TechCrunch covers a lot of bases in the tech startup world, but none is more important than supporting founders — especially early-stage founders. That’s what our new event series, TechCrunch Early Stage, is all about.
These single-day events debuting next year will be highly interactive opportunities for founders to tap experts in the core startup disciplines, starting with early-stage investors (lots of investors), legal wizzes, growth gurus, product-market fit wallahs, tech stack experts, recruiting aces and much more, including workshops on pitch breakdowns. TechCrunch’s goal is to provide founders with insights and new relationships on par with what an accelerator experience provides, only in a single day, and with a much greater variety of experts and investors. TC Early Stage is an outgrowth of Extra Crunch, TechCrunch’s subscription-based editorial offering that focuses on deep analysis and advice around the big topics facing founders. In October this year at Disrupt SF, we brought Extra Crunch to life on its own stage and featured experts on dozens of topics, including:- How to Raise My First Dollars (Russ Heddleston, DocSend, Charles Hudson, Precursor Ventures, and Annie Kadavy, Redpoint Ventures)
- How to Hire at Breakneck Speed (Scott Cutler, StockX, Harjeet Taggar, TripleByte, and Liz Wessel, WayUp)
- How to evaluate talent and Make Decisions (Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Capital)
- How to get into Y Combinator (Michael Siebel, Y Combinator),
- How to Decide Between Bootstrapping and Raising Venture (Ben Chestnut, Mailchimp and Kathryn Petralia, Kabbage)
- Raising a first seed round
- Landing a Series A
- Raising early stage investment for a SaaS company (also consumer and other major categories)
- Considering your first term sheet
- Growing users fast
- Recruiting a fabulous team
- Building a tech stack (you won’t regret)
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