A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
AUGUST 1, 2022
Tech:NYC is the industry association for NY’s tech sector. They play a number of important roles and one of them is to educate and inform about the impact of the tech sector in NY. To that end, they launched a valuable resource last month called Innovation Indicators. Innovation Indicators is a dashboard that shows the latest data on the impact of the tech sector on the NY economy.
Venture Well
AUGUST 19, 2022
When you’re just starting out as an early-stage innovator, the number of funding opportunities can be overwhelming. Learn how non-dilutive funding can be right for your venture. The post What Is Non-Dilutive Funding and Why Is It So Important for Early-Stage Innovators? appeared first on VentureWell.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 31, 2022
The world is a big place, and companies wishing to invest have many domestic and foreign options. For example, 1,806 U.S.-based companies invested in Germany in some way in 2021, almost matching the pre-pandemic total. One way we can truly diversify is to pursue opportunities both at home and abroad. Excluding sources of investments may alter the way a startup builds and shapes its culture.
Revolution
AUGUST 2, 2022
Revolution’s team put rubber to the road this spring, traveling more than a collective 12.5K miles to visit founders, college campuses, co-investors, ecosystem builders, and communities in rising cities. While we may not show up on a big red bus every time, showing up?—?figuratively and literally?—?is core to our investment thesis. Why? Because there’s no replacement for meeting people where they are and experiencing innovation economies in real life.
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Gust
AUGUST 5, 2022
When you hear the word crowdfunding, the first image that jumps to mind is Kickstarter. We all know how this crowdfunding site works. You donate money to a company or cause, and in return you get early access to the product/service, SWAG, or a combination of both. With equity crowdfunding, individuals invest in startups and […]. The post What Is Equity Crowdfunding appeared first on Gust.
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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
AUGUST 8, 2022
When fundraising gets tougher for startups, the existing investors (insiders) will often provide a bridge loan to the company to extend the runway for getting another round done. There is more of this sort of thing happening in today’s fundraising market and I thought I’d share some of the things I have learned about setting up bridge loans.
Venture Well
AUGUST 15, 2022
Course & Program grantee Mateo Neri offers advice for faculty seeking ways to integrate sustainable principles into their courses. The post How To Connect Design Students to Sustainability appeared first on VentureWell.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 5, 2022
The MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference will take place in Denver, Colorado, from 12-15 October 2022. The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. To learn more about the MyEO DealExchange DX22 event, we asked Alan Peterson (EO Orange County), champion of the MyEO DealExchange premier group, about the DX22 event.
Andreessen Horowitz
AUGUST 15, 2022
Our nation has a housing crisis. The demographic trends driving America’s housing market are impossible to ignore: our country is creating households faster than we’re building houses. Structural shortages in available homes for sale push housing prices higher, while young … The post Investing in Flow appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Y Combinator
AUGUST 23, 2022
Today we’re excited to release an update to the YC Top Companies list. The list includes private and acquired companies valued at $150M or more as of July 31, 2022, and is sorted by valuation (YC’s public companies are featured here ). We’ve also published an update to the YC Breakthrough Companies list which highlights fast-growing companies that have received significant additional investment from YC.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 25, 2022
In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 million for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included. Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneursh
Continuations
AUGUST 19, 2022
I recently read Joseph Tainter’s outstanding book “The Collapse of Complex Civilizations,” which I recommend. It should be required reading for all politicians. Tainter’s theory is one of diminishing returns to bureaucracy, which we are clearly experiencing across many societies today. He also proposes one historic escape mechanism from such a collapse: a big energy unlock.
NZ Entrepreneur
AUGUST 16, 2022
Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Sophie Silver – cofounder. Celadon. “Take as much time as you can to understand your customer. “ “This journey has taken much longer than I expected.
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CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 26, 2022
It’s been two years since EO Atlanta members Brad Stevens and Jason Rhoades came up with a brilliant initiative to enhance member connection and create impact during Covid shutdowns: 1-ON-1 Connections. During those 2020 pandemic days when in-person meetings were rare, Brad and Jason combined their expertise for a common cause: To strengthen the weave of relationships between EO members to drive value.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
AUGUST 18, 2022
Meet the editors and writers, learn Medium tips, and grow your audience and your business Upcoming and past events below Coming up: October 11, 2022 | Community AMA Event Link to register Past events: August 9, 2022 | Community AMA & Awards Event Watch the recording: [link] Stephen and I discussed the top questions asked, including: how to get started on Medium today how much money can be made on Medium how to get published in Entrepreneur’s Handbook how to grow an audience thank yous to wri
Andreessen Horowitz
AUGUST 23, 2022
Interoperability has long been a key guiding principle of the Metaverse – a vision that we can bring our digital identity and assets with us as we travel between virtual worlds. Yet today, the largest games and virtual worlds are … The post Investing in Ready Player Me appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 1, 2022
Priyanka Srinivas. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co , a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. More posts by this contributor. Aiming to create a gender-equitable startup landscape? When it rains, it pours.
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Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 11, 2022
This is a paper bond from the US Treasury dated 1976. This piece of paper guarantees its holder $5000 on August 15, 1986. At the bottom, four coupons entitle the holder to $200 at the maturity date on the top right. The coupons represent the interest on the bond. Those four little coupons would lead to the creation of a $2 trillion bond behemoth. Prior to the early 70s, investors bought bonds & held them until maturity.
Founder Bounty
AUGUST 27, 2022
We sit down with Vedran Vukman who has raised 10M$ in a revuto ICO (initial coin offering) who managed to raise 10M$ in 15 minutes. What is an ICO An ICO (initial coin offering) is cryptocurrencies equivalent of an IPO or initial public offering. It seeks to raise capital by creating a new coin or cryptocurrency. What's the best way to do an ICO Prepare to invest 100K$ into marketing.
Y Combinator
AUGUST 3, 2022
YC's job board now lets job seekers filter by equity offered on the job description. Over 380 startups have posted roles with equity, with some early engineering roles offering 2%. At YC, we tell our founders to be generous with equity, and even suggest giving 10% to the first 10 employees. Early employees are taking a bigger risk by working at an early stage startup, and their upside should be significantly greater than employees at later stage or public companies.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
AUGUST 16, 2022
NFTs are more important than you think… In this article, I explored the REAL use cases of NFTs that are being built, and what they will be used for in the future. Understanding The Hype Cycle Have you heard of the Gartner Hype Cycle? It suggests that disruptive technologies go through 5 key phases: 1. Technology Trigger: the emergence of a potentially disruptive technology. 2.
Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker
The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l
Andreessen Horowitz
AUGUST 23, 2022
The ease and speed with which you can now buy nearly anything — truly, anything — online is often taken for granted: not just food, but cars, homes, blue-chip art, even a college education. In the past 30 years, we have grown to trust the internet in a way we could never have imagined in. Read More. The post Remote Startups Will Win the War for Top Talent appeared first on Future.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 31, 2022
Solid , which rebranded from Wise in 2021, raised a $63 million Series B round of funding to continue providing its fintech-as-a-service offering for companies wanting to launch and scale their own fintech products. The San Mateo-based company works with fintech and vertical SaaS companies and offers banking, payments, cards and cryptocurrency products via easy-to-integrate APIs.
Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 1, 2022
How much value does a successful software startup create per dollar of venture investment? About 10x, though it’s volatile. Let’s call the value generated per venture dollar the MOIC (multiple on invested capital). MOIC = value_at_exit / total_VC_dollars_raised. Over the last 30 years, a venture dollar invested in a successful US software startup generated $10 of value.
Founder Bounty
AUGUST 21, 2022
Having been through Techstars , plug and play myself, and been part of antler and interviewed at entrepreneur first and YC i think i have a good idea about weather an accelerator is good for your business or startup. I have also worked in finance prior to entering startups working for tier 1 inestment banks. There are a lot of folks who think about while you are trying to build your company and a lot of people look at accelerators as a way.
Speaker: P. Andrew Sjogren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Very Good Security, Matt Doka, Co-Founder and CTO of Fivestars, and Steve Andrews, President & CEO of the Western Bankers AssociationÂ
PCI compliance can feel challenging and sometimes the result feels like you are optimizing more for security and compliance than you are for business outcomes. The key is to take the right strategy to PCI compliance that gets you both. In this webinar, we have a great set of panelists who will take you through how Zero Data strategies can be used as part of a well-rounded compliance and security approach, and get you to market much sooner by also allowing for payment optimization.
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