StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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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. The comparison of a startup ecosystem to the biological version is, of course, not a new one. And YC is CRISPR for startups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Non-traditional startup founder to an angel investor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

In less than 24 hours, thousands of new startup founders from around the world will tune in to day one of TC Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising. Want to build a better startup? Buy your ticket , join your community and learn the best startup practices from those who earned their expertise by doing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A year later, the credit card giant balked at the deal after it attracted regulatory scrutiny, but Ryan Lawler reports that “the year wasn’t a total loss for the data connectivity startup.” Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

. + This post unpacks offers an insiders’ view of some of the key strategic decisions that led to Techstars’ decline. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs. Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

But as we know, the startup world is evolving, and that means the impact of investment is no longer limited to how much money is made. The impact of an exit is greater when it shows foreign entrepreneurs that there are globally minded organizations helping startups like theirs get equal access to funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Independent sponsors (groups seeking to acquire a company which do not have the equity financing needed in advance) earn nothing upfront, but earn 20% of the deals they facilitate. Similarly, certain Revenue-Based Finance investors (e.g., I heard that from THREE founders today.”. HOW MUCH MONEY CAN YOU EARN? Female Founded Club.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. This is because most of the capital in Africa for promising startups is typically distributed among many investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Local investors tend to invest 50% to 90% of their fund into local startups, “but we do look at deal flow in all Nordic countries,” said one. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? Which areas are either oversaturated or would be too hard to compete in at this point for a new startup?

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