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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

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. It’s still a great time to be a startup founder.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

I am doubtful that I could ever be a venture-backed startup founder. Guess that’s why I’m a journalist and not a startup founder! VCs clamor to fund real estate investing startups. But Zelle , a digital payment network owned by seven major banks, isn’t so protective of its users. Funding and M&A.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

TechCrunch Live (formerly Extra Crunch Live) has been incredibly educational over the past few months. TechCrunch Live is specifically designed to help founders build better venture-backed businesses. What questions did the founders answer that made the VCs want to learn more? What metrics are the investors looking at?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

Talent – in a world where startup founders are rewarded handsomely for taking risks of building their own startup companies and where the press shines a brighter light on them, much of the early-stage company traction will come from startups. I described that here in this post. “ And my fear?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Register Startup founders looking to attract investors need to show proof of an outstanding team and must be realistic with their valuation numbers, said Bernard Moon , Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Group , a South Korean accelerator and fund network. What mistakes do you see founders make when raising money?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

You know, the equivalent of the three educational “Rs,” but instead for mobile. Startups and VC Card collectors often dispute how much their cards are worth. Ron takes a look at how Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders. New Jersey–based CollX raises $5.5 Pahk the Cah, etc. :

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

What does it say when we tell them their ideas and dreams are unworthy because they don’t fit into some narrow model of a startup founder? Kate went on to explain the importance of laying a strong foundation by educating ourselves and listening to the perspectives of others in order to understand their needs. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

TechCrunch Events Networking Platform Mobile App is now available. Web-Based Networking Platform: The web version of the networking platform can be accessed via an activation email sent to attendees’ inboxes. Getting to Yes and What Happens Next: An Unfiltered Chat with a Top VC , with Mayfield. 2:00 p.m. –

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Regardless of how groundbreaking their product idea might be, immigrant Americans will always be more wary of putting their eggs into the entrepreneurship basket, at least as long as 93% of all VC money continues to be controlled by white men.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We seek to have our investor landscape as diverse as possible, so we are working toward gender equality in VC and other important diversity causes to accomplish that. VC investors: Rokas Peciulaitis (Contrarian Ventures). Jone Vaituleviciute, Dmitrij Susunov (Startup Wise Guys). Who are the key startup people in your city (e.g.,

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I’m now researching non-dilutive funding for Action Tank , a startup I’m gestating to “Make America Functional Again”. I suggest start by looking at the many programs offered by the Fortune 500’s startup networks.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

Monica was glad to get back to her Jackson-Square office dry, clutching her daily cappuccino from the coffee truck around the corner, especially as she’d left her umbrella at last night’s networking event which she’d attended with her co-founder, Joe. That’s what the VC guy, Albert, told me was the benchmark for saas companies like us.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. We then spoke about startups. Oh, yeah.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I’m now researching non-dilutive funding for Action Tank , a startup I’m gestating to “Make America Functional Again”. I suggest start by looking at the many programs offered by the Fortune 500’s startup networks.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. How much are you focused on investing in your local ecosystem versus other startup hubs (or everywhere) in general? Great global market access: EU networks, foreign investments, etc. More than 50%? The EV home charger Easee is a company to watch.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? She has a quote from literally every major VC from whom you’d want to hear. And many of the best women founders. ” [it's short, you should read it].

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. Vidit is co-founder and CEO of Meesho. Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. These are educated women but handicapped so no one ever gave them jobs.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

First and foremost that means eliminating the requirement for warm intros which makes those people already in my network, who statistically tend to look like me, the gatekeepers. And only then can you put asks out every single day to get the pitches from the smartest people in their network and expect it to look different.

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