Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. So if this shift happens it really will lead to a disruption in billions of dollars of online spend.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

And more recently he has turned that into a fund called CrossCulture VC such that many in Silicon Valley and beyond now know Troy as well. Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. She was disruptive.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

“The Central Bank has been doing a tremendous job and Pix is one of the most relevant structural changes,” Brazilian VC Bruno Yoshimura told TechCrunch when we wrote about Latin America’s fintech boom. But now, VCs and founders are actually praising the Central Bank for its initiatives and the opportunities it has created.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With other outlets like media publications WeeTracker and Disrupt Africa disclosing different results for the African venture capital market, we compared and contrasted their results last year. billion while Disrupt Africa, $496 million for the same year. Briter Bridges pegged total 2020 VC for African startups at $1.31

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Toni Eliasz is the program manager of the Disruptive Technologies for Development Program (DT4D) that supports the innovation and adoption of technology-driven solutions in World Bank Group operations. Toni Eliasz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

She wasn’t referring to the sophistication of the tools, but the way in which the hardware production toolset is balkanized across both teams and tasks. VC and technologists. You’d be shocked at how archaic the tools are,” Lucy Hoag, co-founder of Violet Labs , said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

” Despite the VC flurries of 2020 creating an ecosystem of seemingly endless equity, it’s important for entrepreneurs and founders to understand that there is no one-size-fits-all model for raising capital. Debt capital, which refers to capital raised by taking out a loan, is an alternative route that entrepreneurs should consider.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. Over the years, the angel network has based its infrastructure on syndicates — investment vehicles that allow investors, referred to as backers, to co-invest with prominent investors — known as leaders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

” 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. As a point of reference, when Peak was acquired for $1.8 . “They let people play together and compete together.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

African startups, for example, were long ignored by the global VC scene, with totals for the continent’s upstart technology companies representing a fraction of a fraction of the funds made available to other regions’ next-generation companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

But Adept’s vision, at a high level, is to create what it refers to as an “AI teammate” trained to use a wide variety of different software tools and APIs. That hasn’t disrupted product development, apparently. “Foundation model” is a bit jargony.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

How might a startup disrupt this market? I look up the founders on LinkedIn, send a few emails for references and then wait to hear back on some initial reference calls. If I don’t have the material to answer the questions, I diligence some more: data, reference calls, and more meetings. How concentrated is the market?

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

They had 154 visits, 97 due diligence requests, 33 second visits, and 12 reference requests, to ultimately produce 9 institutional investors. Many VC LPs are investing not just for returns, but because they want to learn more about the space, get access to co-investment opportunities, network with disrupters, etc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Companies want to build for the pain point you never dreamed to disrupt; VCs want to invest in an emerging trend before it becomes a household name; and those breaking into tech are told to lean into their earnestness, because you never know who is going to answer your cold email. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Today a startup called Redacted is coming out of stealth with a different approach to tackling that malicious activity: It applies threat intelligence, and then proactively goes after the hackers to recover data loss and disrupt their activities. Ten Eleven is a VC specializing in cybersecurity that has backed a number of other startups.)

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”. “The market wasn’t so established and meal companies, such as Rappi, were just getting started and reaching their growth phase,” Lloreda added.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

One key challenge for early-stage companies that are disrupting a particular space or creating a new category is figuring out how to sell a unique product to customers who have never bought such a solution. This is especially the case when a solution doesn’t have many reference points and its significance may not be obvious.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As the saying goes: Past performance is no guarantee of future results, but using 2020 debuts by neoinsurance firms Lemonade and Root as a reference point, Alex says the IPO window is wide open for other players in the space. Mario Schlosser (Oscar Health) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. billion today.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

It’s now looking to address the wider problems referred to above, with a new round of funding involving some key players in the creative industries. But clearly her desire to disrupt the creative world largely controlled by “middle men” was not sated by the experience. Contact has now raised a $1.9 million (£1.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Similarly, Arta Finance, a company providing access to alternative assets , debuted the Harvest Treasuries AI-Managed Portfolio , which offers a 4.62% APY (annual percentage yield), and Wealthfront’s cash account now offers 4.55% for all clients and 5.05% APY for clients who refer a friend. Fintech projected to become a $1.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Squarespace’s reference price has been set at $50 per share. We went over Squarespace’s recently disclosed Q2 and full-2021 guidance and asked how its expectations compare to its reference-price-defined pre-trading valuation. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. Launching a rolling fund.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

“There will be more change in the next five to 10 years than in the past 100 years, Borus said, referring to the shift to autonomous vehicles and other changes in the transportation industry. Borus told TechCrunch that he believes trucking will be among the first sectors to be disrupted by autonomous vehicle technology.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. ” Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. Dear Sophie, After trying to find an H-1B job to immigrate to the United States for several years, I took a senior software engineer position with a company in Canada. Any advice?

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

They had 154 visits, 97 due diligence requests, 33 second visits, and 12 reference requests, to ultimately produce 9 institutional investors. Many VC LPs are investing not just for returns, but because they want to learn more about the space, get access to co-investment opportunities, network with disrupters, etc.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

TechCrunch: On the investor side, the response has been positive but there too there are calls for the government to go even further — even though 2021 was a record year for VC investment in Spain. The country that we usually take as a reference for stock options when working on this is the UK. So that’s one of the main points.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

When people refer to setting up a board, what they usually mean is the process of adding outside directors, after the company raises money. We recommend getting to know partners at VC firms on your list at least 6 to 9 months before your fundraise. option grants). These may be investor directors or independent directors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Refer them to Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt , and make Neesha very happy in the process. Startups and VC The early days of the pandemic proved to be a massive boon for the home fitness crowd. As you’re settling in for the newsletter and the top stories from TechCrunch for today, can you grab yourself a glass of water?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

If the deal is from out of your geography and/or out of your focus area or a deal is being referred by a well-know investor who normally co-invests with similar syndicates – at least ask yourself, “Why am I so lucky to be getting this call.” Fred Wilson said it best in his post about loss ratios in VC. VC Industry'

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain. In many ways, it could even become a new tool for earlier shareholder liquidity including the exit of some VC money. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

That is what I Tweeted when I saw DataSift present as a finalist at TC Disrupt last year. If you were to run an analysis on me you’d find that I tend to follow a number of people in the VC industry as well as tech professionals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Indeed, many Canadians refer to Toronto as “east”’ despite there being 1,900 miles between Drake and The Weeknd’s hometown and St. More posts by this contributor. Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America?

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub will host a Q&A on FC Live with Adam Draper of Boost VC on June 13th. Submit questions and watch the full event here: Q&A with Adam Draper of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. FundersClub Portfolio News. in " Flexport to open global network of consolidation centers. " Lyft Inc.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Flag this for a future trend for me to look into: We’re seeing more and more VC firms dedicate a portion of carried interest to people who refer successful deals to them. This week, Mary Ann looked into how a cross-border VC firm is sharing profits in its 20-founder LP base. Image Credits: Liquid Death. Dear carry, carry me?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

If you had adopted that, this was a logical next step that you could apply, which again, was like a playbook that you could run over top of a new technological disruption that had happened. Are there back channel references, deeper information discovery? I’m going to wrap it and I don’t want to get my VC card revoked.

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