TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Colin Turner is co-founder and COO of Postscript , an SMS marketing platform leveraged by thousands of Shopify businesses. Early on in the journey to build my startup Postscript with my co-founders Adam Turner and Alex Beller, we decided an equity plan that puts employees first was going to be a top priority. Colin Turner. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

However, instead of developing an MVP, companies should develop and roll out an ethically viable product (EVP) based on responsible artificial intelligence (RAI), an approach that considers the ethical, moral, legal, cultural, sustainable and social-economic considerations during the development, deployment and use of AI/ML systems.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Nigel Morris is the co-founder and managing partner of QED Investors. The uncertain economic landscape of 2022 has left businesses and their founders between a rock and a hard place. Nigel Morris. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Ending the mental health stigma in the tech community.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Once a company founder has tapped the funds available from his or her resources and from friends and family, if the company needs more cash for growth, the most obvious next step is to look for money from angel investors and venture capitalists, typically in the $300,000 TO $3,000,000 range.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Founders Rahul Goyal and Karan Baweja previously led product teams at Citymapper and TransferWise respectively. As well as having a social application, office colleagues can work collaboratively on tools such as whiteboards, Google documents and Figma; play virtual board games or gather around a table to chat.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Three out of five respondents said their companies don’t have a documented plan to handle a leadership change, even though, by that same ratio, they acknowledge that a documented plan is the biggest determinant in seamless transitions. But this documented history cannot be a hagiography of the departing CEO.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Yogishi Chandra, CEO of Teknobuilt, said, “Even in an environment with a different language or business culture, we could participate in the K-Startup Grand Challenge, hold business meetings with domestic companies, and promote business smoothly through Korean interns.” ” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 28, 2016

By Frank Fantozzi, an EO Cleveland member and President and Founder of Planned Financial Services. As the founder of Planned Financial Services, I’ve always made it a priority to ensure multi-generational family businesses are able to succeed now and well into the future. Create a board of advisors (directors).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

million in a Series A funding round led by Blossom with participation from Frst and angel investors including Florian Douetteau, the founder of Dataiku. We empower people to build a collaborative data culture.” Castor helps them have an overview of what happens regarding data in the company — across the board.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Aditi Shekar, the co-founder, gave me some notes about why the ongoing popularity of Venmo is validation for the company, instead of competition. The next wave of products will be able to straddle the line of comfort to successfully get adoption, and cultural shift to successfully deliver a truly collaborative cash experience.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2018

Written by David Tomás, co-founder of Cyberclick Group. One way is to use a Google document that sends outcomes to a central location, collects the data and compiles it all in one document. This document will then be used as a comparison tool against the previous periods to be discussed openly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Jennifer Smith, formerly of McKinsey & Company and Greylock Partners, formed the San Francisco-based company a couple of years ago with entrepreneur and former Google engineer Aaron Podolny after seeing a knowledge gap in how operational work was done. Smith’s background is in organization and operations work.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Last week, though, the outside world got a look at how Y Combinator, one of Silicon Valley’s most famed and feared accelerators, deals with the intricacies of a scaled, yet still ultra-exclusive, community after the accelerator kicked out two founders from its internal messaging board, Bookface.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will take a board seat in the newly expanded Aurora. Rowe Price, in part because of its founders Sterling Anderson, Drew Bagnell and Chris Urmson, all of whom are veterans of the autonomous vehicle industry. What Aurora values.

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Red Rocket

MAY 11, 2021

I recently stumbled on this great article below from my good colleague, David Gardner (pictured), the founder and General Partner at Co-Founders Capital , one of the most active early-stage venture capital firms in the Southeast, based in the Raleigh-Durham area. It covers some of the things we look for in a solid operator and leader.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

make sure you have a strong company culture for them to enter into. . What we want to do is we want to build a team around the culture. There are also penalties that businesses can face if other legal documents aren’t filled out properly when a hire comes on board. All you need to do now is . draft role descriptions, .

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Shin is now part of our Advisory Board,” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda, the top winner of KSGC 2021. XQuant is Asia’s leading specialist in using AI to process text documents, extract meanings and perform data analysis and second prize winner of KSGC 2021. Who can apply for KSGC 2022?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It can be used as a storytelling tool to enable ecosystem organizations to see the different onramps and paths that different founders take, and identify what’s working as well as gaps that need to be addressed. If possible, recruit an advisory board or steering committee to enhance accountability and support project management.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The 30 Most Important Lessons Learned About Developing New Business In this article, we delve into the wisdom of thirty seasoned professionals, including Founders and CEOs, who share their most important lessons learned in developing a new business. Ajay Mistry , Founder, Gambit Partners The Power of Delegation It is important to delegate.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Logistics operators in Africa suffer from various problems, from inconsistent pricing, which stems from a fragmented supply-and-demand market, to paper documentation and little or no access to financing. Most times, your investors and board are present when it’s working. For comparison, it’s 6% in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2010

Once a company founder has tapped the funds available from his or her resources and from friends and family, if the company needs more cash for growth, the most obvious next step is to look for money from angel investors and venture capitalists, typically in the $300,000 TO $3,000,000 range. Email readers continue here.]

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While at the company — and especially once she departed — Claire became one of the people I always hoped to add to a cap table or startup board. For example: On her viral ‘ Working With Claire ’ guide I think that founders should write a guide to working with them. And those founding documents shouldn’t change very often.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Company CEO and co-founder Adit Jain says that in 2018 the company was concentrating on building an intelligent virtual assistant for HR-related questions. In fact, the pandemic has fueled business with more than half of those customers coming on board this year.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

There’s no reason why a culture needs to fall apart at the seams in a hypergrowth startup. I have a portfolio where 50% of the investments have founders that come from diverse backgrounds—and yes, I want them to get money from all of the still-active funds on Uber’s cap table that benefitted from the IPO.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Running a successful startup is ultimately a team game—irrespective of whether you follow the single or multi-founder approach. At a multi-founder startup, this is an art form. Multiple founders can lessen the burden of a new business. That’s when we understood why it is so crucial to have a multi-founder strategy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks. Getting serious about Series B: 3 documents that will help founders control the narrative. Now, I want to highlight how founders can tie these materials together for investors. Contributor. More posts by this contributor.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We’ve gathered insights from CEOs, founders, and top executives on their most successful methods, from combining chat and asynchronous video to actively listening and documenting meetings. The mentorship program facilitated the seamless transfer of expertise and nurtured a culture of mutual understanding and respect.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A Memphis, Tennessee, company called UpSquad certainly had near-universal appeal in mind as its founders explored how to reduce common struggles faced by businesspeople. CEO Jonathan Kite said a new automated turn board feature was a significant factor accelerating the company’s success. However, brilliance is not enough for success.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

The founders of ConductorOne , an identity and access control startup, both came from Okta , which is itself a single sign-on vendor based on the zero trust model. CTO and co-founder Paul Querna said they were keenly aware of the pain points companies were facing around these issues. Today the company announced a $15 million Series A.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document. Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. We have already seen examples of founders and management obtaining liquidity in front of investors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

.” It will also use the funding to continue investing in its product, including adding in more integrations alongside the 250 it already has with a variety of big-name and lesser known email, payments, CRM, CMS and document storage services. “Now we are not only focused on data collection, but document generation.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I had a great idea for a tool the market was crying out for, and a technical co-founder to build it. It’s an incredibly lonely experience Loneliness is a huge problem for entrepreneurs, especially for early-stage founders who have no (or very few) colleagues to turn to for camaraderie and collaboration. I look back and chuckle.

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