AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Over the last decade, the landscape of venture investing in the U.S. Team Asia Daily spoke to one such venture capitalist Jessie Wu , an early-stage investor at Upshot Ventures, in an exclusive interview, shedding light upon her investment journey while paving the way for upcoming startup founders and venture capital investors.

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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. What’s the board’s role in an early-stage startup? Startup founders frequently ask me about the role of a board of directors. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

“Once you’ve already raised a bunch of ventures, you’re kind of building a business for venture scale, whereas if you are bootstrapped … you can be really really opportunistic about what that right time is,” he told Natasha Mascarenhas. Will once-bootstrapped startups turn to venture during a watershed moment?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2021

Two back-to-back MasterClass copycats raising millions in venture capital makes me think about if the model can truly be verticalized and focused down into specific niches. In the rest of this newsletter, we will focus a lot on tactical advice for founders, from the money they raise to the peacock dance they might want to do one day.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 18, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we share: How VCs choose which startups to fund. How you can sell your startup to VCs with a one-pager. You won’t believe how VCs decide which startups to fund Aaron Dinin, PhD teaches entrepreneurship at Duke.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

“They are the strongest company in the segment and well financed in this growing market,” said Forrester analyst Craig Le Clair. What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections. The pressures facing first-time founders are enormous. ” Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

2021 was a year like no other when it came to venture investment, and this year is poised to tread a similar path, writes 500 Global’s CEO and co-founder, Christine Tsai. All signs point to a continued abundance of opportunities for startup founders and investors in the year ahead.”. Financial technology concept.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Here’s who she spoke to: Deborah Quazzo , managing partner, GSV Ventures. Ashley Bittner , founding partner, Firework Ventures (a future of work fund with portfolio companies LearnIn and TransfrVR). Jomayra Herrera , principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

But since I’ve never actually done those things, I would encourage you to ignore any advice I have to offer. Trusted advice comes from experience. Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup. Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch. Image Credits: Ureeka.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. Embedded finance connects services like payment processing with everyday activities like grabbing a coffee before unlocking an e-scooter. ” From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. Just how bad is that hack that hit US government agencies?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

But even with the rampant enthusiasm for pouring bigger equity checks into startups, founders are now in a unique place in time where they can think differently about how to capitalize their companies. Tailor your funding plan instead of financing everything.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

This is part of a series of advice for founders who need to raise money from venture capitalists. The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. these are simply guidelines. Plan accordingly.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. She hasn’t raised any venture capital. She found non-traditional financing. Without this money she wouldn’t have been able to finance operations. She never gave up.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Founders from outside a tech-ecosystem are surrounded by bad advice, since building a startup is different from other kinds of businesses. Those myths are: (1) Don’t share your idea; (2) Good ideas must be bulletproof; (3) Startups require your total commitment; (4) Live on a shoestring; and, (5) Stick to what you know.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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Onevest

APRIL 8, 2015

Regular Communication As an investor you'll want to know that your finances are being used effectively. This requires communication with those managing the startup. Onevest does not give investment, legal or tax advice. With this in mind, let's take a look at some key areas where you as an investor are likely to play a role.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s very, very intertwined with our whole journey because my co-founders of Pilot were all folks that I met at MIT in undergrad. We’d all studied computer science together and this is actually the third venture for the 3 of us. So the first startup was technology that could apply software updates without rebooting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. ” I said, “Probably another startup.”

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While passion provides self-motivation, it also serves to attract talent and investors to the venture. Build Relationships : Because an entrepreneur typically spends a lot of their time working alone, particularly during the startup period, they must seek out and build relationships that are important for long-term success.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 15, 2023

From embracing data-driven market analysis” to engaging your community for idea feedback, these seasoned professionals share their singular tips for assessing the potential success of your entrepreneurial venture. Encompassing business advice is like a lighthouse to entrepreneur ships sailing towards the rough waters of startup success.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. million in 46 companies and we have helped those companies raise an additional $215 million from venture capital funds and individual investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Early-stage startup founders have just a few ways to recruit and retain employees: Offer a competitive salary. A startup founder’s guide to allocating equity grants. To find out, we surveyed seven who are active in the space: Anton Backman, principal, and Kenrick Drijkoningen, general partner, Play Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

We spoke with: Alex Bondar, partner, Acre Venture Partners. Joshua Posamentier, co-founder and managing partner, Congruent Ventures. Maryanna Saenko, co-founder and partner, Future Ventures. Valerie Shen, partner and COO, G2 Venture Partners. Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Every company is different so it’s hard to listen to advice from the uber-successful fund raisers. Raising money is hard. Of course much of it is conflicting.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The unprecedented rush of venture capital into startups is having an interesting knock-on effect: “Venture capital investors are racing to pay more to buy smaller pieces of startups that are less profitable than before,” writes Alex Wilhelm, who studied Silicon Valley Bank’s State of the Markets Report Q4 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Dear Sophie, As a first-time, early-stage startup founder, I find it difficult to compete against other startups on compensation. Any advice for reducing the cost of recruiting from abroad? Fledgling Founder. . “If it isn’t, that should be cause enough for founders to back away.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Although SSBs are years away from mass production, “we are on the cusp of some pretty incredible discoveries using major improvements in computational science and machine learning algorithms to accelerate that process,” says SSB startup founder Amy Prieto. His advice for companies considering an IPO?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Register Startup founders looking to attract investors need to show proof of an outstanding team and must be realistic with their valuation numbers, said Bernard Moon , Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Group , a South Korean accelerator and fund network. What are the top 3 questions that you always ask the founders?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The Nordic countries make up just 4% of Europe’s total population, but they account for a significant amount of venture capital investment. Espen Malmo , founding partner, Skyfall Ventures. Magne Uppman , managing partner, SNÖ Ventures. What are the biggest worries of the founders in your portfolio?

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