Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. ” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” for $565 million to Excite.

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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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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally generated funds.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2014

Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. That means you actually have a *better* shot, statistically, of getting VC investment at these firms, statistically, once you actually pitch. Why so many mixed teams? That, statistically, is true. later in their careers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Over the past decade, some of the biggest names in the tech, VC, automotive and aerospace industries have poured millions of dollars into developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Will the public widely accept and use it? And we’ll announce a third expert to the mix soon. .

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . Absolutely not. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

There are some smart if not somewhat cerebral bloggers I read who say that you shouldn’t take any startup advice at all because it’s too generalized to be useful to your situation. You start to test out whose opinions mapped best to your own situation and whether following their advice would have been useful. Triangulate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Most founders are not experienced entrepreneurs, which means they tend to repeat the same mistakes as they try to overcome universal challenges. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” Sapphire Ventures’ Cathy Gao on how VCs can help early-stage startups weather volatility.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

While taxes are high, entrepreneurs won’t find the staggering income inequality so often seen in cities like San Francisco and New York. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018. Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. But more than that, this IPO is a useful measuring stick for keeping tabs on the IPO market as a whole.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Startups and VC. Use chronological scenario planning to help your startup get through a potential recession. In this environment, entrepreneurs should build decision trees that can help them manage 36 months of runway, recommends Gaetano Crupi, partner at venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Dmg Ventures (the VC arm of the Daily Mail Group) and DN Capital co-led the equity-based seed funding, with VentureFriends and unnamed individuals in the tech world also participating. But in the process of planning out how factory14 might differentiate itself in that mix, Steinbruch said it found some distinct differences.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2022

One of Pantheon Design’s e-mobility customers waited 18 months before its injection molds, which are used for producing parts, arrived from China. Many of the 3D printing startups that secure big VC checks are run by smart people who have never been in a real factory, which is hot and smelly, says the entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? VC firms have taken notice: notable investors in Atlantic Canadian startups include Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund supported by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. More posts by this contributor. Second, a welcoming attitude toward immigration helps.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 13, 2020

In fact, many angel investors or venture capitalists look for and respect the lessons learned by entrepreneurs that have survived a failed business. The key question is: Why did an entrepreneur fail? A successful entrepreneur who has seen the movie before is even more valued. “Was this a failed idea from the start?”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

I am a VC. But through expressing points-of-view I can raise above the consciousness of my customers (entrepreneurs and limited partners who invest in VC funds) in ways that I couldn’t without breaking through the noise of the hundreds of others of VCs who also have money. I hand out money. They’re different.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. I said, “if you can help first-time entrepreneurs get access to investors – that’s golden. My personal use.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Today, “it’s transforming entire categories of enterprise software,” says Navin Chaddha, managing director at VC firm Mayfield. Why I’m using a credit facility to grow my startup. Why I’m using a credit facility to grow my startup.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

” Using art-generating AI, Deep Agency creates and offers “virtual models” for hire starting at $29 per month (for a limited time), letting customers place the models against digital backdrops to realize their photoshoots. Nevertheless, the reaction to the launch was swift — and mixed. Enshrined in U.S.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 7, 2018

However, as technology has proliferated throughout society at large and into new areas of the economy, the rate of startup formation has increased, and more funds (often at seed) have sprung up to meet this demand — and as a result, many of the most successful VC brands have scaled up to larger funds (Benchmark and USV, notably, have not) to (..)

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Sony buys Bungie as gaming consolidates : If you have been reading TechCrunch for more than a few days, you’ve seen us cover the Take Two-Zynga deal , and the recent Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal. Today, Sony threw another transaction into the mix, announcing that it will buy Halo-maker Bungie for billions. Startups/VC.

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Ian Hathaway

OCTOBER 14, 2020

To understand how the sector has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic with the benefit of an additional quarter of data (and revisions), I present data for total quarterly venture deal activity as an aggregation of the three broad stage categories in the report: Angel/Seed, Early VC, and Later VC.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

On the bright side, the fact that VCs are more discriminating about where they put their dollars could actually lead to more M&A activity, according to Ruark. That is one reason why a number of VC firms have told their portfolio companies to focus on performance and cut costs,” he told TechCrunch.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

These articles are only available to members, but you can use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one or two-year subscription. “It’s been written over several years, and I’m hoping to use this to inspire a generation of entrepreneurs.” 4 takeaways from fintech VC in Q3 2020. Details here.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

Influencer : These individuals use their media presence across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, etc. Solopreneur vs Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs run their own business with the support of their partners, co-founder and employees. They can be course creators, bloggers, speakers or coaches.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The web3 bandwagon really took off in 2021 and 2022 as entrepreneurs and investors both sought to make their mark in the nascent industry. These factors also give us an indication of where crypto might be going. Patricio Jutard , co-founder and general partner, Newtopia VC. Claire Diaz-Ortiz , startups committee chair, VC3.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Kikoff is hiring for 10 roles (a mix of hybrid and remote), including senior product manager, associate product manager, senior product designers, engineers and a growth marketing manager. He writes that his hope is that it “gives entrepreneurs a better benchmark to work off of when scaling their businesses.” Check it out here.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

The drop off rate depends on each fund’s specific selection and rejection criteria, brand, team size, deal flow quality, volume, and the stage in a VC fund’s life cycle. Or are they just going through the motions to please a VC? One good way to do it is to write an investment memo from the perspective of the VC you’re pitching.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

On top of that, most of a school's major donors are likely to be entrepreneurs in some way. That means making it easier for meetups and innovation conferences to use your spaces. I don't mean literally, but I do think students need to mix with their professional communities a lot more. Kick the students out.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, when you account for how much longer that startup scene has been around, I'd say the fact that we're at about 50% of their pace of venture funding is pretty damn phenomenal--not to mention the fact that there's about an order of magnitude more VC funds located out there. Let someone else build the chips. What does that even mean?

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Before we get to the good stuff, here’s some background: The idea for Revel seems like it came from the classic entrepreneur’s guidebook: Reig had a need that no existing company addressed. In May 2019, he raised $4 million in VC funding, which helped him expand to 1,000 electric mopeds across Brooklyn and Queens.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Aspen Tech Policy Hub.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

And sure, last year was one of the best for crypto startups, but now even more big companies are getting into the mix. Twitter rolls out NFT support : If you’re a member of Twitter’s subscription service, you will soon have the ability to connect a crypto wallet and use an NFT that you own as your profile picture. Startups/VC.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

That’s what the VC guy, Albert, told me was the benchmark for saas companies like us.” As a VC and Board member, I am usually involved in this topic thanks to my experience as an entrepreneur and business operator. Yet, most companies use cost-plus pricing. Joe turned to face her.

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