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In Q4 2022, founders face tough choices

VC Cafe

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Distribution costs have, too. The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. They read less than 30 minutes.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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Entrepreneurs, not the government, will save Europe’s economy

The Next Web

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. While entrepreneurship and startups have spread tremendously in Europe, a lot of aspiring young entrepreneurs leave Europe for the United States.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers. My co founder Jonathan Hill realised how important good food was due to his father passing away from eating poorly. 9- Desire to go global. Photo Credit: Ashwin Sokke.

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“Growth and scaling are the hardest things to get right” - Chainalysis’ Michael Gronager

Cracking the Code

It’s been quite a journey getting here and there’s still a way to go as cryptocurrencies integrate with our global financial system. I sat down (virtually) with Chainalysis co-founder and CEO Michael Gronager to discuss his learnings from almost seven years at the helm of a high-growth company. How did Kraken come about? ?