StartupNation

MARCH 30, 2021

Like determination, your passionate desire to “make a dent in the universe” can sustain you through a startup’s inevitable struggles. So, I wrote to a number of my former students who’d launched ventures during 1999 and 2000—almost all of which failed when nuclear winter set in. Bring the heat! To do that, think fast and think slow.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Because of the time and investment needed to bring deep tech solutions to market, many startups require significant and sustained capital to get up and running. ACCESSIBLE PRIVATE MARKET INVESTING Build a diversified portfolio with streamlined deal flows using a private market investing platform. Startups raised $342.2

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

Companies like this now only needed a small amount of money to get started, but there wasn’t any place to get it, because institutional investors didn’t make small investments. The VC invests a large amount of money upfront and takes a controlling ownership stake. The startup is typically incubated out of the VC’s offices.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. We have come back and invested with founders we originally declined.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Yoon founded a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automotive sector and was an investment director at SAIC capital, one of the leaders in China’s automotive industry. Before SAIC, she led the Corporate Venture Group at Maxim Integrated, where she led multiple strategic technology acquisitions and venture investments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

The team behind HealthXCapital , which invested in and helped health tech startups scale up, has joined Singapore-based Jungle Ventures. Seemant Jauhari, who led HealthXCapital since it was founded eight years ago, is now a partner at Jungle, where he will invest in healthcare startups in Southeast Asia and India.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 10, 2016

And the goal of a subscription businesses is more than to acquire those streams, but to nurture and sustain them. 28 + 500)/2000 = 2.0. In other words, to sustain a recurring gross profit dollar, this business must invest $2 each year. but the churn is off the charts. CRGPD = (1000/.28 Imagine the same company with 0.5%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

.’s Spring Budget, where Hunt revealed a number of investments into the technology sector, including plans for a £1 million annual AI prize, quantum investments, and a new £900 million ‘exascale’ computer. Government back in 2000, designed to entice businesses to invest in innovation. could be a world leader at.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 13, 2015

At the outset, Ariba sustained very high gross margins, in the low 80 percent range. At the time of its IPO, the company was only investing about 75% of its revenue and sales and marketing. In 2002, the company invested significantly in sales and marketing, but suffered a decline in revenue. The company spent $46.4M

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” Nearly every Internet company on the planet has invested in some form of the first activity, customer acquisition. Investing in a conversion improvement effort is a no brainer for these larger companies. Optimizely.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 6, 2015

WebEx went public in June 2000 with $8.3M To achieve that phenomenal growth in 2000, the company ramped their sales and marketing investment from $2M to $9.3M to $50M from 1998 to 2000, representing an astounding 300%+ of revenue. and finally, six months before IPO to WebEx. in revenue over the previous twelve months.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2014

2014 will be the third largest year in VC fundraising since 2000. As long as there is more demand than supply, and investors can generate “reasonable” returns, prices will be sustained or will increase. Our internal analysis shows that only 2% of IT budgets are spent on cloud today.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. To sustain these growth rates and reach the levels of market liquidity they have, startups like Uber and AirBnB require massive amounts of cash. More money raised for less dilution.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A shift from late-stage pre-IPO investing to renewed emphasis on early stage. From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? But this will be especially hard to deal with for early-stage investors, given that we expect most of our investments to fail to return capital.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In that post, I argued that the venture capital business could not sustain more than $20bn a year of new capital coming into it and continue to produce good returns to the investors in VC funds. Yes, it is true that some venture investments turn into businesses like Apple, Google, Microsoft that are worth $100bn and more.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Investments can be powerful. When successful, they can benefit both investors and the invested. If that is the capital of investing, then why not use it to improve not only the lives of people involved in business, but everybody else as well? Investment can help solve problems facing communities, regions and the world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

In a statement, Luke Sarsfield, co-head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said: “Employers are looking to provide their employees tailored solutions and customizable advice that can better support individual saving and investing needs to help improve retirement savings outcomes. In Q2 of 2000, that number dipped slightly to 46.

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A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Not only does this slow down development, it adds investment. Addressing those risks head-on, is required for a healthy and sustainable business that can last for many years. Later on, this becomes critical, and worth investing in. There is very low risk that WP Engine will not sign up thousands of new customers this month.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

I say at 500,000 a technician, I need 2000 technicians. But, it’s an investment. When you start viewing things as an investment versus costs, and you truly believe it’s an investment, is when you change your whole reality. So, what I did is I wrote down, Grant Cardone 10 times. It’s not a cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Partners make investment decisions. ” In VC terms that means the key questions you need to answer are, is this investor: Geographically focused and have they invested in my geography before? Meet in person.

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