Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Peer-to-peer lending is back! Others I have not.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

On the money side of things, GGV’s Glenn Solomon led the company’s seed round, which also saw participation from Pelion Ventures and Neythri Futures Fund , a collective of South Asian women looking to change the ratio in venture capital investing. Per Neythri Futures Fund, a slim quarter of a percent of U.S.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 7, 2020

Step 1: Get MAD – Remember your M ission, assess your A ssets, document the D emand. D: Document the Demand – List out any loud signals the market or your customers have given you of things they want. Those who come up with plenty of ideas but struggle to identify which ones are worth pursuing. The Short Version.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Some notable Islamic fintech companies include peer-to-peer lending platform and digital bank Hijra (formerly known as Alami), online bank Bank Aladin , LinkAja , which is backed by Telkomsel and Bank Mandri, the largest bank in Indonesia in terms of asset loans and deposits. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In other words, users can use their NFTs as collateral to get loans from other users on the decentralized and peer-to-peer system. Once regarded as a fad (for some, it still is), NFTs, digital assets that depict real-world objects, are becoming increasingly popular within and outside the crypto world. Risk exists on both sides, though.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In short his argument seems to boil down to, “Look at me and my peers. There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. I’d like to make the case that the article is wrong. I’d strongly encourage you to read it. We were here first.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

High impression rates that fail to convert into actual sales and pricing anomalies (as compared to a peer group) are compelling harbingers of traffic quality issues. Unfortunately, however, it’s also a business sector rife with fraud and consumer privacy abuse, particularly in emerging media forms like CTV and mobile. Although 78% of U.S.

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Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. This is a fancy title for a personnel manager in a large corporation who keeps track of all the hiring and firing, and has a staff to build job descriptions and personnel policy documents. Chief Brand Officer.

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Gust

MARCH 8, 2014

After that most basic and important function, I’ve found that the other really valuable things that a law firm brings to a startup are: Formation/organization documentation and administration: Take a look at this interesting package from one law firm to see the kinds of things that could include: Start-Up Organization Package.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’ve invested a lot of time and effort into revamping the way we bring on senior executives, and we already see the results. While we always strive to promote people from within, we also need to look outside our organization for senior talent as we scale. External hires can add new energy and a fresh perspective to your start-up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Will you take investment from others? You know you’ll require startup funding, but aren’t sure where to start. Will you self-fund and bootstrap? There are several ways to fund your business, and there’s a process to work through which type of funding is best suited for your particular circumstances. On the road to funding. For veterans.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Ashna Mahepal, founder of Young Help Suriname (YHS) , is a member of the YLAI Network and 2016 YLAI Fellow. She created the organization out of her passion for social entrepreneurial impact. Starting as a project manager with a background in engineering, Ashna launched YHS to develop and implement community projects supporting the U.N.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

I know it sounds trite but believe me when I tell you most people are afraid to ask direct questions like, “who holds the budget to invest in a solution like ours? What does it mean for the purchasing process to be aligned? Well think of it this way – you have your sales process. But the sales don’t always come in that way.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2013

All of our Dropbox files, Google documents, and emails are held within one or few companies' servers - which provides easy access for hackers and government. But should a large wave of privacy sentiment sweep the country, the natural response to cloud software would be an evolution towards peer-to-peer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

This is true of any buying process where a customer has to make a large investment decision on your software or when an investor must decide whether to give you $5 million. Do they have authority to invest? I believe people generally hate making decisions and especially so when they involve commitments and risks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He has also put some money where his mouth is — investing in Swedish telehealth platform, Kry , for example. Ek has long expressed a personal interest in tackling a “screwed up” healthcare system, as he put it to the Financial Times almost a decade ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

The next few posts are going to talk about scaling your sales operations as you move out of the evangelical phase. In the early days of selling it can sometimes be an advantage to not have rigid pricing schedules, complex service level agreements (SLAs), hard-and-fast rate limits, etc. Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

There are nearly six million small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the country, employing 43 million people. 1 But unlike their larger counterparts, SMBs have been ignored by service providers, who have deemed the cost of reaching and serving them too high to warrant the effort. This gap is most visible in the payroll and benefits sectors.

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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

Other organizations are better suited to convene events where entrepreneurs gather to provide informal peer support to one another and connect to role models in their industry. By Stacey Williams , PhD, MPH – Director of Evaluation, Forward Cities.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. A BCG study of 121 investments found that operational improvement drives 48% of value creation in PE-backed companies. We discuss below all of the different ways you can work with the investment community.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

There is so much confusion and misinformation out there about the government sponsored “payroll protection plan” loans to companies that the heads of every small business CEO in the country must be spinning. We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. payroll protection.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It might suggest that a farm invest in certain sustainability practices, for example.). To give the rest of you a sneak peak, here’s a bit about all of the startups that presented, in broad strokes: ) AccessBell. What it does: Video conferencing platform for enterprise workflows. Website: accessbell.com. billion by 2027.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 8, 2022

An ever-growing number of family offices want to invest into private tech companies. Generically, I recommend either invest in funds or build the competency to go direct. But I also invested in a number of VC funds in parallel. Invest in VC funds (or funds of funds) exclusively. But how should they go about it?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Industry Expertise You don’t need a peer from another startup as your independent?—?you you can build that with your personal peer network. It can start 2–1 founders to investors and then sometimes moves to 3–2 but sometime around the A, B or C round the idea of “independent” directors comes up. Yes, this is a thing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Before starting Jeff, Niparts was CEO of Spain for Digital Finance International, a fintech company that is part of the Finstar Financial Group, which has investments in more than 30 countries. ” Payfazz invests $30M in Xfers as the two Southeast Asian fintechs form Fazz Financial Group.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

“The early-stage part of the tech industry deserves to be documented as it’s where every startup’s journey begins, and there are so many compelling ideas being tried,” said Martin Bryant, whose PreSeed Now newsletter launched today. The new U.K.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Serena is leading the funding round through its V13 Invest fund (backed by FDJ). As a consumer, you may have encountered these verification systems when trying to send money on a peer-to-peer payment app, sell an expensive item on a marketplace or rent a car. million funding round (€2.5 Dotfile’s founders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The desktop software takes a note from peers like Superhuman and Command E, allowing users to quickly pull up and modify data with keyboard shortcuts. The desktop software takes a note from peers like Superhuman and Command E, allowing users to quickly pull up and modify data with keyboard shortcuts.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

The traditional economic development approach uses static and reactive metrics – the number of jobs created, capital investment dollars, and companies recruited – on an annual basis. To advance metrics and methods for this field, we need more dialogue and stronger feedback loops between researchers and ecosystem builders.

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

Most offices, whether at a big company or at a startup, allow employees to work at home from time to time. It's not exactly a perk, but it does allow people to better manage work and their lives, as neither of those things adhere to perfect forms of time or place. The real answer, as with many things, isn't a nice declarative little package.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Every branch of science is increasingly reliant on big data sets and analysis, which means a growing confusion of formats and platforms — more than inconvenient, this can hinder the process of peer review and replication of research. Certainly there’s an air of “Too many options? Try this one!”

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

30:00 – Investing in yourself. 00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 1:10 – Being part of the software industry while critiquing it. 3:45 – How he got into programming. 6:10 – Moving to California. 7:30 – Interning at Google then Yelp. Google Play. SoundCloud.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 22, 2019

Boards are elected by the shareholders, sometimes with preferred shareholders holding seats by right of their investment. And some board members show their colors in the form of being dominant, hushing their peers and often interrupting others. Designated board seats cannot be changed because of investment documents.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

One of the questions I’m most often asked as a VC is what I’m looking for in an investment. For me I’ve stated publicly that 70% of my investment decision is the team and most of this is skewed toward the founders. You see that peer who always pushes things further than you normally would. Yeah, right.

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