Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. How important is this issue for your business?

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply. Yes, absolutely.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Unfortunately, the venture capital scene is embarrassingly backward in terms of diversity, and women and ethnic minorities are shockingly underrepresented among investment decision-makers. Only 10p goes to mixed-gender teams, and less than 1p goes to all-female teams? Don’t worry, you get used to it.) No pressure.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity). So a sincere hope of mine in building Frank isn’t that we’re right, it’s that we can be part of growing an ecosystem or community of folks building tools specifically for worker power (LaborTech).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Per Crunchbase , the 2019 founded audio startup’s earlier seed and pre-seed investors were Mangrove Capital Partners and Redalpine. So it’s using quasi-brevity as a device to try to cut through. So organic community-building looks like a work in progress. Like the aural equivalent of a splatter-painting.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight. Or, an entertainer may have built a community on Instagram but not be active on X.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Some corporations provide grants, as well as organizations focused on funding specific communities. If your business sells a unique product, consider using a crowdfunding site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise funds. Many government entities provide grants, from the federal level to state and regional levels.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Arvind Gupta, an investor at Mayfield Fund and founder of accelerator IndieBio, reviews several hundred pitch decks each year. “In But having 20% to 30% ownership of a token or of a network is very bad and frowned upon by the community.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Enter Charlie , a new startup offering banking services for the 62+ community, which launched last week with $7.5 My ears perked up when I got this pitch, as it’s a concept that hasn’t come across my inbox in all my years of covering fintech. But far less common are fintechs dedicated to serving older members of our society.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 15, 2021

Angela Jackson, Portland Seed Fund Managing Director and ACA Event Chair ACA will kick off the conference with the Innovation Funders Showcase , a highly curated company pitch event. There will be a mix of local angels, entrepreneurs and luminaries, and a handful of top ACA members from other cities.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Congratulations! Aspen Tech Policy Hub.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As notably, despite introducing a far smaller number of teams to investors than Y Combinator and more renowned accelerator programs, there always seem to be at least one or two projects in Pear’s Demo Day mix that turn into actual, sustainable and, sometimes, sizable companies. Note that we did not write the descriptions below.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The IPO market is sending us mixed messages. From building out Facebook’s first office in Austin to putting together most of Quora’s team, Bain Capital Ventures managing director Sarah Smith has done a bit of everything when it comes to hiring.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news. Murielle Thinard McLane, Intuitive Ventures: Robotics capitalization strategies will shift.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. For you who fit that description, nice work.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Congratulations! Aspen Tech Policy Hub.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

On top of that, since First Round did it's first Open Hours in NYC last year, a number of firms have followed suit and simply opened their doors wide open to entrepreneurs who wanted to come in and pitch. What's really unfortunate is that, each week, community members run tons of high quality events where entrepreneurs connect and learn.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Use discount code MIAMICRUNCH to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. We are excited to invest in fast-growing consumer and techsumer companies doing over $10 million in revenue, are quickly scaling and need growth capital. This offer expires on April 30, 2021.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital. So you developed a product for the mommy community?

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Part 3: Monetization “ How Duolingo became fluent in monetization ” (2,800 words/11 minutes) — examines how Duolingo experimented with a variety of different business models to match its unique community, and why it chose subscription in the end. Flywire, a Boston-based magnet for venture capital, filed to go public Monday.

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

The outside interest that generated in the investment community got me thinking about whether I should make the leap and figure out how to commercialize the technology. There is still money to be made, but it needs to be used in different and more intelligent ways. Two years later I spun out NanOasis, my first startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). And so it goes with social networking. And then came AOL.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It’s getting more difficult to hire great talent at the growth stages because many companies were expected to go public and get the associated capital infusion from going public. This has more to do with retention issues and less to do with raising new capital. The mission is the elevator pitch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

It was a slow news day at TC Towers because we double-checked every PR pitch for April Fools’ Day silliness and every PR agency in the world advised their clients to set embargoes to literally any other day of the year. fashion rental company By Rotation is expanding its rent-from-the-community platform to the U.S. PT, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Sure, the venture-backed startup behind the queer app gave it a new lick of paint last week, but in refocusing on “friends and community,” some users fear that Lex will also scrub away its beloved raunchy essence. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! “Keep Lex filthy,” the users are chanting.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Let me just start by saying that I’m generally pretty bearish on blockchain tech, and nobody in their right mind would pitch a crypto startup to me. and that’s what led us to launch Arkive. We are hell-bent on building a vibrant community that’s part of defining historical significance.”. Image Credits: Arkive.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 24, 2022

haha Here is how it went down My guy noah kagan sent an email via OkDork.com promoting SendFox.com on ProductHunt.com While on ProductHunt.com I noticed a Startup/Bootstrap community created by Courtland Allen call IndieHackers.com (Amazing site BTW) After spending about a month on IndieHackers.com I saw a post that read something like this.

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