TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

million in a mix of debt and equity. Though he wasn’t actively seeking new funds, Al-Ansari had been speaking with Crédit Mutuel Equity, which used to be CIC Capital Canada, prior to the pandemic, and their deal was put on hold. In addition, Al-Ansari expects growth to accelerate for the rest of the year. It raised $54.9

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The e-commerce boom that started with the Covid-19 pandemic shows little sign of slowing down, and today a company called Shopware , which provides a set of open source tools to power online shopping experiences for some 100,000 mid-sized and larger brands, is announcing $100 million in funding to capture the opportunity.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

To ensure your business continues to take advantage of the changing tide, here are 21 ways to help accelerate the growth of your new business in the year ahead: Become a prolific content creator. How might you create a prolific content strategy which resonates with your audience at a higher level? Build a content website or add a blog.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The growing complexity of fundraising has the opportunity to make tech either inclusive or exclusive.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We’ve all seen the statistics on how many businesses fail within the first few years of operation, and the current pandemic may accelerate that struggle for some startups. Meaning having one of these accounts could open up business opportunities. Pay yourself first, never last.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

It doesn’t feel like a week goes by at the moment that another startup doesn’t emerge armed with a huge wallet of cash to pursue a strategy of consolidating and then scaling promising brands that have built a business selling on marketplaces like Amazon’s. That was a good surprise.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

TechCrunch reported that Fund VII, made up of a $550 million early-stage fund and a $500 million growth-stage fund, will be used to back “fintech companies primarily in the U.S., Today’s announcement adds Africa to the mix. The fintech-focused firm isn’t the only investor to notice these opportunities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

From 1,300 applicants, the company picked its first cohort to start building opportunities with the startups. “Our work with these companies will be guided by our role as a leading global innovator of next-generation products, technologies and services as we help them accelerate their growth and deliver positive impact to the world.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Still, new opportunities are popping up in remote work, psychedelics and wellness. Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city?

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth. Just as the $2.4B

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 25, 2023

Moreover, the consistent progress achieved through these sprints has boosted team confidence and has led to accelerated growth and innovation in the startup’s journey. When we’re in the mix, we don’t see the big picture. One strategy I have used that has been successful is “Global Fridays.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Is this an area where there are lessons to be learned from that and ways to accelerate technologies to the battlefield? First of all, I think it’s about our 165th attack on us using those sorts of techniques, largely UAS, but a variety of techniques. Without the budget, it’s very, very hard for us.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Businesses today feel, more than ever, the imperative to have flexible e-commerce strategies in place, able to connect with would-be customers wherever they might be. It plans to use the funding to expand its own technology tools, as well as grow internationally.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. Traditional seed funds have gotten bigger, many armed with opportunity funds on top. People again began to question what the ultimate uses cases were.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

million seed round of funding a year after being founded and a few months since it presented at the accelerator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day in March. Therefore, low entry barriers for forest owners, automation and efficiency are central to our product strategy,” she suggests. Are carbon offsets b t?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

In their book Cracking Complexity , David Komlos and David Benjamin share the steps to working through any complex business problem—both quickly and using existing talent, not consultants. Leaders often approach complex problems using experts and interview-based, analytical techniques that have been honed for complicated challenges.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of commerce globally. In the US, e-commerce penetration increased from 16% at the end of 2019 to 27% in April 2020. For better or worse, COVID-19 has accelerated e-commerce adoption among businesses in the same way it has accelerated e-commerce adoption among consumers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Together with our CMS to edit the content of the steps, we are able to quickly expand the usability of our software to new countries and use cases. The startup says it’s been seeing growth rates hitting, on average, more than 30% month-on-month, as employer demand for its services accelerates.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Companies like Airbnb, Intercom and Buffer have released the pitch decks they used to raise their first rounds of funding, and if you look at their structure, you can essentially find the same set of slides. We’re going to use that to distill the ideal set of slides for a pitch deck (and combine it with some storytelling ).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

In consumer goods, where product features and benefits like brand, reputation, and service are often intangible, the conjoint analysis is a marketing research approach used to measure the differentiation value. at least to start with, and especially if there is an opportunity for “land and expand” sales strategies.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

What better way than to sell it through mission-critical vertical SaaS which they’re using to run the businesses, and we kind of run in the background, much like an Uber. We had a lot of data in our business and I think using that data to your advantage in things like this is super important to success. on any given deal.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Google for Startups Accelerator. no-equity stipend + corporate pilot opportunities with our founders. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. We offer 7.5K

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

These are the most common topics founders have asked us about. In a typical spin-out situation, there are several people who worked on the research, including a mix of students, post docs and faculty. Find out what terms they got and ask for advice on negotiating strategy. Deciding who should spin out. 1) Equity.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? These GPs believe strongly that automating data gathering, sifting through and selecting investment opportunities, managing relationships and streamlining follow-on funding and exit processes, gives them a competitive advantage over their peers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

.” To achieve this flexibility (or at least try), Morales and Grover co-founded Orb , a pricing platform that helps companies automate a range of different billing types — usage-based, subscriptions or a mix of both. “The trend towards usage-based pricing has accelerated in recent years, and so has the hype around it. .”

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. So I definitely used it with the self-driving cars team, and got feedback like, was this accurate? We had so much change happening. Tomasz Tunguz: Yeah.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. Within 24 hours, tens of thousands of people had used it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? What are the opportunities startups may be able to tap into during these unprecedented times? How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Quantified health activity is all around us these days, as scores of people use mobile sensing technologies to keep an eye on their well-being by tracking their steps, workouts and even how long and deep they sleep — so why shouldn’t women who cycle (as in menstrual cycle) track monthly changes to their hormone levels?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 For instance, users can save their data spend when they use Jambo. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Use discount code HALLO to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? and Nomono. E-commerce.

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