This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 26, 2012

I'm way early in my career, so I won't say I've perfected anything yet, but after 8 years on the investing side and 3 in startups, I've come up at least one thing: Be open. I always get asked how to get into VC and so I think a lot about what it takes to do the job well. In venture capital, you say "no" a lot. It is your default response.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. it would make more sense than “me.” 00:00:52] MARK: Sure. I grew up in Northern California.

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

Startup of the Week: Leading carmaker joins Foretellix round. TetaVi selected for Microsoft for Startups. Ro Health acquires at-home testing startup Kit. Startup of the Week: Foretellix: Leading European carmaker joins round. ‘I would have been splattered if not for Ride Vision’. Introductions. Learn More.

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Gust

JULY 27, 2014

I hope you have a better idea than Women Behind Bars , or Herpes-Date.com. Search engines. You can find web sites like the Comprehensive List of Search Engines , which is nothing but a list of 250+ available search engines. The latest is “crowd funding” your startup with thousands of tiny investments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. There’s the argument that startup tensions are inevitable and common, so should we spotlight every time something bubbles to the surface, especially at the cost of an underrepresented founder who may just be doing their best?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Kikoff is hiring for 10 roles (a mix of hybrid and remote), including senior product manager, associate product manager, senior product designers, engineers and a growth marketing manager. Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. billion valuation.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

We’ve been talking about the unique challenges facing women founders for years, but the pandemic was particularly hard for women looking to start their own companies. According to recent data , funding to women-founded companies dropped from 2.8% Frankly, we’re still thinking about Anu’s incredible advice for women founders.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? Of the Inc. raised from angels.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised money from VCs and 7.7% raised from angels.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. For my full take on this topic, check out my TC+ column: It’s not a startup reckoning, it’s a re-correction. The result, after six months of interviewing heads of data, talent development and engineering, was Modal.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Women engineers often face workplace and career challenges that their male colleagues don’t because they remain a minority in the profession: Depending on how you count, women make up just 13% to 25% of engineering jobs. Rona Chong, software engineer at Grove Collaborative.

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Gust

JUNE 24, 2012

An underrated portion of every startup effort must be about communication and marketing. Her focus is on companies facing change, which of course includes every startup. Use social media, search engine optimization, blogging, and mobile media. In fact, even if they did, they couldn’t find you in the clutter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

A 2018 Pew survey, for example, found that 59% of women and 27% of men reported experiencing sexual harassment. Unlike prepared Floridians, startups tend to adopt an ostrich approach when it comes to harassment. Unlike prepared Floridians, startups tend to adopt an ostrich approach when it comes to harassment. Plan for it.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. When a founder is accepted into YC, we modify the startup’s DNA, edit it, to include key alleles that make success more likely. In the end, however, the secret to success of any startup lies squarely with the founders — their vision and their execution. in the U.S. in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

area startup now reports its iOS-only has seen over 5 million installs in its first year, with users primarily in the Gen Z demographic. The startup says that 75% of its users are between the ages of 14 and 18 and 95% of users are between 14 and 21. Most of its users are U.S. Most of its users are U.S. Image Credits: Poparazzi.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. When a founder is accepted into YC, we modify the startup’s DNA, edit it, to include key alleles that make success more likely. In the end, however, the secret to success of any startup lies squarely with the founders — their vision and their execution.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Just back from vacation and also some work travel and want to get back to blogging so expect a few posts over the next couple weeks. I’ll try to do a future blog post on some of my insights in watching Nanea enter the role and how the founders enabled her success. Company Organization.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

San Francisco, CA – Vegan Women Summit™ (VWS), a media and events organization dedicated to empowering women to build a kinder, more sustainable world, will host the second edition of the VWS Connect event series, the world’s first job networking series dedicated to mission-driven employers building the future of food.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

In response to analyses published on this blog, a handful of readers have raised the idea of Simpson’s Paradox to me. When researchers looked at the evidence, though, they uncovered something surprising: If the data are properly pooled…there is a small but statistically significant bias in favor of women.

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