TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

billion after raising a $300 million Series D round led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. The company raised a $55 million extension round in September to bring on a partner, Education Testing Services (ETS) Strategy Capital, the venture arm of the world’s largest nonprofit education testing and assessment organization.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Absolutely not.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

And today, Yu and Yang’s new company, San Francisco-based Vesta , is announcing it has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from new investor Zigg Capital. It’s about change management as much as anything else because replacing the existing process is hard.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

A $100 million fund does not actually have $100 million in capital but $100 million in “committed capital,” essentially a legal document that states that LPs will send the fund money when “called.” I think you’ll start seeing pushback on complete board control by the founding team,” stated Martino. “I

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Logistics operators in Africa suffer from various problems, from inconsistent pricing, which stems from a fragmented supply-and-demand market, to paper documentation and little or no access to financing. The banks wanted us to ensure we charge the financing costs before they could touch them. The strategy proved to be a success.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 23, 2020

In normal times, there are several reasons why your company may be subject to a down round, including: Your company failed to reach the financial and operational goals it set for itself the last time it raised money; You did a particularly good job of selling your company at the last round and received financing at a favorable valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. That certainly works well for some.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Winterstein notes that its efforts were all open source-based and that the company was “not commercial at all, a lot of tech geeks and German engineering types that were not overly experienced in go-to-market strategies.” Expanding beyond their original verticals “is what everyone in enterprise is doing right now.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Hot Tip: create a Miro board mapping all of the efforts and use this to keep your team in check. As you get ready for the next phase in the RFP Process, make sure you have documented the following: Comprehension: The RFP is clearly understood by you and your team. Chemistry?—?Finals. Behind the scenes (BTS) content works very well.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

With its software up and running, Gusto needed to figure out its go-to-market strategy. For the first time, businesses could reach and serve customers with an entirely online strategy. Gusto leaned into an online referral and brand-based go-to-market strategy rather than building out a direct outbound sales force.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

CEO Jonathan Kite said a new automated turn board feature was a significant factor accelerating the company’s success. One possibility is to let all parties involved sign contracts and other official documents with digital signatures. The post 6 Strategies for Local Startups to Scale Up Nationally appeared first on StartupNation.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A MOC document can help you prioritize what jobs you need an executive to do so you can hire against those needs. And we know that the chief people officer role, CHRO—unlike maybe finance or sales—entrepreneurs have a harder time understanding what that role is, right? This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

In-house legal teams play a critical role in companies, but a lot of them don’t have the same kind of technology as their counterparts in sales or finance. LawVu is to legal what Salesforce is to sales teams,” co-founder and chief strategy officer Tim Boyne told TechCrunch in an email. for its global go-to-market strategy and open U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Others I have not. Online peer-to-peer lending. 14.7mm in Series D.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

I am grateful and fortunate that I could solicit input on this article from several people, including Theresia Gouw and Mark Kraynak; a few of my partners at Acrew; Ed Zimmerman and Meredith Beuchaw from the law firm Lowenstein; Shan Aggarwal, VP of corporate development, Coinbase; and Art Levy, chief strategy officer at Brex.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. But before we get to the lesson, I just plain like this intro into his negotiation strategy: Like a machismo first-time CEO I thought I should handle the negotiation myself.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones. The company had been in talks to raise a whopping $1.2 billion from Alibaba. But the whole endeavor was a flop.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks. Getting serious about Series B: 3 documents that will help founders control the narrative. These three key documents should do the heavy lifting of capturing attention and communicating information across the partnership with high fidelity.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

The whole program has been designed to provide financing as quickly as possible. blocking a quorum, or preventing a shareholder/board action). Circumstance one: go through your documents and take out statements like, “fund x can block, lead investor can block” and go to majority vote.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. Datasite acquired Brochure to help centralize all the document tracking involved in diligence. Betterfront.io

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Index Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from existing backer Coatue Management. Businesses and organizations can access Persona’s platform by way of an API, which lets them use a variety of documents, from government-issued IDs through to biometrics, to verify that customers are who they say they are.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. I also use several living Google docs to maintain the minutes and the group agendas for my fixed weekly meetings.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document. So really having a documented set of priorities is the more important piece than the accountability piece, which I think is a nice externality of having whatever process you build. ” That’s reported to the board.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

Nothing wrong with this asset liability management strategy so far. Obviously, that strategy didn’t work. Now, I will walk through the truly game-changing document that describes the BTFP. Quotes from the document are in bold and italics, and below each is a breakdown of their practical implications.)

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. By the first quarter of 2016, the late-stage financing market had changed materially. Investors were becoming nervous and were no longer willing to underwrite new Unicorn-level financings at the drop of a hat. This is uncharted territory.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 17, 2022

Leveraging a depth and breadth of experience in entrepreneurial support and resource development, as well as best practices for diversity, equity, and inclusion, this role will be responsible for developing and implementing a strategy for the scale-up of Forward Cities’ proprietary and custom capacity-building engagements.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 17, 2022

Leveraging a depth and breadth of experience in entrepreneurial support and resource development, as well as best practices for diversity, equity, and inclusion, this role will be responsible for developing and implementing a strategy for the scale-up of Forward Cities’ proprietary and custom capacity-building engagements. Qualifications.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The company has not yet initiated a voluntary recall, according to internal service documents the company distributed in late November, CNBC reported. Milan , for example, is investing €250 million into its Urban Biking Strategy that’ll see the birth of fast cycle corridors with better public transit integration. Miscellaneous.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Interestingly, many years later, Square would use other innovative “cash giveaway” strategies to steal market share from Paypal (in addition to copying the give $5, get $5 model ). The banker’s even brag in marketing documents about this “achievement.” (see see below). This is a “robbery in plain sight.” Are We Too Gullible or Naive?

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