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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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. In my book, I collects all the best scholarships, fellowships, and other programs for high-achieving young people. . 1) Your school.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. If you’re doing a pitch I’m going to see, I want you to have read this book. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The startup has just closed a $10 million Series A to continue building out its workplace management SaaS for landlords and office managers — which offers features like resource scheduling (booking meeting rooms etc.), employee/co-working space member engagement, and financial management tools through web and mobile applications.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 21, 2019

Hit the legal books. Document everything. If you do come under scrutiny, the best remedy will be documented proof of your efforts. If you do come under scrutiny, the best remedy will be documented proof of your efforts. To be in full compliance, you must first fully understand the laws that govern your industry.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 24, 2019

I personally like to have at least one vertical monitor for reading and writing documents. You may want to try listening to some music or reading a few pages of a book instead. However, it bears repeating: delegating emails or spreadsheets to separate monitors can drastically improve your multitasking capabilities. The Bottom Line.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

They also can customize the benefits and adjust the premium to suit them, get their policy documents and access claims. She illustrates an offering with a bus-booking platform where passengers’ insurance points are calculated on a per-trip basis. Accion Venture Lab is placing a bet on Lami’s embedded finance play.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Tips for Cleaning Up the Books First things first, if you’re not already using accounting software, start now. Start by documenting everything. The more employees that came on, the more I needed to have everything documented. Having a documented exit plan gives you direction. Financial records are the business’s engine.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

No one tells this story better than Harvard Business School professor Tom Nicholas in his recent book VC: An American History. This post summarizes the parts of his book that deal with U.S. states continue to experiment with ways to spark entrepreneurial finance. government policy.

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StartupNation

MARCH 13, 2021

This means having your finances in order, all year round. You need to make sure you’re gathering, organizing and keeping documentation and required reports in one centralized place. If you need help getting your books organized and straightened out, you may benefit from speaking to a professional.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

Or if you’ve raised a warehouse, you can now fund and originate loans that will be repaid by a financing partner. Credit Agreement and Funding Mechanics The credit agreement, that lengthy document dedicated to formalizing your credit arrangement with the lender, outlines many of the key terms and ratios necessary for compliance.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founder Christina York created the tech to work as augmented reality for published books but quickly pivoted into health care when she found the technology could be readily used as pediatric patient distraction during medical procedures. Spellbound has gone from bootstrapped XR startup to award-winning company with a growing team. Bedestrian.

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Red Rocket

MARCH 16, 2022

Yes they are creating them out of Fresh Books or Xero, and they most likely focus on high level numbers like total revenues and total profits. And, more often than not, when it comes to managing the finances of your business, the devil is in the details. took an equity stake in a supplier) or financing activities (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Another interesting angle to Indicina’s solution is that lenders who process loan applications manually can use the platform to double or triple their volume without blowing up their loan books. The fintech partners with credit bureaus and open finance platforms. We’ve never had any balance sheet. 700 million (~$1.17

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2022

Have you ever double-booked yourself or perhaps forgotten about a meeting entirely? The app is essentially made up of virtual sticky notes and is a place where you can create to-do lists, record voice notes/memos, scan business cards, receipts, documents and more. But thanks to Calendly , it doesn’t have to be.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Both financings were not previously publicly announced. Since then, the company has developed open APIs that it says “ingest data and streamline shipment document capture.” Loop launched its product offering in March and in its first month, did $25 million in booked total payment volume. Image Credits: Loop.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2012

In it I list some books and also link to some of my previous posts. Now we move to definitive documents (long-form legal docs) and the whole freakin process starts again. 1 week later the market crash of 2000 began and the dot com market began to collapse and financings with it. We work the two issues. We compromise. We move on.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Tatum Executive Services provides “CFOs, CIOs and senior finance professionals [to help] lead [companies] through any challenge”. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Armed Services.” .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2016

When I was helping to create a document outlining our company’s values, we listed examples of how we understand each value, gave an example of how we could demonstrate it, and shared why it was important to us. No one ever mastered riding a bike by reading a book. They got on the bike.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 11, 2021

If you were in business for all four quarters of 2019 you will be eligible to compare your annual receipts from 2019 to 2020 to demonstrate the 25% revenue reduction, and you will provide annual tax return forms as documentation. A payroll statement or similar documentation from the pay period that covered Feb.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

billion in what is shaping up to be the biggest initial public offering in the country at a valuation of $20 billion, according to two people familiar with the matter and internal documents seen by TechCrunch. Paytm, one of India’s most valuable startups, is seeking to raise as much as $2.4

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 11, 2024

So, stifle the urge to scrap poorly collected data, and instead, set it aside until you’re able to look back at your starting finances with a clear head. Every month, we would close our books and generate financial reports, including the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Full partner meetings are almost always on Mondays and if it isn’t already booked yet for Monday, November 16th (e.g. VC’s are never really “off.&# Just like entrepreneurs they take calls from vacations, do board calls, handle company emergencies and urgent financings.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 19, 2024

I speak a bit of the local language, but even then they still know that I am a migrant.” - Refugee in Malaysia Access to capital and navigation of local banking and financing systems pose universal challenges.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marty Chavez, vice chairman and partner at Sixth Street Partners, about the foundational role he’s had in merging technology and finance throughout his career, and the magical promises and regulatory pitfalls of AI. And the question was, if Lehman fails, what happens then?

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

However, Topship’s expectations are pretty lofty; it said in a statement that “its mission is to make the shipping experience in Africa as easy and stress-free as booking an Uber ride.” Enewali said the company is exploring other revenue streams, including trade financing and customs clearance charges.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

After having read Elad Gil’s book, I understand why. In fact, one of the defining chapters in that book was her user instructions for her as a manager. Maybe we can start with that backstory on how that chapter inside of Elad’s book came together. Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

So, he took inspiration from his favorite science fiction book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy’ and in 2015 founded the deep-semantic QA (Question-Answering) platform, which understands a user’s real intention in a question and derives a single answer from an extensive unstructured data. Register South Korean startup 42Maru Inc.’s

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

I record here the books I’ve read, not as diligently as I should. I have a tiny audience compared with the B2C influencers, but my audience are overwhelming businesspeople in tech and finance. 3) Documenting best practices. I post there typically only every time I get married, have a child, or have another major lifecycle event.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 3, 2022

The app allows you to effortlessly: Receive real-time information on exciting new investment opportunities Check the performance of your current portfolio Get the latest news on OurCrowd portfolio companies and the startup ecosystem Review and download key documents and reports Log in securely using our biometric recognition feature.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2022

But today’s entrepreneurs believe that managing the books is one of their core responsibilities. Unfortunately, traditional small business accounting software often requires trained accountants and bookkeepers—discouraging owners who want to handle finances themselves. Secure Cloud Storage. There are many options for going paperless.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

I record here the books I’ve read, not as diligently as I should. I have a tiny audience compared with the B2C influencers, but my audience are overwhelming businesspeople in tech and finance. 3) Documenting best practices. I post there typically only every time I get married, have a child, or have another major lifecycle event.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

I’ve listened to hundreds of podcasts, read project documentation, studied the economics, written crypto profiles, and spent way too much time on Twitter. Kevin Rose ( @kevinrose ): partner at VC firm True Ventures , host of the Modern Finance and Proof podcasts. FTX offers sophisticated asset price charts & order books.

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Continuations

JULY 1, 2019

In my book World After Capital, I refer to it as “Economic Freedom.” The former implies that we are stuck in the Industrial Age, whereas the latter carries the possibility of a new age, which I call the “Knowledge Age” in my book. How then should people think about UBI? Because UBI massively increases individual freedom.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2019

Seth Godin wrote a wonderful book about creating unique products, and I agree with him! Once you know what you’re great at, make that experience repeatable by documenting your processes and then lock those processes in with systems that create predictable behaviors around them. That means listening first. Be a Purple Cow.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office Court documents show that Twitter owes three months’ rent to its Boulder landlord, and a judge has signed off on evicting the tech giant from that office. It happened — first day in the books! and no longer exists,” the document states. Twitter, Inc.

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