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Eric Zhu started building Aviato, an analytical platform for private market data, in a very atypical place for an entrepreneur: the bathroom in his Carmel, Indiana, high school. Now the 17-year-old’s…

Identity.vc writes checks that range from €250,000 to €1.5 million into companies from the pre-seed to Series A stages.

The graduates of Alliance DAO are often useful indicators of investor appetite and user adaption trends within the crypto space. The latest batch of the stage-agnostic crypto accelerator, unveiled today,…

A new study that zeros-in on the founders of so-called “unicorns” — companies worth over a billion dollars — has found most have “underdog” founders who are often drawn from…

Scores of accelerator programs run every year with the aim of identifying and cultivating founders in the earliest stages of building a company. Only a fraction seek out founders who…

Pitch competitions are a bright spot for underrepresented founders but not without burdens that regular funding doesn’t have.

The succession process requires an open and genuine dialogue between the senior retiring and incoming management teams.

Early-stage founders face many challenges. Some of the trickiest and most foreign are legal because the legal world is unfamiliar and ever changing.

Most of the world’s top-valued private companies are software companies. That’s not surprising — innovations in AI, social media, and e-commerce thrill users and attract huge investments. But while technological…

When you build a startup, the best shot you have at seeing a big payday is becoming an acquisition. Sure, a handful of startups end up going to IPO. But…

The sheer number of non-economic mistakes made by VCs due to their human nature is seriously underestimated.

Exits are few and far between and founders are burnt out. Even if they don’t have immediate plans to leave, planning for it makes it easier.

For startup founders, the ability to inspire has everything to do with the ability to get others to see the world the way you do.

Founders are inherently optimists, but they should plan for worst-case scenarios so they aren’t blindsided if something does happen.

A January Ventures survey found that the fundraising market is starting to turn back in founder’s favors but not all founders are so sure.

Founders get bombarded with invitations to events, and not all of them are worth it, but there are ways to figure out which will provide value.

There are many founder-focused events but are they actually helpful or just a distraction? Founders need to strike a balance.

Parker Conrad may be best known as the founder of both Zenefits and Rippling, but he is also arguably the best-known founder to have gone through Y Combinator’s accelerator program…

Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek made a surprising confession in a recent post to X (formerly Twitter), where he admits not only that he didn’t come up with the…

There hasn’t been a ton of research on the prevalence of mental health issues among founders, but what there is speaks loudly.

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She will be the fund’s first female partner as it seeks to build a “world-class” team.

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by the founders of Spout, a startup that makes a device…

While their work is the backbone of many startups, many scientists don’t become founders. Perhaps its time they should.

Data from AngelList shows that founder-led VC firms outperform but the data is incomplete. While the strategy works well, it has drawbacks, too.

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The Audience Choice results are in, which begs the question, could we BE more excited to share this news? No, we could not. Out of hundreds of applications, we curated…