TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. Its portfolio now has eight startups. The fund is targeting $50 million and has already brought in $11.5

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

connects startups to experts in building new businesses. Particularly relevant is Startups.com , which help tech startups identify consultants with relevant domain expertise. Startup board meetings template presentation. There are also expert networks with sector or geography specialization. Further reading. Here’s How .

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma? Get started! Oklahoma is very friendly to entrepreneurs.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Founded by Ashok Babu Kunjukannan, Harishankkar Subramanyam, and Maharajan Veerabahu in 2003, e-con Systems partners with key sensor makers like Sony, Onsemi and Omnivision, and lens makers like Commonlands and Corning, and ISP partners like NVIDIA and Socionext. EY acted as the exclusive advisor for e-con Systems on the transaction.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

Inaugural Survey Report ‘India – An Impact Startup Nation’ released at the TiECon 2021. . Inaugural Survey Report ‘India – An Impact Startup Nation’ released at the TiECon 2021. . They launched the Impact Startup Support (ISS) initiative in India as they unveiled. finance, transforming India into an Impact Startup nation.”. “We

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 9, 2018

We think there are a lot of opportunities to differentiate by using technology aggressively, e.g., Totem , an investor operating system built by some of my past colleagues at ff Venture Capital. . We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. Meenta Instantly access the world’s scientific equipment & COVID-19 labs Launch413 Takes startups to their first $10 million in revenue while providing early returns to investors.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the startup does a priced equity round at a high pre-money valuation – “high” meaning above the cap, which is often a heavily negotiated term. (The

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Today, a startup called Ocelot is announcing a big round of funding to build more tools to help in that effort. Prior to this, the Boulder, Colorado-based startup was completely bootstrapped, and as such has been profitable from the start. It’s not disclosing its valuation, nor any other financial terms of the deal.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Shleifer focused on China; Fixel focused on India, and the rest of the firm’s support team (it now has 22 investing professionals on staff) helped find deals in Brazil and Russia before beginning to focus more aggressively on opportunities in the U.S. Every investing decision was made by the three.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

So, I sort of grew up as a product manager at Google in the early days of the company working on Google AdWords, when we just launched AdWords, I think back in 2003. Again, kind of worked, I was actually the product director for Facebook ads, did that as well in the early days, and then also did a startup that was acquired by Yahoo.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2025

We’re seeing this occur within our startups Transition: Speaking of cost, let’s talk about the expense of AI Slide 11 Clearing: In the 24 months after chatGPT3 was released, a parameter race was unleashed where the sizes of models became ever larger, culminating most recently with Lama 3.3 at 450 billion parameters.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Startups and founders need to come to terms with the stark reality that the rules of the game may be changed mid-play. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. In 2011, virtually every new consumer Internet startup incorporates a social/UGC element.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I saw a few friends politely suggesting that “now was a great stock buying opportunity” meaning that given the stock market is off by 10% it was a great chance to buy and lock in presumably low prices before the market rises again. And by this I assume he meant that “market prognosticator twitter” was vomitous.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It is important to consider doing something similar if you are thinking about investing in a startup. Legal and corporate due diligence , which involves a detailed investigation on the startup, the founders, contracts, corporate structure, product, compliance, contracts, offering, and more. What is due diligence?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Ajay has been an instrumental investor since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003. billion fund for seed to growth-stage startups and a $1.4 billion fund for later-stage opportunities. Long-time, early-stage investor Ajay Agarwal is hosting a roundtable to discuss lessons learned with other Early Stage attendees.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Jennifer Queen is the founder of Pina , a PR firm focused on startups and venture capital firms. As a banker covering technology, I thought there was an opportunity to invest in the region and decided to quit my job at J.P. By solving local issues, startups will build pricing power, which should allow them to thrive.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 27, 2023

Google was about 1,000 people when I started in 2003, which means last week’s layoffs were more than an order of magnitude larger than the entire company I’d originally joined. High performers and culture carriers for years — terminated via email and without the opportunity to celebrate their time with their teams.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

That presents Oklahoma with an opportunity to tackle the main challenge in our entrepreneurial ecosystem. a nonprofit corporation that mentors many of the state’s technology-based startup companies. Women are key to growing successful companies. What are we waiting for? Scott Meacham is president and CEO of i2E Inc.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

When Ibex Investors founder and CEO Justin Borus looks at the transportation industry — and the technological changes that are coming — he sees one of the biggest opportunities in a lifetime. Ibex also makes select one-off investments in later stage mobility startups such as Revel. In all, the firm has about $1.2

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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. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. And PR also has a way of generating inbound funding opportunities. Create urgency.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I never implied that startups are all great and job hoppers are all at fault. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The following startups emerging in the blockchain space can be a great source of ideas and inspiration for your own entrepreneurial aspirations. . Plus, you can also consider if there is an opportunity to use these technologies in your business. Let’s dive in. . Uses for blockchain technology.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The following startups emerging in the blockchain space can be a great source of ideas and inspiration for your own entrepreneurial aspirations. . Plus, you can also consider if there is an opportunity to use these technologies in your business. Let’s dive in. . Uses for blockchain technology.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

Vladimir left Ukraine, as so many immigrants do, for a better life and better opportunities. With the typical “gusto” of an entrepreneur, Vladimir assumed “there had to be a better way” and in 2003 he set out to find a solution to provide a better and a great variety of folders to business owners.

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