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How May Ph.D. Startup Founders Build for the Long term?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

American universities, however, decreased their reliance on full-time tenured or tenure-track staff, from 45% in 1975 to 29% in 2015. Tech itself becomes more complex and more appealing to research-minded founders. Leading VC funds by the number of unicorns backed?—? Startup Founders Build for the Long term?

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. List of 60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms The following includes venture funds founded by women or those that have a focus on funding women-founded or gender-mixed startups and early-stage companies.

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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

Both Sides of the Table

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. When we get involved in Seed investments we usually represent 60–80% in one of the first institutional rounds of capital, we almost always take board seats and then we serve these founders over the course of a decade or longer.

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Upsie’s direct-to-consumer swing at the warranty space nets $18.2M

TechCrunch

Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. Rather than at the point of sale, Upsie gives consumers an opportunity to purchase a warranty for a product via its website or mobile app after the transaction has taken place. A number of angels also put money in the round. .

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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

TechCrunch

“Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. “People just fundamentally aren’t walking around caring about this new startup,” she said. on Sunday, Dec.

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Nigerian founders-turn-investors are now running syndicate funds

TechCrunch

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. Syndicate leads are often experienced angel investors or successful startup founders.

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Getting to know YC's newest Group Partner, David Lieb

Y Combinator

David on stage announcing Google Photos at Google I/O 2015 So you’re at Google, you build what becomes Google Photos — an absolute monster success of a product, even today. I went back to Google for a bit and I had that realization that I wanted to be working with startup founders again.

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