David Teten
MARCH 5, 2021
(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.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2013
So at the end of ’94 I moved to France, because I wanted to learn Spanish. I had someone willing to offer me a job in France. I lived in the south of France in Antibes and in Cannes. So I went from San Diego to LA to Miami to the south of France. So I went from San Diego to LA to Miami to the south of France.
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techcrunch.com
MARCH 8, 2012
The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Key Insights. Red Ventures (HBS, Wharton).
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 23, 2019
by Caroline Pegden, co-founder of TempaGoGo. Every founder has a good story to tell! Following a decade of corporate life, Caroline Pegden co-founded TempaGoGo , an award-winning comparison website for temporary agency recruitment. Stats are important, but should be woven into an intriguing narrative.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 29, 2015
It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. I’ve seen many first-time founders who had fallings out with their co-founders, had lawsuits, had investors bail on them, lost market momentum. I lived and worked in England, France, Italy and Japan and had worked extensively in Germany.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2016
We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. Having a great co-investor (in good times and bad times, till death do we part) can make all the difference in critical moments of a company’s trajectory.
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