View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

Founders do not have this luxury. Most founders are going through hell right now, and that is not going away any time soon. For investors and founders, the next several years are going to be very different. 3M institutional seed round. Wait and see. But the courage and leadership I am witnessing each day is inspiring.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2020

by Shaun Djie, Co-Founder & COO of Digix. Shaun Djie is the co-founder of DigixGlobal and is also the founder of the Ethereum Singapore meetup group – one of the largest in the world with over 8,00 members.

Asia 290

Asia Technical Review Technology Singapore 290

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

Adeo Ressi , the founding member of TheFunded , recently announced the establishment of TheFunded Founder Institute. The Institute offers a four month program, called a Semester, hosted initially in the Bay Area and then expanding to locations around the world. Class sessions and course material will be available online.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2020

by Zain Jaffer, serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Zain Ventures. This is especially true for startups, which operate on the basis of customer traction to solidify expectations with investors or lending institutions. Running a small business can come with a slew of challenges. Among the list: the loss of a major client.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2012

The Founder Institute has just opened its 2012 Summer intake in Singapore. The Institute supports founders in a wide range of industries, including digital media, software, biotech, cleantech, e-commerce, advertising, consumer electronics, and the Internet. You can apply for the program here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). All startups always need more money. They will need more money.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2011

So when Jim Franklin, the CEO of SendGrid (one of our portfolio companies and a TechStars Boulder mentor) asked if I would write a post about the Founder Institute program in Boulder, I told him that I’d give him control of my blog to write a guest post on it. Last summer Founder Institute held its inaugural class in Denver.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2011

Founder Institute has just announced its Fall intake in Singapore for this year! The program is specifically designed to be ‘founder-friendly’, and if you currently have a full-time job you don’t even have to quit it to attend the evening sessions. You can apply for the program here.

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David Teten

JANUARY 12, 2012

The Founder Institute recently posted a video from a talk I gave a little while ago on Startup Fundraising Hacks. Although my focus in this talk is raising capital, the ideas and technologies I discuss will also help you in recruiting star developers , sales , and even dating.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2019

Gui Costin , author of “ Millennials Are Not Aliens “, is an entrepreneur, and founder of Dakota, a company that sells and markets institutional investment strategies.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

And in the 21 st century, the majority of public company shareholders are institutional investors (banks, insurance companies, pensions, hedge funds, REITs, investment advisors, endowments, and mutual funds), not individuals. (In Next, they use the financial press and blogs to spread their message to the institutional investors.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

How do the courses offered by Private Education Institutes (PEIs) such as PSB Academy help change the current talent pool? Dr Liow: There have been concerns if education institutions are engaging the corporate hospitality sector enough to prepare their graduates for the Hospitality 4.0 How would this help cross-industry?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Now we get down to the difficult questions of execution and implementation, which is where they have foundered in the past. Major kinds of organizational reforms tend to originate outside of bureaucratic institutions. The DOD admits they have a problem. They admit they need to do things differently.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

by Sanjoe Jose, CEO and Co-founder of Talview. Armed with AI-powered data insights and automated platforms, higher education institutions see a number of benefits, including improving the admissions process, boosting student retention, automating manual tasks, and improving student experience. Automation improves experience.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Why should a founder entertain this idea? However, most institutional investors (venture capital groups, for instance) don’t mind this structure, and they, in fact, prefer to invest in corporations due to protections from issuing stocks. No founder wants to start a business that would only survive for one or two years.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2010

A handful of folks that I know and respect have gotten involved in the Founder Institute’ Denver program. Andy Vuong of the Denver Post wrote a nice article on it titled Founder Institute is training minds for a great idea. Tags: Entrepreneurship conference founder institute.

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Denver Founder Programming Entrepreneur 107

YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2019

Gui Costin , author of “ Millennials Are Not Aliens “, is an entrepreneur, and founder of Dakota, a company that sells and markets institutional investment strategies.

Software Review 154

Software Review Marketing Due Diligence Institutional Investors 154

The Next Web

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The Founder Institute , the early-stage startup accelerator that aims to ‘globalize Silicon Valley’, is doubling down on Europe big time. In addition, the Founder Institute is also testing new programs in Barcelona, Lisbon, London, Zurich, and Warsaw, and will be hosting several free events across Europe this autumn.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2023

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , today we present Minué Yoshida, owner of the New York-based Yoshida Academy which offers courses to help clients in mastering public speaking and leadership skills and diversity, equity and inclusion consulting. The first step was to acknowledge our current diversity.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

But India is such a welcoming country that it only took a few weeks of preparation to fill a weeklong schedule with meetings – from a dinner arranged by Shiva with approximately 15 founders in Delhi to a talk about crypto at Builders Circle in Bangalore. group pic from meet-up w/ Delhi founders

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue. When founders are wrong (which happens often), that initial seed round runs out quickly, requiring another round of funding — typically referred to as a bridge round.

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The Next Web

JULY 26, 2012

Exclusive - Founder Institute , the early-stage startup accelerator that aims to ‘globalize Silicon Valley’, is doubling down on Europe big time. Over the past two years, Founder Institute says it has helped launch 538 tech companies, 94 of which are based in Europe (or roughly 19%).

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ari Ioannides: A distinguished board member at Park City Institute and founder of BoardDocs, Ari provided unique perspectives on integrating AI into both nonprofit and educational sectors, supported by practical insights from his own experience. Nonie hosted the panel and brought invaluable insights to the discussion.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As seed rounds have atomized, it’s not uncommon for founders to raise 3 or even 4 rounds prior to a series A. These include angel rounds, pre-seeds, institutional seeds, second seeds, pre-A, etc. So, if a founder is going to avoid this level of dilution, the question is “which round to skip?”. Founders with limited experience.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 20, 2020

I recently was in an email thread where a Black founder had a powerful and clear response to the question from one of her corporate partners. Because of institutional racism in our society, Black people: Have school systems with a lower tax basis and insufficient resources. Come from families that can afford expensive SAT prep.

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David Teten

MARCH 23, 2011

I’ll be one of 3 speakers at the Founder Institute this coming Monday evening, along with Jeff Stewart, CEO, UrgentCareers, and prominent NY angel/entrepreneur; and Graham Lawlor, founder, Ultra Light Startups. This is part of the Spring 2011 Founder Institute series. When: Monday, March 28, 6:30pm.

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Argona

JULY 19, 2022

I am a CoFounder of Algona Partners and serve as the CEO, as well as an Executive Advisor for multiple businesses, and a mentor for accelerators such as Founders Network, Founders Institute, Expert Dojo, and Newchip Accelerator. My name is Jeremy Imlach.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The Founder Institute has joined forces with StartupDigest and Udemy to offer " Startup and Go ," an onine course on the initial steps in building a technology company. Lecture 3: Startup Hiring, Firing, & Co-Founders. Is your target market big enough? And growing fast enough? Your dream company requires a dream team.

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Founder Cofounder Differentiation Hiring 156

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

“We take an active role with a consultative and collaborative approach to educating, helping, and providing value by understanding the needs of hospitals, surgeons, and patients,” said IML President and Co-Founder John Mooney. IML also helps manufacturers of premium medical technology systems enter the U.S.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Venture capital comes from wealthy investors, investment banks, and other types of financial institutions. This is the first piece of paper that a founder sees from a venture capital firm when they are communicating their interest in investing in the company. Understand VC Term Sheets. Taking Advantage of Venture Capital Funding.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. While the city is small in comparison to other major European destinations, many successful startup founders have ranked it among the likes of London or Paris.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. Marketing AI Institute. He's the founder and CEO of marketing AI Institute, founder of PR 2020 HubSpot's first partner, agency HubSpots and sponsor of this show. Connect on LinkedIn.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Elemind offers a non-chemical, direct, and on-demand solution that learns and dynamically adjusts to each person,” said Meredith Perry, CEO and co-founder of Elemind. We’re the first and only company able to precisely guide and redirect brainwaves in real-time.”

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Why should a founder entertain this idea? However, most institutional investors (venture capital groups, for instance) don’t mind this structure, and they, in fact, prefer to invest in corporations due to protections from issuing stocks. No founder wants to start a business that would only survive for one or two years.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

This is where a lot of founders get stuck. Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements.

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Board Effect

MAY 18, 2023

Nonprofits must abide by the following restrictions: Nonprofits may not serve the interests of the founder, the founder’s family, shareholders, or other people that have controlling interests in the organization. Nonprofits are required to use all donations for the sole purpose of advancing the stated charitable cause.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 2, 2024

Also, blogs felt like an antiquated way to engage with founders vs. threads on Twitter/X. So “pre-seeds” can look like $1M on $8M post for certain profiles of founders and companies. Likewise, institutional seeds are all over the map both in terms of round profiles, valuations, and the players involved.

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