. So, they started their own program. A team photo.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Introduced last year — and one of the most popular events in TechCrunch history — TC Early Stage provides new startup founders (pre-seed through Series A) access to top experts to help them develop and strengthen their core entrepreneurial skills. Listen to what these early-stage founders said about TC Early Stage 2020. “I

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Y Combinator

JUNE 17, 2020

We’re excited to announce that Startup School (SUS) is relaunching today as a continuous program. 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. Curriculum.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Workshops, breakouts and roundtables — led by established founders, leading subject-matter experts and VCs — cover core entrepreneurial topics across fundraising, marketing and operations. But how can founders look that far ahead, in a turbulent market, and predict their future business model? Check out the agenda !

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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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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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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

SkySpecs – Novel clean-tech engineering series D startup that utilizes drones to inspect wind turbines for critical maintenance, hailing from U-M’s TechArb student venture accelerator and founded by former students Danny Ellis , Jonathan Bendes , Ryan Morton , Sam DeBruin , and Tom Brady. university.

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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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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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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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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Attendees say: “Early Stage 2020 provided a rich, bootcamp experience with premier founders, VCs and startup community experts. If you’re beginning to build a startup, it’s an efficient way to advance your knowledge across key startup topics.” — Katia Paramonova, founder and CEO of Centrly. Do you science?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Capita3 : co-founded by Pamela York and Sara Russick with a focus on early-stage venture capital fund investing in women startup founders in innovative health sectors such as digital health, telehealth, health tech, human health, genomics and bioIT, food-as-medicine, and other health sectors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Making the Most of Your First 90 Days With Your Investors Speaker: Gabby Cazeau, principal, Harlem Capital Building Guardrails, Not Gates: How Continuous Security Can Reduce Friction Between Teams, Accelerate Time to Deployment and Enhance Overall Security Speaker: Guy Flechter, chief appsec officer, Palo Alto Networks AI for Social Good: How Technologists (..)

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I’m now researching non-dilutive funding for Action Tank , a startup I’m gestating to “Make America Functional Again”. I suggest start by looking at the many programs offered by the Fortune 500’s startup networks.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The bill includes $440 billion for communities and small businesses. The New Business Preservation Act , sponsored by Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, aims to help startups in underserved areas by providing dollar-for-dollar government matches of venture capital funding of investments in scalable startups.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

After completing a $10-million Series A round in March 2021, the startup expanded into Greenville, South Carolina, its fourth market so far. CEO Jonathan Kite said a new automated turn board feature was a significant factor accelerating the company’s success. Most startup founders understandably think they have great ideas.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Sadness for the loss of a bright young New Zealander who had so much going for him, for the terrible loss for Jake’s mother and his whanau and friends, and for the loss of an up and coming innovator and entrepreneur to our business community. Corporate sponsored business idea competitions and accelerators abound.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I’m now researching non-dilutive funding for Action Tank , a startup I’m gestating to “Make America Functional Again”. I suggest start by looking at the many programs offered by the Fortune 500’s startup networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1.

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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. Most importantly, they know the technology community, since they work in it every day. What do you think of less than 1%?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Yugabyte co-founder and president, says the startup saw a marked increase in interest in both the open source and commercial offerings in 2020 as the pandemic pushed many companies to the cloud faster than they might have gone otherwise, something many startup founders have pointed out to me.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

I’ll end with this: Successful startup founders are innately ambitious, finding opportunity in moonshots and convincing others that the odds are in their favor. Reporter JP Mangalindan wrote thousands and thousands of words about Tonal, from its origin story to business model, its focus on communities and its biggest hurdles ahead.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

In the last year, there has been a resurgence of interest, some say a bubble, by both angels and VCs, in a pre-Series A kicker to identify promising startups with seed funding, before major equity has been given away. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. Business 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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