TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. The median seed round is $500,000 (above the global average of $494,000) and a median Series A round for a startup is $2.4 Lots of innovation, great infrastructure, good talent.
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. 6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 4, 2012
I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. If your startup went belly-up (the Brits have a much more crude slang term for it) there wasn’t likely somebody lined up to fund your next attempt at a startup. I remember this lesson well.
Y Combinator
JUNE 25, 2021
Last week, we launched our Summer 2021 batch here at Y Combinator, the 33rd batch since our founding in 2005. We aim to change each YC company into a better version of itself — into a startup which has a better chance of surviving the bitter battle where only the fittest and best-adapted companies survive.
Feedough
APRIL 14, 2021
This term is believed to have first appeared in a blog post by Rex Hammock on May 11, 2005. To hire a well-functioning team and use the skills of its employee team for innovation and growth. Investors not getting an equal share of the company’s net worth is one of the controversial issues in the startup ecosystem.
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2022
Earlier in the month, S3 Ventures raised $250 million for its Fund VII, touting itself as “the largest venture capital fund focused on Texas-based startups.” S3 Ventures founder and managing director Brian Smith notes that when he started the firm in 2005, venture capital in Texas was finally starting to recover from the dot.com bust.
Don Dodge
APRIL 6, 2015
They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. Back in 2005 no one anticipated the success of YCombinator, not even its founders. There were no billion dollar unicorn startups. The typical tech startup would raise about $1M on a $3M valuation.
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