Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. In short, In Venture Capital, Size Matters Size matters for a few reasons.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Did you miss the other Startup Battlefield VC judges?

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted. Congratulations, you have succeeded in turning your startup into a real company. The world continues to beat a path to your door until one day, when seemingly out of nowhere, the disruptor gets disrupted. No business is immune to this cycle.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

To tackle these challenges, Wu shares several strategies that can help e-commerce startups refine their brand marketing and “entrench” existing customers. Dear Sophie, My startup needs to hire an AI expert, and our top candidate has a complicated immigration situation. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Scott Lenet is president of Touchdown Ventures. 3 lies VCs tell ourselves about startup valuations. Is there a creed in venture capital? Seeing the future is also the goal of startup founders, corporate leaders and venture capitalists. Scott Lenet. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 9, 2023

Every year billions of venture capital dollars flow into startups with disruptive innovations. If startup founders refuse to kill a bad idea, they eventually run out of money. You’re not as good at innovation as you think New global, low-cost competitors are popping up in more and more sectors.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle. The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. Don’t wait…the early bird gets the…SAVINGS: Buy a $249 founder pass and save $200 before prices increase on April 1 — that’s no joke. so he’ll give practical advice on how to stay alive and thrive.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Houseparty founder Ben Rubin emphasized decentralization as Web3’s central feature. We have many more Disrupt recaps to come in the next few days, so stay tuned. Early Q3 indications show India’s startup ecosystem is going gangbusters. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. How to find a job as a VC scout.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Determined early-stage startup founders (are there really any other kind?) Well, heads up folks because this is a brand-new opportunity like no other, and it takes place at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. All exhibiting startups are eligible, and the TechCrunch team will ultimately select which companies earn a spot.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

3 ways to hire well for your startup. 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. ” 3 ways to hire well for your startup.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Harvard Business School grad Cameron Johnson is a former institutional real estate investor and Greystar exec turned startup founder who realized that very often, “renters would try to rent the model apartment.”. So in 2017, he came up with the idea of Nickson , a Dallas-based startup that fully furnishes apartments on demand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. Don’t wait…the early bird gets the…SAVINGS: Buy a $249 founder pass and save $200 before prices increase on April 1 — that’s no joke. so he’ll give practical advice on how to stay alive and thrive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

In my distant past as a startup founder, long before I became a writer at TechCrunch, exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt turned out to be a huge moment for my first startup. Startups and VC. Don’t miss her Startups Weekly, the succinct recap of what’s what in the land of startups this past week.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education (a leading edtech seed fund in Europe with portfolio companies like Aula, Unibuddy and BibliU). Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). citizenship!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The unprecedented rush of venture capital into startups is having an interesting knock-on effect: “Venture capital investors are racing to pay more to buy smaller pieces of startups that are less profitable than before,” writes Alex Wilhelm, who studied Silicon Valley Bank’s State of the Markets Report Q4 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

But for enterprise software startups, this presents a special problem. Using a special purpose acquisition company to go public was a popular fad in 2020 and 2021, but many startups that took this shortcut into the public markets haven’t done very well. What US startup founders need to know about the R&D tax credit.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

With the fundraising world becoming more democratic and accessible, we should help people find the right path to setting up a venture capital firm and also make sure the right people are entering the VC sphere. Startups are changing, and any new investment manager will have to adapt to the shifting landscape.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

The same startups that hit billion and multi-billion valuations during the pandemic are scooping up new talent to broaden their service offerings. To scale such models, new businesses will need venture capital. How is edtech spending its extra capital. Byju’s in talks to acquire US-based reading platform, Epic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

TC Early Stage is all about helping new startup founders (pre-seed through Series A) learn the essential skills required to build a successful startup. Three founders will move into the finals and pitch to a new panel of judges and endure a more in-depth Q&A. PT) and save up to $100. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Also, if you want to speak at Disrupt later this summer, you can apply now. Oh, and sustainability is getting a whole stage all to itself at Disrupt. Ten startups will receive $300,000 in AWS credits and will debut their tech at a demo day. What’s a fair price premium for startup shares? It’s gonna be rad. See you there?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Register When starting a company, founders often underestimate the amount of time and energy required to fundraise. Moreover, founders must learn to embrace the challenges of fundraising, honing their pitching and networking skills in the process. Another common mistake founders make when raising capital is mishandling equity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

There’s another episode out of Inside Startup Battlefield, the podcast mini-documentary getting a behind-the-scenes look at the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield. Oh, and if you want to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt, you can apply now to speak ! Startups and VC Card collectors often dispute how much their cards are worth.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Do you have your mind set on attending TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California, on October 18–20? Bonus : Your pass includes access to the TC Disrupt online event on October 21. TC Disrupt always keeps its figurative fingers on the pulse of the early-stage startup ecosystem. We’re talking on the dot, people.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Wednesday is here, and we’re still getting excited about Disrupt later in the year. African startups: We’d love for you to apply to Startup Battlefield 200 , and we’ve also opened our sale on Expo+ passes. Startups and VC Plexamp, the music player from Plex, now works with ChatGPT for playlist creation , reports Sarah.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be.

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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. The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

billion into cyber startups, a YoY increase of 138%. Why are cybersecurity asset management startups so hot right now? Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote. By this point, most startup employees have worked remotely. Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. ” 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

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. Because I think that is the name of the game when you’re talking about a startup. founder Manu Bansal. asked Wetzler.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. The four-year vesting schedule that the typical startup uses today is a problem waiting to happen. The alternative can cripple the company, and even co-founder B won’t be happy owning a larger percent of zero.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

That’s a staggering number, but in a category that includes startups focused on sexual health, women’s health, pediatrics, mental health, data management and testing, it’s clear to see why digital-health funding topped more than $10 billion in the first three quarters of 2020. Lessons from Top Hat’s acquisition spree.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Upsie , a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 million in a Series A round led by True Ventures. . Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. We love to invest in old, staid industries where companies can disrupt from a business model and product perspective,” Agarwal said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Network or no, startup founders are increasingly having to figure out sources of financing that's not venture capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

But as we know, the startup world is evolving, and that means the impact of investment is no longer limited to how much money is made. The impact of an exit is greater when it shows foreign entrepreneurs that there are globally minded organizations helping startups like theirs get equal access to funding. ambassadors.

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