TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Flippa , an online marketplace to buy and sell online businesses and digital assets, announced its first venture-backed round, an $11 million Series A, as it sees over 600,000 monthly searches from investors looking to connect with business owners. We see the future of these aggregators becoming ‘X company for apps’ or ‘X for blogs.’ ”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

The pandemic has spurred interest in saving and investment apps around the world , especially ones geared toward newer investors. The seed funding, which was made in two closes, included participation from Saison Capital, Venturra Discovery, 1982 Ventures, 500 Startups, Nextrans, and angel investors like executives at Google and Netflix.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

These new data sources are creating high-impact tools for investors. Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. A new category of investors has emerged offering a hybrid between VC and revenue-based investment (RBI), which we call “flexible VC.”

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 18, 2023

“The inaugural MidAmerica Cup competition empowered high school students to form teams, develop a product, conduct market research, formulate financial projections, and present a comprehensive business plan to potential investors.” The team also cinched first place in the Best Business Plan and Best Pitch Presentation categories.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Now approaching its 20 th year, this statewide collegiate business plan competition is unveiling a fresh look, an exciting new award category, and a streamlined competition structure. The Entrepreneur’s Cup simulates the real-world process of researching a market, writing a business plan, and making a presentation to potential investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Chennai and San Francisco-headquartered Chargebee said on Tuesday it has raised $125 million in its Series G financing round led by Sapphire Ventures and existing investors Tiger Global and Insight Venture Partners. Some other existing investors also participated in the new round, said Chargebee, which has raised $230 million to date.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

He had raised nearly $500,000 from investors. I mean you never know if your investors are REALLY going to keep backing you. Apple announced that they’re shutting down your category. Investor emails. Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.” Many are well known. But not sure, sure. Far fetched stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. For investors life is no different.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. I have been blogging for years – even before BothSidesofTheTable. This is classic Fred.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

While being female and being black are clearly not the same thing, they do fall into the category of "not white men", which the fundraising environment favors--but perhaps not in the way people assume. 2) Yet, the vast majority of investors would back anyone they thought could make them and their investors money. Ducks head.]

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

And I’m not an investor. As I mention I’m not an investor, just a fan. It’s true that I’m not an investor in DogVacay but I am a huge fan of the CEO, Aaron Hirshhorn and of the company and concept. I said, “This category is going to be huge. That’s a fact. I just had to tell this story.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Floodgate exists to invest in prime movers - entrepreneurs who build movements that become category defining companies - before the rest of the world believes in them. What is one thing every founder should ask themselves before walking into a meeting with a potential investor? Favorite business book, blog, podcast?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2015

I used to love blogging. Blogging proved to be a great way to hone my ideas, have public conversations with people and as it turns out – build meaningful relationships through public dialog that spilled over into the real world. Somewhere along the way blogging changed. Fred Wilson said as much in his blog post today, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. Here are some representative rates that we’re seeing by category. Luckily most investors were more savvy. Enter phone calls.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

A huge mistake I see is that VC tells an entrepreneur no based on a set of reason that this VC felt weren’t right with the business (market size, traction to date, too many competitors, no big exits in the category or whatever easy excuses VCs have developed to politely say no) and the entrepreneur lets this get inside his or her head.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

These investors are all placing a bet that the biggest returns could be in manufacturing. ” There are two categories of space manufacturing in the industry to come, according to Bruey and Asparouhov and those are additive manufacturing for making products to be used in space, and manufacturing in space for terrestrial applications. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

million from investors, including BBG Ventures, Chelsea Clinton’s Metrodora Ventures, Emerson Collective, Beta Boom, gener8tor, Matchstick Ventures, Darrell Silver and Serena Williams. “When we first started, we were livestreaming, we had some blogs and study guides,” said Ho. Previously, Fiveable had raised more than $4.2

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This is true both on the investor side and also among portfolio company management. We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media, blog posts, etc. Other investors that pay sourcing fees. Similarly, certain revenue-based finance investors also have open-access scouting programs.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

These customers leverage SecondMeasure to analyze and cross-analyze how consumers are spending their cash, but going deeper, the platform enables customers to analyze rate of growth, cohort retention, benchmark against category competitors or regional performance, and much more. That is not the case today.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Investors will look at which angels you chose, whether old bosses invested, whether you were an EIR somewhere and did they invest, etc. Future investors will also look at whether your angels “re-upped&# if you hit a bump in the road. VCs are just one of many signals future investors at which future investors will look.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2021

could it be a blog post, or a tweet? When you’re building a company, one of your first tasks is to convince potential investors, partners, customers, and employees that your company is “real.” and why it’s better than just publishing the news on your blog?—?is They might feel like a holdover from days gone by.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? And which sectors are closely guarded secrets shielded by seed investors, that may have their breakout year this year? Analytics remains an important category for both markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

We were interesting enough to be newsworthy, especially since Aaron was such a compelling spokesperson for the evolving enterprise software category, but we hadn’t attracted the same level of skepticism as our buzzier, more highly valued consumer contemporaries. Until then, Box’s narrative had been consistently up and to the right.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Six leading investors assess the remote-work startup landscape. The strategy of targeted, niche advice blogs has worked well in categories that never lose importance, such as personal finance or mental wellness. “I had about 35 seconds of frustration,” he said. Work From Home is dead, long live Work From Anywhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

With which other investors? I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. Recap: Our goal is to find investors who pay the highest price and to help make sure that investors can’t tell whether they’re getting a good deal or a bad deal. What stage?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. Separately, in the morning I called a seed-stage investor in NY and talked to him about investing in one of my companies. We call these investors “LPs” for limited partners.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. I typically publish essays in a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

One company that I previously wrote about trying to change this industry is, Solve Media , (I am not an investor) has created an interesting ad unit designed to drive up brand “engagement&# and recall. We are investing heavily in these changes. Oh, sacred cow. In the steam. Integrated with where our eyes & attention are.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

With which other investors? I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. Recap: Our goal is to find investors who pay the highest price and to help make sure that investors can’t tell whether they’re getting a good deal or a bad deal. What stage?

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

About 150 people showed up, a healthy mix of founders, seed-stage investors and big fund VCs, and a bunch of LPs of various sizes. As evidenced by today’s investor panel which included managers who focus on pre-seed, or traditional seed, or larger VC funds that can go from seed all the way to growth. Some press showed up, too.

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

Now the company is not just seeing more SMB customers — a logical assumption considering that Ramp’s biggest competitor, Brex, recently announced it would largely stop serving businesses in that category. According to CEO and co-founder Eric Glyman, who I interviewed, it’s seeing increases across all stages of company maturity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Markets like these are very kind to angel investors because you get taken out early and see a nice pop on your investment. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. avoid being diluted).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

On-site SEO: Everyone has a website and a blog, yet not nearly enough Web3 marketers devote mind-share into making their websites and apps search friendly. In Web3, an organization’s marketing stakeholders include not just their customers/users, but also their developers, investors, and partners.

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