American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

Since his prospective co-founders were involved in the early development of the new dirt bike, Godby saw how well they worked together and what each brought to the venture. Godbys background is in mechanical engineering and product development, while another co-founder has an industrial design background.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Investors recognize the growth potential and impact of this rapidly rising fintech providing digital payments and banking solutions across Africa. Global impact firm Lightrock, an existing investor, also participated. Tosin Eniolorunda and Felix Ike, co-founded Moniepoint (formerly TeamApt) in 2015. Moniepoint Inc.,

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

AI continues to open up new frontiers as innovators apply the fast-emerging technology in ways that gain investor support. The technology-driven beauty company also announced the appointment of Jo Lawson as its new Chief Executive Officer and the transition of co-founder Nathan Harding back to the role of CTO.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

What Cham rarely tells people – he’s both private and humble – is that he started making some small co-investments with me in tech firms starting with Maker Studios where he was one of the earliest investors.

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JUNE 17, 2024

The fundraising process sucks for about a million reasons—not the least of which is that investors often lack clarity and transparency in their communication. doesn’t really buy you many points with an investor—but coming off like a startup n00b really tanks your chances. Still, there is somewhat of a method to their madness.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Companies in every sector are investing in the latest technologies with an eye toward winning in their markets with AI, said Misha Herscu, CEO and co-founder of Cake. Unfortunately, the cutting-edge has historically been the exclusive domain of large ML engineering teams.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Head of Global Operations of The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, and the Co-Founder & COO of the Vet-Tech Startup Accelerator. H erbert Dwyer , a United States Marine Corps Veteran, co-founded EMPEQ in 2017, leveraging his prior experience in the energy field. in their journey post-service.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Many entrepreneurs are reliant on outside funding, whether angel investors, venture capitalists or strategic investors , to keep the venture going. At the same time, many investors are being more cautious with making new investments, preferring to focus on their existing portfolio before investing in new companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

A recurring theme in a lot of my BSList posts is that, if an investor thinks they can make a boatload of money with you, they’ll go to all sorts of lengths to invest. But if these people are willing to come on without the co-founder title, that’s between them, you and their employment contract. Ok, I can accept that.

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DECEMBER 28, 2013

If you are a venture capital investor and you''re not preparing yourself to succeed in a more diverse ecosystem of entrepreneurs, you''re just going to get left behind. Of the 20 teams, only half count an engineer as a founder or co-founder. All of the companies but one were funded in NYC, with the other in Boston.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2024

. “AI is predicted to handle 95% of marketing work by 2027, it’s the creativity, taste, and bold vision—the remaining 5%—that will set great marketers apart,” said Alex Halliday, co-founder and CEO of AirOps. Such early success gained the support of investors, raising $15.5

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Side Benefits Ideally, a small fund could get you the following, but you have to ask to make sure it’s available: Co-investing opportunities. Are investors allowed to come into deals that the fund does side by side with the fund? This creates a source of deal flow for investors who aren’t out there full time creating opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. She worked for 5 years as a VC at Battery Ventures and co-headed M&A at IAC working with Barry Diller. She had all of the skills and traits we sought? (I

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy yet banks do not have their backs, says CEO and co-founder Sahill Poddar. The two co-founders leveraged their tech backgrounds to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity. and Canada.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Co-founders of sportsbook FanDuel, Nigel Eccles and Rob Jones, announced this week the public launch of their cryptocurrency casino and sportsbook B etHog and its closing of a $6 million seed funding round. Consumers now have a trusted brand of a first-class online casino and sports betting experience not found anywhere else.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

This list needs no explanation: 1) You need a technical co-founder. 20) We''re getting a lot of interest from top investors. This list needs no explanation: 1) You need a technical co-founder. 20) We''re getting a lot of interest from top investors. 3) No one else can do this. 7) Google can''t do this.

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MAY 14, 2015

I'm also excited to work with great co-investors like John Katzman, founder of Princeton Review who knows a thing or two about distributed edtech businesses, Mike Walsh from Structure, and Don Katz the founder of Audible. One of my investors asked Meg what happens to Tinkergarten in the winter. Her response? "We

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We did a previous dose on 5 things investors wish startups knew. Managing Partner, Steve Barsh , sat down to give us 5 MORE things investors wish startups knew. Investors want to understand why you’re going left when everyone else is going right. Investors want to hear, “Our unique insight is __”… in your pitch 2.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

We spent most of that summer developing the product while carving out time to meet investors and try to raise funding. I probably met with 20+ investors, including Fred Wilson and Josh Koppelman, and both rejected our company as too early. This business would generate revenue ASAP to avoid depending on investors and rounds of funding.

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Four decades ago, I co-founded America Online (AOL), a company that helped usher in the Internet revolution. When I started AOL, not far from here in the fields of Northern Virginia, most of our venture dollars came from investors in Silicon Valley and New York. were on the platform. I was fortunate to chair this grouptwice.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

M&A experience (Morgan Stanley and later co-headed M&A for Barry Diller at IAC). That turns out to be much more difficult than non-investors often imagine. Having been at Battery Ventures for 5 years earlier in her career has given her the investor vantage point and years of seeing booming markets and contracting ones.

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MAY 13, 2015

I'm excited to be working with such great co-investors--and I'm hugely excited to finally be working with Ben McKean. Because I always want them around, I order it on a subscription much like I order paper towels or soap on subscription via Amazon. Just because something appears at your door regularly doesn't make it a service.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

The funding round was led by Coatue Management , with continued participation from several of Islands existing investors. With this new capital, Island has now raised approximately $730 million to date, indicating the confidence investors have in its transformative technology and market trajectory.

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JUNE 10, 2015

I recently met up with an investor who I'm not totally sure is a fit for my second fund , so it was important to me that I was upfront about all the reasons why he shouldn't come in. The last thing you want as either a founder or even a VC is to have an investor get stuck with you when you're not on the same page about expectations.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Fifteen had co-founders over 40. As an investor, it’s easy to come into a board meeting asking probing questions, demanding information, and sharing your opinion without first having built up a base of trust. Five have LGBTQ+ founders.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Celebrities should also know that money and fame doesn't automatically make them qualified to be investors. Some of them appear to be very good investors, though--and some investors are borderline celebrities. Don't ask for a special deal if you're not a co-founder. It's like the stock market. Read up and learn!

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The agenda included a tour of the Ion (the centerpiece of Houston’s innovation corridor), lunch with local investors and founders at Minute Maid Park’s Gallagher Club, watching the Astros take on the Guardians, and seeing Rivalry’s order fulfillment solution in action during happy hour at Margaritaville Lake Conroe.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Pulling them apart and shedding light on them is an extremely delicate operation for a white male investor, and probably not a good idea, but I'm going to go ahead with it anyway. Seriously, not a single investor turned her down. When Chantel asked investors for $3mm for her seed round back in 2010, people stood up and took notice.

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

Berman comes from a real estate background, and he co-founded Camber Creek after realizing an opportunity to “create a double alpha situation,” both investing in high-growth startups and using those startups to improve the operations of his own real estate portfolio. For some startups, proving demand can be more difficult. “If

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The Seraf Compass

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This profile is the first in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting female investors. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Heckerbella Limited, a Digital Transformation company, and the Co-Founder of Rising Tide Africa. Yemi Keri is one of the foremost Women in Technology in Nigeria.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

We used Loom to pre-record our pitch and share it with potential investors. Maureen Brown, EO Austin, co-founder and CEO, Mosie Baby. David Fastuca, EO Melbourne, CMO and co-founder, Locomote. David Fluker, EO Louisiana, president and co-owner, Fluker Farms. I see an uptick in pitching via pre-recorded video.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 3, 2025

Two registered dieticians co-founded the health tech startup that has provided over 80,000 telehealth nutrition sessions over four years. Other investors that participated in this funding round include Rethink Impact, Collab Capital, Collide Capital, Vamos Ventures, Tensility Venture Partners, Cake Ventures, and GW Ventures.

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JULY 27, 2017

If you're going to take a meeting with an investor and you don't think it's a good fit, just say it. If you wind up getting more interest than you anticipated in a seed round, give the investors a fair opportunity to work together. I have other founders who literally need to know tomorrow or the round will close.

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Dream It

MAY 4, 2021

question is a common component of investor Q/A. You need to be aware of and ready for this tough question from investors. Anchoring Investors On A Number Here’s a typical answer to the valuation question. “We The investor just anchored on the lower number. This drives investors crazy. “I So I am not unsympathetic.

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The Seraf Compass

JULY 3, 2019

Seraf Co-Founder Christopher Mirabile interviews several experienced angel investors from around the country to ask: What's Your Core Investing Philosophy? Video Transcript.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

I’ve seen many first-time founders who had fallings out with their co-founders, had lawsuits, had investors bail on them, lost market momentum. I saw entrepreneurs who handed keys back to investors, who absolved themselves of responsibilities or who simply walked. I fund both types all the time. Yet failure smells.

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