This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004. Yeah, so, somewhere in there.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

SoftBank Group first invested in Iyuno Media Group through SoftBank Ventures Asia , its venture capital arm, in 2018. SoftBank Vision 2 will join Lee and investors Altor, Shamrock Capital Advisors and SoftBank Ventures Asia Corporation on Iyuno-SDI Group’s board of directors. Streaming services face their real test in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

startup that connects users with a registered dietitian (RD) via telehealth and helps them get their consultations covered by health insurance. The startup’s CEO, Aidan Dewar, told TechCrunch that “94% of our patients are fully covered by insurance and pay nothing out of pocket. Enter Nourish , a U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2014

Last week, we analyzed the fund raising history of billion dollar SaaS companies and determined SaaS startups are raising nearly twice as much capital as 16 years ago before going public. Given that trend, I wondered if there is there any truth to the idea that startups today require less capital than before to succeed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s impossible to plan for everything that can go wrong while building a startup. ” Mentors and advisers come in handy, but startups move at breakneck speed. .” ” Mentors and advisers come in handy, but startups move at breakneck speed. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. New and existing investors who participated include DST Global, Early Capital Berrywood, Green Visor Capital, Greycroft Capital, Insight Ventures, PayPal, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Management, Worldpay FIS 9yards Capital. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It’s far from the only teletherapy company looking to capitalize on a boom in venture capital investment in mental health startups , but it’s operating in a hyper-specific sphere: therapy for kids. . Should startups build or buy telehealth infrastructure? Those range from unicorns like TalkSpace to other startups. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Most companies don’t announce their first venture investment after almost 20 years in the business, nor do they announce that round is the equivalent of a good startup’s entire private fundraising history. CEO Adam Schwartz founded the company with his life savings in 2002 and hasn’t taken a dime of outside investment since.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

With a war chest now exceeding $30 million, CEO Richard Harris says that Black Crow will use the capital to “accelerate development of new and accessible machine learning use cases in both digital commerce and adjacent verticals” and expand the team across “product, client service, and commercial.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. source: Capital IQ.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

In 2018, they granted the Angel Capital Association a no-fee license to their entire library of training materials to help found ACA University. They have created high quality education courses and articles to help investors make better decisions and entrepreneurs to understand the investment process to attract the capital they need.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. You can ask around to startup lawyers and other entrepreneurs who know these things. Why does vintage matter to you?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

But not everybody has the right skills to build a highly successful and valuable startup from scratch. For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” In fact, I would argue that most people don’t.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

billion in capital commitments. It’s a lot of capital to target, even amid a sea of enormous new venture vehicles. A spokesperson for the firm declined to comment on the letter or Tiger’s broader fundraising strategy when reached this morning. New Enterprise Associates closed its newest fund with $3.6 billion last year.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2014

One of the cloud’s great promise has been cost-reduction and for a while, we’ve chanted a mantra that startups require less capital than before to get started and ultimately succeed. The chart above shows the amount of capital raised in millions of 2014 dollars by each publicly traded SaaS company before going public.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 30, 2023

by Joe Wallin , leader of the Angel Capital Association Legal Advisory Council and Pricipal at the law firm of Carney Badley Spellman, P.S. Big Picture The CTA is intended to assist law enforcement in combatting money laundering, tax fraud, financing of terrorism, and other illicit activity through anonymous shell and front companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The company counts Microsoft and Salesforce (prolific strategic investors in the startup world) among its partners and sometime customers today — as well as acquisition offers from enterprise resource planning companies due to its traction and presence in the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). What have been your experiences in the past 6 months?

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Written by : Regina Beach Propel(x) curated a list of five startup-led tech trends in the 21st century that transformed industries. This list primarily looks at deep tech sectors, with many of the mentioned startups having grown into household names and multibillion-dollar companies today. Startups raised $342.2

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

There has been a lot of discussion recently of where the choke points are in the cone, and I believe we’re headed into a period in which the Series B venture round will be more of a choke point than it has been in the past, especially for American startups. The graphic follows those startups until April 2014. Certainly not.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The startup acquisition market is poised to have its best year in nearly a decade. If acquirers maintain the same pace from the first nine months of the year through Q4, more than 450 venture-backed startups will have been acquired, generating more than $25B in proceeds. The past four years have been great liquidity years for startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. As the world went through its economic shock fueled by the housing boom & cheap capital, Ireland suffered its effects a bit worse. I also walked the conference pit a little bit and let random people tell me about their startups.

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OurCrowd

MAY 11, 2020

Historically, venture investing right after major market downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2000-2002, and after the financial crisis of 2007-2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. The post In the News: Coronavirus, industry reinvention & venture capital appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

As a quick review, most startups begin life as corporations with a single class of equity securities, referred to as Common Stock , issued to founders, employees, and outside service providers. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

He was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002. Last, the company must be well-capitalized because flywheel business models require patience and time to achieve exponential growth. For example, startups selling software to marketers, who are pressed for time offer simple pricing plans.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

In 2002, pushed by new head coach named Sir Dave Brailsford, the team implemented philosophy of continuous incremental improvement. I’m not sure the three core focuses of the British Cycling team translate to startups. In 76 years, the British cycling team have recorded only one gold medal. And the results were astounding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

He’s the founder of BeamUP , a startup emerging from stealth that uses data to cut down design times and manage a facility’s systems over their lifecycle. ” Levy says that the capital will be used to scale three-year-old, 37-employee BeamUP’s marketing, sales and customer delivery teams spread across the U.S.,

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2015

In the Innovator’s Dilemma for SaaS Startups , I outlined the path of many software companies, which disrupt incumbents by first serving the small-to-medium business and then move up-market by transitioning to serve larger enterprises with outbound sales teams. Additionally, this flywheel model is incredibly capital efficient.

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