TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

I still frequently receive inbound requests from founders who are either out of strategy for my firm or who do not effectively communicate the opportunity to work together convincingly. With that in mind, I have never issued a term sheet without a presentation of some form outside of an incubation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Heyday competes against a large field of startups also raising huge amounts of money to follow their own Amazon marketplace roll-up strategies. As a point of reference, Thrasio is now valued at about $5 billion; Razor Group out of Berlin was valued at over $1 billion last week ; and Perch also is now in the nine-figure range.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Although that component of the España Nación Emprendedora strategy is, inevitably, going to be a slower burn, hence the decade-long lens. In the near term, the startup law will be one of the first major deliverables of the strategy. We should not mix up the goal of the startup law with the broad vision of the strategy.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Teams looking to transition to hybrid work should poll their employees and design a strategy that best suits them. Members frequently collaborate, hire one another or refer work through our community. This) often leads to business development for our members,” Lewan said. It’s not just a space.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

We were also working on incubating some ideas together, and that was the main draw for me — that in addition to investing, he wanted to find ideas that should exist in the world but don’t and to build something from the ground up, and Eraser was a collaboration in that regard. TC: How are you getting the product out in the world?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In an ecosystem, there should be multiple entrepreneurial support organizations, coworking spaces, incubators/accelerators, investors, etc.communicating about the resources they have to support entrepreneurs. We’ve had to develop tools and strategies to meet funders where they are in terms of receptivity and willingness to change.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. If I were looking at which VCs to choose I would reference strongly for which ones are supportive in good times and bad. But don’t over index on brains. Startups are hard.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In addition, there are many other groups will give you cash, training, and community with few or no strings attached: Ashoka is a foundation that engages in scouring for and choosing the leading social entrepreneurs across the globe, who it refers to as Ashoka Fellows. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. Aimed at managers, this post offers several testable strategies that will help you boost productivity and say goodbye to poorly run, lazily planned meetings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Murielle Thinard McLane, Intuitive Ventures: Robotics capitalization strategies will shift. Many startups in the space relied on SVB’s unique venture debt offering and it leaves a gap in capitalization strategies. Drone Fund led the raise, which also features HAX (SOSV), Incubate Fund, SBI Investment and DBJ Capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 4, 2022

A lot of pitch decks I review have a slide that really shouldn’t be there: the exit strategy slide. To a lot of founders, an exit — or a “liquidation event,” as the legal buffs tend to refer to it — is the big pot of gold at the end of a very long and arduous journey.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 19, 2010

Whitney McNamara referred to as the “post that launched 1000 VCs”, but it was really meant to open up a dialogue between an innovative little company hyperfocused on an important piece of data—when people show up to venues—and a bigger company dependent on relationships with venues.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But they don’t know Woo,” says Mark Davies, Automattic’s chief financial officer, referring to the company’s WooCommerce subsidiary. “It’s The strategy here is simple: Continue opening up larger swaths of the internet to open-source innovation outside of the walled-garden platforms developed by Amazon and Facebook.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

We typically take board seats to assist with governance and strategy, staying involved through Series A and sometimes beyond if founders find our involvement beneficial. Candou helped CIMA to validate the productmarket- fit (PMF), and today serves as a reference customer and case study in their commercialization efforts.

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