Founder Bounty

JANUARY 8, 2025

Our content is informative as well as education from VC-backed founders who have experience in building companies from scratch and helps you navigate the online world this year. At founderbounty we understand the importance of creating content that turns eyeballs. Google rewards legit good and high quality content.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

And what VC’s worry about More importantly, VCs will worry over several issues when looking at a company and deciding about an investment. These include “tag along rights” which allow investors to sell some shares when others, such as management or founders, sell any shares.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Now we have more and more consensus auctions where the price is an outcome of a VC’s ballooned business model and FOMO. We used to talk about outside led rounds as being ‘the market’ setting a fair price by independently minded firms. More companies should go public earlier but that’s a different post).

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Founder Bounty

JULY 16, 2025

The differece is that i have sold a SAAS business and been backed by top US VC's for previous startups. "she focuses on the finance niche." Both Niel and Nischa teach you, in one case finance and in another case about marketing but the point of this is that its informative content that works.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 8, 2025

He is the founder of Aether , an EdTech and FinTech company focused on AI-powered SaaS products. I’ve seen users more eager to break into real opportunities in finance, tech, and academia, all because of hearing about something I built from my macbook. Being a high school founder forces you to operate with extreme clarity.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

founders, marketers, investors?—?and Trust, which today has announced a $9 million financing (Upfront is an investor), is a platform designed to help make the most of marketing investment by providing both analytics and a community of likeminded executives to share what’s working, and what’s not, across platforms.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 6, 2015

BBV has talked proudly about its large number of female founders. When you think back to your time at USV, FRC and BBV, can you identify a time you passed on a founder because of a blind spot or unconscious bias you possessed at the time and if so, what did you do going forward to not make the mistake again? Hard to believe.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Picking a VC is hard. So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Most VCs are book smart. VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. You want a VC who will spar with you but then STFU and let you get on with things.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

” From the hyperbolic Jason Calacanis weighing in that “The petty VC’s did everything to deride [Naval, the co-founder of AngelList]” as though the industry was collectively s g its pants that AngelList was going to put us out of business. This is the same way VC firms, by the way. founder fighting.

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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. Right here.

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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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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 19, 2021

Over the last 18 months, the early-stage financing market has seen dramatic changes characterized by these three things: A shift from in-person fundraising to virtual fundraising A reduction in financing process timelines from months to weeks A continued increase in the amount of capital available for early stage companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. Syndicate leads are often experienced angel investors or successful startup founders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The founders bootstrapped Spleet for 18 months before conducting a family and friend round of $265,000. million seed funding led by Los Angeles–based early-stage VC firm MaC Venture Capital. The investment will see Spleet scale its products: the flagship residential rent management and rent financing solution.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Business models are evolving, and the future of finance has never been more promising. Venture capital or VC. Angel investors can be friends or even family members or simply wealthy individuals with experience in business and finance. Fundbox also provides small business loans to minorities, further democratizing modern finance.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 9, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Karen Sheffield, the Founder & Managing Partner of Pachamama Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in US early-stage climate tech companies. She is also a Finance Director at Visa and has previously worked for PepsiCo and American Airlines. How did you break into tech investing?

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Our findings confirmed a significant shift away from the traditional tech hubs of the Bay Area, New York City, and Boston, with the proportion of seed- and early-stage VC dollars funneling into the Bay Area falling below 30% for the first time in more than a decade.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Because of that, we went to the banks and tried to work with them to finance this kind of payment, but we realized that banks also had a problem: they couldn’t dash out credit to customers to finance retail solar systems when they didn’t understand the technical risks involved in owning them.” Think about it.

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The Seraf Compass

MAY 4, 2022

Daniel Ibri is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Mindset Ventures, which invests in early-stage startups from Israel and USA. He is also a professor of finance and entrepreneurship at INSPER in São Paulo, and member of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Seed Capital Committee of the Brazilian Association for PE & VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Welcome to the future.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

Most founders I speak to agree that the startup journey is generally discouraging, overrun with unsolvable challenges and many many mistakes. I posed a question to twenty-one other founders, across many different industries from media to finance, from SaaS to urban farming. And I do remember them. my friend asked.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

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. Here are five things green founders should remember when seeking VC funding at this moment. Priyanka Srinivas. Contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. In fact, that number is probably even more than the average VC fund has the bandwidth to make. You get, if you’re lucky, a Powerpoint and some financials once a quarter. So what’s the point?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Google also recently launched Black Founders Fund, a non-dilutive $3 million fund allocated to 50 startups yearly. . Last year, fintech startups accounted for 25% of the VC funding which flowed into Africa, while startups from the Big Four received more than half of the continent’s total funding.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. The European VC also led the pre-seed rounds of Kippa and Edukoya. billion and $2.8 Opeke’s experience is an outlier.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Aditi Shekar, the co-founder, gave me some notes about why the ongoing popularity of Venmo is validation for the company, instead of competition. A Dallas-based founder looks to tackle the student loan crisis with his startup, College Cash.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. Expert Networks.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

Every time he opens his mouth about founder diversity, he seems completely out of his league to address the topic. The biggest question I think VC''s face right now is whether or not, in the future, the best founders will look and act like the best founders of the past. That''s less than 10%. That''s 25%.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Even after the unprecedented year that we had in 2020, the VC markets picked up in 2021 and founders raised 157% more capital in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year. Global VCs have invested $268.7 De Santis Breindel asked CEOs what was the top evaluation criteria when choosing a VC firm.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 13, 2019

My partner Nick put together a deck outlining USV’s approach to crypto investing earlier this year and we have been using it with founders and investors since then. We expect we will see continued innovation in the open finance (finance 2.0) sector in the next few years while the open data (web 3.0)

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Dream It

DECEMBER 19, 2019

million Series A financing round led by San Francisco-based Builders VC. Chris Molaro, Founder of NeuroFlow. Partnering with Builders VC aligns us with a team of industry experts who understand both the challenges and opportunities in transforming the way behavioral health is addressed and treated.”

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

These changes will create opportunities for founders across the entire stack of computer-aided design tools for architects, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and finally integration with 3-D environmental models to understand and design the lifetime impact of the buildings.

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