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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital. Finally, the talent pool for tech startups has broadened immensely.

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How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

David Teten VC

Versatile VC runs a no-cost community for founders in transition, “ Founders Next Move “ We have collected a wide range of resources for founders who may be considering launching a new company ; angel investing/becoming a VC ; buying a company ; joining boards ; consulting ; serving as an interim executive , or just getting a job.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

By enabling customers that shopped online to be mailed an invoice with 30 days to pay, online shopping could be made easier and safer for consumers, which in turn helped increase sales for retailers. Siemiatkowski left undeterred. “That was our loss for being too arrogant,” says Zennström.

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Impact Hub Belgrade – 5 years of making, failing and creating impact

Impact Hub

The opportunities we have been providing are an entrance point to becoming part of a community that enables you to create new economic models. One of them are the WE Angels , leaders and mentors who represent the very backbone of our business and support us in goals such as achieving a zero-waste mindset of circular economy.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. There were no billion dollar unicorn startups. The typical tech startup would raise about $1M on a $3M valuation.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

By enabling customers that shopped online to be mailed an invoice with 30 days to pay, online shopping could be made easier and safer for consumers, which in turn helped increase sales for retailers. Siemiatkowski left undeterred. “That was our loss for being too arrogant,” says Zennström.

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The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021 Part 2 • 2022 From a Startup Equity Seller’s to an Equity Buyer’s Market

Angel Capital Association

From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems. From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset?