Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

But alas I must scale with businesses and make money. It’s such a tricky balance between being cost-focused & scrappy versus being impractical with how you spend your time. I can tell you that quite literally it has transformed some of our businesses in ways that would not have been achievable without it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Drafting a will and planning for what happens to your estate once you pass away is well, not exactly fun. One startup out to help take the pain, and expense, out of the estate planning process by digitizing it is seeing demand for its services grow. That compares to 311,753 cumulative members at the end of January 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

But if you focus and leave your preconceptions behind, you’ll find that beyond the skein of valuations and share prices, there is a world of spirited dealmaking, ripe with impetus for building a sustainable industry. Decriminalization is not the same as legalization at the Federal level.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are plenty of reasons why Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, has an increasingly visible startup sector. In five years, respondents said the city and country will continue to generate and attract great tech startups, but also tech talent and entrepreneurs. Lukas Inokaitis , business development, NFQ Technologies.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

Some people believe that launching a business is stressful. Uncertainty exists no matter how well you plan your to-do list or schedule your time. Most businesses collapse due to financial factors such as the entrepreneur running out of cash , being incapable of paying workers, or not supplying enough goods to stay afloat.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

But financing isn’t always easy — especially if you’re the proud founder of a brand new business. They want to see years in business, consistent revenue and excellent credit scores, and those are things that most new businesses just don’t have. Creative financing options for new businesses.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

The National Science Foundation Awarded a major grant to connect early stage capital to DeepTech innovations. This project is designed to better educate the early stage investor community on the benefits of Deep Tech investments with the intention of increasing the amount of private capital available for deployment in the Deep Tech sector.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of the things that founders have the most angst about is whom they should have on their board and at what stage of the business. Bad board members can make business very unpleasant. If the angel board member is hugely valuable you can always keep them on the board at your discretion. Of course it happens all the time?—?especially

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 26, 2021

Venture debt is a loan to companies that have raised money from venture capital investors (“VCs”). Money is essential for companies to grow, and venture debt can be helpful. It can provide a bridge so that a founder can delay raising an equity round, grow the company and attract higher valuations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

The quickening pace of tech layoffs is creating growing uncertainty for workers, but it’s giving investors access to a new wave of technical and entrepreneurial talent. Do you have control over your finances, both personal and business?” “How How do you communicate your message to investors, coworkers, potential partners, etc.?”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s a decent metaphor for our startup ecosystem: Just as there aren’t enough sandbags in San Francisco to keep everyone’s house dry, rising interest rates, skittish investors and looming economic uncertainty are poised to bring valuations down even further in 2023. We need to destigmatize down rounds in 2023.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Sometimes, due to the nature of the startup game, we over index on “the new.” After all, you only get to be “it” once.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

In this challenging fundraising environment, more startups than ever are turning to alternative financial solutions such as debt. Despite the negative connotation associated with debt, a startup should not view it as an act of desperation during downturns, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers and Alex Wilhelm have recently noted.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. AngelList’s recently closed early-stage venture fund brings back one of my favorite conversations within the world of early-stage startup fundraising: to data, or not to data.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The first is that as a player, “getting your money in and out is extraordinarily painful,” he said, because payouts are tethered to legacy payment systems such as ACH transfer that require the user to trust the counterparty against whom they are betting on the platform to actually distribute funds to them. HotStreak raised ~$1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The city also has the famed Queen’s University and low living costs to count in its favor, and gentrification is starting to take place, which shows things are looking up for Northern Ireland’s capital. And as far as the local startup scene goes, the U.K.’s Which sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

-based maker of cap table management software aims to solve that same problem and has so far raised $10 million toward that end led by the payments company Stripe, with participation from Caffeinated Capital, General Catalyst, 8VC and numerous angel investors. Last year, it raised $300 million. Carta was just valued at $1.7

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 4, 2021

And if you’re a high-growth startup looking to get off the ground or expand, it’s likely you’ll need an injection of capital to do that. Byron van Vugt from NZ Growth Capital Partners explains. For investors, capital raises provide an opportunity to invest in a company’s ambitions. Time to get pitching.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One startup that aims to help agents succeed and flourish with its technology and “bundled business services,” Place , has raised $100 million in a Series A round at a valuation north of $1 billion. Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s growth equity business led the investment, which included participation from 3L Capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

For the latest entry in a series of longform articles that explore the inner workings of notable startups, we looked at NS1 , an internet infrastructure company best known for its software-defined DNS. Startups have never had it so good. Startups have never had it so good. What I learned the hard way from naming 30+ startups.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. This was a year like no other for Ann Arbor startups, so we’ve spent lots of time keeping up with all the news from Ann Arbor tech companies. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 2, 2022

I had the pleasure of interviewing Tuomas “Tuom” Holmberg, a serial high-tech and biotech entrepreneur who is spearheading a new blockchain startup called Collector. What motivated you to launch your startup? What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup? It’s a pleasure to be here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

As an interactive storytelling platform, Dorian is building a new way for writers to make money off of their fiction by turning their tales into choose-your-own-adventure mobile games. Before that, she spent seven years at G5 Games, where she was Head of Business Development & Licensing. “I

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

According to a report by Capchase comparing more than 400 SaaS startups to unicorns that reached the public markets in the last two years, the top performers “are handily beating the ‘Rule of 40,'” reports Kyle Wiggers. My best advice: Strengthen your network. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. The US is settling in for some new form of national gridlock, but state and local propositions are busy defining how technology businesses will be allowed to work (legally) in the US.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As teammates at buy now, pay later fintech Affirm, Stella Han and Carlos Treviño bonded over their shared background of growing up in real estate families. Fractional , a San Francisco-based startup, wants to make real estate ownership more accessible. million in total funding at a $30 million valuation. Community is the new AI.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most founders who are raising capital look first to traditional equity VCs. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. But should they? Optionality.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There’s plenty of frustration in the world of startups over when a digital asset does and does not constitute a security in the eyes of the Securities & Exchange Commission. The outfit is certainly busy putting it all to work.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

The cannabis industry is doing very well in the United States: More than 75% of the population lives in a state where access is permitted, and the legal market is expected to generate $33 billion this year. Yoni Meyer, partner, Casa Verde Capital. Matt Hawkins, managing partner and co-founder, Entourage Effect Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it officially turns into a newsletter on May 1, sign up here. The takeaway here?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper , announced Deep Agency , a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.” Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. billion by 2026.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

In this capacity I can tell any entrepreneurs raising early-stage capital that I would have Matt on my short list if I were raising. As is natural for startups not based in Silicon Valley we always relied on Matt for the, “What is everybody in the Valley seeing?” This was hard on all of us. Conclusions?

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Your startup idea is your golden child – and it should be. But keep blind enthusiasm in check and move forward strategically and realistically to avoid the mistakes that can derail your project. You fumble around in the dark for your phone to jot memorable notes. Work in finance. First, MVPs are necessary.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Join us in Boston on July 22 to nerd out about arms, assembly, articulation, actuators and Asimovian legal discourse. Startups and VC. Hellooooo startup nerds. PT, subscribe here. Christine and Haje.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Build trust with founders and then offer your own data-backed take on why a founder’s decision might not be the best decision they could make. When you’re betting on potential, you’re betting on someone’s ability to learn your company and your product. What do you see as your interpersonal impact in a room?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Although older adults are one of the fastest-growing demographics, they’re quite underserved when it comes to consumer tech. Still, most startups persist in releasing products aimed at serving younger users, says Lawrence Kosick, co-founder of GetSetUp, an edtech company that targets 50+ learners. Have a great weekend.

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