Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. IRRs work really well in a 12-year bull market but VCs have to make money in good markets and bad. This translates to about 12–15 investments. It’s just math.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 22, 2020

Prashanth wrote a “State of the Company” post yesterday on the Stack blog and I would like to highlight a few sections from it. There are now over 18 million questions and 27 million answers on Stack Overflow, and over 150,000 people sign up for a Stack Overflow account each month, 12 years after we started.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 3, 2020

In the summer of 2020, we will reconvene and continue that critical work. We’re told it may be 12 to 18 months before an approved vaccine will be available. The post An Invitation to Explore and Adopt “Capitalism With Care” appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 23, 2021

Every business owner wants it, especially after the economic roller coaster and reset of 2020. The past 12-15 months might have been the toughest of your career. The post Measure these 5 areas of your business for long-term success appeared first on THE BLOG. Now, it’s time to look forward again.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 6, 2022

As the CEO of a social marketing platform, I understand the digital tools that keep us communicating are essential— 12 million people used Slack daily in 2020, while Zoom now has a market value of US$88 billion. The post 3 strategies to combat digital distractions appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Rill launched in 2020 to build what the founders envisioned as a faster and better BI dashboarding tool, based on what they had learned at Snap. Today the company announced a $12 million seed and its first public discussion of the product it built. Image Credits: Rill. There are lots of ways we want to think about diversity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

In March 2020, the app also launched a Creative Fund, which rewarded four musical artists with a £20,000 grant. Plus, the “ rising stars ” the app features on its blog include songwriters, photographers, stylists, personal trainers and chefs. Even celebrities like Cardi B and athlete Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch. in 2020, up from 15.8%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

The announcement, which took place from a virtual event, was also detailed in the company’s blog post. In 2020, it selected 20 startups into the program (eight from Nigeria, six from Kenya, two from South Africa and one each from Ghana, Tunisia, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Truework estimates that it will power in excess of 12 million income and employment verifications this year. On the flip-side, mortgage demand recently hit a 20-year low after the highs of 2020 , but Truework co-founder and CEO Ryan Sandler reckons that the need for automated verifications is only going in an upward direction.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

And this year, the company is expecting “over 50% revenue growth,” compared to 2020. And, both the number of investment requests and new investors surged by more than 250% from January to April 2021 compared to the same period in 2020, with new investors already exceeding all of last year, according to the company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

As it announced in a blog post that TechCrunch reviewed before publication, it paused most of its operations for a month during the early COVID-19 days. By November of 2019, Lime was talking about reaching EBIT positivity in 2020. “ I think it’s been in so many ways helpful to us to realize how hard these choices can be.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Overall, the company has generated more than $100 million in revenue in 2020. According to him, the company is doing well, and he’s been working on the same thing for 12 years already. Also, 12 years is a lot of time. The company has become an important advertising and marketing platform focused on location.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

Some of her projects include: (With Norris Krueger) 2020: AOM 2020 PDW “Entrepreneur-Led Economic Development: Entrepreneurial Communities through New Eyes… the Right Eyes!” My needs-to-be-updated blog is at www.bit.ly/NKblog2a www.norriskrueger.com/my-last-12-months offers some utterly shameless self-promotion.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

We were deemed a “Best Place to Work” by Austin Business Journal in 2020, and I owe it to keeping my ego in check and never losing sight of what has been built—together. I’ve been a proud member for 12 years. However, my husband was our COO for 12 years, and that was a great working partnership.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

“Baselit is [an] AI copilot for analytics,” co-founder Shubham Rana writes in the blog post announcing Baselit. In 2020, backers poured $296.4 Or a product manager could figure out the answer to a question like “Why did our gross merchandise value drop last month?”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2021

More broadly, you can encourage employees to make a personal commitment to the 12 truth-oriented behaviors of the Pro-Truth Pledge by signing the pledge at ProTruthPledge.org. His newest book is Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic (2020).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

The financing comes just over six months after Flink raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Accel. Since launching its first brokerage product in July of 2020, Flink has 1.6 Flink , a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million in a Series B round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

For a long time, I noticed the same startups that conducted layoffs in March 2020 had to scale back again in the 2022 wave. Continuum recently raised a $12 million Series A round to scale a suite of fractional work tools, including a service that helps startups conduct more humane layoffs.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 10, 2020

12: Protecting Data in the Quantum Age. billion in 2019, have already raised almost $6 billion in the first seven months of 2020, despite the Covid-19 crisis. The post NewsLetter: Revolutionizing Blood Tests + Covid-19 Tracking and Testing appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Webinar Aug.12: Israeli Startups Raise $700M in July.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog. —– Indie.vc

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

But as I wrote here on my personal blog about all of this, what does matter out of the generally irksome pol is that there is bipartisan interest in limiting the ability of big tech companies to buy smaller companies. I covered the company’s Series A , a $12 million round in March 2020. Via a SPAC. I don’t get it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

In 2020, Gumroad brought in $9.2 12) There are certainly many issues that still need to be resolved — such as how does a non-professional investor know what to invest in? I preceded this fundraise with a blog post that I’m the only person who works on Gumroad as an employee,” he said. “I revenue multiple. Background.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 15, 2020

My friend Brad Feld wrote a blog post yesterday calling this “spring break at home.” USV TEAM POSTS: Bethany Crystal — Mar 12, 2020 Keep Calm and Stay Human Albert Wenger — Mar 10, 2020 COVID19: Flatten the Curve Nick Grossman — Mar 9, 2020 Simple Systems. ” I like that framing.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog. —– Indie.vc

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

2020 was a good year for Casted. The startup quadrupled its revenue, tripled its customer base and doubled the size of its team during the course of the 12-month period. million since its inception. It has an impressive list of customers, including PayPal, HubSpot, Drift and ZoomInfo. “But

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StartupNation

JANUARY 17, 2022

Census Bureau’s business formation data shows that more than four million people became founders in 2020 alone. That’s a record number of launches in a 12-month span—and all the more reason for your team to get creative. Hey, you don’t have to be in the world of publishing to push out terrific blog posts, right?

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OurCrowd

JULY 4, 2021

Ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations rose by 123% in 2020, costing medical providers $21B in downtime and over $2M in ransom money. Top 10 Post-Pandemic Tech Trends offers invaluable insight into what will be hot, disruptive and investible in startups for the coming 12 months. Israeli tech becomes zeitgeist compliant.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The majority of its revenues come from 12-month subscriptions for students looking to prep for med school exams like Step 1, and Step 2. Part of the reason the firm approached Sketchy to invest in them is because of low customer acquisition costs, Carolan notes in a blog post. . Equity Dive: Edtech’s 2020 wakeup call.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Total raised: $12 million. Over the years, the company managed to raise $12 million, including a $10 million Series A led by GV (Google Ventures) back in 2017. In March of 2020, Apple acquired the Dark Sky weather app, which was popular for its hyperlocal focus. But by the end of 2020, signs of serious problems emerged.

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EntreWorks Consulting

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Mark your calendars for the week of November 18-24, 2019, the 12 th annual celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week. If your region isn’t engaged with GEW 2019, make plans to participate in GEW 2020! EntreWorks Blog. GEW is a big deal around the world. Global Entrepreneurship Week: November 18-24, 2019.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

During the past 12 months, over $1.2 And in 2020, Tapcart’s recurring revenue increased by 3x, as mobile apps grew even faster during the pandemic, which had increased consumer mobile screen time by 20% year-over-year from 2019. Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021?

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in their ‘ The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 ’ report, sound the alarm loud and clear about the growing impact of what we eat. This is a guest blog post written by Luke Davis , Communications Lead at Impact Hub Berlin. Photo: Kina Mama.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

In fact, most were told that the company had been dissolved — according to interviews TechCrunch had with a number of former employees, and corroborated in a report last week by industry blog Restaurant Dive. “We are coming in and showing what the experience should be,” Gjonbalic told Crunchbase in a 2020 interview.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 10, 2020

12: Protecting Data in the Quantum Age. billion in 2019, have already raised almost $6 billion in the first seven months of 2020, despite the Covid-19 crisis. The post In the News: Revolutionizing Blood Tests + Unmanned Vehicle Fleet Control appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Webinar Aug.12: Israeli Startups Raise $700M in July.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

He held down the fort after the firm’s other co-founder, Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian, stepped away in 2020. The firm cut the majority of staff four months ago , impacting nine of the 12-person team. Forward it to a friend, share it on Twitter, and follow my personal blog for more content. Clubhouse and the bird app.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

TripActions is said to have filed confidentially to go public in the second quarter of next year at a $12 billion valuation. From The Information : “ Divvy Homes , a property tech startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global Management, laid off about 12% of its staff Tuesday. Read more on the company’s blog post here.

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