TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. Growth investors have become far more reserved when making new investments, and many are redefining how they approach valuations. Founders must consider a new timeline for the investment process.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Why is it that for every person who has taken the bold step into entrepreneurship, there are so many others with just as much talent and potential, who haven’t? All the more reason to start your entrepreneurial journey by investing your time, not your money, on a smaller or less risky opportunity that you can manage right now.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

LTD , one of the largest security integration companies in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000 , has made a primary equity investment of $192 million in the two companies, $100M in Eagle Eye Networks and $92M in Brivo. The SECOM investment underscores that cloud and AI are the future of physical security,” said Drako.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. One 2018 study found that, during investment pitches, female entrepreneurs are more likely to be asked “prevention” questions, or those related to safety and potential risks and losses. entrepreneurs who bust this myth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield , an inception and early-stage investor with more than 50 years of a people-first investing philosophy. Navin Chaddha. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital? Biology as technology will reinvent trillion-dollar industries.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

million Series A round, passed the due diligence process, and the investment committee had approved the deal. If you take a look at the last two recessions in the United States (2000 and 2008), you will see that the stock market crash coincided with corrections to valuations in the VC market. I made that mistake.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Other investors included Matthew Howard at Norwest and GSR Ventures, which invested in earlier rounds of the company. His previous company, SnapTrack, built out a GPS positioning technology for mobile devices that sold to Qualcomm for $1 billion in stock in March 2000 , at the height of the dot-com bubble.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Based on his time leading startups through the dotcom implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar said it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive. How to talk to your investors about pivoting. When it’s OK to leave money on the table. What you need to do differently to fundraise during a downturn.

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Founder Bounty

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Starting on a Shoestring Budget Blakely started Spanx with just $5,000 of her savings and no outside investment. The Oprah Effect In 2000, a major turning point came when Oprah Winfrey named Spanx her “Favorite Thing” of the year. She had to be creative and frugal with her marketing.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Its 2,000+ members have invested over $1 billion in 2.400+ companies since its founding in 2000. Investment stats in late 2022 indicated that investors were becoming more cautious about their allocations and favoring capital deployment in proven, existing portfolio companies. Keiretsu Forum was founded in 2000 by Randy Williams.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

This process has been tested over 100 hours with 30+ potential co-founders — ultimately helping me co-found a project that has grown to 2000+ users in less than five months. With this in mind, I derived a five-step process for finding an ideal co-founder for my next adventure. It will pay huge dividends!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I was in college from 2000 to 2004. Locking in on the ambition of my entrepreneurial spirit and focusing on my brilliance — my Black brilliance — made them want to invest in me. Eighty percent of investment partners are white, with only a staggering 3% being Black or African-American. I’m going to pivot.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Yozma Programme (Hebrew for “initiative”) from the government, in 1993, was seminal: It offered attractive tax incentives to foreign VCs in Israel and promised to double any investment with funds from the government. This will offer participating companies grants worth 40% of an investment round up to $1.1

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“We recently announced investments in downtown Dover, and this expansion will bring even more activity to our state’s capital. FFI Ionix is part of Fortescue, a company that ranks 414th on the Forbes Global 2000 list, but its origins were founded in Delaware as Xergy.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2023

Photo: Nghia Le / Unsplash My first startup was a total coincidence: I still needed to learn about entrepreneurship, leading teams, or processes, and all I wanted was freedom, exciting work, and money. That was in 2000, right before the internet bubble busted. Entrepreneurship is a challenging but rewarding path.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. One 2018 study found that, during investment pitches, female entrepreneurs are more likely to be asked “prevention” questions, or those related to safety and potential risks and losses. entrepreneurs who bust this myth.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2022

Ash Ali, my friend, and investment partner was talking about a huge 3-day international startup summit in Dubai, where he was going to be flown in as a speaker and mentor to thousands of tech startup founders in attendance from all over the world. I paid $2000 for an online course to teach me how to build a passive income business.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

Between 2000 and 2002, Industry Canada reported that roughly a quarter of the venture funding for Canadian startups came from the United States, while the converse was not true – Canadian venture capitalists maybe accounted for 1% of venture investments into U.S. This trend of foreign startups seeking earlier and earlier U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often. We could do more in 2010 with more VC investment; the doubling assumes only ratable increase in marketing spend to achieve profitability. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

My beliefs are validated by other entrepreneurs who have grown their companies rapidly and have taken a lot of outside investment, only to experience total chaos and frustration. Be an Infinite, Open-Minded Learner Entrepreneurship forces you to be an infinite learner. Grow slow and remain in control of your journey.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

The heart of social entrepreneurship is developing ideas that can solve problems and turn a profit. Investments can be powerful. When successful, they can benefit both investors and the invested. Investment can help solve problems facing communities, regions and the world. There is a “third way”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Alomar, who led startups through the dotcom bust of 2000 and the Great Recession of 2008, will talk about whether investors are still prioritizing growth over profits, and identify which proof points founding teams must define before their next raise. Image Credits: OsakaWayne Studios / Getty Images.

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