TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

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. Let me be sure to use me some Luma Partners. More strategic.

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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. New research looking into how U.K. population.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Fund investing, like adulting, is boring. That’s the first thing anyone trying to raise a fund needs to understand, as well as anyone thinking about investing in one. Fund investing can be additive to your angel investing and there are two main arguments for it: Getting indirect benefits from being invested in one or more funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2015

I’ve made 5 investments in the sector and I hope to make 5 more. Between the US & Europe alone the video sector is worth around $500 billion. In 30-90 seconds you can use visuals, story-telling, music, stats and humor to get across your message. Anybody who reads the blog regularly will know that I’m long video.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. margin range to more sustainable 50-60% margin businesses.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We made a seed investment in Dronebase eight years ago about six months after the company was formed. Zietview does aerial inspections of buildings, renewable energy infrastructure, and telecommunications systems using advanced AI/ML software. So the company is in its ninth year. So it came time for a rebrand.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2020

So much of an entrepreneur’s success relies on figuring out your true target prospect, the right pricing, and the winning product mix. Do whatever legwork is possible to validate your product-market fit before investing everything in your concept. The more invested they are, the more they will give you when you need it most.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 3, 2021

One marketing trend you’ve likely heard of is the use of animated videos—and videos in general. And its use and effectiveness are likely going to increase with time. The use of animated videos in marketing hit an all-time high in 2021. This combination is a rarity, seldom used and not even known by many people.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 3, 2019

They’re not only leading larger rounds, but may need to bridge companies they’ve otherwise made large investments into that have higher burn rates. The incentive to want a larger fund is real—more staff, better office, better salaries—but the investment strategy really doesn’t make much sense if you ask me. How much do they hold back?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 23, 2021

This is our model: 1/ We are loyal to our LPs and offer them the opportunity to invest with us fund after fund after fund unless something has materially altered the relationship. These used to be in-person meetings in our office featuring several (3-5) presentations from a representative mix of portfolio CEOs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Launching a podcast will require an investment from your business. Investing in a podcast can be worthwhile, but your organization needs to answer this question before you start: Does a podcast make sense within the whole of your marketing strategy? Your investment likely won’t yield a return right away. A mix of the above.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Of course, to solve this, you can look for professionals to add to your team, but what use are your friends then? With no actual influx of capital into your business, you’re looking at a dangerous mix of emotions, finances, and ego. If one of your friends invests more, will they expect more control?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

Supergut, a trailblazer in gut health and GLP-1 nutrition, has announced the successful closure of a major minority growth investment. Strategic Investment for the Next Phase of Growth The latest funding round was led by Full Frame Growth Partners , a Texas-based growth equity firm edit here specializing in high-potential consumer brands.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

Unlike traditional lending, angel investment is seldom tied to collateral, college degrees, or other assets that some entrepreneurs don’t have access to. For investors themselves, angel investing is a mix of exhilaration and caution. I may see a deal that doesn’t meet my criteria, or I can’t invest in it for some other reason.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

The investment will be used for platform R&D to further enhance patient triage and symptom checking features as well as clinical decision support analysis – including intake collection, differential diagnostics and lab test interpretation – and to expand operations in Germany and the US, where Infermedica currently has one office.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

I didn’t invest in any of their fine competitors either like Lyft, Sidecar, Hailo, etc. I was at an alumni dinner at UCSD (I am on the alumni board) and a group of people were talking about how their kids use UberX to get rides home from parties at night. Some have existing black car services and use it to fill in extra hours.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” 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.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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Startup Grind

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Investment: It’s extremely challenging to raise for an EdTech startup and you will find very few VCs who focus on only EdTech investment. Not all investors are patient to invest in a product and vision rather than investing in a business that would yield an immediate or near future return.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

I’ve been online for nearly 30 years (yes, there was CompuServe and Prodigy before the www), blogging for 10 and using social media tools since the earliest days. The constraint forced people to use links and link shorteners and thus to drive traffic. There is no ephemeral stream in which my content is mixed with others.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2021

A commission-based model is used and Odiggo charges the car suppliers 20% commission on every transaction. Over 50,000 car owners across three markets — Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia — use Odiggo. Odiggo will use part of the funding to continue developing its tech and dashboard software, he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. Online marketing uses techniques for driving promotion and place. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Companies with all female-founding teams raised about $800 million, or 2.1%, out of the estimated $37 billion invested in U.S. Once again measured in dollars raised, mixed-gender teams also saw their venture totals decline on a year-over-year basis, raising $7 billion in Q1 2023. of the capital invested thus far this year in U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

based agtech startup that’s using computer vision AI plus farm-sized proprietary machinery to expand crop yields. “They’ve using a depth-sensing camera with the 3D piece in it to determine the size of that head. What is automation good for? The business was established last year as a spinout from another U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Respondents in the first group were “not exploring or investing” — in other words, “we don’t care about this right now.” Augmented reality/mixed reality. Technologies in the third group, “investing or piloting,” may represent the sweet spot for startups. Virtual reality. AI/machine learning.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The startup has received €50 million (just under $57 million at today’s rates) from the European Investment Bank, the funding arm of the European Union. Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. It has now made more than 2.5

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real. VC funds invested directly in MakerDao’s Dai stable coin. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Thus, you have to invest a day or two to get all things into moving. So, let us browse through some healthy living strategy we all can afford. Start using sugar substitutes or minus it completely from your life. Mix Vegetables And Fruits. You can mix raw veggies into your fruits and have a salad every 4 hours.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. As a starting point you have to realize that investment firms (which a VC is) have management needs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 20, 2022

Utilized lesser-used ports, other modes of shipment (air, rail), or a mix—to diversify the risk. We strategically put redundancy in the US in case of China lockdowns. “As Ocean containers that used to take six weeks are now taking three to four months or more. Ordered sooner than we normally would .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

In fact, they were in charge of authentication and zero trust products, and saw firsthand how companies were struggling to control permissions and access across a complex environment that often included not just cloud applications, but also on-premises pieces mixed in as well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

To create its product, Rebundle uses banana fiber as the core material in extensions that it sells in a variety of colors. Manufacturing brings us back to the funding round, which the CEO said will be used to invest both in her team, and her supply chain. It likely won’t need to.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.” Maqsad announced today its $2.1

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It was clear that there was more opportunity for their research and data products, but they wanted to invest their resources in promising ideas for their target market. The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more. PAD P urpose: Why innovate?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Investing in mental health resources, such as counselors or stress-relief programs, can offer valuable support. Using advanced tools like social listening software, you can monitor brand mentions and detect potential issues before they escalate. Designate Communication Channels Mixed signals and messaging can exacerbate the situation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

Also, make sure you know several partners at the VC firms who have invested in you because in tough times it helps to have very broad support. Take a Test Drive When you create the list of potential VCs to approach make sure you have a few “back up schools” in your mix and test some of those as your earliest pitches. Use your bench.

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