American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

$1 billion allocated to support her philanthropic voice of advancing women and family causes Melinda French Gates announced she is going her own way, stepping down from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation she and her husband founded almost 25 years ago. She is an advocate for climate action and a fierce champion for women.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The wave of venture capital interest in geographies other than Silicon Valley has been building momentum over the past 5+ years. If you measure capital flow by Twitter chatter alone, you may assume the tidal wave is about to break and checks are being doled out via T-shirt launchers repurposed from hockey games.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

At the same time, he added, “high interest rates may also increase the demand for venture capital when bank lending is less attractive to entrepreneurs.” Even if investors have dry powder, they may need to focus on the portfolio as some companies may need more support for fund raises than they have required in the past.”.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Congratulations! Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

It’s a similar model employed by AngelList , the company founded by Indian-American entrepreneur Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi as a fundraising platform for startups to raise money from angel investors. Last month, it announced that a total of $267,500 had been raised to support three Nigerian startups’ bridge financing rounds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Released in 2011, “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” was a book that laid claim to the idea that Israel was an unusual type of country. million on average, the largest payout to employees in Israeli high tech at the time, and the exit created a pool of new entrepreneurs and angel investors.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. We have also staffed our URBAN-X accelerator program with dedicated experts to provide software and hardware support.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“The ability to be at the right place at the right time, supporting consumers and merchants alike, where they want it, how they want it and when they want it — cannot be understated,” says Simon Wu, an investment director with Cathay Innovation. When an entrepreneur accepts a check, they are hiring their next boss.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Through ACA’s strong and experienced public policy leadership team, ACA has been able to gain more diverse voices as both investors and entrepreneurs. ACA and its members recognized the need for a strong advocacy arm and public policy agenda to educate Members of Congress on issues that affect angel investors and early-stage entrepreneurs.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Congratulations! Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

Event Chair Angela Jackson, Portland Seed Fund Angela has 15 years of experience as a venture capitalist, angel investor, and as an advisor to startups in the technology, consumer products, cleantech, and mobile service industries. Group in India, helping to establish their clean energy and water technology businesses. He received his Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. And probably some money.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

HubStop introduced usage-based pricing in 2011 to boost its retention rate, then near 70%. ” Offering new users frictionless onboarding, customer support and free credits is a proven method for making them more active — and loyal. Image Credits: CasarsaGuru (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Fifteen U.S.-based

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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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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Apparently, venture capital is a cruddy asset class where you can't get returns over the long term. Not only that, but there's a "Series A Crunch" that we've been talking about since October of 2011 where good companies can't seem to get to their next round of funding. Venture capital works largely the same way.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. So we went for it.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 1, 2013

In 2012, I started my second company--a venture capital firm called B rooklyn Bridge Ventures. Becoming an entrepreneur again has been a ton of work, but incredibly rewarding. In the middle of 2011, I started following the Four Hour Body diet and exercise routine. 1) Run faster. 2) Get to sleep.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. In his book “Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game , ” Pitts recounts how in March 2011 Salesforce purchased New Brunswick-based social media monitoring company Radian6 for approximately $300 million.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. I began comparing my personal experience as an entrepreneur starting my business 50 years ago to the entrepreneurial ecosystem today. What prompted you to write Boom ? was in trouble.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Mimi Aboubaker is an entrepreneur and writer. In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% The data supports this, as the numbers for women founders and the overall first-financing growth are 1.6x from 2011 to 2016 and 3.8x

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

A recent speech by the chancellor saw him imploring entrepreneurs to move to the UK: “If anyone is thinking of starting or investing in an innovation or technology-centred business, I want them to do it here. In the EU, states like France are actually ramping up support for tech entrepreneurship. tech startup scene. and abroad.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

As an example, eBay’s 2011 marketplace revenues were approximately $6.6B When evaluating new marketplace investments, we are naturally biased towards entrepreneurs who understand the strategic rationale behind the argument for a lower rake. This resulted in more selection for the consumer and more support from the supplier base.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Candou Ventures is an early stage fund in Silicon Valley with $150m AUM focusing on deep tech, AI and enterprise software. David Teten: Who are Candou’s peers/competitors, and how do you differ? Traditional VCs typically manage large capital pools and invest across a spectrum of startups. David Teten: What’s your background?

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