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

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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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A 7-step method for running effective pitch meetings

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He believes that when startup founders know how to raise money, they can find the freedom to approach investors with confidence and raise the capital they need to grow their company. Tal developed his methodologies in the course of leading five startups over more than 20 years. How to break into Silicon Valley as an outsider.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges

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The ongoing AI boom is a contributing factor: 54 of the 282 companies in this cohort “are specifically building generative AI startups,” reported Natasha Mascarenhas. As a result, “the average Black founder raises less than around $1,000 from family and friends,” reports Dominic-Madori Davis.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

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Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Singh Cassidy, founder of premium talent marketplace theBoardlist, will discuss making the leap into entrepreneurship after leaving Google, her time as CEO-in-Residence at venture capital firm Accel Partners and the framework she’s developed for taking career risks.

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Why Half of all Startups Fail and the Surprising Secret to Success

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In the book, I brought in 50 business leaders to advise you on how to grow your business from your basic idea through to your eventual exit and summarized it into a step-by-step framework. The focus is mostly around marketing, because this is where so many startups fail. It sets a startup off on the right (or wrong) path.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing technical debt, IPO analysis, your first comms hire

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Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Their discussion, which took place at TechCrunch Disrupt, also addressed the value of using test suites and selecting a reliable continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) framework. Because I think that is the name of the game when you’re talking about a startup.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Alternative financing, Web3 adoption, India’s hot Q3 fundraising

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Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. That’s because only 7% of the startups that raise seed rounds are able to grow their companies enough to land a Series C investment, according to a Dealroom study. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for? Scaling across Series A to C.