TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Both of my co-founders are on H-1Bs and had green cards in the works with our former company.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

What’s the board’s role in an early-stage startup? Startup founders frequently ask me about the role of a board of directors. A board can be a crucial asset in an early-stage startup. By generic definition, the board of directors consists of elected individuals that represent shareholders.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Having spent close on a decade working in and reporting on our small but burgeoning startup ecosystem, and a decade before that “building my chops” in other various entrepreneurial endeavours, I am familiar with the toll that entrepreneurship can exact on founder mental health.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 16, 2024

One who is currently building his company in public [ie sharing a bunch of data, progress, and even setbacks, that a startup founder might normally not disclose]. Hunter Walk: Your startup Warmly recently turned four years old. Recently I asked him to join me for Five Questions where we could talk a little bit about his journey.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 16, 2021

Arlene Dickinson is an investor, entrepreneur, and dragon on Candian’s TV’s “Dragons’ Den” She joined Dave Kerpen, fellow entrepreneur, best-selling author and co-founder of Listening and Beyond with Randi Zuckerberg. Mistakes Founders Make. Bad Founder? Personal and Professional Life Balance.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

At the TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising event last week, Norwest Venture Partners ‘ Lisa Wu took the stage to discuss how founders can think like venture capitalists in all facets of their business. While the format definitely works, the influx of pitch decks in a hot deal environment makes it harder to stand out.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

What mistakes do you see founders make when raising money? What’s your advice to entrepreneurs who have a chance to meet investors like you? What are the top 3 questions that you always ask the founders? For early-stage startup founders, I think the team and especially the CEO is very important.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

This is part of my startup advice series. It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. What is the definition of a job hopper? Why do job hoppers make such bad employees at startups? -. You’re a startup founder.

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Onevest

APRIL 21, 2015

By Michael Whitehouse If you are considering investing in a startup company offline or online with platforms like 1000 Angels , a private investor network that connects startups with investors, the sheer number of what’s available can be both daunting and comforting. Exit Strategy: Does a startup have a clear exit strategy in place?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. Additionally, Do you have any other advice for anyone looking to start a fund? Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The fact that I have seen several accounts come in that are overpaying on taxes due to this one factor is definitely something that I would want to mention. Startups are volatile, and the odds are better than good that you’re not going to be turning a profit every quarter from the word go. But betting the farm on shady loopholes?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2020

I often begin calls with founders by asking why they’re willing to bet their livelihoods on an idea that will most likely fail. It’s a small hack that lets me see how vulnerable a founder is, and how much conviction they have behind their ideas. Startup valuations have recovered from summer lows. Seen on Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Perhaps I’m just a teensy bit biased over here, but I’d say it’s definitely worth subscribing to get access to all of this content. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works. Only your (co-)founders are in the right position to talk to investors!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Very few founder CEOs go into the job ever expecting to give up their seat. To be a founder in state of mind.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So the first startup was technology that could apply software updates without rebooting. Waseem: Absolutely.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

about their marathon 4-hour sessions to get to zero inbox or somebody else claiming email bankruptcy ( definition if you don’t know it already ). I will even take to emailing people I don’t know offering small bits of advice. If you do randomly write me I have advice. Nobody really enjoys it. I try to be helpful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

In driving down the costs of building businesses it’s driving down the age of startup founders and thus they’re starting companies where young people want to live – in urban environments. I think NY has always – by definition – been urban. And with startups so go VCs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

ABOUT MY FIRST 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And it just seemed obvious to me that someone would make a better bank product for for startups and for entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

And when asked about the topic, I definitely don’t shy away from the topic as you can see in this 8-minute YouTube interview that Pemo Theodore asked me to do on the subject of Women in Entrepreneurship. And many of the best women founders. Please watch this. Every single one. She opened a bakery and a restaurant.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 24, 2022

There is no “one universal” definition of a startup. But we define a startup as a newly formed business that wants to develop a product or service for which they believe there is demand. The startup is ambitious to grow fast with a scalable business model for maximum impact. Edmradio?—?is All images by the author?—?Edmradio

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When you type in a single word, you get a huge amount of data in various forms, such as dictionary definitions, videos, and blogs. Do you have any advice for budding entrepreneurs? Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The search market is changing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

With a product advisory council (PAC) , early-stage startups can tap into the their users’ hive mind. But to build one, founders must first define clear goals and create value for participants. All signs point to a continued abundance of opportunities for startup founders and investors in the year ahead.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Welcome to the future.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

I hold true to form and follow my own advice. I turned around and there was StockTwits founder (and my favorite Tweeter) Howard Lindzon. And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown. Wendy Tan White, the founder of Moonfruit. But at SXSW?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Every company is different so it’s hard to listen to advice from the uber-successful fund raisers. So they go out of their way to offer advice and introductions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And no one could see me as anything but a startup guy, so I started a second company and called myself a serial entrepreneur. I guess if you do more than one, I guess by definition, that’s serial. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? 43:30 – Can foreigners come to India and start a startup? 44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. 45:45 – After Meesho, what’s the most exciting startup in India? Vidit is co-founder and CEO of Meesho.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The VCs who founders love the most. Managing Editor Danny Crichton spearheaded the development of The TechCrunch List earlier this year to help seed-stage founders connect with VCs who write first checks. ” The VCs who founders love the most. API startups are so hot right now. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 18, 2019

Here are the investors faces as the entrepreneurs fail to deliver anything close to meaningful answers: One of the founders says to the other “um, can you help me out Phoebes?” As business founders and owners, we have an innate and absolute sense of the value of what we’ve created. It’s definitely common sense. Why do you do it?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Cake co-founders Hunter Morris and Mitch Orkis met while working together at another brand and bonded over what they saw was an unaddressed opportunity for sexual wellness products. “We Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders.

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