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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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. As an active board member across several companies, I often advise against acquisitions that require additional investments to actualize value. A second non-traditional way to enter the M&A stream is through strategic board enhancements.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Imagine a drumroll, folks, because we’re about to announce the last tranche of investors and thought leaders who will choose which outstanding startup takes the title of Startup Battlefield champion, along with the $100,000 prize and serious bragging rights. Mar Hershenson , co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

The same startups that hit billion and multi-billion valuations during the pandemic are scooping up new talent to broaden their service offerings. Leaving this subsector, we see creative acquisitions such as a Roblox for edtech buying a language learning tool, and a startup known for flashcards scooping up a tech tutoring service.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The funding winter for the startup ecosystem may continue for another 12 to 18 months and the industry might have to grapple with a “lot of turmoil and volatility,” e-commerce giant Flipkart chief executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy has warned executives. This is going to be tough next year.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

No matter the focus of your startup, the target audience will almost certainly appreciate anything you can do to show you want to make engaging with your product as straightforward and enjoyable as possible. CEO Jonathan Kite said a new automated turn board feature was a significant factor accelerating the company’s success.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. What is a founder to do? Improving startup productivity ? Startup psychology / confidence ?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

In my distant past as a startup founder, long before I became a writer at TechCrunch, exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt turned out to be a huge moment for my first startup. Startups and VC. Don’t miss her Startups Weekly, the succinct recap of what’s what in the land of startups this past week. Did Bolt bolt?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2020

With so many startup success stories and technological advancements these days, anything is possible. However, as an increasing body of research demonstrates, there is another often forgotten factor that drives startup success: diversity and inclusion. Ninety percent of startup founders will not implement a diversity program.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Not only are there few female partners in VC funds, we are also not doing enough to support female founders. Startups received an unprecedented amount of financial investment during the pandemic, yet female founders lost ground. Let’s take specific actions that will result in more female leadership in the startup world.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

For early-stage startups looking to hire new talent, it’s not enough to make one-off decisions about pay as each new employee comes on board. Complete aims to help companies, particularly early-stage startups, conceptualize and implement a firm-wide compensation strategy, reflective of cash, equity, bonuses and benefits.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

.” It’s one of those rare things you can’t really go to your board or advisors with. Startup accounting firm Kruze Consulting just updated its annual CEO salary report and has some interesting insights to go with it. The firm reports its figures based on an anonymized dataset comprising more than 250 startups.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The biggest challenge for a startup founder is knowing where to focus. Though startup coaching has boomed during the pandemic, many founders are turned off by high-pressure sales tactics, a lack of widely accepted industry standards, and as many amateurs as experts. Your team is lean, the margin of error narrow.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

The Angel Capital Association (ACA) Summit represents a beacon for black investors, founders, and high-growth startups. This is particularly beneficial for black investors and founders looking to enhance their understanding of the angel investing process, from due diligence and valuation to deal structuring.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 28, 2022

How do you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup? To help you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup, we asked startup founders, investors, and business leaders this question for their best pieces of advice. Matthew Ramirez , Founder, Paraphrase Tool.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. I always tell others to beware of uncoachable founders. Also by Diane Yoo: The Venture Capital Diversity Gap.

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Onevest

MAY 21, 2015

By Michael Whitehouse Whether you are an investor browsing through 1000 Angels looking to put money into a startup, or an entrepreneur attempting to bring finances into your project, it is critical that you understand the terms and conditions of any investment. For this reason investors often make the entire amount available immediately.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Boston has long been home to security companies, and we’re going to talk through the ins and outs of the local ecosystem and why founders should look to Boston when starting a cybersecurity company. He’s a board director at multiple security companies, including Oort, KSOC, ThreatX, Tausight and Sevco Security.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Startup Battlefield , the world’s preeminent pitch competition, has launched hundreds of startups over the years — 922 if you want to be a stickler about it. TechCrunch vets every application and will select roughly 25 startups to compete. We’re thrilled to have her on board. Still need a nudge? Keep reading. Yeah, them.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

You’ve been hard at work building your game-changing startup. 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.

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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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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2014

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Despite all the focus you hear on external investors, over 90% of startups today are self-funded. Most startup founders already do this, rather than take a salary, to improve their offering.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 3, 2023

Why we take that with a grain of salt at our consumer startup Photo credit: Derek Liston You hear it constantly in the startup community — “just ship it!” Am I being duped by Twitter-speak and startup mentor nonsense spouted by people with no skin in my game? Clearly that’s the antithesis to the startup mentality.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 11, 2018

Time and time again, I hear how hard of a time startups are having recruiting, especially for software developers. When I was a startup founder, I had this same issue. That's when I had a conversation with Max Ventilla, the founder of AltSchool, who at the time was running Aardvark. The team already had a lead on board.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. Finding a technical co-founder is even harder. Yet, the benefits of having a technical co-founder make it all worthwhile. A good co-founder will serve as a powerful force multiplier.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 6, 2022

You’ll receive practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss What startups can learn from trillion-dollar companies. The startup Lucy Rothwell co-built grew from 1 to 15 employees. Successful startups know when to do which. The key pillars to starting a business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with. You’re in control.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction. To see what startups can learn from SaaS’ new approach to content marketing, he interviewed several analysts and experts. “If As Chaddha notes, “it is easier to go up than down.” Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

In breaking startup founder news , U.S. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced the LIKE Act for startup founders in the House of Representatives last week. Below, we’ll share what this could mean for your startup aspirations. Dear Seeking, A couple of exciting immigration news updates to get us started today!

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Non-traditional startup founder to an angel investor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new company recently emerged that is targeting a popular startup niche, wanting to exclusively help early-stage SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies with their financial needs. We quickly realized that they shared a common pain point — startup funding is costly and distracting. How it’s different and the same.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted. 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. You have the next big idea and have been tenacious enough to get funded.

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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. You didn’t join startups then. You joined a startup if you couldn’t get a real job.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Register K-Startup Grand Challenge(KSGC) 2022 edition has opened its doors for global startups to do business in South Korea. The biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government, supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), will be held for 3.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Join us on Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday, May 19 to watch these incredible founders take the stage. Startups pitching on the main stage. Koop Technologies (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) — Presenter: Sergey Litvinenko, co-Founder and CEO. You can find additional details on each of the judges below. Alright, alright. He holds a B.A.

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