TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

.” That might work inside mature companies, but early-stage founders who are presenting themselves to investors must be more specific. In an interview with Natasha Mascarenhas, B2B stealth startup founder Akshaya Dinesh recounted the time her team was rejected by an accelerator because they hadn’t yet picked a CEO.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Geared toward tech startups, it boasts that it has “supercharged the growth of over 200 innovative businesses,” from fintech and SaaS to hardware. How do you collaborate with startups? Our services cater to every stage of the founder journey. For one-on-one work, who are your typical clients? .

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Canvas describes its SaaS offering as a “fully virtual” recruiting platform that is based on self-reported data. About 87% of candidates on its platform disclose their demographic information (which it says is 7x the industry standard), according to the startup. We believe representation is a huge part of what we stand for.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Valuations are soaring, but revenue averages for SaaS startups “have seen a recent and rapid decline,” according to a Kruze Consulting report Alex Wilhelm studied yesterday. “In all, startups are getting paid better, faster for less work than before. It’s still a great time to be a startup founder.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Notes follow from Asem; Pejman Nozad of Pear VC; Iris Choi of Floodgate; Nathan Lustig of Magma Partners; Siggi Simonarson , co-founder of BuildBuddy , which took part in a 2020 Y Combinator class; and Torben Friehe , co-founder of Wingback , which is part of the Winter 2022 YC batch.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

These steps apply to entrepreneurs, particularly to tech startup founders. Confusion about what marketing is drives the majority of the problems founders face with it. We’ve put together a simple way to guide your marketing journey and help you consider what is most important in each phase. Step 1: Understand what marketing is.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Additionally, he is the founder and CEO of Infinitary Advisors , a SaaS consulting firm where he spearheads comprehensive competitive analyses for both startups and scaleups. One potent strategy for a B2B SaaS company to enhance growth is to revisit and refine its monetization blueprint.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

By this point, most startup employees have worked remotely. With that in mind, SaaS startup Wingback made a fractional head of remote its first hire, “and it was the best decision we made,” said Yann Leretaille, co-founder and CTO. “A As part of an ongoing series of interviews with transportation startup founders, ??Rebecca

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Vilnius startup ecosystem is mainly dominated by startups developing business management systems (B2B, SaaS) and financial technologies. Which are the most interesting startups in your city? Deep tech, SaaS, sustainability. Who are the key startup people in your city (e.g., What are you most excited by?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

If you have access to post-revenue SAAS or ecommerce companies, you can easily make $1k to $10k per company within a few days.” . Open to anything “but especially B2B SaaS, future of work, consumer social, and developer tools.”. “If We invest in exceptional founders, at Seed, in Europe. SHL Capital (Sahil Lavingia).

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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.”.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Capita3 : co-founded by Pamela York and Sara Russick with a focus on early-stage venture capital fund investing in women startup founders in innovative health sectors such as digital health, telehealth, health tech, human health, genomics and bioIT, food-as-medicine, and other health sectors.

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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

Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market. The tide is high for startup founders who are looking to raise their first round in October 2021. But easy money can create special pressure for early-stage founders, according to Lightup.ai founder Manu Bansal.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

How Monica and Joe Priced Their New SaaS Business Product and Decided their Optimal Pricing Why customers buy based on the perceived worth that the price represents to them, and how you should price to get your fair share of that value. That’s what the VC guy, Albert, told me was the benchmark for saas companies like us.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas.

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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. DIMO based on a network of drivers and fleets to collect and share their vehicle data to learn more about their vehicle, save money, and build better mobility applications.”

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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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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Every startup founder should know how the quality, delivery and price of their products/services stand up against the competition when deciding to start up a business. Most technologies require an investment that may add significantly to startup costs.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

The deepest irony of the VC business – which we understood not at all when we started but is obvious in hindsight – is that excellence in investing requires the exact opposite of what’s demanded from the best startup founders. . By contrast, venture capital is a craft that defies both speed and scale.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a first-time startup founder. Finmark co-founder and CEO Rami Essaid wrote a post for Extra Crunch that candidly describes the traps he laid for himself that made him a less-effective entrepreneur. ” The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a first-time startup founder. citizenship!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Alloy indicates that SaaS still has a home there! Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders. The old saying, “build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” does not apply to startups in the sexual wellness category. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

I’ll end with this: Successful startup founders are innately ambitious, finding opportunity in moonshots and convincing others that the odds are in their favor. How our SaaS startup improved net revenue retention by more than 30 points in two quarters. Embedded procurement will make every company its own marketplace.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Dear Sophie: How can early-stage startups compete for talent? Dear Sophie, As a first-time, early-stage startup founder, I find it difficult to compete against other startups on compensation. Eight years into his tenure, Satya Nadella looks to diversify. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

BF 200 Fast-Pitch Sessions — SaaS, Enterprise and Retail. Description: Join us for lunch, network and make new connections with other startup founders. Stripe for Startups. Description: We’re connecting high-growth founders and local investors who are at the forefront of SaaS, e-commerce, and fintech.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

SaaS continues to boom with Databricks funding, Segment acquisition. Perhaps it’s another sign of a consolidation phase taking hold in the sector, after a Pre-Cambrian explosion of SaaS startups over the last decade? Extra Crunch: How COVID-19 and the resulting recession are impacting female founders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Our portfolio is heavy on SaaS, which has weathered things well. So for our founders, it’s mostly about keeping churn-and-burn rates low to survive. In some cases yes, including our e-commerce SaaS companies and my recent Bitcoin exchange investment (MiraiEx). Dignio (SaaS/medtech). Maybe, maybe not.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new company recently emerged that is targeting a popular startup niche, wanting to exclusively help early-stage SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies with their financial needs. We quickly realized that they shared a common pain point — startup funding is costly and distracting.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Unless you find an alternative business model to monetize a totally free SaaS product, you’ll have to attach a price tag to it. The (literal) Billion dollar question then is: how much should our SaaS product costs? So the actual Billion dollar question is: how much should our SaaS product cost to begin with ?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Don’t miss your chance to meet some founders currently participating in TechCrunch’s Include program. This collaborative program also includes prominent VC organizations like Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures and Initialized Capital to develop lasting mentorships with the TC Include founder cohort. Founded by Denise Umubyeyi.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction. After Anaplan, which SaaS company will private equity target next? ” After Anaplan, which SaaS company will private equity target next? Why so many SaaS companies are launching their own media operations. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Regardless, the data set that came together felt worthy of sharing for its specificity and breadth — and so other startup founders can learn from how some of their peer group are performing. Software/SaaS. Acceleprise announces 26 SaaS startups from its trio of accelerators.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. She said that Indiana is known for B2B SaaS and she wanted to tap into that energy.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Behind the scenes Greg knew many tech entrepreneurs who were wanting to start software or SAAS companies. Back then, local tech leaders and founders thought that “Phoenix isn’t a a software tech town.” Gregslist became an unexpected ecosystem catalyst, and a positive feedback loop for software startups in the region.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Founderpath secures $145M in debt and equity to help B2B SaaS startup founders avoid dilution. The company is adding around 100 new Amazon businesses, e-commerce and SaaS listings each month. So many cases, too, the buyer is not a U.S.

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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.

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