Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Rafa runs Background Capital, and is one of the best partners for early company builders I know. The push back usually boiled down to some version of: “We have this great plan that we spent a number of weeks documenting, socializing, and cascading through the organization. I am going to look stupid.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; Chair, Orricks Private Investment Funds Group.) If you are launching your own investment management firm, we recommend designing a constitution: a set of documents covering the firms goals, legal obligations, and principles for handling disagreement. Hellman, Esq.,

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Revolution

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Ripple effects from the liquidity crunch: While we documented the founding of 1.4K+ new regional VC firms from 20112021, many of those firms (that are often the biggest backers of their local ecosystems) face a more daunting market for raising subsequent funds without materialized returns. startups in Q1-Q2 of 2024.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. Sooner or later, you may need to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment. Email readers, continue here…] How did you structure your first round?

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StartupNation

MAY 22, 2025

Instead of trying to beat offshore suppliers at their low-cost structures, capitalize on your demographic industry knowledge, culture, and specific skill sets that come at a premium. Clients can be educated through email signatures, voicemail greetings, and onboarding video documents whenever they wish to set these expectations.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Sales forecasting becomes much more accurate when based on real pipeline data, and marketing analytics help you understand which campaigns generate the best return on investment. It's like having X-ray vision, but for capitalism. How do you choose the right CRM for your business? Having trouble coordinating between departments?

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StartupNation

JUNE 2, 2025

EquityNet RAISE CAPITAL Use flat-fee crowdfunding with no commissions. Raise business capital of $100K to $100M. But if you find yourself in a dispute with a vendor, try to keep communication open and document everything. Adam Levin interviewed business owner Andy Pham who had investment property of 2.7

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 5, 2024

These include election or re-election of board members if required by the bylaws of the corporation, approval of any increases to stock option plans (which would dilute the worth of shares outstanding,) and approve any additions to the capital stock authorized to be issued.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Note: I led First Round's investment in Docracy in 2011, but I do not have any financial ties to the company and will not benefit or suffer, other than emotionally, based on the outcome of that investment. Anyone who has ever e-mailed various versions of Word documents to a lawyer or counterparty has experienced the pain.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The D’Amelio family, including TikTok stars and digital creators Charli D’Amelio and sister Dixie , are formalizing their investments in startups with the launch of a new VC fund, 444 Capital. He and Renert had discussions about putting such a fund together, which has a similar focus as Tandem Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Business Canvas , the South Korean document management SaaS company behind Typed, announced today it has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by Mirae Asset Venture Investment , with participation from Kakao Ventures and Nextrans Inc. Modern document writing has not changed since the 1980s,” Yoo said.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

If your US-based business is adversely affected by Covid-19 such that you would need to lay off employees imminently and having access to capital would enable you to keep more employees on the payroll then you might be eligible. The NVCA (National Venture Capital Association) Guidelines are below. Am I eligible for the PPP Loan?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too. I am inspired by the constant innovation in our industry by First Round Capital like the Dorm Room Fund , their expansion to Philadelphia (I hope they also have a secret plot to replace Andy Reid while there), the exchange fund and other initiative. I know, I’m weird.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s hard enough to raise capital from VC, private equity fund, and family offices. We are a community for family offices, private equity funds, and VCs focused on using technology and analytics to make better investments in private companies. In roughly descending order of impact, I suggest: Invest in funds.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. That is good news for the innovation economy because healthy capital markets are a necessary support system. However, optimistic capital markets are necessary but not sufficient for a healthy innovation economy. But it eventually gets it.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Thomson One.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. I’ve been meeting lately with more and more family offices interested in investing directly into companies, in lieu of via funds. Investors there are outsourcing the decision-making about individual investments to the GPs.).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

My version of the Canadian dream involved capitalizing on the inclusivity of Canadian life,” said Lennert. I just feel so honoured and humbled to have my story documented,” Lennert reflected. And to have my life with my partner documented forever that way. He contemplated hanging up his wetsuit once again. It’s so special.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

” Drones might no longer be the buzzword of the moment, but investors continue to shower specialized drone ventures — like those with analytics components — with capital. According to one source , VC investments in drone companies reached $7 billion in 2021 across 199 deals, up from $2.4 billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The trading service’s investors came in force to ensure it had the capital it needed to continue supporting consumer trades. Thanks to Robinhood’s strong Q4 2020 results , and implied growth in Q1 2021 , the boosted investment made sense. And then there were so very many cool venture capital rounds that I couldn’t get to this week.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Filevine , a startup offering a software-as-a-service product for legal case management, today announced that it closed a $108 million series D round led by StepStone Group with participation from Golub Capital and existing investors Signal Peak Ventures and Meritech Capital. software-as-a-service market.” ” Future growth.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 The firm’s fourth fund, its largest to date, is oversubscribed, with early documents indicating a $70 million goal. The firm invested $200,000 for an 8% equity stake in a number of pre-seed and seed startups focused on “ the everyday economy. ”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

” That might sound silly coming from a media outlet focused on technology — and the people investing and building it. Problems arose after a person made public record request to the DMV to disclose the documents that the company had sent. But technology for technology’s sake can lead us down some tricky paths.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. These documents are helpful for forming a new company, running your company, maintaining good corporate governance, and more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. A CHF 1-2 million Series A or a CHF 5 million Series B investment is common. More than 50%?

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Paul G. Silva

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

They have to create hours creating slightly different versions of documents. The longer it takes us to assess a startup, the fewer quality investments we can make each year. My thanks to all the angel leaders, and the Angel Capital Association , for their hard work! This is bad for everyone! Angel Investor Pain Points.

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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. About Advantage Capital Advantage Capital is a leading impact investment firm with an emphasis on driving capital to underserved areas.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

. “I had done all this work in policy, ease of doing business, free trade agreement, and I was advising some people in tech who would say, ‘listen, I just raised new capital to enter new markets, I dont know how I’m supposed to navigate it,'” the chief executive told TechCrunch on a call.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A typical enterprise grapples with hundreds or thousands of agreements, contracts and other legal documents every year, and it usually engages costly legal counsel either inside or outside the company to assess those documents on their behalf. In all, Ontra is processing some 20,000 NDAs monthly at the moment.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 25, 2022

They are stuck relying on an inert document that has no way to reflect the circumstances of the moment. For the SMB, the traditional annual strategic planning process often does not provide a positive ROI on the time and capital invested. With a new year, comes new thinking. Step 1: Illustrate how the business creates value.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Register Committed to accelerate the digital transformation of the world’s fourth largest population, Privy has partnered with KKR , a leading global investment firm. Other participants are existing investors MDI Ventures , GGV Capital and Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi, and new investors including Singtel Innov8.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Crunchbase examined the access to capital in the venture-backed startup ecosystem and proved that many industry leaders still worry that nothing will drastically shift. As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

Investors can provide the capital needed to start a business, expand an existing one, or take it to the next level. A business plan is a document that outlines your company’s mission, goals, market analysis, target customers, financial projections, and strategies for success.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

” On the flip side, he predicts that corporates with venture capital arms that are “committed to the insurance sector will likely step up their involvement.” Since astoryaVC’s inception, we have been investing in tech-based startups and have done a lot of B2B / enterprise software deals in the insurance space.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

Asking friends and family for capital is always an option. While it might sound strange getting your brother-in-law to sign a contract, a legal document is a great way to establish expectations for both parties. Since accelerators are essentially investing in your business, they have a mutual interest in your success.

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