Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? Market Structure.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The trio shared their thoughts on everything from what types of startups in the home buying and lending space have the best shot at survival to the advice they are giving startups in their portfolios. In such a climate, companies that help others navigate tough times seem to be in special demand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

million in debt and grant financing from BPI France , the French government’s public investment bank. Having worked in a luxury firm, as an investment banker at JP Morgan and her own consulting firm, Bardet decided to start Susu in 2019. The equity raise saw participation mainly from angel investors, as the company also raised $1.2

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

We way underestimated Textio’s stickiness within HR and how deeply HR execs would invest in Textio. If I could give 2014 Kieran one piece of advice from 2024 Kieran, it would be to center this much more explicitly in how I approached my job as CEO. Today, you’d look at Textio and say it’s an HR Tech company.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

Instead of investing money in traditional marketing methods, they instead invested in their customer experience and success teams. My advice on building a plan, taken directly from my course, is as follows: Identify the customer’s problem(s). Learn who is currently solving your customer’s problem(s); these are your competitors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

” Countless vendors offer online tax prep services, including incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block. Borodach claims the company has commitments of tens of thousands of tax filings ahead of next year, which was apparently enough to convince VCs to invest. The tides might be turning.

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Haystack

JANUARY 24, 2019

More often than not, I believe it is largely impossible to predict the shape of an outcome when making an initial venture investment. The insight and data venture investors have to work with increases as a company matures — the earlier the investment, the more unknown the outcome is. Seed is what I know.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It’s hard to find actionable, proven advice for scaling startups. That’s because only 7% of the startups that raise seed rounds are able to grow their companies enough to land a Series C investment, according to a Dealroom study. Dear Sophie: Any advice for getting media coverage for my startup? Any advice?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

In September, he co-invested in a Seattle startup called Far Homes that was founded by Redfin alums and is focused on “buying and selling real estate in foreign markets,” as reported by GeekWire. I’m sorry that we don’t have enough sales to keep paying you.”. by offering a remittance product to Nigerians in the diaspora.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multistage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever and Outschool). Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020. Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020. yourprotagonist.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. Regulation becomes the friend of the incumbent in highly regulated industries through a process known as regulatory capture. we immediately thought of Wealthfront , the automated investment service started by Benchmark founder Andy Rachleff.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

TechCrunch reporter Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Kleiner Perkins partner Bucky Moore to get sector-agnostic advice for founders who are ready to raise a Series A. The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Image Credits: Generation Investment Management.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up. ” The move is an interesting one as the investment giant has for years been strategically scooping up fintech companies.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

Between 2000 and 2002, Industry Canada reported that roughly a quarter of the venture funding for Canadian startups came from the United States, while the converse was not true – Canadian venture capitalists maybe accounted for 1% of venture investments into U.S. This trend of foreign startups seeking earlier and earlier U.S.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

30:00 – Investing in yourself. Craig Cannon [00:09:18] – I thought that was actually a really nice piece of advice that you gave because you interviewed at Yelp twice. Jarvis Johnson [00:30:39] – Right, but it’s like for personal capital, like investing in yourself. 00:00 – Jarvis’ intro.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. an investment that it says has paid off. It also partners with organizations such as Profit First, a group that offers financial management advice to small businesses.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Extras: Hana Mohan’s Twitter thread on the YC advice to founders. Natasha spent a good chunk of last week at the All Raise VC summit, an annual off-the-record event that brings together some of the best and brightest in the investment community. Other news from the week: It’s official: Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? Oh, and one more thing. We just launched Extra Crunch in Israel.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Starling founder nearly ignored the message completely, but what followed was an offer not just to invest in Starling’s seed round but to do a mega-round released in tranches. I think that I come across lots of people asking me for advice, so I wanted to do that, I wanted to put it all down into a book about entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I’m often asked by people what investment areas interest me. I try to invest in things that I know and that I believe I might have better knowledge and relationships than the masses of VCs. But one theme in pervasive in all my thinking about investing in Internet-based companies: Deflationary economics. Here’s what I mean.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

We asked them to share the advice they’re giving their portfolio companies, along with their thoughts on how future regulation might impact the industry. Banafsheh Fathieh , head of investments, Americas, Prosus Ventures. Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

Competing on scale or feature differentiation Adam: In order to train these frontier models, you need billions of dollars of capital, and you need many years of investment in infrastructure. The frontier players, they have to invest more capital, but then they have much more powerful models that open up even bigger markets.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? That doesn’t mean you’re going to invest. Startups vs. incumbents David: I want to shift gears just a little bit and move towards the business and market structure side of things.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

15:05 – Providing advice as content vs in the product. 21:30 – Inbound marketing and audience building advice. We made up for the inefficiencies in the software by giving them good advice on how to optimize their website, and how to get going in social. 10:00 – HubSpot’s first customer.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? Dharmesh: I think that was good advice. I don't know if you recall this Sam, that there was something that was said about VCs or investment or something. You can invest in things.

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