TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If you know other successful startup founders, talk to them — they will make intros if they believe in your vision. Unless you’ve been circulating in the startup ecosystem for a long time, odds are your list of founder buddies or investor friends is pretty short. You don’t need an intro for that.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 30, 2023

My conversation with 15-year-old founder Eric Zhu Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The corollary of that is that I suspect a lot of founders don’t really know how venture capital works. As a startup founder, you’d never dream of selling a product to a customer you don’t truly understand. That’s a problem for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Startup founders need to be data-informed, not just ‘data-driven’ by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch. Filtering data to accurately depict operations and performance ensures that you’re comparing apples to apples.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Treasury management should be top of mind for startup founders by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch. Inflation has made everything more expensive, meaning your current cash reserves won’t go as far as they would have a few years ago.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

When startup founders think of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), we tend to think of “Mad Men”-esque processes, involving dramatic office reshuffling and expensive rebranding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

For years, Austin has made headlines as an evolving tech hub where startups, large companies and investors alike have flocked to set up a presence. But as 2022 closes, the Texas capital is in the news for a very different, tragic reason — being home to the sudden death of a startup founder at the hands of a police officer.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

If you have the desire to be a startup founder one day – at some point you have to be willing to invest in the skills required to master the job. Unfortunately once you’ve earned mega bucks most people have ramped up their lifestyle and cost base such that they can’t take the hit.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 24, 2023

From trying to take on too much by yourself to overlooking crucial elections, here are nine answers to the question, “What are some unhelpful tax mistakes that every startup founder should know and avoid?” When a startup founder receives equity, it is typically granted over a vesting period of several years.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

is still the best place in the world for Black startup founders to raise money. It’s quite easy to harp on the dismal funding and often discriminatory treatment that Black founders receive in the U.S. As an ironic result, founders look to the U.S. Despite, well, everything, the U.S. for networking opportunities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The highs and lows of Q3 venture capital data for women startup founders by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch. So far, mixed-gender teams have also been able to secure the same percentage of capital they raised last year, around 17%.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Entrepreneurs are always stressed that they’re not making enough progress, but it’s because they’re measuring progress the wrong way. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 7, 2023

Apparently, the most important entrepreneurial skills are also the most surprising. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 10, 2023

Knowing how to use the right tools at the right time can be the difference between epic failure and meteoric success. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 2, 2022

If you don’t understand accounting, you won’t even know if your startup is succeeding or failing Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Feedough

JUNE 9, 2021

As a startup founder, you must realize that entrepreneurship is. Read more.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Learn how to cultivate sustainable success by optimizing your mental, physical, and emotional health. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Are You Cut Out to Leave Corporate Life For an Adventure? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

For founders, especially those starting companies for the first time, the gyrations of the stock market, the resulting correction in public market tech stocks, and the inevitable impact on private company fundraising might seem disheartening. Navin Chaddha. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In Y Combinator’s early days, founders would move to Palo Alto, split a two-bedroom with five others to save money and trade notes around the clock with their new, like-minded roommates. Now, as remote work continues and the pandemic persists, scores of entrepreneurs are working from home around the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2012

I recently read Brad Feld’s thought provoking piece encouraging founders to sit on the board of another startup company. I found it thought provoking because I’ve always believed startup founders need extreme focus on only their company to succeed. So I’m going to follow Brad’s advice.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg famously launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room at the age of 19. By that summer, Zuckerberg moved himself and the company to Silicon Valley and never looked back.

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OnStartups

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Startups are hard. If you’re a startup founder you already know these statistics and yet you are irrationally proceeding forward. Arjun and I have known each other for a long time, originally when he was a member of the HubSpot leadership team. He's one of the smartest people that have come through the halls of HubSpot.

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Onevest

MARCH 31, 2015

As we tell our founders at 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors, time management is an important component of any business, but when it comes to launching a startup it is even more critical. By Michael Whitehouse. Photo credit: huffpost.com.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

There are 5 good reasons to build a startup and 1 bad one Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Peyton Carr is a financial advisor to founders, entrepreneurs and their families, helping them with planning and investing. Peyton Carr. Contributor. Share on Twitter. He is a managing director of Keystone Global Partners. More posts by this contributor. What you need to know before selling your company’s stock.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 16, 2022

Experience is critical for building a startup. Here’s the best way to get it. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Rami Essaid is co-founder and CEO at Finmark , a technology company that provides financial planning and modeling software for startups. He previously was co-founder and CEO at Distil Networks, a bot attack mitigation company acquired by Imperva. Rami Essaid. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Ardy Esmaeili, CPA is a startup tax accountant and tax services lead at Burkland. Ardy Esmaeili. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Would it surprise you to learn the government — federal and many states — is on your side when it comes to innovation?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

Startup Founders Build for the Long term? Many thanks to Gil Dibner / Angular Ventures , Paul McNabb / Episode 1 Ventures , and Patrick Short / Sano Genetics for reviewing early drafts of this post and sharing ideas. Kudos to Mariette Clamens / PitchBook for helping with data crunching. How May Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

One startup that aims to help make the process simpler, cheaper and less stressful by helping people manage the home renovation process has raised $6 million to help it grow even faster. Builders VC led the round, which included participation from Celtic, Newfund and Wish co-founder Danny Zhang.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

John Weaver is CEO of 22 Ventures , an angel firm that offers founders connections, entrepreneurial experience and a genuine concern for their well-being. For founders, this drop may spark concerns around how to secure capital, making them more likely to bend to investors’ terms and ignore details they wouldn’t otherwise.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 11, 2023

The tireless assassin is dangerous for the same reason established companies fear startups Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2022

When people think of NFTs, the first use case most of them likely think of is visual art. From Beeple’s $69 million sale of a digital collage at Christie’s to the Bored Apes Yacht Club collection, visual art has seemed to be most prominent use case for NFTs due to close similarities with traditional fine art investing.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 15, 2023

Fundraising is an essential part of the journey when building a startup. Raising capital can provide resources to scale the business… Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2021

New Zealand, a country of 5 million people in the South Pacific, has witnessed a shifting tech startup landscape over the last couple of years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

In this challenging fundraising environment, more startups than ever are turning to alternative financial solutions such as debt. Despite the negative connotation associated with debt, a startup should not view it as an act of desperation during downturns, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers and Alex Wilhelm have recently noted.

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