StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2021

For example, this Forbes article shares a desired result (making thousands of dollars) and includes five strategies that align with my services. A great content marketing strategy should include every stage of the buying cycle: Top-of-funnel content designed to entertain and engage. How to tell revenue-driving stories.

media 82

media pitching strategy VC 82

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. If you download the app on your iPhone or Android phone you can save more than $200 / year on text messaging. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen.

investing 310

investing investment VC board 310

TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Other VC firms such as Global Founders Capital (GFC), Golden Palm Investments, DFS Labs, Ulu Ventures, Plug and Play and Soma Cap also participated in the seed round. IROKO co-founder Bastian Gotter raises $3.2M million led by pan-African venture capital firm TLcom Capital. seed for new venture, Bamba.

financing 91

financing finance capital venture capital 91

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Nikki Varanasi, Staax’s founder and CEO, was managing an $800 million fund-of-funds at McKinsey when she began to take notice of the lack of resources available to aspiring investors who wanted to get comfortable with the process. Staax is the result of her efforts, alongside her two co-founders, COO Lucy Yang and CTO Victoria Yang.

peer-to-peer 90

peer-to-peer disruption investing investment 90

TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Startups and VC. Bitmain’s co-founder welcomes crypto regulation to help stabilize things, Rita reports. You wouldn’t download a solar panel from the internet, would you? TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. 3 ways to optimize SaaS sales in a downturn. . Big Tech Inc.

SaaS 87

SaaS micromobility pitching transportation 87

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Meet Fizz, the social app downloaded by ‘95% of Stanford undergrads’ . 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. If it’s agtech, it’s climate change: How the crisis is shaping investors’ strategies .

startup 90

startup disruption VC entrepreneurship 90

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Startups/VC. Before we jump into our daily download of startup doings, a few call-outs from today’s coverage. 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies. Joshua Posamentier, co-founder and managing partner, Congruent Ventures. Maryanna Saenko, co-founder and partner, Future Ventures. Robert Downey Jr.,

SaaS 92

SaaS media frameworks VC 92

TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app (3,000 words/12 minutes). One of my favorite details in the story that got left on the cutting room floor was Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn comparing his company to the elliptical. 4 strategies for building a digital health unicorn. Seen on TechCrunch.

education 114

education pitching mix-use SaaS 114

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories.

venture capital 270

venture capital capital ventures VC 270

TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

During the recording, Garg also made many shocking – and incriminating – statements such as admitting the company had “pissed away” $200 million of the $250 million it made last year and that he had lacked discipline when it came to Better’s hiring strategy at the onset of the pandemic. million financing in June of 2020. In other news.

startup 105

startup financing finance leadership 105

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy.

VC 279

VC culture incubation venture capital 279

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

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. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.” Technical founder. So I did that kind of stuff.

startup 337

startup entrepreneurs consulting board 337

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms.

investing 282

investing investment real estate networking 282

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

&# Surprisinly, this strategy works well with many entrepreneurs. It’s as though we forgot the management mantra of the 90′s about “core competencies&# or the most common VC advice to entrepreneurs: Focus. &# Remember also that Meg was faking it. It feels more opportunistic than an “investment strategy&# to me.

venture capital 296

venture capital capital ventures VC 296

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

million in early stage funding to date — with investment coming from European VC firm Earlybird; Dominik Schiener ( Iota co-founder); and the Swedish authentication and payment services company, Thales AB. They’ve raised some €9.5 Swipe to nudge the algorithm.

frameworks 100

frameworks networking technology development 100

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Haddix joined On Deck as a fellow and it was there he met co-founder and CTO, Cindy Zeng. co-founder and CEO), Cindy Zeng (co-founder and CTO) and Connor Gordon (director of product) / Scout. That strategy led to the company’s tagline of “Invest in themes, not memes.” How do I do this?’ ” .

investing 85

investing investment education consumer retail 85

TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. 4 strategies for building a digital health unicorn.

SaaS 98

SaaS mix-use health peer-to-peer 98

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Startups/VC. And then blast past 50 million downloads and rack up a few million monthly active users. Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders. Pleasure has a very large TAM, but “vice clauses” prevent many VC firms from even considering a sex tech startup. It’s simple. Say, learning languages.

advice 89

advice health VC accelerator 89

TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

AtoB thinks it has the solution and its co-founder says the company is essentially Stripe for transportation. Startups and VC Banking stocks are whipsawing this morning in the wake of the UBS–Credit Suisse deal and First Republic’s continued woes — and much more, on this morning’s utterly excellent episode of our Equity podcast.

transportation 91

transportation media VC strategy 91

TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

million (~$3.5M) seed investment — a few months after launching (in May) its single-matching service in London and New York (and racking up over 52k downloads). And it seems noteworthy that the founders are both male. Last Thursday (June 17) it says that 110,000 likes were sent, resulting in 7,500 matches in a single day.

creativity 85

creativity culture ventures pitching 85

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The new round was co-led by New York-based VC firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital and includes new investors Migdal Insurance, Altshuler Shaham, and Shavit Capital. Meanwhile, downloads for its popular Videoleap video editing apps jumped 70% since the start of the pandemic, as TikTok adoption also grew.

creativity 95

creativity media development education 95

TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

However, Paymob’s strategy to reach that figure is backed by a new product launch in partnership with Mastercard: Tap-on-Phone contactless payments. Shawky says Paymob plans to reach a million SMEs in the next couple of years. It’s a grand forecast considering Egypt has over 3 million SMEs.

ventures 98

ventures capital financing finance 98

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

million in early backing from three VC firms so far: SFC Capital and Nascent Invest, as well as Techstars — after going through the latter’s LA accelerator program earlier this year. and are still in the process of evaluating our best go to market strategy, whether that is initially in the U.S. ” “As a U.K.

health 89

health disruption peer-to-peer pitching 89

OurCrowd

AUGUST 29, 2021

Yahal Zilka, the lead investor at Waze and other unicorns, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner at 10D, an early-stage VC, in conversation with Jon Medved, Founder and CEO of OurCrowd. OurCrowd portfolio companies have no plans to slow down their proactive hiring strategy – more than 60% are growing their teams. Learn More.

construction 45

construction opportunity disruption financing 45

TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

with a wall of amazing content for you to download straight into your brain. Startups and VC There are some people on the internet who don’t want to be found. “Every strategy is unique and depends on the company’s idea of how it wants to proceed,” writes Valiotti. What is a better expression these days?),

networking 91

networking SaaS health frameworks 91

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Despite the titular “Robinhood for Egypt and the Middle East”, Thndr has had to be ingenious in its strategy based on four pillars, said the founders. So how has Thndr managed to garner more than 300,000 downloads just providing local stocks? So we see a huge room for us to localize our product and service for this region.

investing 99

investing investment ventures incumbents 99

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

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. Or as founder Joe Fernandez recently told me, “we’re building the ‘PageRank’ for people.” But asymmetry provides another very important thing: it expresses my interests. million followers).

peer-to-peer 307

peer-to-peer development networking investing 307

TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Europe, South Korea and New Zealand, and soon more will be able to download the app from the app store. In just six days, the app topped 500,000 downloads. They would then promote these malicious extensions on social media and through sponsored search results to trick people into downloading malware.”

development 82

development technology enablement support 82

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. Here is the entire survey, which can also be downloaded and shared.

ventures 286

ventures startup venture capital VC 286

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

If you download their mobile app, Krispy Kreme will give you a free doughnut , McDonald’s will give you a free large fries , and Baskin-Robbins will give you a free scoop of ice cream. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

peer-to-peer 82

peer-to-peer VC advice capital 82

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

peer-to-peer 285

peer-to-peer communities development innovation 285