Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Funding Problem.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

You know, because sometimes startups just simply don't make it [shrug] but you gotta watch out for those financial hucksters who are looking to take your money and run off to kick it in Fiji. 25 people I've actually placed at companies as part of a message of how I help startups. At least startups have accelerators, incubators, etc.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

Back when YC was getting started about 10 years ago, Paul Graham wrote some essays that predicted the way startup fundraising would change in the next decade – accurately, it turns out. How tech startup fundraising changed from 2005 to now. The startup is typically incubated out of the VC’s offices.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It had produced, and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. The moniker became so ubiquitous, both at home and abroad, that “Israel Startup Nation” is now the name of the country’s professional cycling team. 2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Stacklet , a startup that is commercializing the Cloud Custodian open-source cloud governance project, today announced that it has raised an $18 million Series A funding round. “When I joined Capital One, they had made the executive decision to go all-in on cloud and close their data centers,” Thangavelu told me.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

After managing and exiting two startups over a 20-year career, Karl is now M13’s managing partner. I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. The most important next step is to secure growth investment, without which many startups won’t survive.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Today one of the startups that’s built a new, more user-friendly approach to creating and provisioning those learning materials is announcing some funding as it experiences a boost in its growth. . ” The company, originally incubated in Y Combinator, has now raised $27 million.

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