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. Case in point: competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

If you want a shot to compete against some of the most innovative early-stage startups in the world, apply to Startup Battlefield here before the application window closes on May 13 at 11:59 pm (PT). GV partner Terri Burns is joining us to judge the Startup Battlefield. Still need a nudge? Keep reading. You’ll find them here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

” It’s a bold declaration for a startup founder aiming to work with robots — or more accurately, the software that helps turn a tractor, tiller or forklift into an automated vehicle. That’s where Seltz-Axmacher, co-founder Ilia Baranov and their new startup Polymath Robotics hope to come in.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2020

By the time a company is successful enough to IPO, the many doubts and uncertainties of the early stage startup are largely forgotten, replaced with a hindsight that makes their path to success seem so much more obvious and predictable. Once the applications are all reviewed, we invite the top startups in for a ten minute interview.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. But your co-founder had been senior at one of the big enterprise software companies and if I remember correctly American Express had run a big pilot with you. I remember.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Early-stage startup founders and investors need to keep their fingers on the sector’s very rapid pulse and the best place to do that is, you guessed it, TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 on June 9. Here’s what your package includes ( Note: They’re available only to pre-Series A, early-stage startups).

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2014

Earlier this week, I attended the Spring YCombinator Demo Day. Each time, I’m impressed by the intelligence, ambition and the polish of the founders presenting companies only a few weeks or months old. At each Demo Day, the YC team provides investors a list of all the companies pitching and I’ve kept a few.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

While founders are adapting to quarantine in style, a group of college women in their 20s aren’t waiting until they are done with undergraduate to plunge into the lifestyle themselves. Startup founders set up hacker homes to recreate Silicon Valley synergy. So, they started their own program.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

I’ve been among the group of TechCrunchers watching pitch after pitch at Y Combinator’s Demo Day. As a result, “the average Black founder raises less than around $1,000 from family and friends,” reports Dominic-Madori Davis. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Shin is now part of our Advisory Board,” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda, the top winner of KSGC 2021. “The KSGC provides you with the connections that will help you build your company and develop a strong network in Korea,” said Chea Srun, CEO of XQuant, a startup from Hong Kong.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

They’ll have plenty of insight and advice to share, including the challenges that startup founders will face as they break into the transportation arena. Schedule virtual product demos, pitch investors or recruit new talent. You’ll hear from CEOs like Starship Technologies’ Ahti Heinla.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The firm’s end-to-end services including program structuring, startup sourcing, startup interviews and selection, mentor recruitment, organising masterclasses, business matching, coaching, day-to-day operations, startup fundraising support, and organising demo days.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

For companies in India, founders no longer have to spend three months away from their customers or teams. Covid has also taught us that building a program that is remote and more software based makes YC more accessible to founders around the globe,” the firm said in a statement to TechCrunch. That is an important skill.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark your calendar for TechCrunch’s annual celebration of the startup community — TC Disrupt 2021 returns this September 21-23! At Disrupt , you’ll rub virtual elbows with the thousands of startup founders, investors and innovators building cutting-edge products and companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

In the interview below, he explains why and how startups should work on this from their very early days. TechCrunch is asking founders who have worked with growth marketers to share a recommendation in this survey. Laja is the founder of several marketing and optimization businesses: CXL , Speero and Wynter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

Along with detail orientation I have a strong bias for “doers.&# When I ask for a quick demo and the CEO tells me that he’ll schedule a follow-on meeting with his sales rep because, “I’m not a demo guy. It’s different when you’re co-founders and one person gets the title COO.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company? If the money comes from professional investors it usually has a “liquidation preference” meaning that their money comes out before the founders or common stock.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Voltron will be deploying capital to roughly 30 startups, mostly in pre-seed and seed-stage across Africa, in a bid to “address the severe lack of access to early-stage funding for African tech companies.” Non-traditional startup founder to an angel investor. Abe Choi (Co-founder, Voltron).

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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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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.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Amid the global pandemic, the safety of our founders and staff is our top priority. I’ve personally experienced 16 of the last 18 batches as a YC startup founder and then YC partner, and I’m very confident S20 was a transformative experience for our companies. YC W21 batch will be remote. S20 was our first remote batch.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In many cases, based on our interactions with thousands of founders in the Draftbit Community , success seems to come down to how well they enlist the support of those first mobile app users. With consumer mobile-focused startups, the best idea is to build an audience first and then build a business. Your first 1,000 users are waiting.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I did almost every VC meeting myself save for when one of my co-founders, Tim Barker, was in town. And this is how it should be in startups. So if you present to me and the CEO can’t drive the demo or the financial model themselves it is a BIG RED FLAG. I did our marketing and didn’t use any outsiders.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Co-founder Paul Graham got his Masters and Doctorate degrees from Harvard. Robert Morris, another co-founder, was a professor at MIT. Why do startups join the Ycombinator program?

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500

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Felix Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Back Office, a human-assisted AI platform and bookkeeping service for companies and consultants. In an interview with Nathan Beckord on Foundersuite’s “How I Raised It” podcast he shared how 500 Startups was instrumental in the early growth of BackOffice. I believe founders have superpowers.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

At a startup, you get to contribute to just about everything. James and Andrew [the co-founders of Firebase] really treated me like a peer. When I started, it was just me and the founders and they were going through the S11 batch. We pivoted to Firebase a few months after demo day. That meant a lot to me.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

We deploy a range of tools to keep clients up to date, and this is typically accompanied by different meeting types, such as developer dailies and weekly or biweekly demos and planning sessions, which follow a scrum format. What percentage of your clients are non-technical people who have an idea, but no coding experience?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

This is part of a series of advice for founders who need to raise money from venture capitalists. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them. I always tell founders … “An investors job is to deploy capital and make a return. This is where most founders err.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 14, 2021

If you’re in the startup phase, low-code/no-code (LCNC) is especially appealing because it is versatile, customizable and open source, so you won’t feel trapped by your architecture or have to start over when you change programs. You can just keep going and growing. What is low-code/no-code technology?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

On one hand, we’re heading into Y Combinator Demo Day week, which means that we’re about to sit back and watch a few hundred companies make their pitch to investors and the larger startup world. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Paul Graham’s assertion that “any startup founder can tell you the most common question they hear from investors is not about the founders or the product, but “who else is investing?&# When I’m in, I’m in. rings true to me. Investors who commit early deserve to have a lower price.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Image: Author Startups are supposed to be about an innate drive to change the world. That was my mindset in 2014 as my co-founder Lee Silverstone and I started Gymtrack, a startup that lets gym members automatically track their workouts. After demo day, we got a call from a European gym equipment manufacturer. (An

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Y Combinator

APRIL 24, 2024

While there I worked in what would become Sebastian Thrun’s AI research lab — he was one of the co-founders of Google X, and their self-driving car project that became Waymo. I went back to Google for a bit and I had that realization that I wanted to be working with startup founders again. Oh man, so many things.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Whenever I talk about minimal viable products with product-driven startup founders, I often find myself in a frustrating conversation. In the world of lean startups, founders have to stay hyper-focused on figuring out how to fail as fast as possible. Could a video demo get you the answers you need?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Austin, Texas, is becoming the new home for large companies (Tesla), investors and startups alike. . It is now also the new home for Tim Draper’s newest initiative to help support early-stage founders: Draper Startup House Accelerator Program. Backed by Draper, of course, the program will launch in April 2022.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When you are the founder of a young startup, it is always very hard to gauge the right amount of effort to dedicate to marketing. I always knew I wanted to find some way to help founders and innovators get their great ideas out into the world. How do you collaborate with startups?

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