Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

What advice would you give your past self? It took years before my startup Anchor began to gain real traction. I posed a question to twenty-one other founders, across many different industries from media to finance, from SaaS to urban farming. Matt Lieber , Gimlet  — My advice to my younger self is to seek help.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Register Startup founders looking to attract investors need to show proof of an outstanding team and must be realistic with their valuation numbers, said Bernard Moon , Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Group , a South Korean accelerator and fund network. Definitely best to partner. Username or Email Address.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 16, 2021

Here’s some of the top business advice and a summary of the conversation: Arelene has invested in around 80 – 90 companies between her personal investments (50 – 60) and her investment fund (about 30). Mistakes Founders Make. There are definitely challenges with raising a family and raising a business.

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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. Not at all.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

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. Sustainability is definitely an area to look at.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Startup founders often turn to pitch decks when fundraising as a visual representation of their story — from the origins to total addressable market to those juicy metrics. While the format definitely works, the influx of pitch decks in a hot deal environment makes it harder to stand out. Pitch deck or pitch blurb?

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 23, 2023

[note, for a variety of reasons I told Mike that I thought it was a positive for him] MM: I was very excited by your advice on this topic. As a startup founder, you get into this default mode of moving really fast all the time and making quick decisions. And that was definitely who I was during the Anchor days.

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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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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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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. Many startup founders are often more focused on developing their product or service and do not realize the importance of staying compliant with tax regulations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Levinson: Well, doing something like this is definitely challenging and it requires patience. I think the advice I would give is first to convince yourself that what you’re doing makes sense and is important and worth doing. From India’s richest man to Amazon and 100s of startups: The great rush to win neighborhood stores.

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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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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.

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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. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice.

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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. If your first chance at being a startup founder coincides with your first child it’s really difficult for either gender.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.” ” “After 3 and a half years of fusing my self-worth with the success of the company in the crucible of startup survival, it was impossible to tear them apart without pain.

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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. I’ve marked them below so you know which ones you need a subscription to read.

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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

MARCH 22, 2011

I hold true to form and follow my own advice. 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. And a motley crew of other interesting startup founders. Yes, this is what I look like at 2am.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. If that isn’t the original definition of “angel” money I don’t know what is. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

According to Tsai, 2022 will see web3 going mainstream, more capital flowing to underestimated founders, and broader investments in regions that have traditionally been overlooked. All signs point to a continued abundance of opportunities for startup founders and investors in the year ahead.”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Immad: So during that year and a half, I talked to about 100 startup founders. And there’s definitely like a class of startups that are in that kind of group. We’d love to hear any advice that you have for early founders. Part of it was like, “Do people actually want this?”

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Encouragingly the issue of founder mental health is as we speak, high on the priority list for many members of the startup ecosystem. Our startup community has come a long way in the 20 years since the dotcom boom in our collective ability to inspire, activate and educate startup founders.

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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. Because, almost by definition, I’m going to tell you no. So I’m definitely not ageist in that regard.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

And the first thing we did is we called up startup founders in our network. And so if you can actually master the motion for the technology startup, what you know is that you can cover a wide range of scenarios. Seema : Would love to just touch on advice or things you’ve done differently. Waseem: Absolutely.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

“Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. Tracking the growth of low-code, no-code startups. ‘No code’ will define the next generation of software.

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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? 42:45 – Big problems worth solving in India.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 18, 2019

As business founders and owners, we have an innate and absolute sense of the value of what we’ve created. I’m often confronted with startup founders or small business owners who become skeptical when they hear words like ‘brand’ and ‘story’ thrown around. It’s definitely common sense. Is that marketing?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Dear Sophie: Startup visa news, H-1B and STEM OPT queries. ??Here’s Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Dear Sophie, What’s the latest on the startup visa that was introduced in Congress last year? Ask it here.

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