TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

For this article , Christine Hall and I talked extensively with several former Better.com employees. The two founders, Ayelen Denovitzer and Shailendra Sason, met while they were working for Revolut, in the crypto team more specifically. million seed round from Index Ventures with CoinFund and FJ Labs also participating.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. The VCs who founders love the most. David Eichler, TCV.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. In what was not a surprise but is still noteworthy, corporate spend and expense management startup Ramp confirmed that it raised $200 million in equity, secured $550 million in debt and doubled its valuation to $8.1 We’re seeing pretty big market changes.

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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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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “ This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “ When deal-making slows, VC dollars typically favor the perceived market leader, starving other venture-backed businesses in the same space of capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Because “younger startups are now increasingly getting caught in the act” when it comes to misleading investors, Rebecca Szkutak asked several VCs about the red flags they look for while assessing a pitch and performing due diligence.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Early-stage startup founders have just a few ways to recruit and retain employees: Offer a competitive salary. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. A startup founder’s guide to allocating equity grants. Banafsheh Fathieh, head of investments, Americas, Prosus Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3 Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. However, what is often direly needed is how to appeal to investors and raise smart money — knowledge that is essential for fundraising and a master key to building, accelerating and scaling your new venture. Keep it short.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A lot of these articles are part of TechCrunch+ — TechCrunch’s premium subscription product. You need to understand how venture capital works — where their money comes from, and, especially, whether your company has a great enough potential to be interesting to venture capital. (TC+). ” (TC+).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

.” That might work inside mature companies, but early-stage founders who are presenting themselves to investors must be more specific. In an interview with Natasha Mascarenhas, B2B stealth startup founder Akshaya Dinesh recounted the time her team was rejected by an accelerator because they hadn’t yet picked a CEO.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

And now that they are entering the ranks of venture capital, one investor says those traits are informing how deals are made. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. 6 ways to make sure your startup is using the right GTM model. Investors detail their red (and green) flags for startups seeking venture dollars.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

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. “Middle-stage startups today still look rather expensive,” he writes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

“It’s about focusing on the metric that directly reflects the value that your company and products bring to your customers,” growth marketer Maya Moufarek told us in an interview for one of our most popular marketing articles of the week. Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups. Recommended by: Matt Byrd.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

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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StartupNation

JANUARY 3, 2021

These include dealing with personal relationships both within and outside the business and conflicting co-founder visions. In this article, I will share some of the real reasons why I think startups fail that I have observed firsthand as a startup founder. Conflicting co-founder expectations. Key takeaways.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

This is part of a series of advice for founders who need to raise money from venture capitalists. For simplicity I’ll assume you’ve raised some money from angels or seed investors and you’re either raising an A round or a B round of venture capital. Of course there’s no exact number of VCs you should meet?—?these

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

” Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections. The pressures facing first-time founders are enormous. ” What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

With a Section 1045 rollover, founders can salvage QSBS before 5 years. Advanced tax strategies for startup founders. When a founder sells their company, its valuation gets a lot of attention. Let’s assume you’re a founder and own equity or options in a typical venture-backed C-corp.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Farmers don’t get embarrassed when the price of corn drops; similarly, there’s no reason for startup founders to lose their joy because publicly traded tech stocks are undercutting their valuations. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Image Credits: xijian (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

” Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Ridge Ventures partner and five-time CIO Yousuf Khan wrote a column for TechCrunch+ that explores “ what CIOs look for in solutions and how you can tailor your sales approach accordingly.”. What US startup founders need to know about the R&D tax credit.

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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. ” Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

The fundraise was covered on TechCrunch : Part of the fun of looking through decks is the ability to link back to an article we posted, saying, “This was the raise; here is how they did it.” ” Within the past year or so : Part of the problem for founders is that a lot of sample decks out there are 10 to 15 years old.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

I am doubtful that I could ever be a venture-backed startup founder. Guess that’s why I’m a journalist and not a startup founder! For a deeper dive into real estate tech and how it’s changing the investing landscape, check out my article in TC+ this week: Got $5? Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market. The tide is high for startup founders who are looking to raise their first round in October 2021. But easy money can create special pressure for early-stage founders, according to Lightup.ai

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

As is our custom, you’ll see quite a few TechCrunch+ articles in the coming days that share predictions for 2022. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. When fundraising, New Zealand startup founders should play the “Kiwi card” Image Credits: Jami Tarris (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Today, edtech startups are seeing higher average deal sizes, more seed and pre-seed funding from non-VC investors, and an influx of generalists. “In all, startups are getting paid better, faster for less work than before.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2022

For the last 24 months, Thomvest Ventures recorded headcount data for 150 Series A to C enterprise SaaS startups, and we have the numbers. Ackerman says he expects to see another tranche of layoffs in several weeks, after startups hold their Q4 2022 board meetings. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Over the last six months, I’ve written up 25 Pitch Deck Teardowns — the popular series of articles where I review a pitch deck in detail, celebrating the wins and gently (and sometimes not-so-gently) suggesting improvements. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. 2021 was a year like no other when it came to venture investment, and this year is poised to tread a similar path, writes 500 Global’s CEO and co-founder, Christine Tsai. Fintech is like most venture, but simply more extreme.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The unprecedented rush of venture capital into startups is having an interesting knock-on effect: “Venture capital investors are racing to pay more to buy smaller pieces of startups that are less profitable than before,” writes Alex Wilhelm, who studied Silicon Valley Bank’s State of the Markets Report Q4 2021.

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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. Aris Xenofontos, partner, Seaya Ventures. Aditi Maliwal, partner, Upfront Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

In fact you may have noticed many of her articles and her weekly contributions to Equity showing up here already. Since joining us from Crunchbase News earlier this year, she’s been covering early-stage startups and the San Francisco tech scene in general, with a big focus on edtech. You’re in good hands. What a week, yeah?

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