Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 2, 2021

What can we do to attract more women investors, and to change the types of startups, products, and services that are funded? Photo Credit: Fortune Adding to the lack of female representation in the industry, research also shows that only 8% of the investment professionals at the top 25 VC firms are women. more profitable exits.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. the free YC Startup School courses). Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

Historically VC has been an apprenticeship business. That said, I’ve identified quite a few microcredentials, conferences, and other learning opportunities which will help train you to be a better investor. VC ASSOCIATIONS. VentureForward (NVCA), includes list of all VC organizations focused on diversity. Confluence.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. This isn’t the first time we’ve talked about de Raphélis Soissan, as she used to be an entrepreneur herself and I first covered her startup, Clustree, back in 2014. Durao has been an investor for several years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

I’ve worked at early-stage startups where we relied on our best guesses to shape product pipelines and develop marketing strategies. With a product advisory council (PAC) , early-stage startups can tap into the their users’ hive mind. How to build a product advisory council for your startup. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Meet Roundtable , a new startup backed by eFounders that wants to bring community-driven angel investments to European startups. The company has built a platform that simplifies the administrative, legal and financial challenges that come with angel investments.

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Haystack

MAY 5, 2018

I have written a few posts here lately sharing my own experience and point of view, but then realized we all may talk about “getting into VC” as if it is a monolithic endeavor — and that would not do us or the reader justice. Note, everything comes with a catch… Angel Investing. VC Scout Funds.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Pro rata investment rights give an investor the right (but not the obligation) to invest in future funding rounds, so they can maintain their percentage ownership of the company. A pro rata investment right gives an investor the opportunity to prevent their ownership from being diluted when new investments are made.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. If you want outside capital, VCs will chase after you to invest. David Teten. Contributor. Consulting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

There has been significant hype around Latin America’s startup success. For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3 But while the industry hails the rise of the region’s ecosystem and its growing fleet of unicorns , Latin America’s startup story has a far longer past. Every top university in Brazil has a pool of angels.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The two founders, who nearly completed each other’s sentences during their interview with TechCrunch, want to reframe tech’s messaging around marketing — both by investing in companies that need support and by on-ramping a network of marketing professionals into the angel investing world.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

Related: This Entrepreneur Shares How She Bootstrapped Her Startup (and How You Can, Too). Startups are always risky, so jeopardizing your personal relationships a risk you should avoid if possible. Startup competitions. Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding. Friends and family. Accelerators.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Timothy Chen, the General Partner of Essence VC , which is an early stage developer + infrastructure focused fund. How did you break into tech investing? What is it that excites you about investing? Building a startup is quite nerve wrecking (at least for me back in 2016!),

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. This gave me a front-row seat to the world of tech/innovation, and I began making some personal angel investments along the way.”

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

I believe that the next generation of top companies are far more likely to be founded by people not on VC radars today. We host neighborhood dinners across different parts of NYC—from Park Slope to Harlem, and the West Village to Bushwick, and beyond, to connect startup and tech professionals to their neighbors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Non-traditional startup founder to an angel investor.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 13, 2023

“Worst case scenario we’ll sell to a larger startup or public company for about ~$1.5m I was on both sides of these transactions – buying startups for Google/YouTube and angel investing in high quality technical founders. per engineer.” of the time my answer is no f **g way].

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It was during his tenure at Capital Factory that Triet discovered his passion for startups and venture capital, eventually leading him into the world of venture capital. Triet has a wealth of experience in portfolio support, angel investing, venture scout networks, advising emerging funds and startups, and has also been a founder himself.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

If you want outside capital, VCs will chase after you to invest. . Unfortunately, most founders are not in that position: 9 out of 10 startups fail. At my prior firm, ff Venture Capital, we invested in a company co-founded by Nate Jenkins , who had a successful exit, but not quite enough to buy a private plane.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

And now, thanks to Hustle Fund, she is also an angel investor. Hustle Fund is coming out of stealth today with Angel Squad , a new initiative aimed at making angel investing more accessible to more people. She describes herself as “a complete novice” in angel investing, and so far, she’s loving the experience. “

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 21, 2016

A lot of these people have started getting into the angel investing world. The growth of co-working shed light on just how big an impact thousands of small startups can make on a market--and when these companies make it, they take down some significant space. That makes you a gambler, or a hobbyist.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

History has shown that newly creates wealth shops the startup scene like a kid in a candy store. Over the course of the lifetime of a new angel investor, they'll do 70% of all of the angel investments they'll ever make in year one. Before you start writing checks, just spend some time with startups.

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Gust

APRIL 30, 2014

The biggest change is the one that ALL serious angel investors eventually arrive at: no matter how smart or experienced you are, there are simply too many exogenous factors affecting outcomes for you to be able to pick only winners. Invested Interests angel investors investing startups VCs'

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Many of the reasons why someone had previous success might have to do with unique windows of opportunity that no longer exist. They raise larger and larger funds, for example, after building up a track record of successful angel investments. What about as a startup? As a professional? Scary thoughts.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

Just the tools listed above that we onboard them to, as part of joining the group: Gust, Google Groups, Angel Survey, and Knack accounts to access portions of our database. Q: Managing the subscription process for angels can be tricky. Versatile VC uses FlowInc , in which I’m an investor.) Q: What are your membership criteria?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Occasionally, it’s easy for startups to achieve so-called product-market fit, but more often, it’s a struggle. In fact, Olive is now growing so fast, and clicking along so well, that Lane just raised $50 million in funding last month for a second startup that uses Olive’s same tech platform. It’s impressive.

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EntreWorks Consulting

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Tax incentives for investors serve as one of our primary tools to incentivize investment in startups and in other types of desirable economic development activities. In addition, many analysts question whether the investments are truly triggering investments that would not have happened “but for” the Opportunity Zone incentive.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. It’s a city of unicorns and tech giants.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. 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.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 2, 2021

I knew that executing this research, and then publishing it, would attract pertinent investment opportunities. . And second, I wanted to inform the strategy of my new firm, Versatile VC , from the most educated point of view. . Teten: In the Before Time, I was at a dinner for Partners at many of the major New York VC funds.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Flextock , one of the 10 African startups from the recent Y Combinator winter batch, has bagged an impressive pre-seed round just two months after graduation. . million pre-seed investment. million pre-seed investment. Most African YC-backed startups in today’s batch are focused on fintech. “In

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Financial Institutions such as brokerage firms High net-worth individuals Registered Investment Advisors Banks Trusts. Accredited investors are allowed to go for the riskiest of the investment options (investments relating to Regulation D offerings) that are currently available in the market. Disadvantages.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. But for the first time since abandoning my law school plan A, my mandate was clear: I needed to work at a startup. First, congrats! Enter Box.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 30, 2023

We balance our use of generalist tools for items that are not investing-specific (ex: video conference, communication, Linkedin) with purpose-built products like All Stage which address the specific activities of an active angel group. Q: Managing the subscription process for angels can be tricky.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

For the next couple of years, Gotter, as CFO, was instrumental in turning IROKO — after raising over $30 million from VCs, including Tiger Global — into a household name in Nigeria’s entertainment and tech scenes. And that’s where we ultimately saw an opportunity to launch Bamba.”. and South Africa.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Decipad , a no-code startup that’s aiming to disrupt spreadsheets with accessible tools that empower people to play around with numbers, has nabbed $5 million in seed funding. The startup, which was founded in January 2021, is offering a beta version of the product currently but says it expects to launch more fully in a few months.

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