This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

I’m thrilled to announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures’ investment in Tinybop , a new Brooklyn-based studio building the most creative and thoughtfully-designed educational apps for kids. Most VC funds wouldn''t touch a pre-product app company. When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea."

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 14, 2023

Kaya Founders, a venture capital firm based in the Philippines , has introduced two new funds to support startups at different stages of their growth. With a focus on nurturing startups, Kaya Founders is particularly interested in supporting home-grown ventures in the Philippines. million and has set a target of reaching $25 million.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 11, 2010

The other day, I unlocked the "I'm no racist" badge in the VC game. If you want to work on broadening access to science and engineering education for women and minorities, that's awesome. In fact, I’m all about widening access to that kind of education in general. I'm all for that. It’s more like playing the lottery.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to find a job as a VC scout. VC recruiters list and compensation data. How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm. Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2011

By the end of my sophomore year I had taken on the role of education for our new freshman pledges and by the first quarter of my junior year I led the pledge class entirely. I talked specifically about it in the context of raising VC / establishing credibility over on the Sales School blog where there’s a video & a transcript.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

You then need sub-themes or “supporting evidence&# to reinforce your key theme. I spotted my fellow VC Leo Spiegel (from Mission Ventures) who had spoken previously to the same group and asked about his experiences. Don’t confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Will you get the TechCrunch bump, the tier-1 VC anointment, followed by great PR firm support and then the NY Times or WSJ story that follows? Not every problem has to be a huge VC-fundable business. But what about education? The challenge that many startups face today is: Are you really providing enough value?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Support the student club ecosystem. They don't have great marketing channels to those clubs and the faculty don't advocate for participation as part of your education. Entrepreneurship education needs hard skills training. Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder. Kick the students out.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Zayn VC leads the investment and contributions from Palm Drive Capital, Deem Ventures, Q Business, and angel investors. Operating from Singapore , the startup is dedicated to simplifying the loan application process providing crucial financial support to students pursuing higher education. million in a pre-seed funding round.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 1, 2021

The emergence of raising money and supporting investments on Zoom has made it possible to have a much broader reach than was possible a few years ago. This is a big change from where it was just last year and the year before. What makes it easier for USV is our thesis-driven model of investing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2021

Contributed by Hao Lam, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Seattle, Washington, and founder and CEO of Best in Class Education. It’s a safe space to have frank discussions, share woes and triumphs, and get support through it all. MyEO Education. The pandemic hit the education industry hard. MyEO Angels.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 13, 2023

Being a VC means not only honing your skills as a judge of character, assessor of business models, and calculator of risk, but it’s also a lot of difficult interpersonal communications, narrative creation, and long-term goal setting and positioning. Also, maybe you don’t have the same definition of VC success.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Instead of picking a stage, say seed rounds and A rounds, and investing in a variety of companies as they pass through that stage, we take companies that we like and support them through each of those rounds. I run Revolution’s VC investments. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations. Can you talk about it?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

When I kicked off Launchpad LA a year ago I had a few objectives: Create an ecosystem where all Southern California VC’s had the chance to work together more actively outside of the boards on which we mutually sit. Help these companies get funded and let them know that if they stayed in LA there was an ecosystem to support them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Enter LGBT+ VC, a nonprofit organization that aims to support LGBTQ+ founders and investors allied with the cause. Threading the needle: Exploring 5 ideas with the founders of LGBT+ VC by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. female entrepreneurs face in accessing VC funding versus male counterparts.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Investing internationally, the firm went from a de facto family office to a multi-LP VC firm. We are proud of the high-level commitment and trust from prime investors that support us on our mission to leading sustainable additive revolutions,” Johann Oberhofer, co-founder and managing partner at AM Ventures, said to TechCrunch.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It is the highlight of the annual Computer Science Education Week which is the first week of December, which is this week. Many AVC readers know that getting computer science education into every building in the NYC public schools has been a long standing passion project of mine. The Chancellor calls it his “north star.”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

What the report reveals is that NYC has a rich and expanding ecosystem of tech skills training opportunities, including K-12 and adult education. Make a significant new public investment in expanding and improving New York City’s tech education and training ecosystem. . Prioritize long-term investments in K–12 computing education. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. “Sequoia has been awesome.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

I’ve sat at both sides of the table as a founder and a VC, and I understand how difficult it is to get them on the same page. I’ve participated in a number of accelerators, including Disney and Techstars, and these programs gave me a noticeable advantage when I stepped into VC. Accelerators are hubs for diversity.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

Use these resources to understand how your company will look when you pitch a VC or angel. EO offers great opportunity, education and tools to facilitate this, and create Instimacy (=instant intimacy) in business conversations. . and see how your company compares. Seek existing middleware tools. Senior leaders are sales superstars.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. university in math or science — instead of subsidizing their educations and then sending them home&#. Crazy, huh?

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

BioSTL: BioSTL has introduced nationally acclaimed initiatives in startup creation and investment (BioGenerator), strategic business attraction (GlobalSTL), physical environment (including the Cortex Innovation District and BioGenerator Labs), entrepreneur support, seed and venture capital, workforce diversity, and public policy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

” Your VC friends have been egging you on. The don’t understand VC liquidation preferences or multiple return expectations. They weren’t with you when you did the VC pitch where you looked them in the eyes 9 months ago and said, “I see only one outcome, we want to build something really big. .”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 31, 2022

We started raising funds in addition to making gifts over a decade ago when we started our computer science education work in New York City and Gotham Gives takes that approach to philanthropy and allows us to use it in other areas. This page shows the projects we have supported in our first year and who we have partnered with on them.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Here’s another idea endowments should consider: Invest in educational opportunities to give more people pathways to careers in venture. In the venture world, far too few internship or fellowship opportunities exist for prospective VC investors to get hands-on experience learning the ins and outs of working in venture.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Every exhibiting founder is eligible for Startup Alley+ — an experience designed to set you up with additional education, exposure and success before Disrupt even starts. Other perks include three months of free business development support. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck. That’s right.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 30, 2021

Our proposal: governments systematically support funding for their diaspora founders, not just the local founders. I co-wrote this essay with Prabhat Gusain , currently the Chief of Staff at Caffeinated Capital; formerly an intern with Versatile VC ; and a 2021 MBA from UVA Darden. VC firms looking for fundable founders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Portal Innovations , a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is trying to broaden everyone’s horizons and give opportunities to biotech startups growing out of labs in Chicago, Atlanta, and hopefully beyond. It continues to grow there, but Flavin saw the need to encourage and support growth elsewhere. where do you travel to in your mind?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. Right here.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 31, 2025

Key Dental Service Organizations and independent dental practices are embracing the companys AI platform driving its growth and gaining the timely support of investors. AI is transforming dentistry by helping clinicians improve patient outcomes, strengthen relationships, and support practice growth.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The crypto sector and innovative financial services companies like VISA will need to spend time on the Hill educating our elected officials on what good regulation looks like and what bad regulation looks like. But forcing all of this innovation into the banking system is the surest way to kill it that I have ever heard of. USV TEAM POSTS:

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I’m a huge supporter of his initiative to help end this practice. The problem is that to really fix education you’d need to reform incentives and pay in addition to better teacher training. Udemy is an online education platform similar to EduFire and others. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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