TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

TechCrunch Editorial is on the hunt for 200 early-stage founders to feature in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this September. All selected founders will get the opportunity to flash-pitch in front of investors and TechCrunch Editors. The winner snags the $100,000 prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Hey, founders between gigs: What now? Unfortunately, most founders are not in that position: 9 out of 10 startups fail. Even if you achieve a high valuation, you might end up like FanDuel ’s founders: their investors got the benefit of a $465m exit; the founders got zero. . One research paper found, . “[F]ormer

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As the head of startup pipeline at Techstars, I’ve been getting on calls with founders, attending events, speaking on stages like TechCrunch’s Disrupt and hosting countless Twitter Spaces. Each time, I’ve been telling founders why they should join an accelerator. Saba Karim is director of the startup pipeline at Techstars.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 19, 2023

To understand the importance of mentorship for startup businesses, we gathered insights from 16 experienced CEOs, founders, and industry experts. Trevor Ewen , COO, QBench Networking Through Mentorship Startups need all the help they can get—and often, a mentor will introduce a new founder to various contacts to propel them forward.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Simply take decisive action and buy your pass to TechCrunch Disrupt before Friday, March 10 at 11:59 p.m. Come September 19–21, you’ll join over 10,000 of the global startup community’s best and brightest at Disrupt, the premiere tech startup conference in San Francisco. Get ’er done, and buy your Disrupt pass today !

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Haje is considering dressing up as “supply chain disruptions” for Halloween, whereas Christine is contemplating dressing up as a down round. “Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) on everything you have,” said Katie Moussouris, founder of Luta Security. PDT, subscribe here. We’re confused how that happened.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

With great innovation comes big change, or even better, disruption, to systems that have been in place for years. Studios are causing this precise disruption to the traditional ways of building companies and how to invest in them. This unprecedented growth provides a wealth of new opportunity for the investment community.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

Investors also place great weight on the founder or founding team. They also want to know if the founder has the skillset to build a great team once funded. They also look for certain traits in the founder such as vision, passion, and leadership to build the right team.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We’ve gathered insights from CEOs, founders, and top executives on their most successful methods, from combining chat and asynchronous video to actively listening and documenting meetings. Institute Cross-Functional Mentorship Within our startup, we recognized the importance of fostering collaboration among cross-functional teams.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Companies want to build for the pain point you never dreamed to disrupt; VCs want to invest in an emerging trend before it becomes a household name; and those breaking into tech are told to lean into their earnestness, because you never know who is going to answer your cold email. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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StartupNation

JULY 19, 2021

To help baby boomers succeed, employers should create specific goals and deadlines, offer mentorships roles and take a coaching-style feedback approach. Fun fact: Gen Xers make up the highest percentage of startup founders at 55%. They oftentimes follow the belief that years of service and sacrifice pave the path to success.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

These resources include funding, access to industry experts, mentorship, workshops, fireside chats and visibility into adidas’ networks. With at least one Black and/or Latinx founder. Blavity.org is a new racial equity and social impact organization created by the founders of Blavity Inc. About adidas. About Blavity.org.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

An disruptive idea marks the start of a startup. Pre-seed capital is required to set the base for the business operations to start and ensure that the founders’ business is a viable one. However, for some startups, it’s a essential inflow of capital just to set base for something big that can disrupt the industry.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Wellington UniVentures offers mentorship opportunities, access to pitch workshops and meetings where new ideas are screened, to name a few. “We Universities are hubs for deep tech Many spinouts that come out of universities are in deep tech, a category of companies defined by their potential to disrupt the market through novel technologies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2023

Such passionate individuals are not only disrupting industries but also making a significant impact on social and environmental issues. Another visionary entrepreneur in climate action is Alba Forns and her co-founder William Wiseman.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In the fourth industrial revolution era, having succeeded as an economic powerhouse with a technological edge in manufacturing and industries led by large corporations, South Korea is now fostering disruptive innovation through startups. So that’s why we are here,” said Aykan Ekici, Co-Founder of Khenda.

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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. At the same time, to respect founders’ time, scouts should mention their real ability to make an investment happen. Just confusing minority founders even more.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Community organizations like Shine & Rise provide support and mentorship to women who work at tech companies, and coworking spaces like Cahoots offer dedicated tech entrepreneurial spaces for the community. Amesite , founded by top Midwest female founder Ann Marie Sastry, uses AI to improve the online education experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate. A Strong Pool of Tech Founders – Stating the obvious. Students are great source of ideas because they’re willing to challenge the existing norms – the basis for all disruption.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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OurCrowd

JULY 1, 2022

The company’s net revenue grew in 2021 despite supply-chain disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic, with sales growing several times faster than the industry average across all categories. SaNOtize CEO and Co-Founder Gilly Regev has come a long way to lead a MedTech company. Learn More. SaNOtize CEO: From sommelier to scientist.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Pocketnest was founded by a woman, Jessica Willis, who is a fantastic mentor to local founders. They’ve partnered with TechStars, ID Ventures, Lofty Ventures, Wayne State University and Precursor Ventures, which gives them the mentorship and funding to scale. Apply now to Pocketnest. Why is it different? Apply StockX now. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Anyone’s CEO also reckons this “intimate”, short-form audio format could help drive diversity of advice by encouraging people whose voices may be underrepresented in traditional mentorship fora to feel more comfortable offering their time and knowledge to others. (He

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The program , held virtually , provided these startups with funding ($100,000 convertible note and $20,000 stipend), mentorship and access to its network. ” Talking about the criteria Techstars uses to select startups operating in the region, Sunil said the accelerator first looks at the founders and the team.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Cellino , a company developing a platform to automate stem cell production, presented today at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 to detail how its system, which combines A.I. The use of lasers is an idea developed by Cellino co-founder and CEO Nabiha Saklayen , who patented an invention in cellular laser editing while at Harvard earning her Ph.D.

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