Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Tax credits are another financial tool that states have attempted to use with varying success to stimulate early-stage investment in startups. The concept behind tax credits is that they will help investors offset a portion of the investment risk and thereby create more capital for startup companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If you’ve read anything about pitching your company, you’ve probably come across advice that says that you need a warm introduction to an investor. Without a doubt, a good, friendly introduction — ideally from a founder they’ve already invested in — is the best way to get on the radar of an investor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

It’s best known for its fellowship program that provides education grants, networking opportunities and business advice to women entrepreneurs. Regarding the landscape for women overall within the startup ecosystem, she said she hopes it will get better.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In an exclusive conversation with Asia Tech Daily, Alex shares insights into his voyage into the venture capital world, his role at Creative Ventures, and how his background in materials science has influenced his investment approach in deep tech sectors. It’s an evolving process shaped by new information and market feedback.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann: I’ve been lucky to have been a part of 5 startups going back to the late-90s, including two that were VC-backed (DataHero and Aster Data). 500 Startups was looking to add someone with an enterprise background to their investing team, so I made the leap into venture at the start of 2017. As to “why Canada?”,

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Revolution

JUNE 21, 2022

Last month, we gathered more than 150 investors across 42 states with more than $180 billion in assets under management to explore new frontiers in regional investment. One in which the proportion of seed and early-stage capital invested in Bay Area startups fell below 30% for the first time in more than a decade.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

I reiterated the notion of risk taking when giving career advice the other day and how when I joined Union Square Ventures, it wasn''t the USV it was now. When I took the job, the New York startup ecosystem was nascent. When I took the job, the New York startup ecosystem was nascent.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

At the helm of Awesome Ventures is Lok Yek Soon, a visionary entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience within the startup ecosystem. What types of sectors do you look to invest in? And what’s your mental model for investing? Awesome Ventures’ first fund focused only on B2B startups in the US and UK.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. What’s your latest, most exciting investment?

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

When investors spend time at an accelerator, they listen to brainstorming sessions, pitches and mentorship advice that includes a broad range of perspectives and opinions. Investment is much like dating — VCs could go for 40 coffee meetings a week with founders, but only one or two really catch their eye.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Having spent close on a decade working in and reporting on our small but burgeoning startup ecosystem, and a decade before that “building my chops” in other various entrepreneurial endeavours, I am familiar with the toll that entrepreneurship can exact on founder mental health.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Put off by high taxes and paperwork in their home country, many Italian entrepreneurs moved to places like London in years past to startup. Indeed, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Trade & Investment Agency in London have even been known to fund Italian entrepreneurs abroad to help them gain more experience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Early Q3 indications show India’s startup ecosystem is going gangbusters. Early Q3 indications show India’s startup ecosystem is going gangbusters. It’s hard to find actionable, proven advice for scaling startups. Dear Sophie: Any advice for getting media coverage for my startup?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. What I typically see in the startup ecosystem are that most VCs prefer investing in a C corporation created in Delaware (Delaware C-corp). Super important, right?!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

A recent speech by the chancellor saw him imploring entrepreneurs to move to the UK: “If anyone is thinking of starting or investing in an innovation or technology-centred business, I want them to do it here. Whatever you think of them, good or bad, the death of Tech Nation is the end of an era for the startup ecosystem in the UK.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

In fact, thanks to increased scrutiny of investment funds in a post-Madoff world, this imbalance will probably get bigger and bigger. 25 people I've actually placed at companies as part of a message of how I help startups. But crowdfunding investments in startups is the answer to all our worries in life, right?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The funding was anchored by a major commitment from Two Sigma Ventures, the private venture investment affiliate of Two Sigma Investments. The company makes direct and indirect investments across a broad spectrum of asset classes. That bodes well for the startups who need help just as much as they need money.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

When they return, young people like Morrison are finding that Atlantic Canadians have quietly built a robust startup ecosystem that has resulted in a dozen acquisitions to companies like IBM and Salesforce, the sum of which likely surpasses $5 million in cash and stock.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

” Joyce Sidopoulos is a co-founder of MassRobotics, a community and advocacy group for the sector’s startup ecosystem. It’s not exactly advice, but it does show that it pays to strike while the iron is hot. It really, really helps with investment as well.” Then pivot to another case.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007. From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing. Bottom line, Techstars needed cash.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Also, check out all our Pitch Deck Teardowns and other pitching advice, all collected in one handy place for you! Let’s start with the good: First, women-founded AI startups are seeing a boost in VC funding. Overheard at a San Francisco happy hour: “You know, some people think Adobe is a startup.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This article contains strategic, actionable advice for implementing a GSDD program alongside the lessons the team learned as they identified problems with the experiment. However, deep tech startups have one source of capital that can also impart a fair amount of prestige, according to CoCoPie co-founder and CTO, Xipeng Shen: Federal grants.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 13, 2023

Register The Malaysian Economy Minister, Rafizi Ramli, has announced that the government plans to reform the country’s startup ecosystem. The minister explained how the government will focus on enhancing funding and investment opportunities, particularly at the seed and angel investor stages.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s a decent metaphor for our startup ecosystem: Just as there aren’t enough sandbags in San Francisco to keep everyone’s house dry, rising interest rates, skittish investors and looming economic uncertainty are poised to bring valuations down even further in 2023. We need to destigmatize down rounds in 2023.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

For perspective, they analyzed data from Dealroom and spoke to four VCs about the continent’s investment climate: Diana Koziarska, SMOK Ventures. Marooney uses the acronym RIBS to describe her basic strategy for startup messaging: Relevance, Inevitability, Believability and keeping it Simple. Vinoth Jayakumar, Draper Esprit.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. We had overlapping circles and then became friends.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In the fourth industrial revolution era, having succeeded as an economic powerhouse with a technological edge in manufacturing and industries led by large corporations, South Korea is now fostering disruptive innovation through startups. The country strives to create a balance between industrial conglomerates and the startup ecosystem.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. A BCG study of 121 investments found that operational improvement drives 48% of value creation in PE-backed companies. We discuss below all of the different ways you can work with the investment community.

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Feedough

APRIL 14, 2021

Moreover, even if they join, there’s no guarantee that the return on investment will be good. Acqui-hires pose a problem for investors who invest in startups with longer-term investment objectives. Investors not getting an equal share of the company’s net worth is one of the controversial issues in the startup ecosystem.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She is also principal of Broadway Realty, investing in, and repurposing, historic properties. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma? Oklahoma’s startup ecosystem is disproportionately male, how can we improve the number of women-led startups in our region? Get started!

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing. Ideally, we wanted to pull in data from outside databases , including data about limited partners and more broadly the startup ecosystem (e.g., Hootsuite).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. Main investors include TMT Investments, TLF Ventures, Flyer One and others. It has raised $14.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Respondents said they invest around 50% inside Czechia and 50% across Central and Eastern Europe, while some are more focused across CEE generally, with some percentage of the fund supporting startups that have scaled to the U.S. The advice is to “be frugal to accommodate to the new situation and roll on.”. Innovative.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 13, 2023

To me, it’s exactly the kind of thing that the feedback and perspective of a coach is great for—but I don’t see a lot of investors making the investment in getting a coach. I was no longer the CEO of my startup. To navigate this tightrope, I sought out the advice of a coach—Jerry Colonna.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2014

Hometown investors, the local group of angels and VCs within a startup community, are an essential part of startup ecosystems. They can be great connectors, providers of advice and most importantly, suppliers of the venture capital to enable startups to grow. 1 San Francisco 53%.

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