Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Safe & Secure Full secure payment environment, refund if the startup doesnt complete sufficient fundraising. View events Visit our Academy Startup Survival Guide Our Startup Survival Guide blog series helps you find investors & t.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Safe & Secure Full secure payment environment, refund if the startup doesnt complete sufficient fundraising. View events Visit our Academy Startup Survival Guide Our Startup Survival Guide blog series helps you find investors & t.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With a minimum investment of $7,000 and additional units in increments of $5,500, SDAC is ideal for new angel investors who want to gain hands-on experience and learn via workshops, meetings, and presentations. Passive investors can invest without attending meetings or participating in due diligence, or the voting process. We ‘get to yes!’

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Successful startup founders do not spring fully formed from the head of whatever god or goddess keeps tabs on entrepreneurs. Here’s the great news — TechCrunch Early Stage, taking place April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts, is designed to help both early and future founders accelerate the learning curve.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. Don’t wait…the early bird gets the…SAVINGS: Buy a $249 founder pass and save $200 before prices increase on April 1 — that’s no joke. Here are just a few examples of the topics we have on tap.

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

San Francisco, and the associated Bay Area, is home to Silicon Valley – the epicentre of startup activity – where an estimated 27,000 startups and 15,000 investors operate in an area roughly equivalent to the the Brisbane-to-Gold Coast region, and with a population of roughly 7 million people. Startups are still generally male domains.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Tom Shields, Executive Recruiter & Founder of Shields Group Search , a search firm specializing in supporting the hiring needs of early-stage startups. Before founding Shields Group Search, Thomas hired the founders of companies for a VC studio at the inception stage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. Don’t wait…the early bird gets the…SAVINGS: Buy a $249 founder pass and save $200 before prices increase on April 1 — that’s no joke. Here are just a few examples of the topics we have on tap.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

days of programming last month, we presented a series of mainstage exchanges, interactive experiences and tactical workshops that could help our founders continue to build and ultimately scale great businesses all across the country. Every startup story sits at the intersection of technology and art.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When you are the founder of a young startup, it is always very hard to gauge the right amount of effort to dedicate to marketing. I always knew I wanted to find some way to help founders and innovators get their great ideas out into the world. How do you collaborate with startups?

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Austin, Texas, is becoming the new home for large companies (Tesla), investors and startups alike. . It is now also the new home for Tim Draper’s newest initiative to help support early-stage founders: Draper Startup House Accelerator Program. Backed by Draper, of course, the program will launch in April 2022.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2022

The event, which showcased the firm’s portfolio of 21 companies, combined panel discussions, workshops, and pitching sessions, which were organized around four key themes: life tech, community economy, supply chain transformation, and breakthrough vision.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Build Relationships : Because an entrepreneur typically spends a lot of their time working alone, particularly during the startup period, they must seek out and build relationships that are important for long-term success. Centers of Entrepreneurship often host workshops, conferences, competitions, and online training courses.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

To help our founders in transition , some of which are interested in becoming scouts. Our goal is to invest in, coinvest with, and/or recruit founders in transition. At the same time, to respect founders’ time, scouts should mention their real ability to make an investment happen. Just confusing minority founders even more.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 13, 2014

After leaving Google, I discovered startups are more open and collaborative with their learning than most large companies. At conferences, events and coffee meetings, startup founders and employees freely share many of the insights into product design, marketing, customer success, and engineering best practices.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley). One event held by a few investors focused on Black founders is clearly not enough.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Education, support and sage advice are arguably as essential to startup success as fundraising. Find all that — and connect with your early-founder community — at TC Early Stage 2021. Each event features a distinct lineup of startup experts, topics, workshops and interactive Q&As.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

, it’s time to map out strategies to transform your early-stage startup dream into reality. If there’s one thing every early founder needs it’s information, and you’ll find it in abundance at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021. Think of it as a condensed accelerator experience packed with workshops and highly interactive Q&As.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

It’s a two-day deep dive featuring the best, brightest and most intriguing founders, engineers, investors, regulators and technologists dedicated to transforming the way we move people and packages around the globe! TC Sessions: Mobility is back and raring to go big — returning live and in-person — for year number four.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

It’s a two-day deep dive featuring the best, brightest and most intriguing founders, engineers, investors, regulators and technologists dedicated to transforming the way we move people and packages around the globe! TC Sessions: Mobility is back and raring to go big — returning live and in-person — for year number four.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

It’s a two-day deep dive featuring the best, brightest and most intriguing founders, engineers, investors, regulators and technologists dedicated to transforming the way we move people and packages around the globe! TC Sessions: Mobility is back and raring to go big — returning live and in-person — for year number four.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

On a recent winter morning in New Delhi, Rajan Anandan and Pieter Kemps were pacing on the floor of a five-star hotel, quizzing a group of over two dozen young startup founders about their goals. One founder set eyes on getting the most downloads in the mobile gaming category.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a mere 72 hours, early bird pricing disappears for TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 , our two-part, founder bootcamp series focused on the building blocks you need to grow your company. TC Early Stage is all about helping new startup founders (pre-seed through Series A) learn the essential skills required to build a successful startup.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the process of finding, funding, and supporting startups that will transform their markets, investors can get caught up in KPIs, ROI, and other three-letter success indicators. Founders are not machines. Thankfully, as mental health continues to lose its stigma, more founders are opening up about their experiences.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ahuja is a serial entrepreneur, co-founder at X10 and founder of Byond Travel. At the 2019 Web Summit , Ahuja joined a delegation of 16 EO members from 11 countries to lead workshops and speed mentoring sessions. He is also the founder of Byond Travel , Asia’s largest platform for expert-led adventures. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

If you haven’t heard yet, there’s a new and awesome opportunity available for early-stage startup founders at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on October 18-20. It’s called the Startup Battlefield 200 , and it’s packed with perks and possibilities. But don’t let that stop you.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

For the last 20 years, Ajay’s worked with early-stage founders to build companies from seed to unicorn such as SendGrid, Clari, Gainsight, FourKites, 6sense, and Bloomreach. For the uninitiated, TC Early Stage is our annual founder summit. Ajay has been an instrumental investor since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Our founder-focused summit, TechCrunch Early Stage , is back in-person this April in San Francisco! Whether you dream of becoming a startup founder, marketer or event coordinator, this is a great way to see what it takes to produce a world-renowned startup event.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Leverage Edu said Tomorrow Capital led the Delhi-headquartered startup’s Series A financing round. Today, the startup offers a broad range of services in addition to offering personalized mentorship. Existing investors Blume Ventures and DSG Consumer Partners also participated in the round. “It’s one digital dashboard.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Early-stage startup founders, listen up! If you want to be considered for the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco, time is running out. It’s a curated cohort of 200 early-stage startups selected by our highly discerning editorial team. A shot at competing in Startup Battlefield.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 21, 2020

The i2E e3 Series helps Oklahoma startup founders perform market validation of their ideas and solutions before they start creating products that their customers may not want to buy. During e3, LaManque, along with co-founders Andres Gonzalez and Troy Smith, developed efficient and reliable methods to test customer interest levels.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 21, 2020

The i2E e3 Series helps Oklahoma startup founders perform market validation of their ideas and solutions before they start creating products that their customers may not want to buy. During e3, LaManque, along with co-founders Andres Gonzalez and Troy Smith, developed efficient and reliable methods to test customer interest levels.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In the past few months, I’ve spoken with over a dozen Startup founders. As the co-founder of Ignition Point Strategies , he moves SaaS founders from early traction to growth by using data to create a deeper understanding of your customer. Zac is also a sought-after speaker and workshop facilitator.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

If you’re an aspiring or newly minted founder, you’ll find invaluable information, guidance and support — at an early-bird price you can afford — during TechCrunch Early Stage , a one-day founder summit on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts. Don’t let an uncertain economy sideline your startup dreams.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

TechCrunch Early Stage — our premier event designed for budding entrepreneurs and founders at the very start of their startup journey — returns by popular demand on April 20, 2023. You’ll engage with the experts and other founders and get real-time feedback about issues facing your company.

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