StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Underrepresented folks in entrepreneurship and venture capital, including women, people of color and LGBTQ individuals, are often led to believe we must be overqualified to start a business, join a VC firm or become an investor. Listen to constructive criticism, and learn from useful feedback, but always carry a dignified bearing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. Don’t wait…the early bird gets the…SAVINGS: Buy a $249 founder pass and save $200 before prices increase on April 1 — that’s no joke. Here are just a few examples of the topics we have on tap.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. List of 60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms The following includes venture funds founded by women or those that have a focus on funding women-founded or gender-mixed startups and early-stage companies.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Here’s Part III: The term “VC” is a convenient, encompassing term, but it is an ambiguous categorization. For better or worse, “VC” is a disorganized, unruly, messy set of people and firms whose emergent behavior about important things does not converge. They have to fundraise just like startup founders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Can your startup support a research-based workflow? Kodiak Robotics’ founder says tight focus on autonomous trucks is working. After interviewing Draper Esprit co-founder Stuart Chapman, Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim took a look at the trend of European VCs floating themselves. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2011

VC Pitches. Having been an entrepreneur for near-on a decade and having pitched in 100 VC meetings I hated getting no feedback. To try and save you wasted energy, help you avoid bad decisions and to make you that much better in your next VC meeting. I try to do it constructively and with a smile on my face.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Evolving from Scientist to Founder (Sponsored by Mayfield). How do you go from PhD to startup founder and beyond? Validating your idea, through customer love for your product, may be one of the most emotionally and intellectually taxing parts of being an early-stage founder. How to Get Earned Media. Pitch Deck Teardown.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I’m now researching non-dilutive funding for Action Tank , a startup I’m gestating to “Make America Functional Again”. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The The J.M.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value. On the venture side, Overdorff told Anita that from what he’s hearing , VCs “are trying to make their funds last longer” and as a result, “there’s an unknown of where it goes.” In other news.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Tobias Liebsch , Co-Founder, Fintalent.io Lead With Data for Investment Traction As a startup founder seeking investment, one major challenge I’ve faced is effectively communicating our vision and potential for scalability to prospective investors with limited time.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

2 weeks later and we may never have raised any more VC. I hired a senior exec from the building materials industry (we were a document collaboration company for the engineering & construction industry) who was also ex McKinsey. I did almost every VC meeting myself save for when one of my co-founders, Tim Barker, was in town.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I’m now researching non-dilutive funding for Action Tank , a startup I’m gestating to “Make America Functional Again”. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The The J.M.K.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios. That’s the reality most startup founders face: They’re routinely bombarded with feedback from investors, customers, peers, mentors, family, friends, and sometimes even random people on the internet. Early-stage fundraising is a tale of two planets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

We’ll be talking operations, hiring, fundraising and more, hitting on key topics for a new generation of startup founders. When should founders follow the hype? How can founders construct an investor pool that reflects their values? When should they ignore it? Let’s talk about it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

On to the headlines from TechCrunch and Extra Crunch: If you didn’t make $1B this week, you are not doing VC right (EC). The VC and founder winners in Airbnb’s IPO (EC). The future of construction tech. A skilled labor shortage is piling on top of the construction industry’s traditional challenges this year.

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