TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2022

In this instance, we failed to follow our own advice.”. “Said simply, investing in every round for every YC company requires more capital than we want to raise and manage. We always tell startups to stay small and manage their budgets carefully.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

As Our Colleague Kate Stern Departs Homebrew To Go Back to Company Building, Here’s Her Advice. I’d been at Uber for almost five years and it was so comfortable — any new role would have felt like a big change for me, but moving into the venture world felt particularly intimidating. Thinking back…. Normal first day nerves!

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. Fong’s Capitale Ventures is an investment and advisory group with expertise in complex, cross-border transactions.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

In SoCal we have Crosscut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Mike Jones, Klaus Schauser, etc. They have advice to share. All deals – especially (but not only) those that got venture funded. There’s obviously things like www.crunchbase.com and Venture Source, Venture Wire and many others. Ask them for advice.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann (of Canada’s Panache Ventures ) checks these boxes so I asked him to come on my blog (currently less consistent, hopefully still the other two) for Five Questions. Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? After DataHero was acquired, I felt like it was time to try something new.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

Building and maintaining relationships is hard, and COVID-19 definitely didn’t help. The startup has built an AI relationship coach to help people grow and foster real-life connections by offering advice and answers to relationship questions. Also, would people trust advice from AI over another person anyway?

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Leading the round, which I understand actually closed earlier this year, is EQT Ventures. “So we’re definitely not in growth at all costs mode,” he says. Cleo , the London founded “financial assistant” that takes the form of an app and chatbot and now counts the U.S.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal. Price was definitely a consideration. I run PEVCTech , a community focused on this area. Some firms (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

The corporate venture comeback: What startups considering CVC need to know. As venture capital flows continue to fluctuate, founders have to double down on the terms they agree on. So, if they present terms that would seem out of place in a traditional investor contract, founders can definitely call them out.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

During an online business workshop in December 2020, the presenter asked me whether our venture was a hobby or a business. There’s no need for long-term strategy or a plan for growth because there’s no risk if your venture fails to attract clients. Being a solopreneur, by definition, means going it alone.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

You could even say some are bullish: “If anything, I expect our investment pace to increase this year as early-stage fintech companies prioritize operational discipline and product differentiation,” said Emmalynn Shaw, managing partner of Flourish Ventures. Gone are the days of investing on a whim.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Operator experience has become critical in venture capital over the last few years. If a VC has experience in a different field, it may not translate well — if at all — to a startup, and advice around certain business decisions could quickly become outdated. But not all operating backgrounds are equally helpful.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 6, 2020

By persisting through those obstacles, building strong relationships with like-minded individuals, and consistently increasing her knowledge, she has founded multiple successful ventures and is inspiring others in Bolivia to do the same. What advice do you have for YLAI Network members on overcoming obstacles?

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Similarly, we fought to keep the accredited investor definition from revisions on Capitol Hill that would serve to exclude more angels from participating in the startup space. In April, I traveled to DC alongside North Coast Ventures Founder and ACA member Clay Rankin to continue discussions about the accredited investor definition and QSBS.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 22, 2014

You''ll get a venture capital analyst from a brand name firm who has just recently taken his job talking about what makes a company successful. You''ll get an entrepreneur who has raised one and only one round of financing in his or her entire life--all from relatively unsophisticated individuals, giving fundraising advice.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Ophelia Brown Contributor Share on Twitter Ophelia Brown is the founder of Blossom Capital , an early-stage venture fund. The best founders take as much advice as they can, but they know their business well enough to understand what will work and what won’t. There is no definitive answer to this question.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Gregg Adkin is vice president and managing director at Dell Technologies Capital , the global venture capital investment arm of Dell Technologies. By generic definition, the board of directors consists of elected individuals that represent shareholders. Gregg Adkin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. What is a board of directors, anyway?

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 22, 2017

There are a lot of ways the startup world describes venture capitalists that portrays a certain power dynamic, real or perceived, that I believe is at the heart of so many of the industry's problems. We can debate whether they're sociopaths, but we definitely shouldn't assume that every "great investor" is "great" at being human.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Goodbye, chief inspiration officer Also on Equity this week, the crew spoke about how venture capitalists are going to pay more attention to how portfolio founders are spending capital — especially around hiring trends. All to say, there’s definitely an opportunity to find talent if you are hiring. At least most of you do!

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

This week, a spate of tech companies – largely those valued above $1 billion from their venture capital investors – announced reductions in their workforce. For more thoughts, read a round-up of all the tech layoffs this past week , and then head to TechCrunch+ for some advice on how to navigate the market. Start here.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

Brian Laung Aoaeh, Founder & Managing General Partner, REFASHIOND Ventures, said, “We chose not to do general solicitation for our institutional fund after doing a 506(c) rolling fund because we got the sense that most institutional LPs are not yet very comfortable with the rules. General solicitation damages that perception.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

The advice ranged from going full force on one channel to investing in a copywriter and making video content. Jonathan Metrick , chief growth officer, Portage Ventures. The heightened demand for ROI is definitely more prevalent in some sectors than others. But there’s been a lot of belt tightening since then.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As Rebecca Szkutak reported this week, SaaS startups that ignored this advice outperformed the ones that followed it. If someone offers you free business advice, it’s probably for their own benefit. In business, if someone’s offering you advice, it’s probably for their own benefit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Two weeks ago, longtime venture capitalist Chris Olsen, a general partner and cofounder of Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, settled into his seat for a portfolio company’s board meeting. For sure I’ve seen other venture firms where participation is definitely reduced.” It turned out to be a maddening exercise.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

The round was led by Cherry Ventures, and includes participation by a number of angel investors including Algolia co-founder Nicolas Dessaigne, Twitter Director of Product Management Marie Outtier, and Wunderlist and Pitch co-founder Christian Reber. . ” An example of MagicBell’s Notification inbox.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The cohort has had access to ample capital in recent quarters, giving them a bubble of venture capital that somewhat protects them from rapid changes in the greater economy. Late-stage tech startups are facing a changing public market environment, but their early-stage counterparts are in a different world altogether.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

By definition, nearly every startup that has figured out its product-market fit is trying to grow fast. Whether it’s related to SEO, content, email, social or other marketing channels, they’re looking for granular advice that can help them find and engage the right users. Alternative fundraising.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

At the TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising event last week, Norwest Venture Partners ‘ Lisa Wu took the stage to discuss how founders can think like venture capitalists in all facets of their business. I love it because I can quickly flip through the deck and generally form an opinion on it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

As a result, venture capitalists need to use short heuristics to figure out who to bet on. As I dug into this definition, it often revolved around how compelling the academic credentials of the founder were. The best advice is followed by those who give it — only then do you know it is battle-tested.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

If* you believe that a good venture capitalist should have launched their own company and exited, then I simply don't have that track record. The point is, someone building a career in venture capital that doesn't include prior entrepreneurial success probably doesn't look like they have much to offer in the beginning.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It’s also good advice to treat your marriage like a business partnership, in that both require commitment, communication and a shared view of values and goals. They started their first joint venture, Blue Moon Pizza, in 2003. Mandy: You definitely have to own your strengths and weaknesses to make a partnership work.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

And using all of that information, we can start to give some very real financial advice,” said El-Beltagy. Within the coming years, we’re definitely going to go into the other components of the businesses like rentals and property management. Which properties are probably underpriced or overpriced?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series of posts. I definitely don’t rule out first timers – I just invested in one to be announced soon who I am really excited about – but I greatly prefer experience. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice. But it’s not my strategy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

“As per Jungle Ventures’ calculations, the total value of the region’s digital companies is around $340 billion today and is estimated to grow to $1 trillion by 2025,” says founding partner Amit Anand. .” “Denver was ready for the Zoom boom, and is reaping the — venture capital — rewards.” Any advice?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. almost be definition you should be scratching your head. Over the past 2.5

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” This concise yet powerful definition captures the essence of KAFEA.ECO’s commitment to creating a closed-loop system that transforms waste into valuable resources. Reflecting on the journey, Adriana offered valuable advice to ventures aspiring to embrace circularity.

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