Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally generated funds. Professional angels: This is the arena where I work and play.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Unfortunately, the venture capital scene is embarrassingly backward in terms of diversity, and women and ethnic minorities are shockingly underrepresented among investment decision-makers. Only 10p goes to mixed-gender teams, and less than 1p goes to all-female teams? Don’t worry, you get used to it.) No pressure.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So in early summer of this year we decided to take on two new strategic investors — The Venture City and Kal Vepuri — bringing our overall seed funding to $6M,” explain two of Beams’ four co-founders (and its co-CEOs), Alan Sternberg and Robert Kilian, on why it’s taking more funding now.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Enter Charlie , a new startup offering banking services for the 62+ community, which launched last week with $7.5 million in funding led by Better Tomorrow Ventures. My ears perked up when I got this pitch, as it’s a concept that hasn’t come across my inbox in all my years of covering fintech. More here. “In

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 27, 2023

The TechCelerator program is a 10-week virtual business “boot camp” designed to assist inventors and very early-stage entrepreneurs in converting their business ideas into operating ventures. Ammonia will be used to produce fertilizer, the main resource for plant growth.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Some corporations provide grants, as well as organizations focused on funding specific communities. If your business sells a unique product, consider using a crowdfunding site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise funds. Angel investors are wealthy individuals looking to put seed money into a venture. Consider crowdfunding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” That’s why Clearbanc, a startup I have covered for years, has always had a compelling pitch. That’s why Clearbanc, a startup I have covered for years, has always had a compelling pitch. Contra wants to be a community for independent workers.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Arvind Gupta, an investor at Mayfield Fund and founder of accelerator IndieBio, reviews several hundred pitch decks each year. “In But having 20% to 30% ownership of a token or of a network is very bad and frowned upon by the community.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. of venture capital deals.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The IPO market is sending us mixed messages. From building out Facebook’s first office in Austin to putting together most of Quora’s team, Bain Capital Ventures managing director Sarah Smith has done a bit of everything when it comes to hiring.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. Note that we did not write the descriptions below. ” Parthean.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, when you account for how much longer that startup scene has been around, I'd say the fact that we're at about 50% of their pace of venture funding is pretty damn phenomenal--not to mention the fact that there's about an order of magnitude more VC funds located out there. Are the investors in NYC really that difficult to find?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Parekh, managing partner, Secocha Ventures. Use discount code MIAMICRUNCH to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Mark Volcheck, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. David Goldberg, general partner, Alpaca. This offer expires on April 30, 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Part 3: Monetization “ How Duolingo became fluent in monetization ” (2,800 words/11 minutes) — examines how Duolingo experimented with a variety of different business models to match its unique community, and why it chose subscription in the end. Flywire, a Boston-based magnet for venture capital, filed to go public Monday.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

From the earliest pitch decks I had ever created. The intention for us was always to deliver on a number of different areas of gynaecological health — not just changing the tampon so it serves people better and so it delivers pain relief. So we do that and then we synthesize the information for our community.”

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

The outside interest that generated in the investment community got me thinking about whether I should make the leap and figure out how to commercialize the technology. There is still money to be made, but it needs to be used in different and more intelligent ways. Two years later I spun out NanOasis, my first startup.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 29, 2023

On Tuesday, March 28, 2023, Ben Franklin Technology Partners hosted a virtual pitch event for their Food and Beverage TechCelerator. This win-win process will utilize otherwise hard to dispose of biodegradables, while producing nutritious, low-cost food which could be beneficial to impoverished communities.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Starting with where the world is today: talk to us a little bit about venture’s lens on talent and how does a venture talent partner assess talent? And I think the way that we’re structured over here is somewhat different and unique relative to a lot of the other venture talent partners that are out there.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Sure, the venture-backed startup behind the queer app gave it a new lick of paint last week, but in refocusing on “friends and community,” some users fear that Lex will also scrub away its beloved raunchy essence. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! “Keep Lex filthy,” the users are chanting.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

It was a slow news day at TC Towers because we double-checked every PR pitch for April Fools’ Day silliness and every PR agency in the world advised their clients to set embargoes to literally any other day of the year. fashion rental company By Rotation is expanding its rent-from-the-community platform to the U.S. PT, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Let me just start by saying that I’m generally pretty bearish on blockchain tech, and nobody in their right mind would pitch a crypto startup to me. and that’s what led us to launch Arkive. We are hell-bent on building a vibrant community that’s part of defining historical significance.”. Image Credits: Arkive.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital. So you developed a product for the mommy community?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). And so it goes with social networking. And then came AOL.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Sequoia, the top venture capital firm on the face of the earth, put in a growth round that valued the company at close to half a unicorn. I imagined a future Wing media arm with a TV channel, a venture capital fund… …and then it all came crashing down. Community building isn’t much easier, especially in progressive circles.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity). So a sincere hope of mine in building Frank isn’t that we’re right, it’s that we can be part of growing an ecosystem or community of folks building tools specifically for worker power (LaborTech).

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