Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. It goes without saying that being a startup founder is more popular than ever. If this is all new to you, take a short course on Entrepreneurship or read The Lean Startup. Finding a technical co-founder is even harder.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

With 17 startups participating, Berkeley SkyDeck’s Demo Day isn’t the largest cohort we’ve seen by any stretch. Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system. Attending a remote startup accelerator is absolutely worth it. NuPort Robotics.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Dear Sophie, I co-founded a startup last year, and my co-founder and I were just accepted to an accelerator program in the United States! that allows us to stay there so we can grow our startup after the accelerator ends? accelerator! startup accelerators? consulate in Johannesburg.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Google iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets are starting to roll out, enabling users to put widgets on the Lock Screen of their iPhone, Sarah writes. Startups and VC. Harri reports that Google is spinning up a new, online-only startup accelerator centered around the elusive circular economy. It’s here, it’s here! :

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

A panel of local judges will evaluate the presenters who have been honing their business concepts for the past ten weeks in an intensive business startup accelerator. STATE COLLEGE, PA – On December 6, 2018, six emerging tech entrepreneurs will compete for up to $10,000 at the BF TechCelerator’s graduation “pitch” event.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A startup called Matter , which aims to build a better reading app for today’s internet, is launching out of private beta testing and announcing the close of its $7 million Series A, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures.) But the startup is weighing how exactly to bring this in.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 15, 2015

But universally speaking for startups, shorter sales cycles are better. First, faster sales cycles accelerate the discovery of a repeatable sales process. Faster and more frequent sales cycles enable quicker experimentation and ultimately a more rapid discovery process to the right initial sales process.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Most big accelerators tend to dedicate some of their resources to dauntingly hard science problems and the companies taking them on… but for SOSV’s IndieBio , it’s the primary focus. The team says they’ve seen yield increases of up to 20% in tomatoes (think more fruit, not bigger fruit.).

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him to help improve their pitch. They think they are going to get help convincing investors, and they do, but the byproduct of the process is that they reframe their startup’s vision.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! 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. Congratulations!

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

We talked about how startups have changed over the last few years, what support has meant to them, Startup Catalyst missions and their impact, as well as ways to get involved in the startup community. Reece Walker is a partner at McCullough Robertson and a director of Startup Catalyst. In Conversation with Reece and Will.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Register South Korean startup 42Maru Inc.’s 42Maru is an AI deep-tech startup that develops a Deep Semantic QA (Question Answering) Platform that understands the true intention of a user’s question to provide ‘Single Specific Answer’ from an extensive unstructured data set. s Founder and CEO, D.K.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! 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. Congratulations!

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

But as Darrell writes, “Musk has little stake in this fight” — that is, until Friday when he becomes Twitter’s new owner and “his zealous troll army” becomes further enabled. Startups and VC. Asset management firm Stone Ridge has launched a startup accelerator, Wolf, that will be dedicated to growing Bitcoin-focused applications.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. You’re involved in other aspects of the firm’s activities: due diligence, portfolio acceleration, board service, etc. In the startup funding landscape, I would compare AngelList and Gust to dating sites. HOW TO GET A SCOUT ROLE.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments.

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