AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

Register Led by an eminent team of investors and industry captains from around the world, Awesome Ventures brings together a wealth of experience in strategy planning and diverse sectors. At the helm of Awesome Ventures is Lok Yek Soon, a visionary entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience within the startup ecosystem.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2023

Register Startup founders wanting to pitch to investors to raise money should not get into the “sell now” part of the conversation immediately but must instead lay the groundwork first, according to James Walker, Associate Counsel and Investor at Draper Associates. And when did you first think about starting a fund?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. Tags: Start-up Advice. This is what happened to me.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 28, 2022

How do you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup? To help you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup, we asked startup founders, investors, and business leaders this question for their best pieces of advice.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

“As a startup founder, how do you prevent leakage after spending significant resources to acquire people at the top of the funnel?” Aris Xenofontos, partner, Seaya Ventures. Aditi Maliwal, partner, Upfront Ventures. 3 investors explain why earned wage access startups are set to cash more checks.

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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. Fong’s Capitale Ventures is an investment and advisory group with expertise in complex, cross-border transactions.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. However, what is often direly needed is how to appeal to investors and raise smart money — knowledge that is essential for fundraising and a master key to building, accelerating and scaling your new venture. Keep it short.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we share: Why your pitch deck has one minute to sell investors on your startup The 7 types of startup founder, and why it matters to you Let’s do this. The pitch is an overview, similar to a resume.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. Don’t wait…the early bird gets the…SAVINGS: Buy a $249 founder pass and save $200 before prices increase on April 1 — that’s no joke. so he’ll give practical advice on how to stay alive and thrive.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Register When starting a company, founders often underestimate the amount of time and energy required to fundraise. Moreover, founders must learn to embrace the challenges of fundraising, honing their pitching and networking skills in the process. The Singapore-based venture capital firm raised $135 million for its Fund 2.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Operator experience has become critical in venture capital over the last few years. Pure-play financial VCs are falling out of favor with startups compared to investors who bring building experience alongside their cash. These firms and founders may be onto something. But not all operating backgrounds are equally helpful.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Let’s explore the red flags investors will look for to determine which bucket your startup falls into. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works. So do you have a company or merely a feature? That’s a convenient story, but it often isn’t completely true.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 23, 2023

Seriously though, were there things you saw as a founder – or an angel investor in other people’s companies – that informed your own approach to venture now? Michael Mignano: Throughout my time building Anchor, I met and pitched many, many VCs. The investor’s advice came ringing back. Was I right?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. Don’t wait…the early bird gets the…SAVINGS: Buy a $249 founder pass and save $200 before prices increase on April 1 — that’s no joke. so he’ll give practical advice on how to stay alive and thrive.

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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. Pitch deck or pitch blurb? Timestamp: 21:50). So, everything is shifting these days.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

You don’t need to move to San Francisco to launch a startup, but working here does have some advantages: moderate weather, natural beauty, great food, and sure, the world’s largest concentration of venture capital. “Middle-stage startups today still look rather expensive,” he writes. Have a great weekend!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 18, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we share: How VCs choose which startups to fund. How you can sell your startup to VCs with a one-pager. You won’t believe how VCs decide which startups to fund Aaron Dinin, PhD teaches entrepreneurship at Duke.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

These startups join an illustrious alumni network of 900+ companies from around the globe with $9B collectively raised since appearing on the TechCrunch stage. Each startup exhibits on all 3 days of the show in the expo hall, and the 20 finalists will pitch on the Disrupt Stage throughout several rounds during the show.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

As venture investors, we are trained to be hyper-aware of the high velocity environment in which we live. In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are. All around us, technology is speeding up.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

At TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 , a virtual bootcamp experience in two distinct parts, you’ll learn from leading experts across the startup spectrum — including prominent founders ready to share their personal experiences and hard-won advice to help you avoid costly missteps. What’s more, you’ll learn from the best of the best.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Here’s who she spoke to: Deborah Quazzo , managing partner, GSV Ventures. Ashley Bittner , founding partner, Firework Ventures (a future of work fund with portfolio companies LearnIn and TransfrVR). Jomayra Herrera , principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education).

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 15, 2023

From embracing data-driven market analysis” to engaging your community for idea feedback, these seasoned professionals share their singular tips for assessing the potential success of your entrepreneurial venture. Encompassing business advice is like a lighthouse to entrepreneur ships sailing towards the rough waters of startup success.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While passion provides self-motivation, it also serves to attract talent and investors to the venture. Build Relationships : Because an entrepreneur typically spends a lot of their time working alone, particularly during the startup period, they must seek out and build relationships that are important for long-term success.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Investors like Clara Brenner (Urban Innovation Fund), Quin Garcia (Autotech Ventures) and Rachel Holt (Construct Capital) — all of whom will grace our virtual stage. They’ll have plenty of insight and advice to share, including the challenges that startup founders will face as they break into the transportation arena.

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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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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For instance, with the fund, the possibilities presented by the Bridge Method and our ventures into foundational mathematics seem boundless. If you could offer advice to an aspiring startup founder, what would it be? Irrespective of your startup’s phase, proactive networking and outreach are paramount.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

Last year, during Y Combinator’s Future Founders Conference , a16z’s Sonal Chokshi led a conversation on “Leveling the Playing Field” with Anu Hariharan, YC Continuity Partner. Frankly, we’re still thinking about Anu’s incredible advice for women founders. The third trait founders need is resourcefulness.

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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. Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. Raising money is hard.

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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. Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup. Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch. Image Credits: Ureeka.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

2021 was a year like no other when it came to venture investment, and this year is poised to tread a similar path, writes 500 Global’s CEO and co-founder, Christine Tsai. 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

OCTOBER 3, 2011

My guess is that probably only 2-3 out of every hundred pitches I receive are from women. In my post on what has changed the venture capital industry more than any other factor I talked about Amazon.com’s role. The latest entrepreneur who has been pitching me, Shahed Khan , is only 16! But then the truth sets in.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Founders from outside a tech-ecosystem are surrounded by bad advice, since building a startup is different from other kinds of businesses. Those myths are: (1) Don’t share your idea; (2) Good ideas must be bulletproof; (3) Startups require your total commitment; (4) Live on a shoestring; and, (5) Stick to what you know.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Over the years I have heard countless stories from founders about high pressure situations that non-business owners simply do not encounter in the course of “normal” life – which of course is already filled with its own share of challenges and traumas.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

You’ll walk away with actionable advice for immediate use and an unvarnished look at what it takes to build a startup. Vlad Magdalin, founder of Webflow, was very candid about the challenges he faced on his journey to success. It’s important for early founders to see that side, too.” No sugar-coating here.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s very, very intertwined with our whole journey because my co-founders of Pilot were all folks that I met at MIT in undergrad. We’d all studied computer science together and this is actually the third venture for the 3 of us. So the first startup was technology that could apply software updates without rebooting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” So when I got into venture capital, I thought, “Well, what can I do that’s different?” ” “Okay, well you can be an operating partner or a venture partner.” My guess. [00:39:34]

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