TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Yet we found that tech execs appear just as unprepared for C-suite transitions as their peers in other sectors. The findings may not be troubling if these respondents were millennial startup founders, years from leaving their companies. Jason Dressel. Contributor. Share on Twitter. They’re far from it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 28, 2019

Costa Vasili’s story is similar to the stories of many other young entrepreneurs. What sets him apart? With the help of the EO Accelerator program for early-stage entrepreneurs, Costa is running a values-driven translation business that aims to make a difference in the world. . Costa Vasili is a son of migrant parents. 1 critical life lesson.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

But for the tech press, the possibility creates a conundrum: We can do our best to pick favorites , but we can’t cover every single promising startup in its early days. This situation, it turns out, creates an opportunity for an emerging source of startup curation: deal-flow newsletters. The new U.K. The new U.K.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

While a unicorn named Hopin tends to dominate the virtual conferencing space, a new startup just raised millions of dollars by focusing on what it believes is an untapped niche in the same universe: academic conferences. Eventually, he began recognizing a pattern between all of the conferences. Tired of ‘Zoom University’?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The desktop software takes a note from peers like Superhuman and Command E, allowing users to quickly pull up and modify data with keyboard shortcuts. The desktop software takes a note from peers like Superhuman and Command E, allowing users to quickly pull up and modify data with keyboard shortcuts.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You know you’ll require startup funding, but aren’t sure where to start. Will you self-fund and bootstrap? Will you take investment from others? There are several ways to fund your business, and there’s a process to work through which type of funding is best suited for your particular circumstances. On the road to funding. For veterans.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

-based seed-stage venture firm that has, from its outset, attracted the attention of VCs who think the firm has an eye for nascent talent , staged its seventh annual demo day earlier this week, and while it was virtual, one of the startups has already signed a term sheet from a top-tier venture firm. Website: accessbell.com. billion by 2027.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cascades explains Greg’s observations on what it takes for innovation of all kinds (political movements, cultural change, startups, re-orgs, etc.) Here are the key takeaways that I believe relate to startup / intrepreneurial innovators. to achieve lasting impact. 5 Reasons People Will Oppose You We innovators already believe.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Note we are not including here most of the freebies offered by corporates for founders in general (as opposed to students in particular), which we list in Free Money from the Global 500 for Tech Startups. We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Whimsical , a startup creating tools for workplace collaboration, announced Tuesday its first funding round, a $30 million Series A investment led by Accel. I always worked in some form of distributed organization with a larger engineering theme of people everywhere trying to make it work,” he told TechCrunch. “I Whimsical dashboard.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There is another mechanism that ecosystem builders can use to have a huge impact connecting their communities—create and maintain an online hub of information about your startup community. But, it doesn’t scale well—there’s a limit to how many meetings and one-on-one conversations we can take. Here’s some ideas on what to start with.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The startup, which launched its app in Vietnam last year, announced today it has raised $1 million, led by the Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN). According to the World Bank, more than one billion people in South and East Asia lack access to a bank account. Jeff currently claims more than 300,000 users in Vietnam.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

This weekend I was reading the NY Times online and I came across this excellent piece about ADHD written by Richard Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry. He specifically notes the people with ADD. ” The author talks about one of his patients who was bored and unsatisfied in his job and found his tasks too routine. Argumentative.

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Gust

MARCH 8, 2014

While it sounds tautological, the most important thing a law firm brings to the startup table is… a knowledge of the law surrounding everything having to do with founding, financing and operating a startup! After all, they are *lawyers* not peers in your industry.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The startup is a wager that the software buying experience of today is antiquated — and a rising source of frustration. But, almost oddly, although companies need more software, the selling process is still somewhat manual, with myriad phone calls and documents and e-signatures.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Peer-to-peer lending is back! In addition to the P2P deals covered below, on the show we also talked about some of my favorite financing startups ( Wonga in the UK run by Errol Damelin , who is a superstar) and Affordit.com run by serial (and I mean serial!) Thank you to anybody who sent Jason a note on Twitter on my behalf.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Industry Expertise You don’t need a peer from another startup as your independent?—?you you can build that with your personal peer network. What you don’t get on a typical startup board is somebody who brings the wisdom of your industry. I will also outline how to select them and incentivize them. Yes, this is a thing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. Along with the growing number of Islamic fintech startups digitizing the process, Islamic-compliant services are becoming accessible to more people. out of its 33.6

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In short his argument seems to boil down to, “Look at me and my peers. The father of “Growth Hacking” appears to be Sean Ellis who wrote this widely read post, “ Find a Growth Hacker for your Startup. I’d like to make the case that the article is wrong. I’d strongly encourage you to read it.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 7, 2020

If your startup/organization/team struggles with ideation (the process of coming up with ideas), you fall into one of two camps: Those who struggle to come up with any ideas. Step 1: Get MAD – Remember your M ission, assess your A ssets, document the D emand. What follows is a step-by-step guide for solving both problems.

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Reforge

AUGUST 8, 2022

Or maybe for my elder millennial peers out there, it’s Melanie Griffith typing away on a real-life 80’s typewriter in Working Girl ? They’re still used by savvy strategists — at both Fortune 500’s and Series A startups — as a way to quickly and comprehensively cover complex topics, build consensus, and drive action.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In other words, users can use their NFTs as collateral to get loans from other users on the decentralized and peer-to-peer system. Once regarded as a fad (for some, it still is), NFTs, digital assets that depict real-world objects, are becoming increasingly popular within and outside the crypto world. Risk exists on both sides, though.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

High impression rates that fail to convert into actual sales and pricing anomalies (as compared to a peer group) are compelling harbingers of traffic quality issues. Unfortunately, however, it’s also a business sector rife with fraud and consumer privacy abuse, particularly in emerging media forms like CTV and mobile. Although 78% of U.S.

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Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Chief Brand Officer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

This is a common refrain in the industry, which is why we are seeing an increasing number of startups pop up in the space. If you’ve ever taken out a mortgage, you know how painful and tedious the process can be. The sheer volume of loan originations is testament to the need for more efficient loan origination systems (LOS).

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Second Life, Minecraft, Roblox Collectively Taught More People To Code Than America’s Top Universities Have Almost all my Gen X peers had some lightbulb experience as a child with their first personal computer. How fortunate to be born at a specific time and place and privilege! There’s immense gratitude I feel for this experience.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 14, 2018

Join peer-group organizations like EO , where you can learn from experts and fellow business owners. Have you ever considered the similarities between fishing and business? It takes discipline and patience to be able to catch anything—whether it’s a client or a carp. Research is required. You search online. You review reports.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 13, 2021

3 Ways to Set up New Senior-Level Hires for Success in a Hypergrowth Start-Up How we’re doing it at monday.com Created by the author Successfully retaining senior managers is challenging in hypergrowth start-ups like monday.com. External hires can add new energy and a fresh perspective to your start-up.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

We also publish a lot of (free) investor reports and startup guides, and we have a weekly newsletter that goes out to 85k subscribers. One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. However, the challenge with this two-sided market is: how do you get the investors to show up?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

The ecosystem building process can be nonlinear and multidimensional, and there is a need for measurements that are responsive to complexity and change. To advance metrics and methods for this field, we need more dialogue and stronger feedback loops between researchers and ecosystem builders. It is ephemeral and vague. Metrics do that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

And I think of it as a failure of Silicon Valley startups (and occasionally SV VCs who lack an understanding of enterprise purchasing) to assume you don’t need a sales process and sales reps. What does it mean for the purchasing process to be aligned? Well think of it this way – you have your sales process. Beware of crocodile salesmen.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

As the stock market cooled last year, it led to a dearth of startup IPOs. The Wall Street Journal reports that Klaviyo , the Boston-based marketing automation startup that has raised more than $775 million, is going to pull the trigger later this year. That could be about to change. billion valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Nearly every startup I have spoken to over the years – including some where I’m a co-investor – talks positively about the support they’ve gotten from A16Z. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Make room for yet another preventative health play: Spotify founder Daniel Ek officially confirmed rumors of his new “health tech” startup, Neko, Friday by quietly kicking off a body scanning service in Sweden (via Tech EU ) after four years of stealthy development.

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

Most offices, whether at a big company or at a startup, allow employees to work at home from time to time. On the whole, allowing work from home offers most companies and startups positive outcomes, but it's a policy that's best used with constraints and standards.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Every branch of science is increasingly reliant on big data sets and analysis, which means a growing confusion of formats and platforms — more than inconvenient, this can hinder the process of peer review and replication of research. Certainly there’s an air of “Too many options? Try this one!”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2016

If anyone has given you tips about starting your own business, they’re sure to have missed something, too. To be a successful entrepreneur, you have to take the rough with the smooth, and know where to place your valuable, but limited, resources. Here’s what I’ve learned from 19 years of experience: 1. Be prepared for tough times.

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