TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

To tackle these challenges, Wu shares several strategies that can help e-commerce startups refine their brand marketing and “entrench” existing customers. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. 4 negotiation points startup founders must focus on in a down market. Can we do it?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

” Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription In this detailed breakdown, he compares net revenue retention rates by ARR range and identifies benchmarks for companies that have yet to reach product-market fit. ” Thanks for reading TC+!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In this article, we will look at a bunch of great examples culled from my TechCrunch Pitch Deck Teardown series and detail what needs to go on the slide. As a startup founder, your company should be designed to fail as fast as possible. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Karim Hachem , VP of Ecommerce, La Blanca Content Marketing Gives You Material for Social Media Content marketing is important because your content will come in handy for your social media strategies. These strategies are more affordable for a startup to increase its visibility and promote itself, especially at the early stage.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Paid marketing is a core tactic for early-stage startups, but this downturn is a good time for founders to reexamine customer acquisition strategies, says Brian Rothenberg, an investment partner at early-stage VC fund Defy.

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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?” ” Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. ” Getting serious about Series B: 3 documents that will help founders control the narrative.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

. “ If you’re a bootstrapped company who is not yet on the treadmill , you have that kind of optionality or that ability to choose when to get on,” says Cavan Klinsky, co-founder of payments processor Healthie. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. I know people who’ve worked with the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

“Early Stage 2020 was a great opportunity to hear seasoned startup founders talking about their experiences and how they dealt with many of the same challenges I faced then and am going through now. ” — Ashley Barrington, founder, MarketPearl. Because your contemporaries say so.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. This couldn’t be further from the truth, and both startups and SMBs can, and should, invest in ABM strategies,” advises Jonas van de Poel, head of content marketing at Unmuted, an Amsterdam-based growth agency. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. has now employed the same strategy. But as a repeatable strategy for large companies to try and compete with each other it still strikes me as a wasteful strategy.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

These steps apply to entrepreneurs, particularly to tech startup founders. Confusion about what marketing is drives the majority of the problems founders face with it. It sets a startup off on the right (or wrong) path. Regardless of the outcome, be prepared with a strategy. Step 1: Understand what marketing is.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. To help TechCrunch+ readers take on this challenge, we are looking for experts to participate in a survey about tactics and strategies for startup recruiting in Q1 2022. Do you have recent experience recruiting talent for pre-revenue startups?

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Dream It

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Most VC investors see hundreds, if not thousands, of startup decks and pitches each year. In this article, we’ll outline Managing Partner Steve Barsh’s top 5 things investors wish startup founders knew when reaching out, sending a deck, or pitching a VC. What’s Your Problem? direct, online, B2C, B2B).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. I think the really key thing is to recognize it, find a strategy to work with it, and don’t let it build to a point where it just feels like you’re going to take a massive hit on productivity.”. Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

And rather than giving him just my answer — which might have been unique to my experience, not applicable to his — I decided to do something different and write this article. I posed a question to twenty-one other founders, across many different industries from media to finance, from SaaS to urban farming.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

From commerce, where it’s fine-tuning marketing strategies, to healthcare, where it aids in rapid advancements, data is key. For inquiries and connections with Korean tech companies mentioned in this article,, contact us at press@asiatechdaily.com. Register Data analytics is revolutionizing various sectors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

You can read my whole piece on TechCrunch+: “Is it time for a Common App for startup founders?” In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about Carta, investor’s secret workflows and when the Kardashian strategy doesn’t quite work. DM me on Twitter or Instagram if you want a discount code for TC+. Lawsuit and layoffs at Carta.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

But at least one Realtor I talked to believes the startup’s strategy of turning agents into employees is part of its problem. Grant Clayton , a Louisiana Realtor, believes that it’s that strategy of giving agents a salary that has, at least in part, played a role in Homie’s recent challenges. per share.”.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

However, for startups looking for rapid growth like Monica and Joe’s, they may approach pricing biasing toward giving away more value than is captured?—?at at least to start with, and especially if there is an opportunity for “land and expand” sales strategies. How Monica and Joe priced their new enterprise product?

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

A while back, I published an article on “ Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art ,” describing what investors do to validate your startup before they invest. I’ve had startup founders tell me that it’s only about the color of the money, but I disagree – particularly if you are desperate.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2015

The buzz around your WSJ article starts to fade, and no one is talking about you locally. And that next big article, from the reporter at the NY Times who just moved to NYC--it's not being written about you because they didn't know how good you were doing. Priorities, right? It's a case of your roots not getting watered.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 14, 2021

If you’re in the startup phase, low-code/no-code (LCNC) is especially appealing because it is versatile, customizable and open source, so you won’t feel trapped by your architecture or have to start over when you change programs. Improved Marketing Efforts Cost-effective growth strategies are a major challenge for small businesses.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

I’ve worked at early-stage startups where we relied on our best guesses to shape product pipelines and develop marketing strategies. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. But to build one, founders must first define clear goals and create value for participants.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. As this TechCrunch article points out, what drives the mental health epidemic among entrepreneurs is their propensity to accept risk. TechCrunch: Why is the discussion around African founders’ mental health critical right now?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. It’s important in aligning internal strategy, communicating with others, talking with partner, recruiting and, yes, raising VC. We have followed this strategy for 15 years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Peter Hazlehurst, co-founder and CEO of BaaS startup Synctera , shares his thoughts in this TC+ article here. Chief corporate development and strategy officer Greg Orenstein will move into its CFO seat.” All this leads Eric to ask: “ With JP Morgan suing a startup founder, will 2023 be the year of accountability?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

I raised our initial capital from an angel investor outside of Silicon Valley where pedigree matters less, acquired our first million users for free by sneaking into a nightclub, and pivoted around a fundamental product issue (both of which are explored in a later article).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. In that article I linked to I outline the difference between gross margin & net margin. Availability of Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.” ” “After 3 and a half years of fusing my self-worth with the success of the company in the crucible of startup survival, it was impossible to tear them apart without pain.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

I am grateful and fortunate that I could solicit input on this article from several people, including Theresia Gouw and Mark Kraynak; a few of my partners at Acrew; Ed Zimmerman and Meredith Beuchaw from the law firm Lowenstein; Shan Aggarwal, VP of corporate development, Coinbase; and Art Levy, chief strategy officer at Brex.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. was a short-lived boom, but it gave entrepreneurs a better understanding of climate tech, which in turn, has fostered more confidence among investors: 2021 saw a 400% YoY increase in round sizes for startups in this sector. Cleantech 1.0 Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once the decision has been made to go forward, there are very basic steps to setting up a business that formalizes the creation of the business and makes it operational which is addressed in a related article. Knowing the Value Proposition is key to establishing a marketing strategy that distinguishes a company from its competition.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 16, 2024

One who is currently building his company in public [ie sharing a bunch of data, progress, and even setbacks, that a startup founder might normally not disclose]. Hunter Walk: Your startup Warmly recently turned four years old. MG: I really like your pivot article. There’s also a silly stigma around pivoting.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Which explains why I’ve never heard an investor say it’s a bad time to launch a startup. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. According to a pre-seed report by DocSend , founders took an average of 52 meetings with investors in 2022 compared to 39 last year. Sharing & Sharing Groups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. DIY: 5 ways disruptive component startups can win over OEMs. Hardware startup founders have a uniquely hard time. Aydin Senkut, founder and managing partner, Felicis Ventures. 6 tips for launching a blockchain startup.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. “So we had three BNPL players with known earnings, and I had just covered a startup funding round in the space.” Instead, we look for “here’s what worked for me” articles that give readers actionable insights. ” Why F5 spent $2.2B

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