Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The order is important because I fell in love with the product before I even knew about the company, and the hustle of its founder/CEO Sandro Roco. I was working at a venture-backed apparel startup for 4 years and saw the power of building digitally-native brands through Facebook and Instagram (TikTok was still nascent).

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StartupNation

JUNE 14, 2025

And while you’re likely to expect the ups and downs of day-to-day operations, it’s important to understand the impact of this unpredictability on your finances. You see, the biggest mistake startup owners make is tying their personal financial futures to the success of their business ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2025

In a major boost for the artificial intelligence startup ecosystem, Seven Stars, a new venture capital firm founded by former SV Angel Partner Steven Lee, has officially launched its $40 million inaugural fund to support early-stage AI startups. The newly launched fund will focus on pre-seed and seed stage startups developing AI applications.

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Jason Malki

JULY 16, 2025

Steve Gomberg I had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Gomberg and he is a seasoned executive whose career spans general management, finance, and corporate development across a variety of entrepreneurial ventures. Developed creative, non-dilutive financing that supported rapid growth. Thank you so much for joining us!

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Post-AOL, I dedicated myself to backing and supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs as Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Revolution. When I started AOL, not far from here in the fields of Northern Virginia, most of our venture dollars came from investors in Silicon Valley and New York. were on the platform.

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The Seraf Compass

JULY 21, 2025

You’re juggling pipeline, diligence, founder support, LP management, and usually doing it all with a lean team. Founders share materials via DocSend, and the cap table gets vetted in Carta or Capboard Docs & Close : Final agreements and SAFEs are dropped into structured folders. Good tools don’t replace instinct. They sharpen it.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

This round is about seizing the opportunities ahead for our next phase of growth, including driving innovation with new products, exploring acquisitions, and ensuring long-term financial flexibility, said Immad Akhund, co-founder and CEO of Mercury. Bank accounts are the nucleus of business finance, said Akhund.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

You must demonstrate how your venture helps solve certain problems. They want a glimpse of what your venture’s future looks like. Tips for other founders: 1. In my experience, the best way to communicate such metrics is to present them in the form of a story. You shouldn’t be tunnel-visioned by raw data.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

What are the options, benefits, and risks of alternative financing for a startup? Alternative financing is any kind of financing that does not involve a traditional bank. They may seek alternative funding as a supplement to traditional financing. Based on early results, founders can make changes.

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

Ben H , Founder & Owner, Dealmemo The Power of a Well-Designed Pitch Deck for Your Business Follow a Psychological Sequence I designed the pitch narrative to follow a psychological sequence rather than a linear business outline. They could then see for themselves how the AI-powered web scraping solution would affect their finances.

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StartupNation

JUNE 18, 2025

We’ve put together eight ways to safeguard your startup—from how you build your team to managing your finances, and choosing the right tech. Your co-founders and early hires set the tone for your entire company. Founding team conflicts have doomed many promising ventures. Don’t let cost-cutting lead to overlooking IP.

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The Seraf Compass

AUGUST 6, 2025

Jump to navigation home Show Menu Features Deal Flow Portfolio Management LP Portal Solutions Family Offices Venture Capital Funds University Funds Impact Funds Corporate Venture Capital Angel Groups Individual Investors Services Onboarding Managed Data Services Pricing Individual Angels Angel Groups Funds and Family Offices Learn Blog Webinars × (..)

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

James covers the genesis of Ministry of Awesome following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011, and provides updates on Ministry of Awesome approaches to startup founder support and programming. We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Two Bear Capital, with notable participation from Accenture Ventures, led the funding round. Before founding QuSecure Krauthamer worked on a range of cutting-edge quantum computing projects, including leading the Quantum Thought venture studio in Silicon Valley, which focuses on advancing the commercialization of quantum technologies.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 16, 2025

I recently had the chance to chat with Vladyslav Podoliako, the founder of the sales acquisition agency Belkins , and the email deliverability solution Folderly. Vlad shared his founders POV on how to start and grow a business, turn mistakes into learning moments, and keep the motivation alive through itall. Bootstrap if you can.

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Jason Malki

JULY 3, 2025

More recently, she has worked with high-growth fintech and early-stage companies such as Omniwire , Lukka , and Lumen Digital Ventures. Suzanne holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Rochester and has completed executive programs at The Wharton School and the University of Oxford Said School of Business. in Q4 2025.

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

Danielle Dahl , Co-Founder, Resilient Stories Strategic Adjustments Overcome Economic Downturn In 2015, Brazil was in the midst of a severe economic downturn, and I had just launched my first successful company. Chunyang Shen , Finance Expert, Jarsy Inc. Ask for support. Build a system before a crisis takes over.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 11, 2025

With an MBA in finance and deep experience guiding business owners and executives through growth, sale, and IPOs, Steve answers the question he hears most often: Is now the right time to sell and how should I prepare? In this HOW-TO segment Steven breaks down what owners need to know before they sell.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Brian Cohen, Chairman, Six Point Ventures, observed, Multiple partners with different primary skill sets are mandatory. Culture Miles Lasater, CEO and Founder, Purpose Built, said, As VCs, we know the importance of evaluating team dynamics before we make an investment. See Templates and Resources for Modeling Venture Funds.

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Jason Malki

JULY 21, 2025

Together with my partners, María Parga and Jesús Castaño  — who bring deep expertise in blockchain and finance — we launched WAYS because we refused to watch tradition be traded for traffic. There’s no well-worn path for ventures like ours. Some founders chase a market. The big vision?

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StartupNation

JULY 16, 2025

However, its growing popularity reflects fundamental changes in how businesses access financing, particularly as traditional lenders pull back. Still, this form of financing is no panacea. It’s crucial to assess whether this route aligns with your venture’s financial health and long-term strategy.

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Revolution

JUNE 30, 2025

As part of our Beyond Silicon Valley Speaker Series, we collaborated with the Pava Center , Conscious Venture Partners , and J.P. Baltimore’s own Josh Ambrose, Pava Center Director, and Jeff Cherry, CEO and Managing General Partner at Conscious Venture Partners, reminded us of the importance of place and purpose.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Sooner or later, you may need to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of 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

Here’s why: It used to be that all venture investors had largely the same goals and incentives, up until maybe the growth round pre-IPO. While this might still be the default posture for most of a portfolio, if its your only mechanism for liquidity you’re not thinking strategically.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 21, 2025

I have worked in finance and well as been though Techstars and have seen it all in the world of startups. The answer is YES. If its a top tier accelerator like Ycombinator you should definitely do it. If you get an offer from YC , take it How to build a $20M fuel business.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 10, 2025

Seasoned Founder: Andre Zeitoun At the helm of Ionic Mineral Technologies is Andre Zeitoun , a serial entrepreneur who has spent more than 15 years turning Utah’s rare halloysite clay into a strategic asset for the battery industry. Before founding Ionic MT in 2020, Zeitoun served as President & CEO of Applied Minerals Inc.,

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StartupNation

JUNE 20, 2025

While managing the pressures of school, finances, and raising young children was overwhelming at times, we stayed focused on our ultimate goal: building a better future for our family with a career we are truly passionate about. Relocating to a new city with a young infant was one of the toughest challenges we’ve faced.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

JH: While we dont discuss this very often, venture backed companies are expected to contribute to their investors providing a return to their LPs in a timely fashion. While every CEO and founder wants to create the next impactful IPO oriented company, IPOs are rare, even in the best of times. Debt financing itself is not bad.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 24, 2025

This approach was designed around my edge; I have an innate interest in understanding human beings and as a result, have different kinds of relationships with founders than most VCs. As someone newish to venture capital, whats a piece of advice you received early on that really shaped the way you think about Moth?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The culture is driven by the 20-something irreverent founder with huge technical chops who in a “David vs. Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I''ve closed three investments in the first Brooklyn Bridge Ventures fund that haven''t quite been made public yet, bringing the total to 13 companies. These companies didn''t announce their financings right away, and for good reason. They''re building up their PR plans to make the financing announcements part of a larger story arc.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

They''re new to the gig, super excited about all its potential, and getting out there selling founders hope for that one big gamechanging deal. That''s really all I have to give to the founders I back. It takes longer to get to know the founders. I gave the founder some thoughtful feedback, but declined the one on one.

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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. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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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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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Many entrepreneurs are reliant on outside funding, whether angel investors, venture capitalists or strategic investors , to keep the venture going. It’s important to enlist the ideas of others that are invested in your venture. A startup is not a lone adventure. Join a CEO peer group. Communicate with the team.

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