TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Essentially, VC is a high-stakes extreme sport in which top players can accumulate startling amounts of wealth and power. But where does all that money actually come from, and how do VCs actually make money? “Once you’re on the VC-fueled treadmill, you can’t easily step back off,” he writes. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Andy Areitio is a partner at the early-stage fund TheVentureCity , a new venture and acceleration model that helps diverse founders achieve global impact. Fundraising is distracting for founders and can even hurt their company in the early days. Founders tend to make a series of classic mistakes when raising funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

The unprecedented liquidity that has entered the venture market in the past year has spurred several trends that require VCs to adapt to a more competitive environment where startup founders have far more leverage than they did in the past.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Register Hailing from Singapore, Jeshua Soh is a young and dynamic angel investor who has woven a narrative that curves through unconventional education, accidental entrepreneurship, and a globetrotting escapade to over 55 countries across five continents. In the early stages, it’s really all about the founder/founding team.”

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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. In an interview with AsiaTechDaily, Koh emphasises the importance of founders taking an active role in the fundraising process. Another common mistake founders make when raising capital is mishandling equity.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we share: Why your pitch deck has one minute to sell investors on your startup The 7 types of startup founder, and why it matters to you Let’s do this. So how do you sell a VC in a minute (or less)?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Farmers don’t get embarrassed when the price of corn drops; similarly, there’s no reason for startup founders to lose their joy because publicly traded tech stocks are undercutting their valuations. Cram downs are a character test for VCs and founders. Cram downs are a character test for VCs and founders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

And so, generally, the people who invested in tech companies — the traditional venture investors — could tap their extended talent networks and apply their knowledge to bring talented people into startups, or at least coach the founders on how to select the right talent to scale and grow. It’s a great time to be a founder.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Leah Edwards is a passionate fan and connector in technology and impact, a lecturer at UC Berkeley and Stanford and a partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures , a Silicon Valley-based VC firm. As a partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures , I’m aware that the VC industry boasts about finding teams with outlying and industry-changing ideas.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

Exploring Shaun Gold’s Entrepreneurial Journey as Nightlife Ninja, Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author, and VC I had the pleasure of interviewing Shaun Gold. He is a successful entrepreneur, VC, 2x best-selling author, speaker, super connector to startups and standouts, Jeopardy contestant, and screenwriter/executive producer.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 18, 2022

You won’t believe how VCs decide which startups to fund Aaron Dinin, PhD teaches entrepreneurship at Duke. He also teaches us something new about the startup/VC world every week in his column. This week, he shed some light on what venture capitalists might look for when they invest in a startup.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

And we know this matters because entrepreneurship can address rising wealth inequality and offer a path to upward mobility and building generational wealth. 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? It’s not an afterthought. “In

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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

MAY 29, 2021

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. But who’s talking about the power of exits to change the playing field for diverse founders?

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. As such, VCs have to consider a number of factors when choosing which companies or entrepreneurs in whom to invest.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

As the name implies, the new fund will focus on investing in women, as well as other historically excluded founders “of all ages, life stages, ethnicities and sexual orientations,” the company says. “Peanut’s StartHER fund opens the door to founders looking for that early funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Mike Myer is CEO and founder of Quiq , a startup building a new customer service platform that allows customers to interact with companies via text messaging as easily as they would with their friends. In 20 years of working for startups, I’ve never seen as many plot twists and turns as I have in the last several months.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship. Like, a hiring bounty system.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Just because there are no shortcuts to startup success doesn’t mean you have to reinvent the wheel. While both TC Early Stage bootcamps focus on startups in the very early innings, each event will feature different topics, content and experts. What’s more, you’ll learn from the best of the best.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For the uninitiated, TC Early Stage is our annual founder summit. Workshops, breakouts and roundtables — led by established founders, leading subject-matter experts and VCs — cover core entrepreneurial topics across fundraising, marketing and operations. Check out the agenda ! Each breakout occurs once during the event.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. She now recognizes the need to have co-founders.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

In my additional role as a mentor, I help these startups get investment-ready in the program. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman once said, “Starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling the plane on the way down.”. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Tech investors born after 1996 “have raised funds, garnered social media followings and profited from the Gen Z mentality,” says Andrew Chan, a senior associate at Builders VC. A Gen Z VC speaks up: Why Gen Z VCs are trash. 6 ways to make sure your startup is using the right GTM model. “Good for them.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. It’s a city of unicorns and tech giants.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Still, most startups persist in releasing products aimed at serving younger users, says Lawrence Kosick, co-founder of GetSetUp, an edtech company that targets 50+ learners. 3 lies VCs tell ourselves about startup valuations. The tortoise and the hare’ story is playing out right now in VC.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The Series A round has become a serious milestone for startups, new data shows how to get it done. Created by DocSend By Russ Heddleston , Co-Founder and CEO of DocSend As a founder, you have many “firsts” to look forward to on your journey to entrepreneurial success?—?from starting during or before your Seed raise.

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StartupNation

MARCH 2, 2021

We turned to Jeff Sloan from WJR’s Business Beat and the founder and CEO of StartupNation. And we should point out too, that entrepreneurship isn’t necessarily just the big idea. And so, you know, we tend to look at those very rare, marginal examples as what entrepreneurship is all about. I mean, this is in his wheelhouse.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 12, 2023

I thought I was building an exciting piece of technology, but I was really building a huge pile of problems. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

All the participants are running some type of program or space to support startup entrepreneurs or build the startup community in their region, from running accelerators and co-working spaces, to startup meetup groups, student entrepreneurship groups, and maker spaces, as well as University faculty and Government policy makers.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

5 myths to avoid on the 1st leg of your entrepreneurship journey What you don’t have to eat to pursue your passion (Image from WikiMedia Commons) There is a path to entrepreneurship promoted in Hollywood and there is a path for the rest of us. AirBnB, Apple, Tinder, and Pandora were built by non-technical founders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Startups and VC. If you’re a startup founder, money – specifically, your own wages – can be a sticky point. Meanwhile, Connie talked with Sequoia’s Jess Lee to get a deeper understanding of how VC companies think about their deals. A founder’s guide to calculating CAC and LTV the right way.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections. The pressures facing first-time founders are enormous. ” What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist. Getting to the bottom of UiPath’s plunging valuation. Be 10x better.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

“As a startup founder, how do you prevent leakage after spending significant resources to acquire people at the top of the funnel?” ” The investors I’ve spoken to recently are still open to good ideas, but when they come from founders who are already working toward product-market fit, it boosts their confidence.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Andrius Milinavicius , founder, Baltic Sandbox. Jone Vaituleviciute , partner, Startup Wise Guys. 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. Who are the key startup people in your city (e.g.,

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Sesie Bonsi.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I try to take time out of my week to occasionally meet with startup founders – even those that haven’t been introduced. I’m a university student working on a project on entrepreneurship - could you help? He has a startup. Can you please intro me to XYZ VC? This guy was a hustler. Should you?

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