Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

While a run on a bank by current depositors can clearly accelerate negative trends we must also be mindful of the responsible support of the startup ecosystem that can and should come from venture capitalists, angels and other stakeholders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Founded in 2009, AppWorks started its accelerator program before launching a $11 million debut fund in 2012. Lin said that many of AppWorks accelerator graduates over the past three to five years are from Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and, increasingly, Indonesia and the Philippines. for the other funds.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

If you are a venture capital investor and you''re not preparing yourself to succeed in a more diverse ecosystem of entrepreneurs, you''re just going to get left behind. YCombinator had a great run from 2007 through early 2009 investing at a time when there weren''t nearly as many seed funds and accelerators as there are now.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the Business Beat, Jeff discusses how the pandemic has accelerated the growth — and funding — of delivery drones and other autonomous systems. Are you an entrepreneur with a great story to share? So, you can see the growth and investment into the sector is massive and accelerating rapidly.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

” Mar is a successful serial entrepreneur, with numerous industry accolades. “Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii. Mar has been recognized in the Midas List of Top Tech Investors in 2021.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

This is something I think entrepreneurs don’t totally understand and it’s worthwhile they do. Entrepreneurs started demanding that VCs call their first-round financings “seed” rounds even if they were $3 million. Why the latter? and there''s always a but]. I saw this myself a few times in a row.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Even the growth rates of the cloud providers have begun to decelerate as customers scrutinize spending more carefully (true for AWS & Azure, GCP revenue growth accelerated slightly). You need to plan to achieve your targets COVID and a low cost of capital were a tailwind for more technology businesses than we realized. What do you think?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. It’s always such a pleasure for me to spend time with Farb because he has all of the enthusiasm and energy you love to see in entrepreneurs. He’s also candid, humble and helpful.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 23, 2020

As one of the first spaces to open in North America by joining the Impact Hub network in 2009, Impact Hub San Francisco has had significant impact in their community including housing and supporting the Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP) in its early years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2017

In this special interview, EO South Australia’s DAVID BARTHOLOMEUSZ , a longtime member leader and EO Accelerator trailblazer, opens up about his PoL journey, finding his purpose as a leader and giving back to get ahead. WHEN DID YOU SAY TO YOURSELF, “I HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR”? And I burst into tears.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

I know that some of the best businesses have seen this rapid acceleration quickly: Google, Facebook, Instagram, AirBnB and the like. And so do entrepreneurs who are quick to pivot to new businesses or to sell in an acquihire. And the “stay lean” argument isn’t only good for entrepreneurs, it can be good for VCs, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Venture capitalists have raised increasing amounts of money from their investors (LPs) every year.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. Dan talks about a landmark case in 2009 that involved whether it was legal to strip search a 13-year-old girl.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This is something I think entrepreneurs don’t totally understand and it’s worthwhile they do. Entrepreneurs started demanding that VCs call their first-round financings “seed” rounds even if they were $3 million. I haven’t obsessed about what definitions people choose for precisely the reason I would advise entrepreneurs not to.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur. He was fortunate. Crazy, huh?

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

” Bamboo is focused on creating community among members and used to host many events with local business leaders, politicians and entrepreneurs. Unicorn startup Duo Security ’s founder Dug Song co-founded The Tech Brewery in 2009 with building owner Doug Smith to be a coworking space for growing tech startups.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

The phenomenon, they argue, will accelerate creativity across a larger network. RSVP: [link] 5PM NY Tech Meetup Student Mingle The NYTM Student Group's mission is to encourage the involvement of students and student leaders in the New York City tech community and thereby better educate and prepare tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

This article was originally posted on Inc.com, a partner of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization , the world’s most influential community of entrepreneurs. If I had more space, I’d add that studying accelerated learning is the Archimedes lever for everything else. By Tim Ferriss, Author, Early Stage Investor.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2009, Duo Security has grown into one of the top tech companies in the Midwest—and the country. DaySmart is a software company that’s accelerating small business growth with digital tools. Just recently, BrandXR received funding deals in the Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch competition. Duo Security. Groundspeed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. If you have raised a limited amount of money from angels, accelerators or seed funds be very careful about having a high burn rate.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2014

So I’ve tried to answer the complex question using Crunchbase data from 2009 to today. ” I’m using the word angels broadly; it includes individual investors, incubators and accelerators. In other words, a great entrepreneur can come from anywhere. Angel seeds are in blue and VC seeds are in red.

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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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Focused on democratizing security for businesses who don’t have in-house security expertise, Aadya is a more accessible option for business security, which means they have their pick of the customers in an age of accelerating online security concerns. Onboard.io. They have raised $10.7 billion and recently went public in November 2021.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Despite deep local roots in Boston and strong ties to Harvard and MIT, they decided to shut down Ycombinator Cambridge and moved everything to Silicon Valley in January of 2009. This must change!

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The email deck is also used in other contexts: for example, when applying to an accelerator or submitting your deck to a competition.). For example, on their 2009 pitch deck, Airbnb had a market validation slide to support their thesis that people would be willing to stay on strangers’ couches. This is our redesign of that slide.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Wilcox founded E Ink, which commercialized electronic paper displays and was acquired by Amazon in 2009. Workshops and roundtables draw like-minded entrepreneurs, and you’ll have plenty of time to meet and connect. TechCrunch hosts Darrell Etherington and Becca Szkutak will interview serial-founder-turned-VC Russ Wilcox.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. DEAL OF THE WEEK.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

The structural problems of the EU monetary union came into focus in a big way from 2009–2011, when a number of European countries struggled to pay off the massive debts they had accrued over the preceding decades. When a central bank commits to YCC, its balance sheet grows slowly, then accelerates upwards in a nearly straight line?—?blowing

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. This will add fuel to the fire and accelerate the transformation. Here are a list of the new forces pushing the U.S. Moreover, because of the systematic changes outlined above, the U.S.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Gurley’s been attacking this from another perspective, that of the entrepreneur. The other thing that’s pretty obvious, I think, for any entrepreneur, you say, “Wow, look, there’s a lot of room for disruption.” Where can you actually enter the system? Ezra Klein : Just control C, control V Singapore?

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