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. It’s fair to say that the Seattle startup community would not be where it is today without Techstars.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

Startups are always risky, so jeopardizing your personal relationships a risk you should avoid if possible. Startup competitions. Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding. You can find startup competitions in various places throughout the world at just about any time of the year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2016

The two founded Reddit in 2005, sold it to Conde Nast a year later, spent several years working on other ventures–and, in Ohanian’s case, doing a lot of Internet advocacy in Washington, D.C.–before –before coming back to lead Reddit. Great founders don’t quit, but do adapt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. 7 questions to ask before relocating your startup to Florida.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Yes, today was the second day of pitches from Y Combinator , a U.S. startup accelerator with global outreach that conducts demo days twice a year. And we’re back! This year’s Summer 2022 cohort gave us hundreds of batch companies to consider.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about chief inspiration officers, growing startup accelerators and a rare buzz we’re hearing about one tech company and its public market wishes. The 45-year old venture firm closed in on a $6.2 Recursive Ventures, a San Francisco-based firm investing in U.S. This should be fun.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Kim said in an interview with TechCrunch that as the program focuses on early-stage seed startups, some teams pivot or change their business focus as they try to find product market fit (PMF). . Not all teams end up pitching at demo day. SparkLabs launches $50M fund for promising early-stage startups in Korea.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Attending a remote startup accelerator is absolutely worth it. The 17 startups presenting today were whittled down from 1,850 applicants, according to the accelerator. As far as elevator pitches go, Publica may have the best one of the show. Publica is Shopify for Digital Content.”

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

But to make sure that the startup idea can result in a profitable business, an entrepreneur needs to validate it. This validation often requires the startup to pitch in some money. Pre-Seed funding is the earliest funding round where a startup raises money to validate its problem-solution hypotheses, propositions, and demand.

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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! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Notley Ventures.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. ” He added: “We’re very proud of our accelerator. It’s demo day season.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. —– Indie.vc

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. Two years earlier I saw another Boston based startup called Carbonite pitch a similar cloud backup solution to investors. There are lots of startup accelerators to help get the company off the ground.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

The biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government, supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), will be held for 3.5 The Demo Day will be part of the largest startup event in South Korea – “COMEUP 2022.”

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. —– Indie.vc

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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! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Notley Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence. I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The deal doubles the value of the startup to more than $4 billion, and indicates that SoftBank is still a risk-on operation. Startups/VC. Speaking of huge venture rounds at high prices, OneCard is in talks to raise what we’ve heard is nine-figures worth of capital at a unicorn valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh, human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. You can often pick up significant market share in an economic downturn by just staying alive,” top startup accelerator Y Combinator wrote in an internal e-mail to its founders this week. Pitch Deck Teardown: BoxedUp’s $2.3M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

He is now co-founder and chairman of 22 Ventures. Startup accelerators are increasingly putting the brakes on demo days. The often flashy events reserved for founders to connect with investors have long been part of the likes of Y Combinator’s program, seen as the “graduation” of startups’ journey.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

How to get into a startup accelerator. Should you try to get your company into an accelerator? Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital. Founder and investor Melissa Bradley outlines how to nail your virtual pitch meeting. Founder and investor Melissa Bradley outlines how to nail your virtual pitch meeting.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What I wish I’d known about venture capital when I was a founder. Andy Areitio, a partner at early-stage fund TheVentureCity, wrote What I wish I’d known about venture capital when I was a founder , a reflection on the “classic mistakes” founders tend to make when it’s time to fundraise. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

If you’re coming to Early Stage in Boston, Pitch to VCs there. ” — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Accelerating generative AI : Amazon is jumping into startup accelerators with both feet again and will boost generative AI startups around the globe with a 10-week program, Natasha M writes.

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