Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. Leadership over backbenchers? I wish I had 20% of her confidence, focus and leadership skills at 25. Could you withstand the public scrutiny every day of being a young tech founder and show up every morning filled with enthusiasm?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. Contributed to EO by Steve Ferman, an EO New Jersey member, serial entrepreneur, and founder of 4 Pillar Coach. Look for CEO roundtables and forums. None in your area? Consider starting one.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Zach Wright, the founder and CEO of Grapevine Software , a cutting-edge Virtual Office platform designed to centralize communication, knowledge sharing, and team alignment for distributed workforces. As a founder, what keeps me motivated is the process of constant learning.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Manav Garg is CEO and founder of Eka Software Solutions and is founding partner of SaaSboomi and Together Fund. India’s path to leadership. Manav Garg. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Software as a service is one of the most important sectors in tech today. billion, four times the investment in 2018.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Friction in Sales : The traditional sales process involved cold calls and lengthy demos, which were less appealing to modern customers who valued a frictionless experience. My leadership team wasn’t ready for the shift, and we gave up. But it wasn’t enough. Exciting times lie ahead for our startup.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

After 8 years as the Managing Director/CEO of the YC accelerator, I’ve decided now is the right time to hand over my leadership responsibilities.  Effective As a result, in January I approached Garry Tan about transitioning out of my leadership role.  After   – Garry Tan

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# This is an interview you’re not going to want to miss, I promise. were doing. How Hashable Got Buzz.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

These sessions aim to foster a supportive community where female founders can share their experiences, gain mentorship, and connect with investors committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. Following the afternoon Techstars Demo Day is the Female Founders in Innovation Dinner.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 15, 2019

In early 2008 we announced the formation of Founders’ Co-op. million it wasn’t much of one, just some of our own money and some from a few local friends who knew how hard it was to be a founder up in this remote corner of the world. Where does the time go? We called it a fund, but at $2.7 Somehow, all of a sudden, it’s ten years later.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, a fear of long sales cycles, heavy compliance requirements, and opaque organizational structures preclude many early stage founders from pursuing this go-to-market channel. With massive annual technology budgets and scaled distribution, the largest FIs are the ideal end-buyers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

I’ve covered Wyvern in the past, including when the startup participated in incubator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)’s academic conference-like demo day back in 2019. “Launch is the next big thing we’re looking forward to,” said Christopher Robson, co-founder and CEO of Wyvern.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2021

million seed round before Demo Day. It is incredible that since COVID hit, Odiggo has experienced over 10 times growth in the last year,” said co-founder Omar. . L-R: Ahmed Nassir (co-founder) & Ahmed Omar (co-founder and CEO). Odiggo is part of the current YC Summer batch and has secured a $2.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

YC, however, is operating at an entirely different scale: The accelerator has funded over 3,000 companies and worked with over 6,000 founders. Next week is Y Combinator’s biannual Demo Day, in which startups present to the public for the first time after spending three months going through the accelerator.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). Not surprisingly, the tighter your relationship with the firm, typically the more money you will earn: .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Michael Fey leads Island as co-founder and CEO, relying on his extensive experience in cyber security, enterprise software and cloud technology. With the right strategy, founders can find and hire people whose passion aligns with their vision. Michael Fey. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Recruiting while in stealth mode.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It is now also the new home for Tim Draper’s newest initiative to help support early-stage founders: Draper Startup House Accelerator Program. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

began demoing an accelerator chipset that combines “traditional compute IP” from Arm with a custom machine learning accelerator and dedicated vision accelerator, linked via a proprietary interconnect, To lay the groundwork for future growth, Sima.ai After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai “Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Historically, the industry has been reluctant to embrace technology, but as there have been generational shifts in leadership, that has slowly changed. Founders can apply to the program here. . But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another. billion and $40.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s Wednesday, which today is known as Apple iPhone 14 (here’s all our stories from the Apple event ) and Y Combinator Demo Day…day. Demo Day started today and goes through tomorrow — our team is standing by. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. PDT, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Participation came from returning investors Elevation Capital and several prominent angel investors like Ola founder Ankit Bhai; Disney Streaming SVP of product; Ashwini Asokan, the founder of Mad Street Dap; and Pushkar Mukewar, founder Drip Capital. Murf’s founders. billion by 2028, growing at a 14.6%

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In Singapore, a global expansion base, Kim organized a Demo Day event for the companies in his portfolio looking to expand internationally. Kim emphasizes that while all investments are focused on short-term financial performance, founders must concentrate on their long-term business strategy to increase valuation.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

But I’m curious, Tido, now that you are founder and CEO of Koala, you’re leading both engineering product and sales. Joe was very insistent on day 1 that it was a CEO, all founders, all exec team, and top performers from both the go-to-market and product org coming together for 2 days to do that. Tido: Yeah.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Meanwhile, Papercup’s existing angel investors include William Tunstall-Pedoe, the founder of Evi Technologies — the company acquired by Amazon to create Alexa — and Zoubin Ghahramani, former chief scientist and VP of AI at Uber and now part of the Google Brain leadership team.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Why startups fail, and how to fix it As founder of six startups, advisor to founders, and a startup strategist at IMD ( #1 ranked business school ), Boris Manhart has seen many mistakes being made and have made many himself. A lack of leadership ?—?Set Set clear, achievable goals together with the team.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2022

I had the pleasure of interviewing Haydar Al-Saad, the founder and CEO of RevSetter , a modern Customer Platform built to help companies elevate the way their teams work with customers to improve retention, fuel expansion and accelerate business growth. How can our readers follow you on social media? Thank you so much for joining us!

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Through ACA’s strong and experienced public policy leadership team, ACA has been able to gain more diverse voices as both investors and entrepreneurs. Back to top Meet the Team Clay Rankin North Coast Ventures Founder and ACA member Pat Gouhin CEO, Angel Capital Association Chris McCannell D.C.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 25, 2021

People often believe that YC’s raison d’etre is Demo Day and fundraising — and that founders’ singular goal in applying to YC and completing our program is to increase their probability of executing a successful fundraise. Is it because YC is an effective filter: choosing only the best founders and companies?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

million from Twitch co-founder Emmet Shear and Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi, among others. TechCrunch previously covered Pilot AI during Y Combinator’s Summer ’22 batch demo day. The tech grew into a company, Pilot AI , that was accepted into Y Combinator’s summer 2022 batch and recently raised $2.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

We get a teensy bit excited whenever Y Combinator does a set of demo days. More stories of up, up, and away: Speaking of mono-racked fantasy horses, women’s leadership network Chief saddled up and rode its unicorn status into its continued future of developing women in leadership in the course of its $100 million Series B round.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If you had to share “words of wisdom” with a Founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be? Most of my experience is in B2B SaaS, so this advice is tailored to founders in a similar space: #1 Hire an experienced leadership team to define the culture and vision A brand new startup only has one asset?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The dinner was a coming out party for Orbillion Bio , a new startup pitching today in Y Combinator’s latest demo day, that’s looking to take lab-grown meats from the supermarket to high-end, bespoke butcher shops. Orbillion Bio co-founders Gabriel Levesque-Tremblay, CTO; Patricia Bubner, CEO; and Samet Yildirim, COO.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Requires Columbia affiliation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Godot editor demo. ” On top of that, having one of Red Hat’s original founders on board as an investor can only be construed as a major coup for a startup that is just eight months old. The other two founders, CTO Fabio Alessandrelli and CMO Nicola Farronato , operate from different locations in Italy. Distributed.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

That’s why product demo webinars are so effective at maximizing conversion rates. A live presenter especially helps when building trust with your audience and getting them to buy. — Simon Grabowski , founder and CEO of ClickMeeting. The founder couldn’t believe that someone didn’t want his product.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Hopefully, it’s a helpful guide to founders and operators looking to launch soon. An interactive demo helps you do just that. Launching on Product Hunt is an exhilarating ride that I’d recommend to any startup founder or builder. Tactical, step-by-step guidance on finding success for your upcoming launch. Is it 100 new users?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Justin Bieber is unbelievably entrepreneurial and most of you will never know it because he serves a target demo that doesn’t include you. You need to be great at something: technology back-end, front-end design, usability, sales, marketing, quantitative analysis, leadership –> whatever.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Our platform brings organizations to a state of knowledge flow, empowering a decision advantage grounded in confidential, trusted, and verifiable information,” says Igor Jablokov, Pryon Founder and CEO. For more information, or to request a demo, visit pryon.com.

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