Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

4- Any startup can raise venture capital I've also seen a misconception on business types, versus their ability to raise venture capital. I've been in the startup world since 2012 and only recently started finding content addressing this topic (take a look at the Startup Therapy podcast and on Josh Pigford's blog at Baremetrics).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 1, 2019

He bought into Sharp & Carter in 2013, and the firm has grown from seven people in Melbourne to 120 people across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, Australia. . Anthony recently shared his top tips for employee retention and growth in an EO Melbourne blog post , which has been adapted for this article. . Focus on relationships. “I

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

After you claim your identity with placeholder domain names, accounts in social networks, and common blogging platforms, your next challenge is to create enough positive content as a “Google wall” to keep negative info out of the top Google search results. Twittering. Profile sites.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2018

An EO member since 2013, Dave is also a former national champion and Olympic Trials finalist swimmer who continues to train and compete at a world-ranked level to sustain his mental and physical endurance. The post A Critical, Yet Often Overlooked, Investment in Company Culture appeared first on THE BLOG. Build a System.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2023

April 4, 2023 – Strivacity ® , the company making customer sign-in experiences unexpectedly simple and secure, today announced $20 million in new funding. The core of its value-add is Beacon, the AI engine SignalFire has been refining since the firm’s launch in 2013.

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

For those following this blog and the seed market over the past decade, you may have noticed that every year, we see increases across the board — more investors, newer funds, and funds that get larger. Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

That escalation from $25K back in 2013 took a little over four years. As such, I feel like it really took me 4-5 years to internalize how all the aspects of fund management come together. I consciously took that ramp slowly because I found it was easy to trick myself into thinking going faster and bigger would be straight-forward.

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Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

First, the number of seed investments in the Crunchbase data has increased by 4x in 4 years. Data from 2012 and 2013 will show lower success rates because most of these companies won’t be mature enough to be in the market for a B. Originally posted by Tomasz Tunguz on his blog, www.tomtunguz.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). In 2013 it is expected to be around $35 billion. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. My partner Yves will have 3 in our last fund alone and possibly 4. hours / day.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Every so often I find myself caught up in a really hectic 3-4 week schedule where it seems like I float endlessly betweens meetings. I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013. The number of times I’ve had people come to me and say they want to blog more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

You may have raised money across multiple rounds of investors from 3-4 different VCs and of course most of them would like board seats or at a minimum board observer rights. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Cloud computing, which encompasses the infrastructure products used by developers to build services, has remained flat at 4% over the past five years despite some recent declines in 2013 and 2014. Amongst investors, Digital Media is witnessing a renaissance growing from 2% share to 4% share in three years.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 4, 2023

4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Medisafe, a leading digital therapeutics company specializing in medication engagement, is pleased to announce its Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) technology. The post [Medisafe in PR Newswire] Medisafe expands business solutions with new Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

He blogs about startups at startuphacks.vc. Unicorns were hard to come by when Aileen Lee penned her now-famous article in 2013. Alex Iskold. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alex Iskold is a co-founder and managing partner at 2048 Ventures , an early-stage lead investor in technology and data companies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2018

My mother used to call failure a stepping-stone to success, as opposed to the opposite of success,” she recalled in a 2013 Inc. The post How 5 Expert Entrepreneurs View Success and Failure appeared first on THE BLOG. Listen to him speak on an EO 360° episode to find out how his morning routine prepares him to face his day.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

What you learn at an established company in 10-15 years, you learn at a startup compressed in 3-4 years, especially at a scaling startup. This was 2013, 2014. Instead, I messaged Jeff Jordan and said, ‘You know, I read your blog post about retail, and the transition of retail to online.’

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2019

A last-minute trip to drop my wife off at her internship in October 2013 led to the brightest idea I’ve had so far as an entreprener. We then reached out to the corporate world, considering WHO reports saying 1 in every 4 professionals experience stress that they don’t know how to cope with. I heard things take time.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 5, 2018

In 2013, we announced the sale of that division to an international player at a handsome multiple of earnings. The post What Embezzlement, a Hurricane and the Financial Crash Taught Me About Business appeared first on THE BLOG. Separate your accounting responsibilities. Remember the importance of good financials. See lesson #1.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. But in 2013 it can also simply be, “Company X raises $2.2 This is true on all of the major tech blogs. ” Why? Funding is news.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit). Even tech blogs know this. But How Do Service Businesses Grow?

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. It’s entirely possible the trend lifts these companies in due time, as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. One measure of CincyTech’s overall impact is that in 2013, its portfolio companies represent 80% of total seed and early stage capital invested in Southwest Ohio. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. Venture Capital.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. I always wanted to work with Brad for this reason so I started blogging because I figured if transparency worked for Brad I would try the same approach. in 2013 and then reverted back to 4x – a little bit below the historical mean.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A recent study of online physician reviews found that 96% of complaints relate to customer service, and only 4% to quality of care. In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Do they conduct surveys? Do they measure waiting time?

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