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A founder who sold his first startup for $85 million explains why tons of VCs...
Steve Martocci, cofounder of the music-editing company Splice, had previously sold GroupMe to Microsoft for $85 million at just 27 years old.Still, Martocci worried he would not receive funding for...
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The first-time founder's ultimate guide to navigating a term sheet and...
Raising venture capital can be an arduous process.We've made it simpler with our comprehensive guide to understanding the language on a term sheet.Below are tips from founders, investors, and lawyers....
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A startup founder who has raised over $100 million says venture capitalists...
GroupMe founder and Splice CEO Steve Martocci has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in capital for his startups.The fundraising success taught Martocci that venture capitalists know when an...
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PRESENTING: The first-time founder's ultimate guide to navigating a term...
If you've made it through the pitch process and are at the point where an investor has handed you a copy of a term sheet, you have a right to feel pretty excited.So give yourself a few minutes to...
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A Columbia professor who has taught MBA students for 15 years says graduates...
A Columbia University psychology professor, who has taught MBA students at New York University and the London School of Economics, says they increasingly want to become entrepreneurs.Research suggests...
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The first employee of Andreessen Horowitz — the legendary early investor in...
Venture capital isn't as complicated as it might seem.Business Insider spoke with Andreessen Horowitz's managing partner and first hire, Scott Kupor, about what he looks for in founders.Kupor recently...
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Jeff Bezos shares his best advice for anyone starting a business (AMZN)
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has four key pieces of advice for budding entrepreneurs: be customer-obsessed, be passionate, take big risks, and fail.Bezos shared the advice at Amazon's Re:Mars...
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HOW TO START A BUSINESS: The ultimate guides for founders on launching a...
Entrepreneurship doesn't come with a rule book.These guides will help first-time founders launch a startup, raise capital, and dominate the market.They include tips from successful founders like Liz...
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Why Andreessen Horowitz bets on 'egomaniacal' and 'partly delusional'...
Successful entrepreneurship comes down to overconfidence, says Andreessen Horowitz managing partner Scott Kupor.That's why Andreessen Horowitz used to say they looked for "egomaniacal" founders, who...
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Founders and investors reveal the ultimate guide to scaling a startup — and...
Many founders wonder how to grow a business that's still relatively new.We asked entrepreneurs, investors, and management professors for their best practices.The experts advised hiring to fill the gaps...
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A former AOL exec says taking someone else's startup idea might sound like...
AOL achieved tremendous success by picking up where other internet startups had left off.That's according to Jean Case, a former AOL exec and the author of "Be Fearless."In turn, Case writes,...
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WEBINAR: Henry Ward, CEO of the billion-dollar startup Carta, on perfecting...
The path to becoming a unicorn isn't quite as mysterious as it seems.If you've ever wanted to know exactly what entrepreneurs tell investors to win their support, you'll want to join Business Insider...
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LIVE WEBINAR: Henry Ward, CEO of the billion-dollar startup Carta, on...
Our webinar with Henry Ward, the founder and CEO of $1.7 billion startup Carta, is live right now! Carta is on a mission to modernize how stock options and early-stage investment is done. In...
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The ultimate guide to selling your startup for a boatload of cash, from...
There's no set way to sell a business successfully.We asked founders who have done it to share best practices and common pitfalls to avoid, and to provide best practices and war stories in exclusive...
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The founder of a $1.7 billion startup shares the one slide every pitch deck...
Henry Ward is the founder and CEO of Carta, a company that helps with equity management. Carta is valued at $1.7 billion.At a Business Insider webinar hosted by the correspondent Shana Lebowitz, Ward...
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The founder of a billion-dollar startup says you need to nail 'message-market...
Founders of early-stage startups fixate on product-market fit, with good reason.However, there may be a factor that surpasses product-market fit: how much the startup emotionally appeals to...
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The ultimate guide to hiring the first 5 employees at your startup and making...
Hiring the first employees at your startup is about building a team that will lay the foundation for success.We asked founders, investors, and business professors to share some best practices.For...
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The founder of billion-dollar startup Carta dissects the pitch decks that...
Raising venture capital is easier with a perfect pitch deck.On a recent webinar, Carta CEO Henry Ward walked us through his series A and series E decks, which have helped him raise $448 million and...
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These brothers, formerly from DigitalOcean, just got $15 million from Accel...
On Tuesday, Catalyst announced it raised $15 million in a series A round led by Accel.Catalyst CEO and co-founder Edward Chiu decided to start the company after his stint at DigitalOcean, where he...
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The ultimate guide to building a pitch deck that will wow investors,...
Entrepreneurship is hard enough. But when you present your startup's pitch deck, you have to flaunt your design skills too.We asked successful entrepreneurs and investors how to do it right.Their tips...
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