Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. So my only goal is to give you insights into the conversations we’ve been having in case you don’t have the same access or advice. I’m getting so much conflicting advice, whom should I listen to?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 5, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Matt Miller – Founder. ” Samantha Gadd – Founder. BrakeAce. “My

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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. Finding a technical co-founder is even harder. Yet, the benefits of having a technical co-founder make it all worthwhile. A good co-founder will serve as a powerful force multiplier.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Ashna Mahepal, founder of Young Help Suriname (YHS) , is a member of the YLAI Network and 2016 YLAI Fellow. Check out the advice other YLAI Network members had on the challenges entrepreneurs face and the Top 10 Tips on Staying Motivated. . She created the organization out of her passion for social entrepreneurial impact.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests. I have this mentality, too.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6% of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. According to her, other people working for The Family have asked several times to see documents that proved that investments went through.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2022

These programs provide founders with the resources they need to build a company all the way through IPO. Outside of the YC community, little has been documented on best practices to be an effective CEO. We’re kicking off this series with Max Rhodes, the co-founder and CEO of Faire , a one-stop shop for wholesale.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson. Working with writers to create documentation. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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StartupNation

APRIL 7, 2021

Here are three entrepreneurs building innovative technology platforms to help close the gender and racial wealth gaps around the country and the globe: Jordan Sale, CEO and Founder of 81cents. It seemed audacious to young Sale at the time, but she took his advice—and was offered another $2,500. So I just ignored it.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

While they can withdraw those funds from the business the next day, local founders must still secure decent backing to even begin the work. Katrin Siebenbuerger Hacki, founder, Medows. What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Founder and CEO Matt Schulman has created one of the most comprehensive and thorough recruiting processes, which has made him one of the most successful recruiters in the YC community. Would you recommend this strategy to founders? Most candidates will ask questions in the document, as it can be more approachable.

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Dream It

MARCH 28, 2020

Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Contact Founder. Health Tensor reduces burnout through automated COVID-19 documentation. Contact Founder. The burden of documentation falls on front line caregivers, consuming more than 50% of their day.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Amal has a unique journey, perspectives, and invaluable advice for both investors and early-stage founders. As the founder of The Synergy Network, she coaches entrepreneurs, especially female founders, to launch and promote their businesses both on local and an international scale.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

I took the advice from someone in Silicon Valley who told me ‘You need a C Corp…that’s what we invest in,’” Requarth told TechCrunch. I ended up taking 150 Zoom calls in the summer of 2020 and heard countless stories of founders’ great ideas and amazing businesses. Founders in the region often still depend on manual processes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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

JULY 15, 2022

Sandvik is also a renowned hacker and security researcher and, as of recently, a founder. Sandvik told me about her work and her new bootstrapped startup, how leaders should prioritize their cybersecurity efforts, and, what piece of security advice she would give that every person should know. Runa Sandvik, founder of Granitt.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But this is something that French startup Edda is looking to fix, with a platform aimed at helping investors, analysts, chief financial officers (CFOs), and even company founders get the insights they need, and the tools that make working collaboratively on deals just that little bit easier. Investors invest.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

This time, I connected with 15 startup and SME leaders from my network to discover how they are tackling the current crisis, and what advice they had to offer to others in the same boat. Jerry DiMaso , CEO and co-founder, Knarr Analytics . “In Steve Houle , inventor and founder, Parkit360 . Be transparent.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

You’ve started a company, assembled a super squad of founders, and built out the MVP of your product. it’s the first time a company has generally raised from institutional investors, or at all in some cases, and the founders haven’t yet become familiar with the terms. Team: The founders have made their first couple of hires.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda. Xquant, FinTech, Hong Kong, Second prize KSGC 2021 Xquant won the second prize at KSGC 2021 XQuant is Asia’s leading specialist in using AI to process text documents, extract meanings and perform data analysis. Practicing my speech for the IR, how to make a good document, and so on.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founder Christina York created the tech to work as augmented reality for published books but quickly pivoted into health care when she found the technology could be readily used as pediatric patient distraction during medical procedures. The company was founded by Jamie Begin, founder of the AWS Michigan User Group. Spellbound AR.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Lew Cirne, New Relic’s founder and CEO, is stepping into the executive chairman role. The Exchange has been riffling through the document since it came out, and we’ve picked up on a few things to explore. But there’s a simple way to speed up the clock: Bring in one or more founders who have previous executive experience.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is one of the lessons I wish I understood when raising a Series B, so I hope you find this advice helpful when you navigate your larger raises. You want to proactively manage the order in which people access information and focus their attention on a few key documents that they can return to when they fall down a rabbit hole.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. VersatileVC offers an Entrepreneur in Residence program for founders seeking to launch a company that fits the firm’s investment criteria. . Further Reading.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

So that’s why we are here,” said Aykan Ekici, Co-Founder of Khenda. Hongkong based startup XQuant, a leading specialist in using AI to process text documents, extract meanings and perform data analysis, won the second prize. Practicing my speech for the IR, how to make a good document, and so on,” said Chea Srun, CEO of XQuant.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund, says on the home page of Matchbox.vc: “Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to 2020. ” The site connects founders and investors by playing multiplayer games.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP.

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While experienced entrepreneurs have largely moved beyond the Lean Startup methodology, first-time founders still use it as their primary playbook. Those new founders are then extremely frustrated when that methodology doesn't actually help them build a successful company. years, and from 0 to 500 employees.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I used these meetings to get advice, but more importantly I was always giving them updates on our progress, vision, fundraising, and product releases. We were intentional about this from day one and documented it in our engineering handbook. They should be used to enforce, validate, and document requirements.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 4, 2022

Berger, Labor & Employment Attorney, Fox Rothschild LLP Launching a new company is exciting, but the human capital component – the workforce – can be stressful because founders must contend with a complex array of employment laws. Each of these documents must contain all of the information required under the law.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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. My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. I’m Travis Bryant.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI, in conversation with a16z’s David George. [00:36] Dylan: On a technical level, if you look at the actual internal structure of a Figma document, it’s much more similar to an abstract syntax tree and less similar to some image.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

I’ve listened to hundreds of podcasts, read project documentation, studied the economics, written crypto profiles, and spent way too much time on Twitter. Here’s the advice I wish someone told me when I started. You can also follow the co-founders Ryan Sean Adams ( @RyanSAdams ) & David Hoffman ( @TrustlessState ).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

“Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? Founders will continue to take the “growth at all options” path that leads to privacy & trust creep at places like Quora. Growth, again. The constraint between good ideas and growth operates in both directions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company? If the money comes from professional investors it usually has a “liquidation preference” meaning that their money comes out before the founders or common stock. (If

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