Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search. You pay to contact. You keep paying to reach what’s already yours.

angel investing

Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search. You pay to contact. You keep paying to reach what’s already yours.

technology

Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search. You pay to contact. You keep paying to reach what’s already yours.

angel investing

Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search. You pay to contact. You keep paying to reach what’s already yours.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Fly out to CA, NY, BOS and tell investors that you’ll willing to do the majority of board meetings there. You only want them to commit to attending 1-2 board meetings a year in your home town. Mavens & Marketing.

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Gust

JUNE 8, 2014

Experts on this subject, including Yael Zofi, in her book, “ A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams ,” has identified eight key characteristics of high-performing virtual teams that I have observed, and every startup founder should understand and enable: Members exhibit a global mindset – they look outward, not inward.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. To generate growth in a startup, it is almost always necessary to raise external capital to run the necessary. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward.

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Gust

DECEMBER 31, 2012

In addition to being startup founders, like Richard Branson , founder of more than 400 companies and still going strong, there are several other key roles that I see Boomers taking more often these days to drive successful startups: Advisory Board.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Hershenson also serves on the board of trustees of Harvey Mudd College and on the Advisory Council of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Tisch is the chairman of Good Dog, a marketplace to find pets online, and is the co-founder of Techstars NY. Rich Wong joined Accel as a partner in 2006.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

What does it say when we tell them their ideas and dreams are unworthy because they don’t fit into some narrow model of a startup founder? Develop program-specific advisory boards from under-represented backgrounds. Board commitments to DEI. It’s not an afterthought. Team communication.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

DataJoy , an early stage startup, wants to solve that issue. Like many startup founders, CEO Jon Lee has experienced the frustration first hand of trying to gather this financial data, and he decided to start a company to deal with it once and for all. “I spend my life in the board meetings.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history. Jim Lanzone was named earlier this month as the next CEO of Yahoo Inc.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Robinson is also a founding board member and chair of the Michigan Mobility Institute, an organization that accelerates the development of talent for the mobility industry through educational workforce development, upskilling programs, and postsecondary degrees.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving.

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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

MAY 25, 2021

Herman is not your typical startup founder, having dropped out of high school and starting his own recruitment agency at the age of 21. His tenacity is one of the things that attracted Sequoia partner and Canvas board member Mike Vernal to back the company.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If you are an entrepreneur, startup founder or business owner wondering how you can best structure your pitch to acquire a VC investment, I offer some insight as to what my own process looks like when selecting a particular company or entrepreneur. I always tell others to beware of uncoachable founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

Third is a token-first structure, which has a “lean cap table” consisting of the startup founders that’s a pure placeholder on the road to a fully tokenized structure, i.e., the primary capital-raising vehicle, Matta said. Yet, things are accelerating across the board in crypto.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The biggest challenge for a startup founder is knowing where to focus. Unlike a mentor who may counsel you sporadically and serve as an informal sounding board as you advance throughout your career, the advisor or coach relationship is a structured, compensated engagement. Your team is lean, the margin of error narrow.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

Your board and investors even consider you the Mark Zuckerberg or Evan Spiegel of your industry. Congratulations, you have succeeded in turning your startup into a real company. With so much competition, startup founders and existing corporations can no longer survive by just adding new features or marketing product extensions.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

technology startup founders and how that affects the gender diversity of the employees they hire in " The 2017 US Startup Team Gender Diversity Study. What are the most common mistakes you have seen growth stage founders make? What does an ideal board look like? " Investor Thoughts.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Startup founders just don’t stop. I am grateful for my board of directors who stay involved with our initiatives and with Oklahoma’s entrepreneurs, no matter how wild the ride. He also served as chair of the i2E board and was, for me, a personal source of inspiration and practical advice.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Startups received an unprecedented amount of financial investment during the pandemic, yet female founders lost ground. Public companies with at least one female board member typically outperform companies with only male members. Research has proven repeatedly that diversity is good for business.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Other backers include Addition and Hetz, as well as angel investors like GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, Snyk founder Guy Podjarny, and former Docker VP and Microsoft for Startups CTO — and now Sotheby’s CTO — James Turnbull. The company was co-founded Ron Efroni and Michael Brantley.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. For instance, the sudden collapse of SVB , despite affecting just a few startups, sent many African founders into panic mode as they scrambled to review banking options to avoid such circumstances creating more uncertainty for them.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Despite this, the relative universal appeal of accessibility as a principle does not mean that it will be as easy as explaining the need and getting people on board to make major organizational changes. This starts with having the right people on board. You have the why. It’s not written into the code of their products.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

I’m considering either having my startup sponsor me for an O-1A visa or self-petitioning an EB-1A green card. Savvy Startup Founder. Keep in mind that if you pursue an O-1A visa, you will need to show that your startup and you have an employer-employee relationship, or you will need an agent to file on your behalf.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

If you fit that description, we want you to apply to compete in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Any early-stage startup founder with an MVP — regardless of your category or geographic location — is eligible to apply. But here’s the thing. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

This way, Brelyon only saw the syndicate as a single investor and did not have multiple small investors showing up on the cap table , which is not desirable for a startup seeking funding in later rounds. This made him feel that the fundraising process through Propel(x) was both streamlined and transparent.*

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

. “We are convinced that startups will continue to be key in providing the innovation required to finally bring the digital world to the real world, and that they will help produce industrial goods in a sustainable manner and thus strengthen supply chains and tackle climate change.”. TC: Do you tend to lead the rounds? . AH: Absolutely.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

As part of an ongoing series of interviews with transportation startup founders, ??Rebecca Rebecca Bellan spoke to Anjali Jindal Naik, co-founder and COO of Cartken, which manufactures autonomous sidewalk robots. Zendesk’s board of directors is a confident, secure group of individuals.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). Our goal is to invest in, coinvest with, and/or recruit founders in transition. You’re involved in other aspects of the firm’s activities: due diligence, portfolio acceleration, board service, etc. Gen Z Scouts.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

After all the effort into the user interface, we really need to weigh the price point, especially as we promised the board to launch next month! They’re taking place right now somewhere in the startup and corporate worlds, in small companies and large, from the Bay area to Boston, Berlin, Barcelona, and beyond!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Workshops, breakouts and roundtables — led by established founders, leading subject-matter experts and VCs — cover core entrepreneurial topics across fundraising, marketing and operations. David Jegen has experienced 11 different acquisitions from multiple perspectives — as a founder, an investor and a board member.

communities

TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“Yoon has been a Venture Investor and strategic partner to many Silicon Valley startups/founders for 18 years prior to Muirwoods. ” Strohband also served as PM at Volkswagen, led Stanford racing’s autonomous car, Stanley, co-founded Metamind, and sits on the board of various companies. He holds a B.A.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Unfortunately, more often than not, these approaches have been disappointing, prompting me to write this list of tips to help founders win over a someone like me. Background So why is it really hard to find a technical co-founder? It goes without saying that being a startup founder is more popular than ever.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders 5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem The startup economy has grown and shifted since the turn of the century, and universities — stocked with a never-ending supply smart, ambitious young people — have increasingly taken part. .

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