StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Here are four startup myths that hold innovation back.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This affects M&A activities for startups, which with the reduction of the IPO market could spell lower returns in the short-term for technology startup investors. VC funding is definitely back from the constipation that was 2009 replete with frothy valuations chasing dreams of the next Facebook, Groupon or Zynga.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Now many Detroit startups are on the fast track to growth. Whether it’s new funding, expansions or IPOs, it’s been an eventful year in Detroit startups. Here are the top Detroit startups and tech companies to watch in 2022. Small Detroit startups to watch in 2022. Next year is looking even better. Apply now to Autobooks.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

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. My own track record as a VC across First Round Capital and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures actually starts in January of 2010, *after* the Airbnb class of Winter 2009. That''s 25%.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

. + This post unpacks offers an insiders’ view of some of the key strategic decisions that led to Techstars’ decline. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs. Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 30, 2021

Patient” capital is critical to success of Oklahoma startups. Investors also understand that the typical five-year failure rate for high tech startups is north of 50 percent. The company was founded as iThryv in 2009 in Oklahoma City. By Scott Meacham. First Capital. TBFP was the first capital in. Future Angels.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Register MoveinSync, an innovative Indian startup specializing in workplace commute solutions, is currently in discussions with investors for a new round of funding. The Indian startup plans to prepare for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) within the next two to three year. They aim to secure between $50 to $60 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Startups pitching on the main stage. “Yoon has been a Venture Investor and strategic partner to many Silicon Valley startups/founders for 18 years prior to Muirwoods. “Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history. Clicker, which launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2009, was acquired by CBS Interactive.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 23, 2021

In venture capital parlance, “unicorn” describes a privately held startup company with a company valuation of over $1 billion. The success story of Alkami Technology—from an Oklahoma City startup to a multi-billion dollar IPO and i2E’s first unicorn — fans the flames of innovation and entrepreneurial possibility.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

CEO Karkal has a long history in the fintech space, co-founding Simple, an app unifying various accounts into one accessible bank card, in 2009. Revolution tends to look at fintech startups from a consumer angle. Investors, founders report hot market for API startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Laura Lorek has lived in the Austin area since 2000, where she's been writing about established companies like Dell, NI, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Google, Meta and tech startups like Opcity, now Realtor.com, Homeaway, now VRBO, RetailMeNot, Indeed.com, Homeward, OJO Labs and others. He returned to Austin to launch a cybersecurity startup, Symbiot.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Insilico Medicine, an AI-based platform for drug development and discovery, announced $255 million in Series C financing on Tuesday. This current round was oversubscribed four-fold, according to Zhavoronkov. .

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Here are four startup myths that hold innovation back.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2014

Is it better to raise your startup’s seed round from only angel investors, or is it better to include a VC or two? So I’ve tried to answer the complex question using Crunchbase data from 2009 to today. Below, I compare and contrast the fundraising histories of about 3700 startups that have raised seeds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How Your Startup Should Think About Collaboration, Not Just Capital.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 7, 2019

And when it comes to Oklahoma’s policy makers building a state ecosystem to support those startups, it’s the same. We cannot do or fund everything — even though we know that for most of the past 25 years, startups are the primary source of new job creation. Trades-offs and either/or. Twenty years ago, the state appropriated $10.7

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

require payment financing, invoicing/approvals, inventory management) and requirements differ from vertical to vertical. As a result, B2B buyers are looking for online platforms to help with the discovery, purchase, and financing of new products. Similarly, independent establishments in Faire’s core categories have grown from 1.47

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How Your Startup Should Think About Collaboration, Not Just Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How Your Startup Should Think About Collaboration, Not Just Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). We spoke briefly about why.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

I think I’ve read Paul Graham’s post on “ Startup = Growth ” three or four times now. “The growth of a successful startup usually has three phases: There’s an initial period of slow or no growth while the startup tries to figure out what it’s doing. I talked about some of that here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. You didn’t join startups then.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” Most prefer not to say this publicly for two reasons: 1) they have an entire portfolio of startups, many of whom are raising capital and 2) they prefer not to be attacked publicly or seem “anti entrepreneur.” goes into a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million? It literally drove FOMO. Maker Studios?—?sold

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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. I have had a version of this conversation with nearly every startup with whom I’m involved.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). Startup Lessons'

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

It costs less money to start companies so the world should have way more startups.&# I’ve heard the “world is different&# argument in every bubble I’ve ever seen. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction. On the startup side, my first company, VXtreme, was acquired by Microsoft and became the platform for media streaming over the internet. More posts by this contributor. What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital?

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

But that’s really just the starting point and that’s when I put out a Tweet three years ago and started meeting with digital healthcare [00:05:00] startups. So backing up on how healthcare is financed, let’s say you got a plan with basically no deductible, so you’ve got first dollar coverage.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In the early spring of 2009, the fundraising nuclear winter of the previous year hadn't yet thawed. I was out trying to save my startup by talking to as many investors as I could. It's the black box of the startup world. In a way, startup companies have it easier because VCs and many angels make themselves known.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . In fact, my sense is that in most regions, angels and VCs are cooperating and sometimes co-funding startups. All Seed-VC. Silicon Valley. New England. NYC Metro. .

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Every day, 5% of the entire online world (roughly 3.5

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Paul Kedrosky made the case for “naive optimism&# being an important part of startup success. I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel-good startups. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In the venture capital industry, “unicorn” is a term used to describe a privately held startup company with a company valuation of over $1 billion. As a venture firm, when you get your first billion dollar startup, you need to be talking about it—celebrating and giving thanks. Scott Meacham is president and CEO of i2E Inc.,

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