A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

I wrote a fair bit last year about the disconnect between how companies were being valued and the fundamentals of those businesses. It seemed to me that many companies, from the founders, to the leadership teams, and the rank and file employees got more focused on raising capital and valuations than the basics of a business (people, product, customers, revenues, profits, etc).

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

There’s a Specific Strategy For Getting Capital When Sentiment Turns Sour. “There’s only one thing that entrepreneurs have complete control over, and that’s picking the market they want to operate in.” I’m paraphrasing wisdom shared by entrepreneur/investor Jeff Kearl at a conference. Jeff was pointing out there are a host of attributes tied to the market you’re deciding to operate in and you should be thoughtful about that selection.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Oklahoma students have standing invitation to apply to OSSM. By Scott Meacham. About 4 million people live in the state of Oklahoma. Every year, between 140 and 200 of them are high school students enrolled in the Oklahoma School of Science and Math (OSSM). Everything about OSSM supports student academics, whether the school’s college-level curriculum is delivered to residential boarding students at the OSSM campus next to Research Park in Oklahoma City, through one of five regional centers, or

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

There is confidence e-scooters ‘will be here to stay’ in Nottingham after it was described as being ‘one of the most popular e-scooter cities in the world. Read more here. The post [Superpedestrian in Nottinghamshire Live] Nottingham is officially ‘one of the most popular e-scooter cities in the world’ appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it turns into a newsletter (soon!), sign up here. This past week, I published on TC+ my first fintech investor survey.

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