Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Assembling a startup team is harder than assembling 10 IKEA dressers, and the stakes are much, much higher. Starting with the assumption that 90% of startups will fail and the most successful ones take an average of six years to IPO, founders must make careful decisions about whom they invite to join the core team. His initial advice?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Today, in a twist, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has announced a proposal for a $10 million allocation in the state budget to create a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. It’s a known fact that the number of venture dollars flowing to Black and Latinx founders is dismally low.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The NJIEF is unique to New Jersey because of its self-sustaining model, designed to create a continuous loop of investment and mentorship,” said New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. The NJIEF, launched in 2022, is a groundbreaking tool to increase access to strategic resources and venture capital in New Jersey.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 3, 2019

Santoro attended the 2019 Startup Grind Global as an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ambassador and mentor. After the Startup Grind Global conference, he took time to reflect on the lessons he learned from the many early-stage entrepreneurs he spoke with. We share his thoughts below. . What an amazing venue—the old Fox Theatre!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. Jim raised another venture fund as did I at Upfront Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Not to mention a slew of smaller yet ambitious startups like Mentor Collective, which matches students to mentors based on their backgrounds, Medley , which offers leadership courses, and Curious Cardinals, which helps younger students navigate higher ed. So, do we really need another startup?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2021

Kathryn is well-placed to shares insights about black founders and how they are faring in the world of venture capital and entrepreneurship. Twenty-seven years into her career at Accenture, she’s with Accenture Ventures , the venture capital firm of the global business. That is unprecedented.”. she tells Ramon.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem. More posts by this contributor.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 4, 2023

Register Former executives of Fave, Joel Neoh and Audra Pakalnyte, have joined forces to launch First Move, an early-stage fund specifically focused on supporting startups that cater to consumers in Southeast Asia. “As founders ourselves, at First Move, we go beyond capital injection.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We We strive to invest in companies that are consciously working to create a diverse leadership team?—?one Ours is: upfront.com/inclusion.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma, Leadership Oklahoma City, and is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Oklahoma City. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma? Women business leaders have created mentorship networks to help support a culture of innovation and risk-taking.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Ariane de Bonvoisin is an executive coach to top CEOs, startup founders and VCs. She has keynoted the Oprah conference, given a TED talk, and been invited to Google, Amazon, the World Bank, Union Square Ventures and Red Bull to teach about navigating change and founder and startup wellness. Share on Twitter.

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Feedough

JANUARY 6, 2021

10+ years back, when I started my first venture, I vividly remember – multi-tasking and working around the clock to meet the demands of running a business. With no mentorship or formal studies to support my endeavor, I struggled. I want to list a fact: 8 out of 10 startups fail. So how do you get that edge?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. In this role you’ll need to provide mentorship and technical guidance to individual team members as well as get hands-on in helping to maintain and improve on our products. It wants to click.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 22, 2019

Mentorship is one of the keys to success in business. It can open doors for women in the workplace and put more women on the path to leadership roles. Mentorship is important at every stage of a woman’s career, whether she’s just starting out or is a CEO. Seek Mentorship From Men and Women. Increased confidence.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

6) SoGoal Foundation Black Founder Startup Grant. It is a funding source that is only applicable to startups owned by black women or black nonbinary entrepreneurs. To date, this venture capital firm has invested over $7 million in more than 130 businesses led by these underrepresented founders. Website: [link].

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Before fintechs became the standouts of the African tech ecosystem, it was startups in the online logistics and transport space in Africa linking on-demand apps to move people and goods around the continent that was all the rave. Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises $30M backed by Goldman Sachs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. Along with the growing number of Islamic fintech startups digitizing the process, Islamic-compliant services are becoming accessible to more people.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

So to hear that there’s an effort to help more comms people trade notes, share stories and prepare curated responses, I have the selfish worry that we’ll have less vulnerability coming from founders and executives around the startup world. In other words, its clients aren’t startups; it is the head of comms within a startup.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to former employees of human resources startup Free Agency, CEO Sherveen Mashayekhi’s leadership style is holding the startup back as he seems to care more about demanding loyalty and controlling his employees than building a company. This left Mashayekhi as the sole C-suite executive at the company.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! I’m now researching non-dilutive funding for Action Tank , a startup I’m gestating to “Make America Functional Again”.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Kate Ryder , CEO and Founder of Maven Clinic – A unicorn-valued startup transforming digital healthcare. Henry Ward , CEO and Founder of Carta – A paradigm-changing unicorn specializing in capitalization table management and valuation software. Notably, Twilio recently became a publicly-traded corporation. Just as the $2.4B

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! I’m now researching non-dilutive funding for Action Tank , a startup I’m gestating to “Make America Functional Again”.

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