Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

I lost count of the billion euro market opportunities and hockey sticks I have seen during the past five years, many of them presented to me by companies that didn’t make it. Not everything is worth the fight Venture capital and venture building is playing the long game. You are definitely not better off alone.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal. Price was definitely a consideration. I run PEVCTech , a community focused on this area.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Homebrew: Venture capital is no longer as opaque as it was 10 years ago, but a lot of what gets shared is pro-VC content marketing more than the real day-to-day reality. KS: So much of what is shared about venture, especially on Twitter, is an endless string of wins. On top of all this, I was settling into San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. The wave of venture capital interest in geographies other than Silicon Valley has been building momentum over the past 5+ years. America is the opportunity and we are worthy of investment, aren’t we? “We”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? By definition?—?I’m

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It was an opportunity to generate significant returns, momentum for rising startup markets, and innovation that would strengthen America’s dynamism and competitiveness. We dive deeper into the definition in our 2022 Annual Report. Internally, we’ve begun using the term “founder-market-geography fit” to describe this idea. Louis, MO St.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

The investment was led by Advantage Capital with participation from Conductive Ventures, Origin Ventures, ScOp Venture Capital, JobsOhio, Cintrifuse Capital and 1809 Capital. Advantage Capital is an equal opportunity provider. In 2023, Cloverleaf achieved recognition on the Inc.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Then there was Integromat, which did not raise any external capital but sold for around 2.5 Still, new opportunities are popping up in remote work, psychedelics and wellness. Roman Horacek , partner, Reflex Capital. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The reality is that fundraising looks more like this: Show me a big opportunity, a great plan, a team whose career has led up to this moment through their experience and homework and show something outstanding that they pulled off that separates them from the pack—a “rabbit out of a hat”, if you will—and I’ll show you a funded team.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 11, 2022

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer May 10, 2022 – Seeking to strengthen connection, advocacy and understanding as well as advise those in the SEC and FinHub community, CEO Pat Gouhin was thrilled to represent angel investors and the angel ecosystem at FinHub’s Peer-to-Peer meet-up on capital formation. “It

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Back to top The History of the ACA's Public Policy Efforts The Angel Capital Association was a nascent organization in 2009-2010 when Congress developed the bipartisan Dodd-Frank Act in response to the fallout of the great recession.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. That girl now has now has 200,000 paying customers and a profitable run rate of over $40M within 18 months of raising capital. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Why Investing Our Savings Instead of Other People’s Money Let Us Rethink What Venture Capital PMF Looks Like in the Decade Ahead. We announced this change publicly (aka Homebrew Forever ) in February and spent all of 2022 in this mode, revisiting, and in some cases revising, our core assumptions about venture capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

The company, which uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to create a system that can quickly and accurately inspect vehicles, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Hanaco VC, a venture capital firm based in New York and Tel Aviv. Existing investors GM Ventures, CarMax, W.R. Ventures L.P.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). Where are we today?

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 30, 2021

I co-wrote this essay with Prabhat Gusain , currently the Chief of Staff at Caffeinated Capital; formerly an intern with Versatile VC ; and a 2021 MBA from UVA Darden. The private sector has already identified this opportunity. Canada : iNovia Capital. Middle East/North Africa : HOF Capital. Poland : ff Venture Capital.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When deal-making slows, VC dollars typically favor the perceived market leader, starving other venture-backed businesses in the same space of capital. While some adapt and survive, others end up retreating and creating M&A opportunity down the line for those left standing. How can I insert my company in M&A deal flow?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

“The decision to take a second meeting is one of the biggest decisions in venture capital because, from that [moment] onward, you are committing significant time,” Bichara said, explaining that, in his experience, they only invest in one out of every 250 deals or so that they see. In VC, we are looking for the outliers.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

However, the investor community also recognizes that there’s still a long way to go and a slew of opportunities left to tap. “We We are slowly building a more durable capital base for African tech. We definitely noticed deals were happening slower,” said Karima El Hakim, country director of Plug and Play Egypt. “A

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The UAE took in 46% of the total venture capital received in the Middle East and Africa in 2021, according to the country’s Ministry of Economy. Al Olama recently spoke with me about the burgeoning Emerati startup and venture capital ecosystem, and the country’s approaches to attracting U.S. VC investment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Silicon Valley law firm Cooley recently reported that it “handled 298 disclosable venture capital financings for Q3 2022, representing $8.1 billion of invested capital, continuing a downward trend for both metrics and representing the lowest for both since Q4 2019.” Yet, November was also when U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. I am keeping an eye on the economy and how it affects the speed of deploying capital to founders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The companies that took their first venture capital during the craze decided to join forces with other well-capitalized competitors. Malvika Bhagwat and Kriti Bansal , Owl Ventures. Jomayra Herrera , partner, Reach Capital. Rebecca Kaden , general partner, Union Square Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Definitely in the top 7. Cashing in on the generative AI frenzy : In Kyle ’s second top story of the day, Fixie, backed by $17 million in venture capital, wants to make it easier for companies to build on top of language models. PDT, subscribe here. Thursdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! It’s one of our favorite days of the week.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Scott Lenet is president of Touchdown Ventures. Is there a creed in venture capital? Venture capitalists frequently say that valuing startups is “more art than science.” By definition, once the business has become predictable, the company is in the growth or expansion stage. Share on Twitter.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 23, 2021

In venture capital parlance, “unicorn” describes a privately held startup company with a company valuation of over $1 billion. In literature and in most of life, unicorns are a rare mythical breed, more likely imagined than seen—but in the venture capital business, they do sometimes appear. Rising Value. Rising Value.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Day One Ventures , a venture firm launched in 2018 with a pitch to combine venture capital acumen with marketing and communications support, has launched a program aimed explicitly at those impacted by tech layoffs this year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% What percent of emerging fund managers are raising for and investing in pre-seed or seed — which is the opportunity bottleneck — versus Series A and B? Mimi Aboubaker. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Prabhat Gusain is currently the chief of staff at Caffeinated Capital and was previously an intern with Versatile VC. The private sector has already identified this opportunity. For Israel, we have Elevator Fund , Hanaco , Innovation Endeavors , JANVEST Capital Partners , Pereg Ventures , Team8 , numerous others.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category. We see tremendous opportunity for innovation in the world of B2B payments. In both cases, about 25% of their overall investments went into fintech startups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2022

Participants in the round also included Rebel VC, Kharis Capital, Newman Capital, First Check Ventures, Micro Ventures, Springcamp and AngelHub. The startup is the latest investment app in Southeast Asia to get venture capital funding. The Y Combinator alum announced today it has raised a $4.8

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

The decision by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to expand its definition of an “ accredited investor ” paves the way for thousands more aspiring venture capitalists and angel investors to benefit from investing in the private markets. By OURCROWD. The new rules, which took effect Dec. in 2014 to a target of 23.5%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm with $16.5 Labster has now raised $100 million in total known venture capital to date. The new capital will help Labster increase its staff, grow into new regions that include Latin America and Africa, as well as invest in new product development to better support teachers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s a largely uncontested, growing, future-proof market that will have unprecedented opportunities driven by AI,” he said, adding, “We have two big mega-trends, AI and the demographics of aging and it’s irrefutable that there is a large, growing, massive, future-proof market that they should focus on.”. Image Credits: a2 Collective. “In

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

To examine the market forces and psychology driving climate tech, we surveyed an international group of investors to learn about how they evaluate new opportunities and what they’re looking for from the entrepreneurs who approach them. We spoke with: Alex Bondar , partner, Acre Venture Partners. We think those are standing up.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. Scaling our U.S.

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