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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Invested Interests. And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. “If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. Pitch perfect, you might think.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Congratulations! Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Google AI for Social Good.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. “If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. Pitch perfect, you might think.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Congratulations! Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Google for Startups Accelerator.

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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?

Hunter Walk

and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity). Lot of people I’ve known for many years certainly aren’t returning emails the way they used to. LLH: When starting Belly in 2011, yeah, we were tracking something like 15 companies in the Loyalty space.