Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Step 1: Identify and target the right communities The first place you should start with is your network. There are tons of established communities where both repeat and aspiring founders regularly come together. Quickly identify the people you most admire or would love to work with. It will pay huge dividends!

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

Earlier today Michael shared an update with the YC community, outlining a shift to his role within YC moving forward. We typically don’t make changes to our internal org structure public unless significant – and Michael Seibel’s impact as a leader at YC has been significant.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

When meeting with early stage entrepreneurs for the first time, after reviewing a demo or hearing their pitch, I often ask them to articulate what they’re most focused on building. Serial entrepreneurs or those with close ties to the investment community would usually go straight to the big firm. What is a startup really?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

Omnivore — an open-source, read-it-later app — recently demoed how AI can really provide creative summarization that benefits users. This not only allows users to get snippets from their saved articles, but also lets them consume content in whatever modality they are in the mood for. And not every user may be worth retaining!

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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. Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). We discuss below all of the different ways you can work with the investment community. Private Equity.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

For the early stage community, the amendments include a very useful provision that excludes “Demo Days” from being considered general solicitations provided certain conditions are met. The amendments retain the same “menu” of exemptions but make incremental improvements.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

This includes companies that would meet most institutional definitions for impact investing (women, minority, and veteran owned/run businesses, including LMI (“Low to Moderate Income”) and CRA (“Community Reinvestment Act”) qualified companies. I contributed this as a guest article on Techcrunch. It May Be Getting Worse.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

The ink on the investment round article isn’t even dry yet, so the unredacted deck would be full of a lot of business-sensitive information; the Wilco team pointed out that it has made a few redactions for them to be comfortable sharing the deck. . Here’s some more info about how to get involved. . Slides in this deck.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Joey Noble is community manager at Demand Curve. Kennan would frequent direct-to-consumer communities on Twitter to find upset users of his competitor, ReCharge. Considering the amount of inbound requests the company received to demo Skio, it’s clear it has product-market fit. Joey Noble. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Summit Fellows.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Van Luijt gave my colleague, Alex Wilhelm, a look under the hood of the technology last year by creating a semantic search engine that does question-answering on 2021 Techcrunch articles. and European talent and doubling down on its open source community for both Weaviate and vector search in general. Small notes on big news.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

At worst, you’ve just introduced yourself to relevant contacts in your industry and opened the door to communication for future opportunities. We focus on two fronts: generating top-of-funnel traffic through informative articles and positioning the brand alongside established competitors with alternative pages.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Strategies to cultivate a community, iterate with an audience and convert it into a customer base Photo: Unsplash In today’s hyper-competitive, fast-paced digital world, it seems like everyone and their smartphone-savvy grandmother is developing a mobile app. In this article, we’ll discuss some of the best strategies for doing that.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ACA has continued its efforts to push legislation to help the entire Angel community. ACA continues to foster good lines of communication with the SEC and good relationships at the SBA. House and Senate staff turned to ACA to understand the impact of changing the definition on the angel community.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 19, 2022

You’ll see some huge names dropping by to share articles with us soon. Make a high-fidelity 2-minute product demo through Tella which introduces the founder and the major product differentiators. Dealing with problems openly creates trust among employees and a sense of community. Special announcement coming next week.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Peter Bryla , Community Manager, ResumeLab Leverage Customizable SaaS Products Or APIs I think startups with a limited budget don’t need to create their own AI, but instead, try to leverage some SaaS products. It can also be used to convert an outline for a blog or article into a functional draft.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Zendesk vs. Zoho Desk at a glance Both Zendesk and Zoho Desk offer valuable customer service tool features like ticketing, a knowledge base , a community forum, live chat, automations, macros (pre-saved actions), collaboration features, cross-platform support, and reporting options.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In this article, we’ll share insights informed by our experience working with small business owners and startup founders who used Draftbit’s low-code/no-code platform to save hundreds of engineering hours and reduce their time to value. You can just keep going and growing.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

My Partner Winter Mead, Founder & CEO of Coolwater Capital , the accelerator for emerging VC fund managers, said: “Fewer than 5 of the 180 emerging managers we’ve worked with are raising via 506c, in order to get in front of more retail LPs, who are generally already following the GP, e.g., through the GP’s newsletter or community.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Notley Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once you built an awesome product with a catchy name, you’d try to get a feature article on TechCrunch, a front-page hit on Hacker News, hunted on ProductHunt and an AMA on Quora. Join relevant communities on Discord, infiltrate Slack groups of relevant conferences (including past iterations of a conference? — ?chances million views.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. ” Today and tomorrow, we’ll have team coverage of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day , including a selection of staff favorites, so be sure to check the site each afternoon. 2 reasons why demo days are dead. ” 2 reasons why demo days are dead.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 24, 2022

haha Here is how it went down My guy noah kagan sent an email via OkDork.com promoting SendFox.com on ProductHunt.com While on ProductHunt.com I noticed a Startup/Bootstrap community created by Courtland Allen call IndieHackers.com (Amazing site BTW) After spending about a month on IndieHackers.com I saw a post that read something like this.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

Here’s the brand story of the vacation rental company, Airbnb: “A trusted community marketing for customers to list, book, and discover unique accommodations for unique travel experiences.” . Build a statement summing up why your brand exists. Use powerful keywords to add an emotional flavour to your brand story.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

Because we were in YC, VCs are always excited to talk to YC companies and that’s… Michael Babineau [12:36] – They’re trying to figure out who is in the batch and then try to invest before demo deck. Now that’s for the investment community though. Kevin Hale [12:40] – That’s exactly right.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

At Versatile VC , our new VC fund, we’re creating an online community just for founders who are in transition, Founders’ Next Move. Many generalist online communities also have verticals focused on entrepreneurship, e.g., LunchClub or Meetup. Notation Moonlight is a community of tech leaders who are considering building a company.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

And I helped him set up his blog, and I remember he wrote his first blog article. He said, “What do you think of my article?” ” And I’m reading through the article and the thing out loud. Well, let me show you a demo of our software. ” And so I got him on the phone, I was setting it up.

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