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

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In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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

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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. Median liquid wealth for a Black family in the U.S.

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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.

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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.

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How Monica and Joe priced their new enterprise product?

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Monica and Joe kept working for a few more days fine-tuning the pricing framework until they were comfortable enough to share their work with the board. Rather than guesswork, this pricing framework helps you organize your customer insights, bring methodology to pricing, and assist you in communicating your pricing strategy.

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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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