Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I firmly believe having the right co-founder(s) is the most significant determinant of startup success. Without further ado, here are the five actionable steps that I’ve used to find, assess, and partner with the right co-founder.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Estonia-based Membo — which is backed by Y Combinator and will be presenting at the incubator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day next week — is aiming to take a slice of the premium end of grocery shopping in Europe and a bite out of supermarket giants’ continued dominance of the traditional weekly food shop. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

But if this 2017-founded Finnish startup, Solar Foods , has its way fermentation could have a very special place in the future of human food too. The industrial biotech startup is working on bringing a novel protein to market — one it says will offer a nutritious, sustainable alternative to animal-derived proteins.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

It’s demo day for the current Y Combinator class, so we’ll have a largely early-stage focus at TechCrunch today. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. ” That figure has been widely reported, so we’ll use it for our work. ”

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. Companies like Airbnb, Intercom and Buffer have released the pitch decks they used to raise their first rounds of funding, and if you look at their structure, you can essentially find the same set of slides. Demo Day pitch.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best tools you can use to achieve productive marketing, how to apply them and how much they cost. But first, why is it advisable to use marketing tools in your business? Why you should use marketing tools. Woopra offers a demo version to help you learn the ropes of the platform.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 31, 2024

Just 12 months later, dozens of video generation products are in active use, with millions of users worldwide creating short clips from text or image prompts. These products are still relatively limited — most generate 3 to 4 second videos, the outputs tend to be mixed in quality, and things like character consistency have yet to be cracked.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Yet, fittingly, when it came time to join Google full time, he turned down the offer to build an edtech startup — one that would help young professionals like him create continuous, daily structured learning but without it feeling like a chore. Is success defined by saving someone money three months after using the service?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Audio startup Syng has been building on quite a bit more hype than the average fresh hardware startup, largely because of the team behind it. million “combined” Series A from investors led by Palo Alto-based Eclipse Ventures, the startup tells TechCrunch. Syng has closed a $48.75

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Sounds like a useful feature, no? OpenAI proposes new moderation technique: OpenAI claims that it’s developed a way to use GPT-4, its flagship generative AI model, for content moderation — lightening the burden on human teams. Perhaps for shoppers and sellers. But what about reviewers?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Heimdal is a startup working to pull that CO2 back out at scale using renewable energy and producing carbon-negative industrial materials, including limestone for making concrete, in the process, and it has attracted significant funding even at its very early stage. “We came out and did this straight away,” he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Appealing to your inner Video Jockey, the Orbacam demo video makes it look easy, adding video filters and effects to your visual creative pursuits. The app also enables you to use the microphone connected to your phone — or the one built into your phone — to sing or beat-box your way on top of the music you’re creating.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

With Ngrok, developers can deploy or test apps against a development backend, building demo websites without having to deploy them. Ngrok competes to a degree with startups like Tailscale , ZeroTier , Netmaker and Defined Networking’s Nebula — some of them are well funded. “Most organizations manage 200 to 1,000 apps. .”

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

YC-backed climate tech startup, Pina Earth , has closed a $2.5 million seed round of funding a year after being founded and a few months since it presented at the accelerator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day in March. As a first step, Pina Earth’s platform helps forest owners register their forest for carbon credits.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

is on a mission to accelerate the decarbonization of buildings by using AI-generated efficiency savings to encourage electrification of commercial real estate — wooing buildings away from reliance on fossil fuels to power their heating and cooling needs. Y Combinator-backed Kapacity.io

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. video demos), or an ambassador program that coaches brand advocates on how best to spread the word. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Startups like Donde Search , Glisten and Stye.ai Founder and CEO Sebastian Spiegler, an early (former) SwiftKey employee with a PhD in machine learning and natural language processing, walked TechCrunch through a demo of the current prototype. Glisten uses computer vision to break down product photos to their most important parts.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitalists 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.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

For example, Cliffs Variety, an independent home goods store in San Francisco’s Castro district, uses a Facebook page to alert neighborhood residents about store openings, pickup times, and product availability. Successful retailers have taken community building a step further by leveraging tools like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

We’ve reached the end of Y Combinator’s biggest Demo Day, which saw more than 300 companies pitching back-to-back over eight hours. From a marketplace to help you resell formalwear to a startup that offers self-driving street cleaners, it’s quite the mix. million in ARR.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Tandem , a startup building corporate communications tools, has released a new product called Spaces, hoping to blend remote and in-office work so that all staff feels properly connected to their co-workers. You’ve used related software. If you see a developer using an IDE, maybe you wait to ping them, right? It landed $7.5

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. This is a program where we invite luminaries from the startup world to share their insights. So Tomasz, I’ll turn it over to you.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Throw into the mix aesthetics (who’s ever seen an attractive QR code?), Founded in Dallas in March this year, Vitag is officially announcing its private beta today at TC Disrupt, where the company was selected as one of TechCrunch’s Battlefield 200 startup cohorts. Vitag in action. Image Credits: Vitag.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. But one event that we try to catch every year is that of Pear , which is held annually each fall and features (blessedly) just a dozen or so very nascent startups. Teams using SAVVI have seen a 1,500% ROI over traditional ML methods.” ” Health U.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

What strategies to use, how to get attention, how to become “hot.” ” I get asked many PR questions which is why I started this stream of posts on PR at Startups. I’m not advocating that you shouldn’t present at tech startup events like Launch, TechCrunch 50, DEMO or similar. Exec Summary.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 24, 2022

haha Here is how it went down My guy noah kagan sent an email via OkDork.com promoting SendFox.com on ProductHunt.com While on ProductHunt.com I noticed a Startup/Bootstrap community created by Courtland Allen call IndieHackers.com (Amazing site BTW) After spending about a month on IndieHackers.com I saw a post that read something like this.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Ryu Games , a startup that helps developers add cash tournaments to their mobile games, announced this morning it has raised $2.3 In addition, 500 Startups participated in the round. Now mix in the sports-betting frenzy that we’ve seen in the United States, and you have a potentially potent cocktail. Fair enough.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Startups and VC. The hardware dweebs among us were having a great day today. The detail of the EV Corvette using excess battery heat to heat the cabin — much like ICE cars using excess engine heat to make you nice and toasty as you cruise around – is such a cool (ha!) You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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