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The Myth of the Young Startup Founder

Ian Hathaway

Researchers have known for a while that peak age for general entrepreneurship occurs around mid-career (mid-30s to mid-40s), but an influential academic study published last year shows just how misguided the popular narrative is that twenty-something tech billionaires are the norm even for high-growth, high-tech entrepreneurship.

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How May Ph.D. Startup Founders Build for the Long term?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Gil Dibner, the general partner at Angular Ventures noticed : “… we live in an era where there are tremendous short-term benefits to successful pseudo entrepreneurship. In this article, I explore trends that underpin the deep tech concept, and how Ph.D. founders could build startups for the long term, based on these trends.

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From Student Startup to Million-Dollar Journey: My Story

Entrepreneur's Handbook

First, we were writing articles and hoping for SEO to kick in. The game-changer was when we started using tools like Ahrefs and Semrush to find keywords we could compete on with our articles. The Sacrifices of Entrepreneurship The entrepreneurial journey is not a glamorous one. I lost so many friends because of the business.

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

StartupNation

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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Think Hard Before Jumping From Corporate To Startup

Gust

According to an article in the Harvard Business Review a while back, “ Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change ,” there are at least five common missteps that professionals make when moving to a new job. In fact, most startup founders pay themselves no salary for the first year or two, and investor money is hard to find.

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This freshly funded startup spun out of a student-run Stanford investment club

TechCrunch

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship.

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Dear Sophie: How can I present a strong O-1A or EB-1A application?

TechCrunch

I’m considering either having my startup sponsor me for an O-1A visa or self-petitioning an EB-1A green card. Savvy Startup Founder. As a startup founder, the critical and essential role you play at your startup should be easy to demonstrate. Under your leadership, how much funding has your startup raised?

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