TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Revolutionizing Retail: Using AI and Data Analytics to Drive Customer Engagement Speaker: AnaMaria Meshkurti, head of marketing, communications and engagement, Geneva Foundation for Tech Innovation Unpacking the Valuation Disparity: How Women Founders Can Bridge the VC Funding Divide Speaker: Brooke Motta, CEO and co-founder, KSOC “Impactpreneurship” (..)

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Go to the Audience Choice voting site , read the full topic descriptions, filter and search by topic, and upvote your favorites.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Instead of putting the onus on customers to roll up their sleeves, he suggests that SaaS startups learn from cryptocurrency culture and find ways to “incentivize users to do the necessary work to have the right experience.” Dear Sophie: Any unique immigration strategies for quick hiring? Maverick in Milpitas.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. Changing your meeting culture is difficult, but given that 26% of workers plan to look for a new job when the pandemic ends, startups need to do all they can to retain talent.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Alongside layoff support, Continuum offers executive help on a variety of use cases, from compensation strategy to talent acquisitions. We’re talking about a very marginal cost to be able to maintain your brand, your reputation and your going-forward culture,” Church said. “If 10 steps for managing layoffs respectfully.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Dataiku is the latest well-financed startup to suffer from macroeconomic headwinds, raising new capital at a significantly reduced valuation. Dataiku has taken a leadership position helping enterprises put massive datasets to work at unprecedented speed and creating a culture of AI focused on delivering compounding business results.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 16, 2022

With revenue-based financing (RBF), you not only make a more sound investment, but you also increase your chances of investing in multiple winners. Train Multiple Racehorses Instead of Chasing One Unicorn Traditional VCs are constantly looking for one company that will make back their losses (and then some).

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

The platform has been used to interview customers about product ideas and strategy, find product-market fit, conduct usability studies on UX designs and see how well marketing landing pages perform. Great Question’s seed round came from investors including Funders Club, January Capital, Nomo VC and Twenty-Two Ventures.

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HPA

APRIL 7, 2020

HPA recently created a resource guide that aggregated information on finance assistance and business operations. Wipfli : Features resources tied to business topics, including a section focused on talent and strategy. Creating a Supportive Work From Home Culture (Blog). Talent Resources. Talent Resources. HR + Benefit Resources.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Toward the end of 2022, a number of entrepreneurs, some citing Elon Musk, told me that they’re bringing back an in-person work culture in the following year to help promote productivity and, in some cases, loyalty. But one could argue that new VC fund announcement dates, much like the phrase “oversubscribed,” don’t mean much in practice.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.).

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 8, 2023

These mutant unicorns may not recover without dramatic changes to culture and strategy, not just spend. The reality is lots of companies – many of them quite promising – have already undergone, or will be facing, next financings which “clean up” old cap tables. Fund Sizes Got Too Big.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Too many well-funded teams are lighting VC dollars on fire with strategies that neither reach their target audience nor deliver cost effective acquisition?—?funding Here are two Web3 user acquisition strategies that, if done properly, can be a great area of focus on when the market is down.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

VC is a relatively opaque industry, and it was hard to know what to expect. I’d moved out for Homebrew after nearly ten years in New York, and the east coast / west coast culture shock is real! Homebrew: You had both finance (Goldman) and operating (Uber) experience prior to joining Homebrew.

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Haystack

JANUARY 16, 2019

There are now many angels who have parlayed their early portfolios into VC funds (big and small), or taken that portfolio and turned it to a GP role at an established VC fund. A firm that writes lots of initial checks may have a strategy to concentrate their money in just a few of those companies after turning over a few cards.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

My primary role was “chief psychologist&# and as I’ve learned over the past few years the same has been true as a VC. He says it basically comes down to three key functions: Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Both are basically people businesses.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

acquisitions and future strategy). Part 4: The future of remote work is text (remote work culture). But it seems there’s no slowing the thrust of VC investment in China. Part 2: There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community (open source development). The Automattic TC-1.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I have a tiny audience compared with the B2C influencers, but my audience are overwhelming businesspeople in tech and finance. Instagram is primarily a place to showcase our culture.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As Managing Directors of Techstars Seattle, we raised a series of funds from mostly local LPs, including participation from some of our best-known local VC firms, as well as many of the mentors who worked with the founders during and after each program.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

New financial incentive to create 10 to 20 large VC funds. In order to structure a strong European ecosystem, financing is key. This time, it’s a pan-European announcement that mostly involves redirecting a small portion of Member States’ budgets toward European late-stage tech financing. Let’s start with late-stage funding.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I have a tiny audience compared with the B2C influencers, but my audience are overwhelming businesspeople in tech and finance. Instagram is primarily a place to showcase our culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. [00:12:15] MARK: Well, it all kind of equals out in the end.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Join because you like the culture. Not because we don’t want them to be valuable, but because we don’t want to create an “options culture&# around here. Option cultures are corrosive, create the wrong incentives and attract the wrong sort of people.&#. I wouldn’t be a VC for very long if I did.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

There is an unmet need of $260 billion to $320 billion for women-owned company funding, according to a 2013 study conducted by the International Finance Corporation. Furthermore, women founders receive less than 3% of all VC dollars. Data from Women in VC show that only 5.6% VC firms are women-led and only 4.9%

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc. Nearly two years ago, we set up our first credit fund to provide products like asset and project finance and built out financial tools focused [on] asset-enabled businesses.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Todd Klein is a partner at Revolution Growth , a VC fund that invests in growth-stage companies. During his 20-year career, Todd has been involved in financing and building over 150 venture and growth-stage companies in the media, consumer, technology, education and healthcare sectors. Purpose-driven culture. Todd Klein.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to find a job as a VC scout. VC recruiters list and compensation data. How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm. Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I ran a team of 14 people (12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk … both of whom were fluent in Japanese) who produced an Internet strategy for the board of Sony. I got to experience much of the local culture and customs. My first corporate job was at First Interstate Bank where I worked in Corporate Finance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Same as VC funds are deeply acquainted with Silicon Valley, tech investors cannot ignore this hub of innovation that has produced global market leading companies and serial entrepreneurs. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? are at risk. by about 12-18 months.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. In addition to high profile companies like Fab.com, Quirky, Homejoy, and Secret, numerous other VC-backed companies began to shut their doors. By the first quarter of 2016, the late-stage financing market had changed materially.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

The seed is double their initial target, with financing coming from Ascension Ventures, Best Nights VC (previously M-Venture) the investment arm of Jägermeister, Connect Ventures, plus early backers of CityMapper, TypeForm and FIIT (processed via SeedLegals). This is just the start and we will deliver.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” For funds with an overall return of 3-5x, which is what VC funds aim for, the overall return was 4.6x

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times. Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here? These questions have been rattling around my brain.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Many of the companies above have been bottled up for years behind privately funded growth strategies. On to the headlines from TechCrunch and Extra Crunch: If you didn’t make $1B this week, you are not doing VC right (EC). The VC and founder winners in Airbnb’s IPO (EC). Why some VCs prefer to work with first-time founders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. Katherine Boe Heuck is a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022), a past intern at Versatile VC and a current intern at Metaprop NYC. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. 36 theses pulled directly from US VC websites by David Teten and Sam Sabin , co-founder, Hireblue. . Technical founders .

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