Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Holiday sales 2020 prospects remain high for the most prepared small businesses despite COVID-19, a recent Visa study reveals. What’s more, Visa finds that 60% of owners of small and medium business owners are preparing for holiday sales 2020 opportunities. Seizing Holiday Sales 2020 Opportunities. Holiday Consumer Insights.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. A CHF 1-2 million Series A or a CHF 5 million Series B investment is common. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C. I analyzed Crunchbase data and looked for the startup categories that grew fastest in terms of funding rounds year-over-year, provided there were at least 10 rounds in that category.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

This afternoon Robinhood, the popular investing app for consumers filed to go public. million in 2020. million, up around four times from its Q1 2020 result of $127.6 Notably, Robinhood was profitable in 2020, generating net income of around $7.4 The company intends to list on the NASDAQ under the symbol “HOOD.”

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GCUC

DECEMBER 9, 2019

We also predicted the rise of high-end luxury brands ( see this recent Soho Investment ) with brands finding new and inventive ways to set themselves apart. We talked about consolidation and the continued growth due to a strong economy and investments. We also predicted the term “office” going away. Only time will tell.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. In 2020, the venture industry continued to invest in startups, despite the COVID-19 crisis. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Here in the final few working days of 2020, a surprising number of new unicorns have come to light. According to CEO Ryan Breslow, after his company raised its Series C, the round’s lead investor offered the company another term sheet. General Atlantic came in as well, giving the $75 million investment two leads.

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EntreWorks Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In terms of financing, crowdfunding has been an important tool for many businesses. In fact, monthly investment totals doubled during the summer of 2020. These firms have raised an average of $340,000 per firm, and overall capital invested in crowdfunding platforms exceeds $500 million. The State of Crowdfunding, 2020.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This page shows the highlights of this sale, including a video, a link to the investment deck, and a link to the offering circular. Our friend Jesse Walden coined that term and I really love it. I paid $330 for ten shares (out of a total of 1000 shares) implying a value of $33,000 for the five pairs, or roughly $6600 each.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

During an online business workshop in December 2020, the presenter asked me whether our venture was a hobby or a business. Here’s the difference: A hobby or side hustle involves a discretionary investment of time and money. In 2020, I took a bold step that I had been considering for years. Strategy involves long-term planning.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

We have investments where we have bought shares seven or eight times over a ten to twelve year period. 4/ When you own a lot of each and every security (Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, etc, etc), you are less impacted by the specific terms of any one of the rounds. It is about the right to execute a long buy.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I have been investing in developer tools since the earliest days of my VC career. The first investment I led in the late 80s was a financing that provided the funds to acquire a programming editor called Brief. That investment worked out but we didn’t make a lot of money on it. It was a text-based editor for PCs.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2020

However, Q4 2019 saw meaningful dip from Q3, but it's too early to say whether it's an aberration, or the beginning of a longer-term trend. I wondered if Softbank's changes in investment strategy had much to do with it, but as the chart shows, they were not a meaningful contributor. Their investment is marked in the black line.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 12, 2020

” I answered him with these facts: 1/ We are working on two term sheets for new investments by USV this week and hope to sign them by end of this week. 2/ We are closing on several existing term sheets as well. 3/ At least one of our portfolio companies received a term sheet this week and hopes to sign it shortly.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2023

Companies receiving small amounts of cash should not spend much of that on legal fees or waste time negotiating complex legal terms so early in a startup’s journey. So, are SAFEs truly dominating early-stage investing? To answer this question, let’s first identify the stage at which angels most commonly invest.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Devin Salinas joined the Entrepreneurs’ Organization in early 2020. One of the best pieces of advice I ever received—and that I consistently share with my clients—is that we should never make long-term decisions based on short-term emotions or circumstances, particularly when it comes to our finances.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 20, 2020

Since writing that post, we have watched a bunch of our portfolio companies close financings, some on the same terms as provided before the pandemic and some on slightly adjusted terms. We have mostly seen VC firms live up to the commitments they made pre-pandemic and in the cases where terms changed, it has not been not gratuitous.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 22, 2020

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager Three new board members were elected at the ACA Annual Members’ Meeting during ACA 2020 – The Summit of Angel Investing held virtually May 12-14, 2020. The ACA board terms coincide with the fiscal year, which begins July 1st. Linda Smith , Sierra Angels, former ACA Board Chair.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. Public fintech stocks rose 97% in 2020. Dana Stalder.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

For example, Kyle Wiggers reported that investment into the sector fell in the fourth quarter of 2022 to its “lowest level since Q1 2020,” Anna Heim spoke with investors who are still hanging in there and Mary Ann Azevedo wrote about M&A exits , which insurtech led in 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Those efforts range from designing the systems people will need for staying safe and comfortable on long spaceflights, to ideating and developing the technologies needed for long-term stays on the surface of worlds that are far less hospitable to life than Earth, like the moon and Mars.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Charlie Graham-Brown is the partner and Chief Investments Officer of Seedstars , a Swiss-based group with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. He leads the group’s venture capital fund, Seedstars International, which invests in seed-stage startups across emerging markets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Fueled by a zero-interest landscape in 2020, it has surged, giving rise to an ever-growing array of funds. growth from 2020 to 2021. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The figures were closer together when we carried out another comparison in 2020 , with each study reporting between $1.3 It also defines African startups as companies with their primary market, in terms of operations or revenues, in Africa — not based on HQ or incorporation. billion to $1.5 Partech : $5.2 The Big Deal : $4.33

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

The pandemic has spurred interest in saving and investment apps around the world , especially ones geared toward newer investors. Most of its users are between the ages of 25 to 40 and looking for alternatives to investing in long-term asset classes like real estate. of people in Vietnam have invested in stocks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

By now it’s common knowledge that 2021 is shaping up to be a breakout year for the startup and venture capital worlds, surpassing years of strong results in a long-term bull market for tech-focused business upstarts. Chicago is an outlying benefactor from accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

$20M program matches investors’ direct investment in product-based companies TRENTON, N.J. The NJEDA’s investment ranges from $100,000 up to $500,000, as it is matched on one-to-one basis with the company’s corresponding preferred equity round. was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Paramus. TLA Innovation, Inc.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

These include the latest from Coinbase and Klarna, where neobanks sit in the current valuation climate, and what the changing market means for venture capital dollars that poured into the sector globally during the last few years of heady private-market investment. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Matheus Tavares Dos Santos Contributor Share on Twitter Matheus is a hedge funds investment analyst for a major global investment manager and technology provider. Larger companies need to set up venture arms and embrace this style of investing, and that is exactly what happened last year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disproportionately reduced venture capital funding for female founders last year, despite a greater boom in fundraising thanks to megafunds and the advent of Zoom investing. Rising investment in female-founded startups. PitchBook, which analyzed investment activity in U.S.-based That was in an upmarket.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2020

TechCrunch explored what happened in seed investing to uncover what was missed amidst the storm and fury of late-stage startup activity. The American seed market in 2020. If you didn’t think much about seed in 2020, you’re not alone. Seed dollar volume fell as Q1 progressed, reaching a 2020 nadir in April, the start of Q2.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Marking its 5th anniversary, COMEUP 2023 is gearing up to become a grand global startup festival, surpassing previous editions in terms of scale and significance. This dynamic zone will feature IR pitches for investment attraction, conducted on a dedicated stage, and thought-provoking conferences.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

-based Susa Ventures led this latest tranche of investment. Other investors include TLcom Capital (the sole investor from its $1 million pre-seed round in 2020), newly joined Accenture Ventures and some angel investors. million in two rounds and the company will use the investment to expand its data infrastructure across Nigeria. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

CB Insights data through Q2 2021 indicates that startups in Atlanta are on a fundraising tear, already surpassing total capital raised in 2020 in just the first half of this year. But there are markets where the gains still stand out despite the generally warm climate for private capital investments into private companies. city saw $2.17

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. In terms of pricing, hospitals haven’t found a way to charge patients not necessarily at the cheapest fee possible but using price points the general public can comfortably afford. It is the first investment made by the U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Early data indicates that Africa is set to trounce historical records in terms of venture capital raised in the year and that the first half of 2021 saw roughly twice the funds raised by African startups as was recorded in the first half of 2020. billion, making it the best year in the history of tech investment on the continent.”

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