Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Crowd funding enables entrepreneurs to raise money in relatively small amounts from large numbers of interested investors. Recently, entrepreneurs in many countries have been soliciting investment through “crowd funding” websites designed specifically for fundraising purposes. We will circle back on these two “lessons learned” below.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Founded in 2000 by Russian-American entrepreneur Stepan Pachikov, Redwood City-based Evernote made handwriting recognition software for Windows and the eponymous note-taking, web-clipping app Evernote, which stored notes on an “infinite roll of paper.” in 2008. .”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. Well, the venture capital industry has changed a lot in the past 20 years … and we have too.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But, still, every startup, especially those seeking angel and venture capital funding, are conditioned to project this growth curve – because investors love it. This stage starts with the entrepreneurs analyzing and exploring the startup idea more seriously. Today, disruption is rather slow-paced.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. The reality is that, most of the time--like two thirds of the time--the venture market is totally open for good businesses to get fair valuations in reasonable turnaround times. Needless to say, he's having some trouble raising.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Rob messed around with some local video thing in 2008, which everyone but Rob thought was a pretty terrible idea. " — Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) December 29, 2008. I''m proud of the whole team at Backupify and have been really impressed with Rob''s ability to grow and learn as an entrepreneur over time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans. Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Prior to Inspired Capital, Alexa founded LearnVest in 2008 with the goal of helping women in particular make better investments and learn financial planning. After raising $75 million in venture capital and growing the service to 1.5 that highlights entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Why do they invest in venture capital? We raised $280 million.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Some LPs might not make capital calls because they are worried about the environment, and some LPs might actually no longer have the liquidity to fulfill these capital calls. LPs failed to make capital calls in the late 90s during the dot-com bubble burst, after September 11, and during the financial crisis in 2008.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Marc is the managing partner of MGV , where he focuse on working with world-class entrepreneurs in tech. Seed-stage investing is the best place for venture capital to deploy when global uncertainty sprouts up. Marc Schröder. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Many entrepreneurs prepared for a slowdown in funding, putting hiring and expansion plans on ice as they searched for ways to continue operating in a world that had been remade by the pandemic. But, as we’ve discussed previously, there is no shortage of venture capital in the markets today.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Everyone loves an underdog, which is why investors and tech journalists are so fond of discussing startups that launched during the Great Recession of 2008, like Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp, Mailchimp, Square and Venmo. based venture capital firms raised $74.1 In the first six months of 2021, PitchBook reported that U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The companies that took their first venture capital during the craze decided to join forces with other well-capitalized competitors. But that’s all I’m giving away now; read the entire survey to see where investors are finding hope, what is no longer venture-backable and what wave of edtech innovation they think we’re in today.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Greater Colorado Venture Fund raises $25 million dollar fund, in partnership with Colorado Venture Capital Authority; Funds will be used to galvanize, support and expand rural Colorado founders and entrepreneurs in their business building efforts.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Union Square Ventures (USV) has been one of the most successful venture capital firms of the past 10–15 years and continues to be a leader in our industry. Lindel is no stranger to thorny venture capital issues — he was arguably amongst the most successful LPs of his generation.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Brooklyn is attracting a generation of entrepreneurs who never saw Brooklyn in its industrial heyday, but feel like the borough is uniquely positioned and a historically fitting place to produce their products and serve creative communities. Politics Venture Capital & Technology'

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Thus entrepreneur is no stranger to early-stage investing – nor the famed accelerator to which he will soon run. Tan was a YC founder in the summer of 2008 and served as a partner there from December 2010 to November 2015. YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It’s a critical appointment — while brief — that can have a lasting impact on the founders who win, as well as help maintain TechCrunch’s reputation as an outlet that finds innovative tech and entrepreneurs behind it. Lanzone has a long history in media and as an entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 13, 2021

Founded in 1998, i2E originated as the nexus of support for advanced technology entrepreneurs and a source of our state’s first organized concept stage venture capital. What if the state created and authorized i2E to manage an early stage concept fund to provide equity-free capital to startups? Built on ‘what ifs’.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Greater Colorado Venture Fund raises $25 million dollar fund, in partnership with Colorado Venture Capital Authority; Funds will be used to galvanize, support and expand rural Colorado founders and entrepreneurs in their business building efforts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

But for Ansaf Kareem, venture partner at Lightspeed, the tough times can be seen as a good thing because they often create the best companies. “If 2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. At least later stage investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). The overall trends in our industry have breathed a new life into the venture capital industry. The iPhone was released.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. source: Capital IQ. What a bubble means for each entrepreneur. I believe that. Why I believe we’re in a bubble.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. In contrast, entrepreneurs in most other fields risk a more significant portion of their own capital in their new venture , better aligning incentives.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Today, the investor is announcing the launch of Voltron Capital , a Pan-African venture capital firm he co-founded with Abe Choi , a U.S.-based based entrepreneur and investor. ” “I’m going to continue backing interesting entrepreneurs. ” Early-stage investing needs more work.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

As of today, TechCrunch understands an influential group of UK entrepreneurs and investors, aided by industry body Coadec , is now making hasty representations this weekend to HM Treasury over the implications of SVB UK’s shut down. One entrepreneur I spoke to did not mince their words: “It’s totally f *d up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Despite the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, venture capital is well placed to thrive as the world becomes increasingly digital and demands innovative solutions, according to one veteran Silicon Valley investor. Venture Partners , a Menlo Park-based VC firm that backed companies like Checkpoint Software Technologies Ltd.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 Then 500 of those get a one hour meeting.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

First, Anna Heim wrote something lovely about first-time founders and how market fetishization of serial founders could be leading to new entrepreneurs not getting their due. And after dodging drops in startup investment, the Chinese venture capital market could be facing new stress. It’s still very bad?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

A technology executive and entrepreneur, board member and investor, she has 25 years of experience founding and helping to scale companies, including Google, Amazon and Yodlee. In fact, Polyvore twice before had tried to recruit me to become its CEO, once when I was at Google and again when I departed that company in 2008.

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