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? It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. Ongoing third-party consultation.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Due diligence on a startup can be divided into the following two components: Industry due diligence , which refers to the big picture and involves understanding the industry, who are the incumbent players in the market, who are the competitors, what competitive advantage the startup has, what their chances of success might be, and similar research.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Mosaic founders Bijan Moallemi, Brian Campbell and Joseph Garafalo. Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. First is onboarding, which can take months for some of these companies as consultants integrate the software into a company’s workflow. Photos via Mosaic.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Each story is based on an interview with a founder or investor who addressed some of the most common startup dilemmas. TechCrunch reporter Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Kleiner Perkins partner Bucky Moore to get sector-agnostic advice for founders who are ready to raise a Series A. When should I hire a sales team?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In a statement, co-founder Javi Fondevila said: “We knew the idea of centralizing all your business in one place was very powerful and the only reason why nobody did it before was that it’s extremely hard to design an intuitive self-serve ERP for Small Businesses.”. The money will be used to grow its technology and business teams.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). And in all those cases, big old incumbents like ICC will try to find ways to slow down their new competitors.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

Founders/Team: How do the founders know each other? What kinds of moves are the incumbents making and how they change the market? I look up the founders on LinkedIn, send a few emails for references and then wait to hear back on some initial reference calls. Below is my general outline for a typical diligence process.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Penguin Business describes Starling Bank founder Anne Boden’s “Banking On It” as the “first-hand account of one woman’s quest to rebuild Britain’s broken banking system.” Yet, concludes the future Starling founder, the big banks had learned nothing and were determined to continue with business as usual.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

“Our typical client is young — usually in their late twenties or thirties,” explains Ikigai co-founder Edgar de Picciotto. That was the first thing we knew we wanted to solve” “Banking can also be way too time-consuming, investing even more so,” adds Maurizio Kaiser, Ikigai’s other co-founder.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

And according to a new report from Salient Advisory, a global healthcare consulting firm, this is the segment where the most impressive growth has occurred for Africa’s healthcare in the last 12 months. Women founders are disadvantaged,” the director said. However, a particular segment has achieved scale faster within the past year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. CDG Invest, Y Combinator, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bringing the startup’s total raised to $44 million, inclusive of a grant from the Israeli Innovation Authority, the proceeds will be put toward product development and widening Navina’s footprint to home, virtual and urgent care, CEO and co-founder Ronen Lavi told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Welcome Tech co-founder, CEO and president Amir Hemmat says his company’s initial approach was different than others in the space in that rather than launch a banking product and then set out to earn the trust of the community it aims to serve, it first “worked hard to earn that trust and understand the community’s needs.”

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Successful companies will need founders that will be able to raise significant funding and will need successful strategies to maintain healthy margins in the early days and while scaling. Counting carbon emissions in an organization has historically been done manually with spreadsheets and consultants.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

14:20 – At what point did they shift entirely away from consulting? Kevin’s a partner at YC and co-founder of Wufoo. Brian’s the CEO and co-founder of HubSpot. I’ll tell you one thing that’s interesting about HubSpot, is both founders are introverted, but one is far more introverted than the other.

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