The situation for startup entrepreneurs in 2023 is very different from the past few years. Money is not flowing so easily, but on the plus side, it may be easier and cheaper to build and recruit a great team. Many great companies were founded during a downturn.
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02/262023
04/152019
Here are the top 10 articles of 2019 (so far) for you, the startup entrepreneur
09/212018
Congratulations. You just graduated from college and you passed Facebook/Google's grueling interview process. Their job offer feels really high -- you can't believe anyone is willing to give you more than $100K/year after all these years eating ramen and cheap pizza in college. Of course you should take it. Or should you?
05/112018
We are proud at the Startup Conference to host entrepreneurs from more than 40 countries each year. But for the 9th edition, in 2018, we are noticing a disturbing trend. The number of entrepreneurs who told us they were not able to get a visa and therefore won't be able to attend, seems to have exploded.
03/252018
Last week Dropbox went public and Drew Houston, its CEO joined a very small club of entrepreneurs that took their startup from idea to IPO.
03/172018
Congratulations to SPLT.IO, the 2016 Startup Conference Pitch Competition winner. The startup was acquired by automotive giant Bosch this February.
01/082018
The new federal tax reform is going to create awkward discussions at review time in 2018. Take a look at a typical senior engineer, who makes $340K
05/122017
Just like last year, we just finished reviewing the 120 startups that applied to pitch at the Startup Conference on May 17. You can read last year's trends here. So, how is 2017 different from 2016?
03/252017
What's the #1 need of early-stage tech startups? Experienced software engineers. And they are becoming impossible to find in Silicon Valley, even though they are everywhere.
05/132016
Feuds among co-founders are the leading cause of early startup death (lack of traction is a close second). Sometimes the startup survives, the skeletons of disgraced co-founders are buried, and all the public hears is another great success story. Until the real story surfaces years later, in all its glorious details, through the excruciating record of a lawsuit.