TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

I’ve seen some founders — as a VC, this is gonna sound self-serving me saying this — but I’ve seen some founders that raise way too little capital in their pre-seed round or their seed round. VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America. Ben Ling, founder and general partner, Bling Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. I have called it a “mug’s game&# and I mostly try to avoid it. Bad times often require more capital but ironically this is when capital is dried up. That is conformity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Plus, don’t miss our first investor surveys of 2021: one by Lucas Matney on social gaming , and another by Mike Butcher that gathered responses from Portugal-based investors on a wide variety of topics. 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities. Jaime Parodi Bardón, partner, impACT NOW Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). Why do VC’s care about these years? portfolios.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The IPO market is healthy again, but M&A still represents 88% of exits: So far this year, there were 503 IPOs and 5,203 deals,” writes Boissevain, founder of Ascento Capital. Everything feels right about the company,” said VC investor Anna Fang. How to prepare for M&A, your most likely exit avenue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

If that comes to bear, the ByteDance news could prove more harbinger than one-off, perhaps reducing the total capital available to startups in the country. Funding for women founders continues to disappoint : New data indicates that less than 2% of VC funding last year went to all-women teams. When will VCs hit the brakes ?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

We are betting this will start happening in casual games, too.” ” The funding is coming from a single investor, Griffin Gaming Partners, a VC that focuses (as you can guess by its name) on startups working in and around the games industry. . “They let people play together and compete together.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. You’ve found a VC partner or principal who has invited you to the Monday partners’ meeting. This happens often is sales meetings or VC meetings.

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AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. Larger online game market ($1 billion) than Japan despite 1/3 population and 1/2 GDP per capital (slide 99). Mobile game content revenue > PC game revenue (slide 98). slide 29).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. Social currency. WoW and social gaming addiction. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital. Desire to be an expert (Wikipedia).

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