TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

You have four — count ’em, just four — more days to take advantage of early-bird pricing on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Knock this easy task off your to-do list now, and come September, join a global gathering of more than 10,000 startup founders, makers, investors and entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Founder and CEO Devo Harris got the idea for Adventr while working with the music industry’s biggest artists. ” So, Harris stepped out of his role as a Grammy-winning media executive and into the shoes of an early-stage startup founder. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As if you won’t find plenty to keep you occupied at TechCrunch Disrupt — which kicks off in less than a week on October 18–20 — take a look at this list of receptions and happenings that complement and coincide with your Disrupt experience. Access: Registered Investor Badge Holders Only, Startup Battlefield 200. Date/Time: Oct.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For early-stage startups “this is arguably one of the worst times to be looking for talent,” says Champ Suthipongchai, founder and GP of Creative Ventures. ” 3 ways to hire well for your startup. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

I urged founders to think less about how to bundle and unbundle lecture experience, and more about how to replace outdated systems and methods with new, tech-powered solutions. The same startups that hit billion and multi-billion valuations during the pandemic are scooping up new talent to broaden their service offerings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With that in mind, SaaS startup Wingback made a fractional head of remote its first hire, “and it was the best decision we made,” said Yann Leretaille, co-founder and CTO. “A Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote. As part of an ongoing series of interviews with transportation startup founders, ??Rebecca

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The co-founder, CEO and managing partner at York IE , a strategic growth and investment firm for technology companies. Advising and investing in hundreds of startups, primarily in B2B SaaS, Kyle is a board member for several portfolio companies. Since starting in 2019, we have had the pleasure of working with great founders.

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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. Top lecturers.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Their discussion, which took place at TechCrunch Disrupt, also addressed the value of using test suites and selecting a reliable continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) framework. Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market. founder Manu Bansal. Flourishing Founder.

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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. If you have access to post-revenue SAAS or ecommerce companies, you can easily make $1k to $10k per company within a few days.” . Monetizing our deal flow.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For cash-strapped SaaS startups trying to reach scale, the math doesn’t look great. In his TC+ guest post, Owens shares several tactics “SaaS leaders can use to supercharge their expansion revenue,” such as adding upsell tiers and charging customers for priority support. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

As you well know, a TechCrunch event wouldn’t be complete without highlighting early-stage founders inventing groundbreaking technologies. Pitch your robotics startup. TechCrunch is searching for founders building startups in the robotics sector. If your startup impacts the robotics ecosystem, we want to see it!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Alex shared some thoughts on what Affirm’s stock dip could mean for startups in his piece so I won’t delve too deeply there. CRV led a $25M round for Northspyre Note: I had wanted to cover this but just ran out of time…Northspyre, as described CRV’s Anna Khan , is a vertical SaaS real estate play out of NYC.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Business credit is traditionally underwritten based on the founders’ FICO scores. As international founders with less than a month of credit history, their chances of getting approved were slim to none, despite having $125K in the bank. ecommerce, SaaS, marketplaces) and verticals. It wasn’t just them.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 25, 2015

Noam Wasserman, the Harvard Business School professor and author of The Founder’s Dilemmas , found an interesting trend in the tenure of startup founder-CEOs: in his analysis of more than 200 startups, fewer than 50% of CEOs remained after three years. This number dropped to 40% after four years and 25% through the IPO.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The VCs who founders love the most. Managing Editor Danny Crichton spearheaded the development of The TechCrunch List earlier this year to help seed-stage founders connect with VCs who write first checks. ” The VCs who founders love the most. API startups are so hot right now. API startups are so hot right now.

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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. Geared toward tech startups, it boasts that it has “supercharged the growth of over 200 innovative businesses,” from fintech and SaaS to hardware.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Going for larger rounds with higher multiples means reduced ownership, and it’s shifting more power to founders as investors are “paying more and at shorter intervals for less of less profitable startups.” When venture capitalists say this is a good time to be a founder, you know they absolutely mean it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt, Rippling unveiled what Conrad describes as the “biggest launch” of his career — its new global payroll product. He previously founded Zenefits, which actually launched on the Disrupt stage at Battlefield in 2013. I swear this is the world’s first global payroll system.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

“The idea came from the fact that, as a software engineer, I saw many AI projects fail because of the deployment to production phase,” says sole founder and CTO Julien Salinas. It does also offer a free tier so users can test models at low request velocity without incurring a charge.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? Do you expect to see a surge in more founders coming from geographies outside major cities in the years to come, with startup hubs losing people due to the pandemic and lingering concerns, plus the attraction of remote work?

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