Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2024

HW: I’m sure you get hit up for career advice all the time. JS: The most general yet useful bit of career advice I often give is for people to look at the progression of their career as a story, and do their best to make the story compelling. HW: You’ve been a startup founder as well as an executive at larger tech companies.

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OnStartups

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Arjun and I have known each other for a long time, originally when he was a member of the HubSpot leadership team. Startups are hard. If you’re a startup founder you already know these statistics and yet you are irrationally proceeding forward. He's one of the smartest people that have come through the halls of HubSpot.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

After 8 years as the Managing Director/CEO of the YC accelerator, I’ve decided now is the right time to hand over my leadership responsibilities.  Effective As a result, in January I approached Garry Tan about transitioning out of my leadership role.  After

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The answers and advice we received were as varied as the people we polled, but nearly all of them indicated that learning — e.g., analytics training, getting started with AI tools, etc. — Better.com says it has since hired an outside firm “to do a leadership and cultural assessment.”. By July 2021, startup founders had raised $268.7

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. The investment platform I founded and run, VenturePole, is the investment partner of HealthInc, the health tech accelerator of Startupbootcamp, the biggest startup accelerator organization in Europe. Franklin D.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. I’m considering either having my startup sponsor me for an O-1A visa or self-petitioning an EB-1A green card. Any advice or insights on how to present a strong case for an O-1A or EB-1A?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2021

Accenture Ventures leader Kathryn Ross has advice for black founders that could be initially deemed counter-intuitive. Kathryn is well-placed to shares insights about black founders and how they are faring in the world of venture capital and entrepreneurship. What do you think of less than 1%? she tells Ramon.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. To generate growth in a startup, it is almost always necessary to raise external capital to run the necessary. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

However, founders must focus on creating a business that continually generates sales and profits. Kim offers invaluable advice to newcomers in the startup investing scene. The journey of Kim in the world of venture investment evidently values ethics, long-term vision, and balance in the startup and venture capital landscape.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There’s a ton of writing out there about getting *on* the venture curve, but not a lot about getting *off,* so Daniel’s advice below is especially important. Hunter Walk: Before we dive into your company Greenhouse , give me one story from your childhood that foretold you were going to end up a startup founder.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

With a few legendary exceptions (like Hunter and Satya) most VCs haven’t had the personal success to deploy millions into startups. They have to fundraise just like startup founders. Founders should not put VCs on an unnecessary pedestal!

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

Under the visionary leadership of Jeong Ji-hee, MEDIAIPLUS aims to bridge the gap between data availability and accessibility. From the early stages of being a prospective startup founder to the current growth stage, MEDIAIPLUS owes much of its success to the assistance received. Don’t start a business.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2024

Generally speaking, startup founders are some of the most passionate people in the world, and they’re often tackling humanity’s biggest problems. For this reason, we are hyper-concentrated on picking great founders that can predict the future for us. How can our readers follow you on social media?

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Tobias Liebsch , Co-Founder, Fintalent.io Lead With Data for Investment Traction As a startup founder seeking investment, one major challenge I’ve faced is effectively communicating our vision and potential for scalability to prospective investors with limited time.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Immad: So during that year and a half, I talked to about 100 startup founders. I struck up some partnerships and we did some stuff but there wasn’t strong kind of leadership or even that many hires around sales partnership or marketing. Taking a function from zero to one is something that I think should be founder-led.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 21, 2020

The i2E e3 Series helps Oklahoma startup founders perform market validation of their ideas and solutions before they start creating products that their customers may not want to buy. During e3, LaManque, along with co-founders Andres Gonzalez and Troy Smith, developed efficient and reliable methods to test customer interest levels.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 21, 2020

The i2E e3 Series helps Oklahoma startup founders perform market validation of their ideas and solutions before they start creating products that their customers may not want to buy. During e3, LaManque, along with co-founders Andres Gonzalez and Troy Smith, developed efficient and reliable methods to test customer interest levels.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Launching on Product Hunt is an exhilarating ride that I’d recommend to any startup founder or builder. Here’s an example: Image: Author After tallying up your estimates, you should have a clear tally of expected upvotes and the upvote gap you’ll need to fill. Factor this in and consider contacting folks a few days before launch.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

Under the visionary leadership of JiHee Jung , MEDIAIPLUS aims to bridge the gap between data availability and accessibility. From the early stages of being a prospective startup founder to the current growth stage, MEDIAIPLUS owes much of its success to the assistance received. Don’t start a business.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Our leadership and HR actively support employees in reaching out to managers and teammates when facing challenges. Seth Besse , CEO, Undivided Combine a Shared Vision and Open Communication As a startup founder, fostering collaboration among team members is crucial for the company’s success and growth.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Like a VC firm, it vets the startups and startup founders it works with, so the engineers that come to Commit know that these are serious companies with at least some prospect of raising funding and allowing their engineers to shape their trajectory and grow into what is potentially an early leadership role.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to former employees of human resources startup Free Agency, CEO Sherveen Mashayekhi’s leadership style is holding the startup back as he seems to care more about demanding loyalty and controlling his employees than building a company. The company agrees that Mashayekhi did address this with new team members.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And when I look at these skillsets of leadership – being self-confident, being able to persuade other people against all other rational reason to join your company and your cause and take a lower salary than they could get elsewhere, and to get press, and get people to give you money, and biz dev partners, whatever you have to do.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

There’s a lot of advice out there on how to grab people’s attention, but there’s one aspect of marketing that Robert Katai thinks isn’t talked about as often: maintaining their attention. And is his advice applicable beyond borders? Now, what other advice do you have for startups?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We expanded from 10 to 30 members in a year, spanning 5 departments without any leadership structure. As a result, the time-consuming leadership activities fell on me, making it impossible to maintain balance in my life. I didn’t have time to meet with them regularly, and connections faded after a while. A tip: strive for balance.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Moreover, founders must learn to embrace the challenges of fundraising, honing their pitching and networking skills in the process. Koh urges startup founders to “put on their big person pants and git gud at it”, emphasising the need for them to showcase their abilities and dedication to their business.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Dear Sophie: Any advice on visa issues for new hires? Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Dear Sophie, My co-founders and I think we might qualify for International Entrepreneur Parole. More posts by this contributor.

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