FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Venture capital investing offers different challenges than those associated with tech entrepreneurship, but Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of FundersClub, approached the sphere of venture capital the same way he did as a tech founder previously: is there a better way to do this? There are a lot of inefficiencies in VC. Makes sense.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Back to top The History of the ACA's Public Policy Efforts The Angel Capital Association was a nascent organization in 2009-2010 when Congress developed the bipartisan Dodd-Frank Act in response to the fallout of the great recession. This letter emphasized how important patents are to startup companies.

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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. But by 2014 much had started to change. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. She joined Mesa Global where she is doing both venture capital and investment banking.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

To help founders capitalize on this trend, he identified some of the ways companies are evolving as they strive to copy the success of firms like Twilio, Snowflake and Frog. Deena Shakir, partner Lux Capital. Felicis, Lux Capital and Upfront Ventures tackle TAM at Disrupt. ” Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

February 2014 seems so long ago. Any advice for reducing the cost of recruiting from abroad? According to Hongquan Jiang, chairman and managing partner at Boyuan Capital, “Chinese regulators prioritize safety. Fledgling Founder. Dear Sophie: How can early-stage startups compete for talent?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

And in 2014, I got my integrator , which is Adam, because I’m a visionary, I’m a macro guy. But what we’ve learned is, private equity is warming our way, capital venture list… There’s so many people that want our cash flow, what they’re learning is, you were part of software. Ramon Ray: Got it.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low. Lori’s advice to women entrepreneurs seeking funding? Don’t let venture capitalists deter you from opportunity.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

What’s mostly been keeping her busy in the last few months is onboarding our new CFO – Audrey Lee – and handling the 10-month buildout of our new Santa Monica offices, which are expected to come online in Feb or March of 2014. Startup Advice' Well, for starters I had two business trips (SF & Dublin, Ireland).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. This is especially true in a booming market (like 2014) where PR firms can charge premiums and be super selective about whom they work with. It super charges a business that is closer to product delivery.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. And why my advice to newer VCs would be not to feel bad if you’re missing out on what is perceived as a few hot deals. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. Price matters.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. This is all about “leverage” which is the key to success.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2014. There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.). Whom you take advice from really matters. So back to reality. My personal definition?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

“They had users and in Silicon Valley, there was this notion that if you have users, you can turn anything into money,” said Bing Gordon, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) partner who led Duolingo’s $20 million Series C in 2014. When a startup chooses to raise venture capital, it sets itself on a heavily-prescribed course.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

While there’s lots of advice out there on how investors can exit successfully, there’s less for entrepreneurs in the trenches. And if you’re planning to scale with venture capital, you’d better be ready to set aside the next three to seven years of your life to be head-down in the business. Hoping to get acquired?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Ryder was then a Maven “customer” for her following three pregnancies, using the platform for after-hours advice, virtual access to specialists or, more recently, guidance on how to prepare for a breech birth. Maven announced that it has raised $110 million in a Series D financing co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

” WizeHire was founded in 2014 by Upadhyay and Jay Niblick. Upadhyay didn’t directly respond to a question about algorithmic bias, but he pointed out that WizeHire also provides advice from hiring and business coaches. the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

And when it comes to financial services, one of the most common and ubiquitous challenges is the access to capital, right? You need capital to run a business. And this isn’t like, “I need capital now,” or, “I might need capital some time later.” ” This is like oxygen, right?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Quona Capital sinking $332M into startups focused on financial inclusion. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce. Pet insurance startups chase the market as pet ownership booms among Gen Z and Millennials. Yassir pulls in $150M for its super app, led by Bond. Here’s how.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

During that time, less capital was floating around, and those numbers were considered enormous. The bad news is that I over-capitalized my companies, but the good news is that the process taught me how VCs think and the best way to pitch them. Fundraising wisdom for any stage. Mindset matters! Milestones you will hit with this round.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

Each year, the Luis Villalobos Award recognizes outstanding ingenuity, creativity and innovation among startups backed by Angel Capital Association members. In September 2014, we received a $3.6M RH: It is a challenge to find capital for a hardware energy. KP and CA: What advice do you have for early-stage founders?

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

The graphic follows those startups until April 2014. The research found that only 54% of those startups landed Series A funding, while 36% of the original cohort ended up nabbing elusive Series B money by April 2014. Only 4% of the 160 startups from the class of 2009 completed a 6 th funding round by April 2014. Certainly not.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. There are many times when being overly capitalized before you’re ready is a negative. Availability of Capital.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. 90% of total commerce happens in these small mom and pop stores, and for every small shop that you see there are 99 other people who always wanted to start a store but just never could get capital. Most people do not have access to capital. India is not such a rich country.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up. Other backers include Index Ventures, Susa Ventures and Global Founders Capital. NextCapital was a fintech company before fintech became cool.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

billion by 2014. And you can’t act like a B-round company when you raise $20 million in growth capital. I wrote a post recently about how we’ve evolved the board at Invoca by adding experience industry veterans and tried to offer some advice on how to think about this for your company. There are 2.9

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you work at a company that has raised $20 million in capital or more this is the likely situation unless you had overnight and meteoric growth that gave you the power to hold on to a board majority.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. We capped our fund size so that we would stay true to our investment strategy in terms of size, scope and number of partners as we stood in 2014 when we raised the fund.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Speakers will share their honest accounts of entrepreneurship, as well as essential startup advice. Jess Lee, Founder of Polyvore , Partner at Sequoia Capital. Since 2014, the Female Founders Conference has helped women who want to start and run their own startups. Anu Hariharan, Partner at YC Continuity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As in, “your money into my company will convert at a 15-20% discount to the next round of capital I raise with a maximum price of $8 million pre-money valuation (or whatever the cap was).” Now that it’s 2014 and prices have gone down it doesn’t feel so good. Enter “the cap.” Seriously, dude?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

SecurityScorecard has been helping companies understand the security risk of its vendors since 2014 by providing each one with a letter grade based on a number of dimensions. Every company can see its own scorecard for free along with advice on how to improve that score. Today, the company announced a $180 million Series E.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

billion, capital that it will be using to back early-stage startups, as well as growth rounds for later-stage companies. Since its 2007 founding by Morris — who also co-founded Capital One Financial Services in 1994 — and Frank Rotman, QED has backed more than 150 companies, including 20 unicorns.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Ironclad launched in 2014 and today the company has raised more than $180 million and, according to reports , is valued just under $1 billion. Make a friend! If you’re not an Extra Crunch member yet, what are you waiting for?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

In 2014, he started an exchange, Bitreserve, which morphed into Uphold, a money transfer product that supported over 30 currencies, including crypto. What advice do you have for new founders right now? What’s the best route to raising capital? When I started my first company CNET, 26 years ago, I had no track record.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. What She’s Learned, And What You Can Learn From Her. We had overlapping circles and then became friends.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Ironically, 2014 was a record year for IPOs, so the suggestion that these “extra” companies were supposed to be public does not really make sense – the companies that were supposed to go public went public. Eventually, the only way to escape this capitalization chart calcification is to actually go public. Consider the case of Fab.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Ironclad launched in 2014 and today the company has raised more than $180 million and, according to reports , is valued just under $1 billion. PST and stays open a half hour after the episode ends. Make a friend!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The company was founded in 2014 and has its own sidechain technology, Liquid Network, as well as bitcoin mining operations and hardware wallets for Bitcoin and other assets. It most recently raised $125 million in January and has raised more than $400 million to date.

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