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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even Ten years on much has changed.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Normalizing down rounds, 2023 climate trends, term sheet basics

TechCrunch

The next storm front expected to arrive tomorrow is expected to bring disruption and destruction on a massive scale. “The next best thing founders can do is to signal as much as possible that pitch materials shared with funders are confidential.” Six climate tech trends to watch for in 2023. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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How do you attract family offices and other large investors to your direct investing platform?

David Teten VC

Same goes for SMB investment sites like Honeycomb Credit , The SMBX , and Worthy Bonds (business owners often fund others) and Prosper or Sofi (many funders have borrowed themselves).”. Convenience , e.g., mobile access; same platform for all documents. Who will disrupt investment management, and how? Further reading: .

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Who Should be on Your Startup Board?

Both Sides of the Table

Why you should set up a board at the seed round of funding I know these days with SAFE documents and rolling convertible notes many founders prefer not to set up a board early on. It is less common to add a third founder because it can be disruptive having so many founders on a board but it’s certainly not unheard of.

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