TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

The first two years of the pandemic boosted e-commerce, but Simon Wu, a partner at Cathay Innovation, has identified three factors that are now creating strong headwinds for online retailers: Increasing economic uncertainty. 4 negotiation points startup founders must focus on in a down market. iOS social media privacy updates.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Michael Dion , Chief Finance Nerd, F9 Finance Leverage Tax Credits and Robust Payroll Systems One critical tax obligation that startups should be aware of is payroll taxes, which include federal and state income taxes, Social Security, and Medicare taxes that need to be withheld from employees’ wages.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It had been written that NYC was built by industries of zero sum games like finance and real estate, and that DNA wouldn’t work in the startup community. Startup founders always need help. What I would say isn’t as important—for one, government intervention directly into the startup community. You need both.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

We’ll be talking operations, hiring, fundraising and more, hitting on key topics for a new generation of startup founders. What is a fresh innovation in venture land, however, is building a new fund or firm in public. How can founders who don’t fit the Hollywood or HBO stereotype use their experiences to their benefit?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With the latest financing, San Francisco-based Vouch has now raised a total of $160 million since its 2018 inception. To Vouch co-founder and CEO Sam Hodges, the ability to attract some of the highest-profile businesses in the startup world speaks to the company’s understanding of the startup ecosystem. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

War Stories with Founder Equity and Cap Tables Speaker: Sam Wong, CEO, Fundable Startups How the Fortune 500 Is Buying AI Software — or Not!

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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. Von Tobel joined the management team of Northwestern Mutual as the company’s first chief digital officer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As part of the announcement, Raghunandan said two-month-old Zolve has raised $15 million in a seed financing round led by Accel and Lightspeed. So did Founder Collective (which has backed Airtable and Uber), in what is its first investment in an Indian startup.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

A number of local governments have also implemented programs to help startups. If you’re a startup founder ready to gain the tools you need to get to the next level, check out the EO Accelerator program. What happens when the entrepreneurial spirit and sense of innovation diminish?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. Because you have a unitary focus on financing your company or you die you seem not to miss a beat in thinking about the last meeting and the funder has been whipsawed in 20 directions. everything.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. Embedded finance connects services like payment processing with everyday activities like grabbing a coffee before unlocking an e-scooter. ” From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. Just how bad is that hack that hit US government agencies?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“Yoon has been a Venture Investor and strategic partner to many Silicon Valley startups/founders for 18 years prior to Muirwoods. “Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii. ” Expert panel of judges.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

According to Tsai, 2022 will see web3 going mainstream, more capital flowing to underestimated founders, and broader investments in regions that have traditionally been overlooked. All signs point to a continued abundance of opportunities for startup founders and investors in the year ahead.”. Financial technology concept.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 15, 2019

One of the reasons I write this column each week is to help people who don’t live and breathe the innovation economy every day, to hear, see, and know how committed Oklahoma is to entrepreneurs and their success. Oklahoma’s Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP) program is a case in point.

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Onevest

APRIL 21, 2015

By Michael Whitehouse If you are considering investing in a startup company offline or online with platforms like 1000 Angels , a private investor network that connects startups with investors, the sheer number of what’s available can be both daunting and comforting.

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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. I was mainly educated in accounting and finance. Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

We’re only two weeks away from TC Sessions: Justice 2021 , a virtual conference focused on making diversity, equity, inclusion and labor as integral to tech as data, software engineers, startups and venture capital. Just look at this speaker lineup. TC Sessions: Justice 2021 takes place on March 3.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Some of of that growth has been fueled by an exodus from the Bay Area, but many early-stage security startups already have deep roots in East Coast cities like Boston and New York. In the United Kingdom and Europe, government innovation programs have helped entrepreneurs close higher numbers of Series A and B rounds. citizenship!

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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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Y Combinator

JUNE 25, 2021

It is also certainly correct that raising capital is extremely important to early-stage startup companies as they finance their product development and the growth they plan and hope for. And YC is CRISPR for startups. Startup founders with epic potential join YC.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

I posed a question to twenty-one other founders, across many different industries from media to finance, from SaaS to urban farming. The question I asked them was this: If you could go back in time and give your younger self some advice just as you were starting your founder journey, what would you say?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Offering consumers affordable options for high-end clothing and accessories is innovative, but Rent the Runway’s recent IPO filing makes the company’s “overall business profile” look “unsteady,” writes Alex Wilhelm in today’s edition of The Exchange. Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market. founder Manu Bansal.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

This, despite research suggesting that immigrants contribute 40% more to innovation than local inventors. What these foreign entrepreneurs most need is confidence, role models and success stories proving other people who look like them have made it, especially when those founders are making waves in the same industry as them.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

According to Griffith, the 90% failure myth serves to soothe the bruised egos of those startup founders who failed. But startup failure isn’t a natural law like gravity,” says Griffith. SOLUTION : Create the right mix of people who can come up with innovative ideas and people who know how to execute on those ideas.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Dana Stalder, a partner at Matrix Partners and Afterpay’s only institutional investor, describes the deal as part of a recurring “critical innovation cycle” in fintech that “determines the winners and losers” for decades to come. Can your startup support a research-based workflow?

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Assess Your Professional Skills: Take an inventory of existing skills that can be used when starting up a business apply to a startup that includes sales, marketing, operations, financing, human resources, hiring, communication networking, problem-solving, and more. There are two types of startups: replicative and innovative.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.” ” “After 3 and a half years of fusing my self-worth with the success of the company in the crucible of startup survival, it was impossible to tear them apart without pain.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

It is like a 3 month boot camp for startups. Ycombinator brings in the most successful startup founders to share their experiences building startups. They bring in experts in legal, finance, marketing, business development, design, engineering, advertising, growth hacking, and other areas.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The fund has partnered with World Innovation Lab (WiL), a Silicon Valley- and Japan-based venture capital firm with roughly $1.5 The Silicon Valley Innovation Lab works directly with the CVC team to drive business development activities between portfolio companies and Tokio Marine companies post-investment,” Pretre said. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Via email, he told me: “Over the last 7 years running Fintech, Crypto and Loyalty at Visa, we have been focused on how Fintech companies innovate on Visa’s global payment rails. It marked PayPay Ventures’ first check into a MENA startup, and is also indicative of the exploding fintech scene in the region. Funding and M&A.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Lena Hardy , Intuitive Career Coach, Intuitive Clarity Coaching Develop Comprehensive Product Suites In my journey as a startup founder, spanning two decades and three ventures, I’ve learned a pivotal lesson that often eludes many first-time founders. However, the startup landscape demands a more holistic approach.

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Startup Blogpost

APRIL 7, 2023

From using the slowdown to innovate to seizing the opportunity to recruit talent cheaper, here are 10 answers to the question, “What are some effective ways a startup can benefit from a recession?” Overall, the success of startups during a recession can, in general, be significantly influenced by innovation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

million financing into the ultra-high-resolution 3D printing company that can print finely enough to aid in semiconductor and display manufacturing. . The fund’s LPs include family offices, asset managers, enterprises and small businesses, along with existing portfolio startup founders. The firm led the $9.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. CincyTech is a local early-stage public private funding entity that pools together capital from local high-net-worth individuals with local community money who want not only returns on capital but also local jobs and innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. You have these archetypal startup founders. Comp sci in the 80s was terrible.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. Startup founders will work with Google engineers and receive mentoring from over 20 teams at Google, as well as outside experts and local mentors. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Mulago Foundation Rainer Arnhold Fellowship. Notley Ventures. Skoll Foundation.

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