TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Dave Samuel, the co-founder of Freestyle.vc.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL, MN – The Forge North startup coalition announced the first close of the MSP Equity Fund – the first-known venture capital fund of funds in the country designed to invest across race, place, and gender.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Starry-eyed newlyweds routinely sign pre-nuptial agreements without losing their sense of idealism, and startup founders should do the same , advises Yonaton Aronoff, a partner at litigation and employment law firm Harris St. Image Credits: The Creative Drone (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Laurent & Wechsler.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. How to find a job as a VC scout.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Team Asia Daily spoke to one such venture capitalist Jessie Wu , an early-stage investor at Upshot Ventures, in an exclusive interview, shedding light upon her investment journey while paving the way for upcoming startup founders and venture capital investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. Venture Capital. And then the world changed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For early-stage startups “this is arguably one of the worst times to be looking for talent,” says Champ Suthipongchai, founder and GP of Creative Ventures. ” 3 ways to hire well for your startup. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. .”

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Which form of venture debt should your startup go for? Startup founders have more options than in years past when it comes to fundraising, thanks in large part to a surplus of liquidity. Besides traditional VC, crowdfunding, venture banks and venture debt funds are all viable options. Let’s talk about it.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

.” If you’re putting together a slide deck to raise your next round, and that’s the first time you realize your team slide is filled with Stanford-educated white dudes, well, no amount of creative storytelling can save you. As a startup founder, you get to make choices about the kind of org you want to create.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 15, 2019

With TBFP, startup founders don’t have to dilute their ownership stake to gain access to vital early stage capital. No, the purpose of TBFP is to help entrepreneurs build businesses in Oklahoma which it has done repeatedly for the last two decades.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

To scale such models, new businesses will need venture capital. 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. How is edtech spending its extra capital.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Pioneer is a weekly contest for creative people around the world making their ideas become real. Congratulations!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

And Australia’s Square Peg Capital is plowing $550 million into startups in Southeast Asia. A little closer to home, Conductive Ventures closed a third fund to invest into nontraditional founders, and Baukunst raised its inaugural fund to invest in “creative technologists.”

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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. The people with the time, energy & creativity to build organizations like TechStars need to bring their ideas to fruition. Venture Capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Every startup founder should know how the quality, delivery and price of their products/services stand up against the competition when deciding to start up a business. Investor Funding Many startups are begun with the anticipation that outside funding will be needed in order to be successful.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

managing director, The Lithuanian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Andrius Milinavicius , founder, Baltic Sandbox. Gabriele Poteliunaite , associate, Change Ventures. Alex Gibb , partner, Katalista Ventures. Jone Vaituleviciute , partner, Startup Wise Guys. Top are startup founders like J.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Ideas for books, podcasts, video series, investigative research, essays, educational campaigns, and creative proposals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As founder of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, or DFJ, Draper in 2018 introduced the Startup House concept. Backed by Draper, of course, the program will launch in April 2022. Locations include Bali, Indonesia; Bangalore, India; and Valencia, Spain, among others.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2022

As late-stage tech startups face the changing environment in the public markets, their early-stage counterparts are in a different world altogether. The cohort has had access to ample capital in recent quarters, giving them a bubble of venture capital that somewhat protects them from rapid changes in the greater economy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As controversial as systems like Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 are, platforms such as DeviantArt and Canva have adopted them to power creative tools, personalize branding and even ideate new products, writes Kyle as he takes you on a tour through a brief history of diffusion, the tech at the heart of modern image-generating AI.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The Nordic countries make up just 4% of Europe’s total population, but they account for a significant amount of venture capital investment. I still think cities will be the most prominent location for startups as (1) Big business is not rural, and startup founders typically come from banks, consultancies, corporations, etc.

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