TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. Syndicate leads are often experienced angel investors or successful startup founders.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Recently, Mel served as the SVP of Product Development at Securonix and Director of Product Management at RSA NetWitness. Mel knows firsthand how crucial strategy is to develop products that customers love. GTM strategy is critical since it drives product strategy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 13, 2019

That’s not a bad strategy—particularly considering how much money it takes to get a business off the ground. We were also able to generate predictable recurring revenue by referring current and prospective clients to HubSpot’s platform. Consider development opportunities. Anything else will just dilute your startup brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2010

developing a product you might like to survey prospective customers without biasing their answers. doing a reference call on a prospective employee. I was interviewing the founder of a prominent company of which many of you would have heard. THE REFERENCE CALL: Reference calls are hard. Conclusion.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

What Role Do Partnerships Play in New Business Development? To provide insights into the role of partnerships in new business development, we asked 13 CEOs and Founders for their expert advice. Ironically, that experience with our partners has given them the trust to become our clients and refer other clients as well.

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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. But first, some basics.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

This refers to a change from an application to a platform, or vice versa. Many founders envision their solution as a platform for future products, but don’t have a single killer application just yet. This refers to the monetization or revenue model. Platform pivot. Most customers buy solutions, not platforms.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

No need to reinvent the wheel, just use these tried-and-true strategies for sustainable growth. Amidst numerous challenges, the right growth strategy becomes paramount. Securing a solid foothold in the market requires a well-planned approach, and that’s where effective growth strategies come into play.

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StartupNation

JUNE 7, 2021

For founders and entrepreneurs building up their business, the initial startup stage typically focuses on the product, technology or service offering. In most cases, early-stage companies need outside capital and significant runway (the amount of cash needed before a capital raise) to pursue a strategy and fund the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Imagine the “typical&# deal – somebody comes into a VC’s office, they’ve never met, they’re highly referred by a friend and they’re pitching a product demo and a PPT. If I see your alpha product then I can judge how it develops over time. Management Team - This is really a sine qua non.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

For the unacquainted, web3 refers to a decentralized web based on the blockchain. Alchemy’s goal is to be the starting place for developers considering building a product on top of a blockchain or mainstream blockchain applications. Alchemy CTO and co-founder Joe Lau told TechCrunch. It launched its offering in August of 2020.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I’ve spent the last three months talking to dozens of e-commerce founders, investors, and industry experts about what happened to the e-commerce industry and, most importantly, where we go from here. Regardless of the strategy, drawing a clear line to ROI — to sales, topline growth, and lifetime value — is key. Here’s what I learned.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Developers can be a tough crowd. Coming up with relevant content that developers find interesting takes specific know-how, and this is where Draft.dev comes in. One of the survey respondents noted that developers are underrated as a target audience: It may be niche, but it is a large one. What inspired you to create Draft.dev?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 12, 2022

dating app My pitch to investors I want to tell you my story as a founder and CEO and share some examples of my f**k-ups. They all refer to the Hola! There have been many victories and defeats throughout the journey, but I want to highlight three mistakes that led to detachment between the founders.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

150Birds can be referred to as Uber for freelance marketing services. 150Birds help startups and small businesses to: Get guidance to develop suitable marketing strategies, Get professional marketing services on-demand on a simple fixed monthly price, and Pay expert’s charges only when experts work. The Concept. The Offering.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. In the consumer world, maybe.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. In the consumer world, maybe.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

A developer can, on a whim, change their mind and do whatever they want with their open source code that, most of the time, anyway comes “as is” without any warranty. Developer Azer Koçulu ran into a trademark dispute with messaging app Kik because his npm package was called “kik.”

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Register EdgeCortix , a Japan-based fabless semiconductor development and design company specializing in edge artificial intelligence (AI), announced the successful conclusion of its $20 million funding round. The company plans to channel these resources into the development and launch of the next generation of SAKURA hardware products.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Ayoken founder and CEO, Joshua King , told TechCrunch that the marketplace is a bridge between fans and artists, and gives supporters a sense of ownership in the success of their idols. Fans will get discounts for future events too,” said King, who has 14 years’ experience in strategy, growth and innovation consultancy, and entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics. Developing or revising a pricing model is a complex, multi-dimensional problem. Here’s a closer look at the questions we ask to begin laying the foundation for a pricing strategy. 5 key questions in our pricing strategy framework.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

She is the co-founder of Brand of a Leader , the personal branding agency for entrepreneurs. I remember walking into the room one morning and fellow attendee Robyn Rosenberger, founder of Tiny Superheroes, said she believed in me and told me to keep going. I have also developed a women’s leadership retreat in Tuscany, Italy.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2022

These programs provide founders with the resources they need to build a company all the way through IPO. We want to help founders everywhere scale and build enduring companies — and today, we’re launching a new series to do just that: Learnings of a CEO. Today, Faire has over 1,000 employees.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

To help our founders in transition , some of which are interested in becoming scouts. Our goal is to invest in, coinvest with, and/or recruit founders in transition. We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. Alpha Partners , Proof VC ) which share the carry earned in their coinvest to the referring party.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The search for solutions to the challenge has given rise to startups like Doppler, which offers a service that developers can use to manage and secure secrets — specifically app secrets — “at scale” in enterprise environments. And it automates secret syncing, requiring developers to update secrets only once.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

In a comprehensive article that weighs development costs and technical debt against time to market , Chopra encourages readers to consider factors like product defensibility and risk before deciding whether to build or buy. Now, bootstrapping founders can iterate without developers to keep costs down and extend their runway.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. So it will be something of a milestone. Basically we have a set of internal objectives.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

They started Searchlight in 2018 to develop technology that uses behavioral reference data and prescriptive analytics to give employers a more 360-degree view of a potential candidate’s strengths and weaknesses that might not appear on a resume or come out during an interview.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal. Ruiz-Múzquiz refers to this as “the handoff mindset.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The answer is a growth strategy that takes both inorganic and organic growth into account, never relying on one more than the other. For our purposes, organic growth refers to internal efforts to increase revenue, like speeding up output, expanding product offerings, building infrastructure and customers, and hiring staff.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

To help Chernow tap into the industry, he brought on former RX Bar chief marketing officer Victor Lee to lead the brand’s go-to-market strategy. He is also working with one of his investors, Elevator Studios’ Fleyshman, who Chernow referred to as “the best marketer today.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In an era where Amazon has become so dominant in the retailing and delivery of physical and digital content are there strategies that can succeed? The founder of Parachute, Ariel Kaye , had a clear vision for what she wanted to disrupt and how she thought she could do it. Here are some ideas of what I believe matters.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker never wanted to charge consumers for access to Duolingo content, a purpose imbued throughout the company’s culture. It also has a number of other revenue streams it’s developing, such as language proficiency tests. It has to be an exit of some sorts, and a big one at that.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Of course, we are referring to that time of year when all the startup chaos continues apace, and we are just hanging on for dear life to see how it all ends, clinging to our cups of hot chocolate, as holiday-appropriate music is wrapping around us like a warm blanket. How to implement a video SEO strategy. PDT, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

“Product development is a complex interactive process involving multiple disciplines and a variety of tools.” “Collaboration in hardware product development is a nightmare — existing tools are siloed, discipline-specific and don’t play well together.” ” — team slide. Demo slide.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The founder and CEO emphasized that the new product offerings will help customers “use, save, protect and grow their money better.”. The PayPal-backed company says it wants to develop the first mass-market crypto product for emerging markets and making crypto affordable to its users.

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Precisely, social entrepreneurship, also referred to as altruistic entrepreneurship, is the practice of doing business aimed at resolving social market failures and creating opportunities to add social value systematically. For example, an entrepreneur developing solutions to solve the dirty drinking water problem in his city.

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