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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. 2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works. Convenient Cards Convenient Cards, Inc.

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Cruz Foam’s shell-based Styrofoam alternative brings in $3.4M seed with DiCaprio and Kutcher

TechCrunch

The recent revelation that practically every animal on the planet has microplastics in its bloodstream and organs probably comes as no surprise to anyone in ecology, but it is one of several now inescapable public realities that have companies running to invest in green alternatives to their most wasteful habits and supply chain links.

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Nana nabs $6M for an online academy and marketplace dedicated to appliance repair

TechCrunch

The seed round is being led by Shripriya Mahesh of Spero Ventures, and Next Play Ventures (ex-LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner’s new fund), Lachy Groom, Scott Belsky, Geoff Donaker of Burst Capital, and Michael Staton of Learn Capital are among those also participating. Nana has now raised $10.7 “There are 5.9

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Based on this distribution only a handful of companies raise 80% of total funding, and one or two outliers return 2/3 of the fund’s capital. It’s about who you know and your accumulated social capital. Solution: develop more accurate mental models of how venture capital works and how humans make decisions under uncertainty.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

And that sometimes the public sector makes the investment that not even the riskier of venture capital funds can do. “So first, for example, for investment — what if big companies start investing more and more than they are actually doing? Meaning that the political administration, it’s more agile.

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