TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Did you miss the other Startup Battlefield VC judges? Did you know?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

I had an hour to interview Mike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures. This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Venture Financings we Discussed. Competitors: Google.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. 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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As the recipients of less than 1% of venture capital raise, institutionalized systems are visibly at play. When you think about the intersection of venture capital and technology, and specifically how it works — it is being led from an engineering perspective. I was in college from 2000 to 2004.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

I later moved to Denver, Colorado, and have worked in the world of banking and real estate as a partner and co-CEO of a company called Legacy Management Group since 2004. Since relocating to America, I have independently invested in several other business ventures outside of my full-time job. How to Achieve Startup Success from Day 1.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Rob Olson is a partner and head of data strategy at M13 , a venture engine focused on investing in the core technologies that are going to drive and change consumer behavior over the next decade. Does it really take an average of seven to eight years for a successful startup to exit? exchange or an exit via M&A from 2004-2019.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Image Credits: Versatile Venture Capital (opens in a new window). This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Venture funds are joining the rush to renewable energy—and it’s not a passing fad • Government subsidies will help, but inno vative companies and business logic will drive growth. In 2019, venture and private equity investment in cleantech was estimated between $9 and $16 billion, up from less than $500 million in 2013. By OURCROWD.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” .

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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. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma? Oklahoma’s startup ecosystem is disproportionately male, how can we improve the number of women-led startups in our region?

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015. Make no mistake, however!

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

Tmura: Startup options help those in need. In 2004, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk took what appeared to be a huge and perhaps reckless gamble. Musk’s startup, of course, was Tesla, and the dream was an all-electric car. Medisafe raises $30M for AI that helps people take medication. Introductions. 1,000 high-tech jobs. Learn More.

energy

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

The venture asset class seems to have already decided that AI is the next great investment opportunity, but I’m not so sure it’s going to disrupt business and create the across-the-board wealth that has been predicted. What was notable was how similar they all sounded—that is, until I got the pitch from Brad and Fred at Union Square Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

We’ve hung out periodically over the past few years and I have enjoyed debating many startup topics. We had a discussion about how businesses change after the company really isn’t a startup anymore. Yesterday’s show floored me. I consider Gregg Spiridellis a good friend. It changed everything.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As reported by Slate from a study from researchers at the University of North Carolina, “We have lost about 20 percent of local newspapers in the United States since 2004, and at least 900 communities now are without any local news source in that same time frame.” It’s the Gannett cuts that worry me the most.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg famously launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room at the age of 19. Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Its seed round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Insignia Venture Partners, Arka Venture Labs, Better Capital and Vietnam Investments Group. To measure sales efficiency, SaaS startups should use the 4×2.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 25, 2023

VNG, established in 2004 and acclaimed as Vietnam’s pioneer tech unicorn, has experienced remarkable growth since its inception. Beginning as a small startup with five individuals, the company has expanded to become Vietnam’s most extensive native digital ecosystem. .”

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Still, startups and creators often lag behind with patenting. Read on to find out what the benefits of patenting are and why it adds value to any venture. One of the reasons why startups don’t patent is simply because they don’t know they can. Startups should register their patents once they can afford to. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The round was led by Mayfield, with participation from MissionBio Capital, Builders VC and VSC Ventures. Since graphene was discovered in 2004 , the material has generated a lot of hype — it was supposed to be the next silicon , though that hasn’t quite happened yet. . Graphene is a single-atom thin carbon sheet. Still, the U.K.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. Coninsurance plans require the patient to pay a percentage (usually 10-30%) of the healthcare costs up to the deductible limit.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Now, the company has a new name, Supplant, and $24 million in venture capital financing to start commercializing its low-cost sugar substitute made from the waste materials of other plants. 10 startups that caught our eye from day 1 of YC Demo Day S18. The bitter history of the sweetest ingredient. Supplanting the competition.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Good luck getting me to move to any startup city in a state run by people who deny climate change, seek to thwart democracy through voter suppression, and that sees proper oversight of vital infrastructure as a financial burden too great to bother with.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

It''s kind of a funny answer to "When did you start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?". 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. So when did I really start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. Foursquare was in the same position as lots of other companies when they took that first big round from AH, but it was up to a big venture capital firm to decide that this was a company in the first inning rather than the fifth, and to give it a big runway to think much bigger.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. The Union Square Ventures partners started whispering in his ear that “it’s all about social now”. Thank you, John.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

2) Do you sell something that isn’t truly a must-have product to startups or other tech companies? Even after the worst period for VC in history—VC funds were back to market in 2004, no more than four years after the crash, right in line with the historical pace to get back at the game of investing. The incentive is too strong.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

venture capital market. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Sequoia was not the first United States-based venture capitalist to opt for RIA status, and it was also not the first venture capitalist that The Exchange tracks that moved to a more permanent-capital model.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 27, 2023

 Andrew started by buying some apartments, before moving on to investing in tech startups. After graduating from Oak Bay High School in 2004, he won a place at Ryerson University studying journalism. After graduating from Oak Bay High School in 2004, he won a place at Ryerson University studying journalism.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. The reality, added Khosla, is that “most board members today in startups have not earned the right to advise” because many have not themselves built startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

One startup out of Boston, Knox Financial , aims to help people identify and manage residential rentals with its algorithm-based platform, and it’s raised a $10 million Series A to help it further that goal. Boston-based G20 Ventures led the round, which included participation from Greycroft, Pillar VC, 2LVC, and Gaingels. .

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