Tag: entrepreneurship
With Ironspring Ventures, Texas gets a $61 million new fund focused on ‘industrial’ technologies
From the chemical refineries that line the Gulf Coast to oilfields of West Texas, heavy industry has always been a big part of the economy in the Lone Star State. Now, as venture capital moves in to the state as part of an exodus from California, a new fund is…
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Best practices for Zoom board meetings at early-stage startups
There are only 4 things a board really needs to consider Isaac Roth 11 hours Isaac Roth Contributor Issac Roth is a seasoned entrepreneur who advises founders on open-source technology and keeping communities engaged. Over this career, he’s created and sold multiple enterprise software companies and stays active as an…
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Calling Belfast VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC
TechCrunch is embarking on a major project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities. Our <a href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6”>survey of VCs in Belfast and Northern Ireland will capture how things are faring, and what changes are being wrought amongst investors by the coronavirus pandemic. We’d like to know…
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Extra Crunch roundup: Edtech VC survey, 5 founder mistakes, fintech liquidity, more
Edtech is so widespread, we already need more consumer-friendly nomenclature to describe the products, services and tools it encompasses. I know someone who reads stories to their grandchildren on two continents via Zoom each weekend. Is that “edtech?” Similarly, many Netflix subscribers sought out online chess instructors after watching “The…
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The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a first-time startup founder
Rami Essaid Contributor 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. More posts by this contributor Internet Privacy Is The Wrong…
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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change
Released in 2011 “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” was a book that laid claim to the idea that Israel was an unusual type of country. It had produced and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. The moniker became…
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