TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

TC Sessions: Mobility, which takes place on June 9, features the top minds and makers, draws thousands of attendees, fosters collaborative community and creates a networking environment ripe with opportunities. You can highlight your pitch deck, run a video loop and/or host live demos.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Partnering with the right co-founder is the biggest determinant of your future success. Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I firmly believe having the right co-founder(s) is the most significant determinant of startup success. A co-founder is someone you’ll practically be married to (time commitment-wise).

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s YC Demo Day week, which has us nostalgic for the conversations Found hosts have had with founders who have been through the famed accelerator program. Unsurprisingly, when a YC founder comes on, the conversation often touches on how their time in the accelerator was a formative experience for their company and them as leaders.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

You’ll hear from iconic founders, unicorn makers, boundary-benders — all of it served up with a gigantic side of DIY tips, actionable advice, encouragement and inspiration. And, because Disrupt is highly interactive, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to engage, ask questions and receive answers. Who’s ready for Startup Battlefield?

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that the people they are taking money from have first-hand experience.” . MAGIC Fund has 12 founders who act as general partners.

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. As a VC firm, we’ve had to adapt many aspects of our business as well.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. For those of you who might be interested in tracking emerging themes or actual investment opportunities, here’s a quick rundown of who pitched what (with the Pear-backed companies at the end of this list). Founders: Matt Alston (CEO), Melissa Zhang (CTO).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

As the tech downturn has continued, though, Y Combinator has shrunk its cohort size, stepped back from late-stage investing, and brought on a new chief executive: entrepreneur and co-founder of Initialized Capital, Garry Tan. This compares to 30% of founders living in the Bay in the batch prior. and we have so much work to do.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Zach Aarons, co-founder and general partner, MetaProp. Adam Demuyakor, co-founder and managing partner, Wilshire Lane Partners. Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day. Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day: Part 1. Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day: Part 2.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As the captain of your ship, you’ll navigate a vast sea of opportunities. Contributed to EO by Steve Ferman, an EO New Jersey member, serial entrepreneur, and founder of 4 Pillar Coach. In the high-stakes adventure of entrepreneurship, the search for your ideal clients and employees can become a thrilling quest.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. The Family was originally founded in 2012 with three co-founders — Alice Zagury, Oussama Ammar and Nicolas Colin.

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Dream It

MAY 27, 2020

Good founders know the importance of nailing their product demo. Nicholas Negroponte, Founding Director of MIT Media Lab, famously coined the term, “Demo or die.” While many demo, few excel at it. In this #DreamitDose, Managing Partner Steve Barsh gives founders a simple framework to crush your demo.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sometimes when you’re in the zone as a founder, a case of the twisties can utterly derail progress. As a consultant to many of the world’s most innovative global brands as well as motivated founders looking for a jump-start, it’s important to be able to know what steps along the way are absolutely necessary and which ones are nice to have.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2023

Besides the all-paid 15-week residency, this year, the program offers a follow-up program after Demo Day in November 2023. Grab the opportunity soon The program will select startups less than seven years old, whose representatives hold foreign nationalities and wish to establish an innovative technology business in Korea.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

South Korea’s largest accelerator program– the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) is the unique opportunity for global startups to enter the flourishing market of Asia. German food tech startup Koralo won the coveted ‘2022 K-Startup Grand Challenge’ as the best foreign startup team at the Demo Day.

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Dream It

JANUARY 8, 2020

In our most recent episode of DreamitLive , Managing Partner Steve Barsh spoke with Ron Gula , President and Co-Founder of Gula Tech Adventures. Ron has the investor perspective as the President of Gula Tech Adventures, but also can empathize with the founder as former founder of his own company, Tenable.

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500

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As part of the founding team at Alluva, my thoughts ranged from excitement at the incredible learning opportunity to worry about how challenging 500’s batches were rumored to be. The outcome was that it was both – and when you’re at Demo Day, you’re going to be grateful to the part that’s ‘too challenging’. What Alluva is.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

It’s hard to believe, but 2019 was the last time the mobility community’s greatest visionaries, founders, builders and investors gathered in-person to connect and go deep at TC Sessions: Mobility. Check out late-stage product demos and the latest tech in scooters, e-bikes, autonomous vehicle technology and electrification.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

If you’re a company’s founder in an early market, you know how hard it can be to cross the chasm between early adopters and mainstream customers. Early markets are by no means easy to tackle, so in this post, I’ll discuss seven tips that will help founders navigate these difficult waters. Why start with innovators?

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 22, 2020

We were forced to rethink the end of our Winter 2020 batch and transformed its demo day to an online-only event. Huge congratulations are due to the founders and employees and, indeed, all the stakeholders of those companies. Other YC founders and their startups have adapted extraordinarily well. The S20 batch is remarkable.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Aditi Shekar, the co-founder, gave me some notes about why the ongoing popularity of Venmo is validation for the company, instead of competition. Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that. A triple-hitter Demo Day. techcrunch.com. Want this in your inbox each week?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

It’s hard to believe, but 2019 was the last time the mobility community’s greatest visionaries, founders, builders and investors gathered in-person to connect and go deep at TC Sessions: Mobility. Check out late-stage product demos and the latest tech in scooters, e-bikes, autonomous vehicle technology and electrification.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We had found our opportunity to make a real impact on the HR market; by delivering a modern and simplified platform to create, update, and inventory job descriptions that enables organizations to address their JD challenges quickly. We also found that these offerings focused on enterprise level companies only. Take action.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2021

First Data Engineer at YC : YC Continuity is hiring our first Data Engineer to help us identify promising investment opportunities using data. Research Associate : YC Continuity is seeking a Research Associate to evaluate investment opportunities, lead market research, and help our portfolio companies grow. Learn more. Learn more.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 19, 2015

I’ve been to many YC Demo Days and I always look forward to them. Startups pursuing consumer finance have popped recently, not driven by Bitcoin, but by a wave of founders bringing more sophisticated financial tools to the masses. Demo Day is a window into the future of consumer and enterprise investments.

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OnStartups

MAY 18, 2021

In the early days, the founders should be able to sell (and should be selling). Refine your demo script, your slides, and any other collateral information. How many turn into opportunities? Building Startup Sales Teams. Don’t hire sales people too early. Yes, yes, I know. You're an engineer/designer/whatever. But here you are.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s a two-day deep dive featuring the best, brightest and most intriguing founders, engineers, investors, regulators and technologists dedicated to transforming the way we move people and packages around the globe. Line up live or online meetings with founders, pitch investors, connect with hiring managers or meet up with other students.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. The goal was to provide under-networked female founders the coaching and connections needed to raise money. The drop in access makes Feinzaig’s work even more difficult, and important.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

The sold-out expo area is the virtual home to hundreds of innovative startups ready to demo their tech and talent. While exhibiting offers plenty of opportunity for all, a VIP experience kicked off in July for 50 startup exhibitors the TechCrunch staff chose to form the first Startup Alley+ cohort.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Time is running out on a serious savings opportunity. This prime networking real estate can beget ample opportunity — discover a unicorn-in-the-making, find that co-founder or the engineer you’ve been searching for. Hold your horses, er, unicorns, folks. Connect, network and collaborate to drive your business to the next level.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

When you’re head-down and nose to the grindstone — I’m looking at all you hard-working early-stage startup founders — it’s easy to miss a deadline for an outstanding opportunity. It won’t cost you a thing to apply or to participate, so don’t let this trajectory-changing opportunity slip past you.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

This online event will draw roboticists from around the world, and it’s your opportunity to learn from and connect with the people building and investing in the future of a technology that’s changing the way the world works. Robot demos. Who doesn’t love robot demos? That’s darned good ROI. No one at this conference.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

They present sessions on a range of topics that help new founders gain the confidence they need to move forward and build a solid business foundation. Partners dispense valuable insight from our stages, and they’re always interested in engaging with interesting startups and looking for potential opportunities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Gently hum “Row row row your code, gently down the streams,” as we talk with the founder behind Rowy , the company that’s like Airtable on a lot of steroids, or Excel on a lot of steroids and a couple of lines of illegal substances. Sadly, not in rowboats, which your correspondent believes is a missed opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Early-stage founders, a shipload of opportunity is about to set sail and you don’t want to miss the boat. Schedule and host livestream product demos, tutorials or Q&A sessions. Exposure, practice and invaluable feedback from the pitch-savvy TC crew — jump on board that opportunity. But don’t stop there.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This morning, Y Combinator (YC) hosted a demo day for its 2022 Summer Cohort — the 35th demo day in the incubator’s history. Featuring founders from 30 countries and startups across sectors including developer tools, fintech and healthcare, the day saw no shortage of compelling pitches. It’s that time of year again.

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