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Dispatches from the Road: Q4 2023

Revolution

From the Sunshine State to the Windy City, and college to coastal towns, we met up with some incredible founders, ecosystem builders, and co-investors last quarter, and experienced just about every season along the way. He then joined Wilmington founders at Live Oak’s Channel for office hours. Where we went: Chicago, IL?

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What Will Happen In 2023

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around the world will start backing off the tightening that they have been engaged in as inflation continues to ease and the economy continues to cool. Startups are going to have a tough year in 2023.

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Dispatches from the Road: Q3 2023

Revolution

The agenda included a tour of the Ion (the centerpiece of Houston’s innovation corridor), lunch with local investors and founders at Minute Maid Park’s Gallagher Club, watching the Astros take on the Guardians, and seeing Rivalry’s order fulfillment solution in action during happy hour at Margaritaville Lake Conroe.

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EO’s Most Popular Inc. Posts: A Lookback at 2023

Entrepreneurs' Organization

With a thirst for learning and a willingness to share lessons learned and insider experiences, EO members published 47 informative posts on EO’s Inc.com channel in 2023. Here are the top blog posts EO published on Inc.com in 2023: 1. Million in Startup Funding Tal Moore (EO Los Angeles) is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Popsmith.

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Grow Fast, Breakeven, or Die: How Moderate Cuts Will Kill Startups in 2023

This is going to be BIG.

If you don’t realize that, just imagine you’re a VC fund with some dry powder in the second half of 2023. I’m very worried about any company that has moderate growth plans for 2023 that expects to get another round of financing based on that result. Everyone else—why would they bother?

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3 Black founders predict little will change in VC in 2023

TechCrunch

For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. Sevetri Wilson, the founder of Resilia, said she, like many other founders, is planning for a recession regardless of whether one happens or not.

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Exponent Founders Capital, led by Plaid and Robinhood alums, raises $75M to invest in early-stage startups

TechCrunch

Exponent Founders Capital, an early-stage venture firm founded by alumni of startups such as Plaid, Robinhood and Ramp, has closed on $75 million in capital commitments, TechCrunch is the first to report. Managing Partners Charley Ma […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Managing Partners Charley Ma […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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