StartupNation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Entrepreneurs, business leaders, and innovators possess a unique driving force that pushes them to be the best version of themselves in order to elicit change in the world. I wasn’t ready for the disparities that I saw (when it came to) opportunity for people, whether it was education or quality of housing or access to government services.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Ashley Bittner , founding partner, Firework Ventures (a future of work fund with portfolio companies LearnIn and TransfrVR). Jomayra Herrera , principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education). Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth. Just as the $2.4B

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. Fong’s Capitale Ventures is an investment and advisory group with expertise in complex, cross-border transactions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A founding partner at Cowboy Ventures, Aileen Lee leads a team that backs seed-stage technology companies reimagining work and life through technology, what they call “life 2.0.” Tisch is the chairman of Good Dog, a marketplace to find pets online, and is the co-founder of Techstars NY. David Tisch , managing partner at BoxGroup.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. To accomplish this, entrepreneurs should answer the following three questions in preparation for buyers to come knocking: How scalable are my systems? Beyond educating potential advisors, these discussions often yield valuable industry insights.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

. “We are convinced that startups will continue to be key in providing the innovation required to finally bring the digital world to the real world, and that they will help produce industrial goods in a sustainable manner and thus strengthen supply chains and tackle climate change.”. Somehow we just ended up in VC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Now we’re very much a data-driven, thesis-driven outbound firm, where we’re reaching out to entrepreneurs soon after they’ve started their companies or gotten seed financing. Thousands of startup founders will resume the trek around Silicon Valley VC offices, once the vaccines arrive. Image Credits: Brighteye Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders 5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem The startup economy has grown and shifted since the turn of the century, and universities — stocked with a never-ending supply smart, ambitious young people — have increasingly taken part.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

competitiveness in the focus areas by improving education in such areas and attracting more students to such areas; and (3) foster the impact of federally funded research and development through accelerated translation of advances in the focus areas into processes and products that help achieve national goals.”. Then you have a role to play.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

She decided to start a bootcamp to train women to be virtual assistants, to analyze data and essentially be the right-hand person for an entrepreneur. She then decided to drop out of school and focus on the company, which was becoming a service startup founders would use. This is especially relevant as 1.1

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Preparatory steps are needed in order for a startup to be successful. This Guide is for the aspiring business owner and entrepreneur for the purpose of spuring thinking and investigation that will lead to the creation of a business plan followed by the business launch. Starting a business is very difficult. How do you match up?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

was a short-lived boom, but it gave entrepreneurs a better understanding of climate tech, which in turn, has fostered more confidence among investors: 2021 saw a 400% YoY increase in round sizes for startups in this sector. Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders. Cleantech 1.0 Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

European and North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. Pre-pandemic, VCs were notoriously reluctant to invest in education-related companies. Today, edtech startups are seeing higher average deal sizes, more seed and pre-seed funding from non-VC investors, and an influx of generalists.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Allan Jones dropped out of college and spent a decade learning how to run a startup. In 2016, that education resulted in the launch of Los Angeles-based Bambee , which helps small companies by acting as their HR department with the goal of keeping them in compliance with government rules and regulations. I don’t think so.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company? Acquihires and Venture Capital. in their 20′s.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders. The old saying, “build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” does not apply to startups in the sexual wellness category. Pleasure has a very large TAM, but “vice clauses” prevent many VC firms from even considering a sex tech startup.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In five years, respondents said the city and country will continue to generate and attract great tech startups, but also tech talent and entrepreneurs. managing director, The Lithuanian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Andrius Milinavicius , founder, Baltic Sandbox. nas, partner, Open Circle Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. But what about those minority founders who don’t have family, friends or connections to lean on for the first $250,000? hit nearly $1.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Many in the startup world said it was still good, basically because most any ambitious startup effort leads to progress. Let’s be honest: Most startups fail. Most entrepreneurs are never going to make it. That doesn’t mean no one should build a startup, or pursue their passions and dreams.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

But who’s talking about the power of exits to change the playing field for diverse founders? We must consider the psychological motivation of seeing a huge buyout on other entrepreneurs, what that startup’s ex-team members go on to build, and what the achievements of one citizen does for that nation’s reputation. Wealth effect.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

” Ian Chiu, Owl Ventures. Shauntel Garvey and Jennifer Carolan, Reach Capital. Jan Lynn-Matern, Emerge Education. Jomayra Hererra, Cowboy Ventures. B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups. Education = knowledge transfer + social + signaling. David Eichler, TCV.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. And there you have it.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

They’re taking place right now somewhere in the startup and corporate worlds, in small companies and large, from the Bay area to Boston, Berlin, Barcelona, and beyond! As a VC and Board member, I am usually involved in this topic thanks to my experience as an entrepreneur and business operator.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Early-stage entrepreneurs who are eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s monthly burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market. But easy money can create special pressure for early-stage founders, according to Lightup.ai

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The Nordic countries make up just 4% of Europe’s total population, but they account for a significant amount of venture capital investment. Not a bad thing, but as a result, there are few “hungry” tech entrepreneurs. That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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