AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 16, 2023

The firm is founded on experience in both business operations and private equity investments. In an interview with AsiaTechDaily, Mun warns against investing in the business rather than the people and advises entrepreneurs to be realistic in their funding requests. And when did you first think about starting a fund?

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Many Gen Zers are also watching businesses make significant pivots with their business models and may be inspired to make similar moves. Why wait for a dream job when you can start your own dream business? Choosing a business model. Drafting a business plan. Picking a business structure.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Before all else, if you’re about to start your journey as a new business owner, congratulations! Before setting the wheels in motion, discover the various growth stages your business will go through, their associated challenges and how to tackle them. Starting your own business is just the beginning.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SolarSquare said on Thursday it has raised $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Lowercarbon and Elevation Capital, just months after securing its seed financing. SolarSquare, which sells, installs and helps individuals finance solar modules, has an ambitious plan to change that. Less than 0.5%

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 16, 2018

Is your startup dying? If you’re passionate enough about your startup, then you’ll have the courage to go through hardships and overcome all the challenges. The question is how to find investment and grow your business. This is why you start considering the idea of creating a crowdfunding campaign.

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StartupNation

JUNE 14, 2021

If you’re starting a business, you’re probably focused on the product or service you’ll sell, but there are other essential tasks you’ll need to tackle, too. Use the following startup checklist to launch your business the right way: Choose and register your business name. Register your business name.

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Forward Cities

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As a successful candidate, you will be equally comfortable with detailed financial planning as you are with maximizing human resources. Your focus will be on results, yet understand it takes a village to deliver them. You know how to marshal support for your plans, and your follow through is key to who you are.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Lastly, this gives Acorns an opening to grow internationally, starting with GoHenry’s existing footprint across the U.K., Acorns is coming into this deal after it faced a setback on an earlier exit plan of its own. The company originally had intentions to go public, and in 2021 it laid out plans to do so by way of a SPAC.

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StartupNation

MAY 24, 2021

All was not rosy, however, as first-time financings comprised only a fraction of that funding and decreased at points during the year. That pitch needs to be on point, with a clear and concise executive summary, a detailed business plan and a killer pitch deck that makes a compelling case to invest. Work your network like crazy.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

After 26 years of selling business services, there’s not much I haven’t seen. The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. Interest: Your colleagues want to work with the brand. Tell us about your business?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

I know the title “I promise you one of the most meaningful days of your life” sounds grandiose but I mean it and I hope you’ll read through to the end and choose to take one small, totally free action, that will change your life and likely those of others. You can go. You SHOULD go. Here is how. You can make excuses — many do.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Kim wants 42Maru to become a leading solution provider for cognitive searches to help businesses. 42Maru provides technological solutions for smart devices and businesses using Artificial Intelligence Search, deep learning, and machine reading comprehension. That’s why I started 42Maru in the AI field with deep learning.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Pereira and fellow founder Fernando Nery concluded that the software that Portão had built could still be used to help enterprise businesses with corporate spend generally. “We The company participated in Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 cohort, but only recently turned to institutional financing to help grow its business — closing a $3.6

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

West Coast investors tend to look for higher growth rates, put less emphasis on profitability, and tend to give more founder-friendly term sheets; East Coast investors tend to look more closely at business fundamentals, seek out more predictable revenue, and often give less founder-friendly terms when investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

But the story started more than 6 months ago. And the narrative may tell you something about your own journey one day. We started planning our fund raising as much as 14 months ago. Many had started IPO’ing and we started to think about our future. September started easily enough.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It all started in Rostov-on-Don, Russia in 2018 when my wife, Veronica, and I decided to combine our skills and efforts to produce 2D animation and founded the studio, V+ Animation. After a year, we started working on our own animated series. I was so elated and overwhelmed that my head started spinning! But boy, was I wrong!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

” On the other hand, if the chip on your shoulder is, “I’m not treated fairly by the system, boo hoo, I’m different and that’s why you aren’t helping me” that chip can be a big negative. Seth responded to an entrepreneur’s request for financing and the entrepreneur wrote back a nastygram.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2023

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Well, you can’t rely on any national institutions as your business partners. In a world that is increasingly cashless, that’s a problem for both consumers and businesses. Welcome to The Interchange ! More here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Collective , an all-in-one back-office finance platform for the self-employed, which has raised over $28 million in funding, is hiring for five roles across engineering, marketing and member services (tax, accounting). Check it out here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry. This led to a boom in business for startups catering to home buyers. Welcome to The Interchange!

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Gust

DECEMBER 29, 2013

In the spirit of saving you a few lifetimes of pain, here are some common mistakes or shortcuts that seem to happen routinely: Wait until your company is up and growing before you formalize it. The simple answer is to do something, and start simple. This step shows everyone you are serious, and limits your liability on any mistakes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ellis had started his career as a cancer researcher at MIT. He eventually landed at Stripe, where he started and led different customer engineering teams for seven years. The startup is starting out by targeting other startups, which often lack the budgets to offer health benefits that can rival that of larger companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. They are very hands on.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

. “Allset is a mobile messaging company that is driving revenue for the 5 million home service businesses in North America. The typical business in this $800 billion industry has on average 6 employees and their main concern is growing their business. Parthean teaches personal finance to young professionals.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. However, in general, a chartered bank in operation has obtained a form of government permission to do business in the financial services industry. Welcome to The Interchange! Chartered bank specifics vary from country to country.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

How did your early life shape how you run your businesses and how you lead? We want to empower our associates to think and find ways to serve our guests that fulfill any reasonable request. When you communicate with each other openly and honestly, people respect that and get on board with your mission.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 20, 2021

However, all these numbers tend to be operational in nature and do not generate returns from your own data by providing valuable insights on how to accelerate growth. We created an easy to follow five step principle to help you quickly master your data and generate analytics ROI. However, your total monthly sales was £9,000.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2017

Are you an entrepreneur or startup founder who is starting to hire employees? Establishing an effective hiring process includes ensuring your business is compliant with all local, state and federal hiring laws—from the job description you post to the final hiring steps. Requests for accommodation. Vethan Law Firm P.C.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Poparazzi , the anti-Instagram social app that hit the top of the App Store last year, is today, for the first time, detailing the growth stats for its business, its future plans and its previously unconfirmed Benchmark-led Series A round. Most of its users are U.S. With differentiated angles, they all claim to offer that opportunity.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Not surprisingly, the tighter your relationship with the firm, typically the more money you will earn: . However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. The simplest path forward is to identify funds in your industry of expertise, and reach out.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2022

I intend to use my knowledge of crypto, financial services, and common sense to tease out the story of what I think led to its collapse, starting with the implosion of TerraUSD and Luna. But what made the 3AC default so impactful is that it blew a whale shark-sized hole in many of the largest centralised crypto lending businesses.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

At this point, all of them are currently planning to do 506c again for their next fund.” Or, Yoni Tuchman, Fund Formation Partner at DLA Piper, said, “Include a form letter in your sub docs that the LP can have their lawyer or accountant sign.” There are four disadvantages to general solicitation. Time efficiency.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Often times we see “success” and think that it was “overnight” We forget that most of the business success we see, was a slow and steady progression of mistakes, of learning. How to build a brand that will benefit your business? Alisa Gumbs: But you didn’t get fired for your personality.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2012

The call from a fellow VC to “look harder” made me decide to request a site visit. But it was early 2009 and not many companies were getting new financings at all so I thought they should take the deal. I mentioned it to my friend and he green-lit the plans for her to ask him to the dance. A term sheet is your bond.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

“Founder is a state of mind, not a job description” We all love the mythical stories of our great founder heroes who drove startups from scratch and led their businesses many years later: Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos and so on. It’s your baby. The financial pressures of running a startup started to hit Jonathan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. And you may choose to overpay hoping that the future value will be worth your while. Vultures will start circling looking for deals. So I’m not advocating panic or a need to rush your funding round. Or worse yet they may never get financed.

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