TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

The Czech Republic may be better known for beer, hockey and the sights of Prague, but its entrepreneurial community is as ambitious as any. Pipedrive is an EU-based CRM company with offices in eight countries, but it has a Czech co-founder in VP of Product Martin Henk, one of several founders to emerge from the ecosystem.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I had a great idea for a tool the market was crying out for, and a technical co-founder to build it. Only 10p goes to mixed-gender teams, and less than 1p goes to all-female teams?—?despite Like many entrepreneurs, I found myself working from home to cut costs, meaning I had no sense of a workplace community. No pressure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. We believe very much in the consumerism of healthcare, and what that means is you have to build healthcare around the consumer,” says founder and chairwoman Gina Bartasi. Zimmerman, the founder and CEO of Drift. With 12 outlets in 10 U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2017

Cameron Madill is an EO member in Portland, EO’s 2017 Global Citizen of the Year winner, founder of B Local PDX, and founder and CEO of PixelSpoke , a web design and marketing agency. Individual awards provoke mixed emotions, because they’re an attempt to fit the work of so many people into the narrative of a specific person.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, he said that education is the most high-leverage way to make an impact on an individual, community and world. Founders] want to believe in the best of humanity and that people are going to dedicate time to wanting to learn something, but we always come back to this vitamin versus painkiller problem.” Activation edtech.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said Musk is the only solution he trusts, but as you read above, Carly isn’t so sure, saying that this is going to be a privacy nightmare. The hardware dweebs among us were having a great day today. Klaviyo co-founder Ed Hallen’s 3 top pieces of advice for launching a startup. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So in early summer of this year we decided to take on two new strategic investors — The Venture City and Kal Vepuri — bringing our overall seed funding to $6M,” explain two of Beams’ four co-founders (and its co-CEOs), Alan Sternberg and Robert Kilian, on why it’s taking more funding now.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. Use discount code HALLO to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? What are the biggest worries of the founders in your portfolio? and Nomono.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Roshni Mahtani Cheung, group CEO and founder of The Parentinc. The Parentinc , a Singapore-based startup that runs a parenting community and direct-to-consumer product line, announced today it has raised $22 million. The company originated as a blog by founder and CEO Roshni Mahtani Cheung. “It launch by the end of this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a major upswing in virtual learning — where some schools have gone (and stayed) remote, and others have incorporated significantly stronger online components in order to help communities maintain more social distancing. Everywhere else, Brainly is currently free to use. (In In the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

TechCrunch Early Stage — our premier event designed for budding entrepreneurs and founders at the very start of their startup journey — returns by popular demand on April 20, 2023. We’re mixing the East Coast vibe with unparalleled opportunity. Want to join a supportive community of like-minded businesspeople sharing a similar path.

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GCUC

AUGUST 14, 2019

Through our work, we’ve cultivated a global community of people we think you should know about. Community of Cultivators is a new blog series to introduce you to coworking game changers and connectors. We also visited with Jeff Jeorling, Founder of Solve and Formative. Company and title: Formative, Founder. On to Jeff….

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

The company may be best known for its podcast production, but it describes itself as a “media invention company,” and co-founders June Cohen and Deron Triff want to double down on the invention part of that description, going past podcasting to explore other ways of interacting with users. ’ was the advice we got.)

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

The London-based team, which has just closed a £600k pre-seed funding round, describes what’s it’s building as “the go-to talent portal for green jobs” The app soft launched towards the start of the year, after the co-founders formally incorporated the startup in mid June last year.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Build trust with founders and then offer your own data-backed take on why a founder’s decision might not be the best decision they could make. Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. Key takeaways Write a MOC. Leading by influence, not directive.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

But since I’ve never actually done those things, I would encourage you to ignore any advice I have to offer. Trusted advice comes from experience. Rami Essaid, CEO and founder, Finmark. Melonee Wise, CEO and co-founder, Fetch Robotics. Melonee Wise, CEO and co-founder, Fetch Robotics. Have a great weekend.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

The responses I got came at a time when I've been having a lot of conversations with female founders as well about their fundraising experiences. At this moment, I'm in the process of backing three companies that have at least one female founder and I just finished a round for a black female founder in December. Ducks head.]

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

So to hear that there’s an effort to help more comms people trade notes, share stories and prepare curated responses, I have the selfish worry that we’ll have less vulnerability coming from founders and executives around the startup world. Over 200 people are in the community to date. Be direct, be clear.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This was the initial spark that ignited the drive to create a modern solution using blockchain technology. This not only creates a market for commercial real estate, but it also creates a space for local investors taking pride in their community What is it that excites you about what you’re building? all with instant withdrawals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

But sole founder, Jack Jenkins, is quick to emphasize that the subscription service isn’t only for men with porn addiction. The current mix blends custom blocking with supportive resources. You’ve got research around habit formation and habit breaking — using the findings and principles from that field.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. It is natural to feel this way.

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

The outside interest that generated in the investment community got me thinking about whether I should make the leap and figure out how to commercialize the technology. The market potential, business model, and technology sounded compelling enough that I joined them as a third co-founder later that year.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. What he gave the community with VentureHacks is a pure gift to the community. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The hub also gives you some DJ mixes from the likes of TT the Artist, Carlita, AMÉMÉ, Coco & Breezy, &ME and Austin Millz. million in a seed funding round to help with a unified API that works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams to help customers build apps for a number of use cases. Requires TC+ subscription.).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. I use Wordpress and am very happy. In this genre there is also Typepad although I find less people using it these days. They’re more light weight, easier to use and more social. To add a post to Facebook button I use a tool called fbShare.me.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The biggest thing that conference organizers don’t seem to understand is the following: New York City is not one tech community. Mix up the formats. Here’s one that I used previously. New York is a multi-industry town. In NYC, more and more people have joined startups, so they’re more familiar with the basics.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 3, 2019

We use it for news, gossip, communication, relationships, recommendations, research and, yep, for cat photos and showing off too. Basically, all of the things that make us human! According to online magazine Human Resources Director 92% of companies are using social media as part of their recruitment strategy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Talking to Valentina Milanova, the still just 28-year-old founder of U.K. The intention for us was always to deliver on a number of different areas of gynaecological health — not just changing the tampon so it serves people better and so it delivers pain relief. femtech Daye , is best described as an exhilarating experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program?

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GCUC

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Through our work, we’ve cultivated a global community of people we think you should know about. Community of Cultivators is a new blog series to introduce you to coworking game changers and connectors. She is the Producer of our GCUC Canada event as well as the Founder of COHIP and Creative Blueprint. And get used to hearing no.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Whiskey, specifically bourbon, scratches a bunch of itches for me: a love of American history, a community of people to share the enjoyment, and a deep rabbit hole of bottles to sample. Mix of bars/restaurants being closed, people drinking at home, and maybe even the general spike in prices of collectibles, crypto, stimmy checks and so on.

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Y Combinator

MAY 15, 2019

Chris is the co-founder and CEO of Substack. Jonathan is a co-founder and CEO of Backtracks. Jonathan Gill [00:49] – I’m Jonathan Gill, co-founder and CEO of Backtracks. The ecosystem for podcasting and paid-for content in China is much greater than even in the US. There can be a mix.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community. As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. So I definitely used it with the self-driving cars team, and got feedback like, was this accurate?

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