Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Run a Company With Two 10-Minute Weekly Meetings and Post-It Notes Barry Raber (EO Portland), a serial entrepreneur and CEO of real estate investment firm Business Property Trust , shared his insights on how to keep team meetings short and sweet with an effective system that fosters collaboration and engagement.

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Dream It

JANUARY 23, 2019

According to a recent report , B2B brands’ investments in marketing communications and earned media is now on par with their paid media spend. Dreamit Ventures is an early stage venture fund that accelerates startups building transformative tech products in the fields of healthcare, real estate/built environment, and security.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In the current economy, saving that kind of cash — while investing in your own education, creating opportunities and making connections to help you build and thrive — is a smart, budget-friendly decision. Disrupt is renowned real estate where trailblazing founders, CEOs and VCs come to share their perspective, advice and wisdom.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Pitches are scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. Firecell: Helps enterprises build private 4G/5G networks. RED Atlas: A platform for real estate insights and analytics, focusing first on Puerto Rico. Ntapi: An edtech platform for Africa, built to feel more like a social network than a traditional upskilling platform.

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Revolution

APRIL 2, 2019

Meet the companies that will pitch Steve Case and the Revolution team on the upcoming Rise of the Rest Road Trip. At each stop, we will host a fireside chat, a community celebration, and a pitch competition where eight startups will compete for a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Run a Company With Two 10-Minute Weekly Meetings and Post-It Notes Barry Raber (EO Portland), a serial entrepreneur and CEO of real estate investment firm Business Property Trust , shared his insights on how to keep team meetings short and sweet with an effective system that fosters collaboration and engagement.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Will you take investment from others? Participating in an accelerator allows you to join a community of other startups in the program, be provided with networking opportunities, and have the chance to elicit feedback from your peers. Goldenseeds.com/angel-network. You’re embarking on the adventure of starting your own business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

As CEO, Gutsa started fundraising for Billy in May 2022 and said he experienced the routine highs and lows that come with pitching. Billy met its lead, Entrada Ventures, through another investor in Gutsa and Robbins’ network. Last year, Black founders raised just 1% of all venture capital funding, a slight dip from the record 1.3%

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David Teten VC

MAY 16, 2017

Samir Kaji: Who are the LPs that are investing in underrepresented led VC managers? ” David Dana, Head of VC Investments, European Investment Fund. Sameer Jain, ActiveAllocator.com: Due Diligence Framework for Direct Investing. Mesh Lakhani on his approach to angel and fund investing. Relationship Science.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When I started leading deals at First Round Capital, I sourced investments in 8 companies. I have now been investing on my own at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures for almost eight years exactly—which is pretty much about the time people say it takes to build up a company to a big exit. I don’t really have a particular goal with this post.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

That’s why Clearbanc, a startup I have covered for years, has always had a compelling pitch. Flexing its “20-minute term sheet” the startup uses an algorithm to shift through a startup’s data, and if it has positive ad spend and positive unit economics, they make an investment worth anything from $10,000 to over $10 million.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 13, 2014

I found myself explaining all this recently to a company team that was pitching me on its story. They told me all about why this is such a good idea: hard to manage price discovery in the commercial real estate market; fragmented information about vacancies obtained from landlords and brokers; and the large scale of transactions.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

most every angel member joins a group to find great investments that will make money for the investor-member, all have other, sometimes more personally important goals. These include giving back to the community in the form of time and investment, or learning about new industries, new advances, and a generation of new ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

Real Estate professionals. I was recently dealing with a real estate agent on a transaction. One thing I learned from the book is that real estate agents always sell their personal property at higher relative prices than their clients’ properties. Recruiters. You name it. And yes, VC’s, too.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VCs invested over $5.5 billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. But today, new growing sectors include crypto/web3, real estate tech, CPG and insurance technology. Notably, S3’s investment thesis is focused on Texas.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Commercial real estate has been slow to embrace technology ; though it has an addressable financing market of more than $40 billion, putting together a deal is still mostly manual, paper-heavy and complicated. Continued investments will be made to expand the team. Zar expects to close over $1 billion in 2021.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Step #2: Pitch investors. When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. 3) Open source your real estate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

“This investment will allow us to double-down in our core markets, accelerate our leadership position in places where we are already very strong and continue to expand our excellent Q-Commerce division, as well as bring new innovations to our unique multi-category offering to extend more choice to our customers.”. ”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

2) National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge. The National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge is another great source of funding for minority start-ups. Through this competition, you get the chance to network with possible investors, and also win between $1000 to $50,000 in funding for their business.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A wonderful resource for startups in fundraising mode that most people don’t know about is the Frank Peters Show , the only weekly podcast that is all about (and only about) the world of angel investing. This added exposure can result in indications of interest (investment, acquisition, partnership, etc.)

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

He began his career in nonprofit education, first as a classroom teacher and then with charter school networks, scaling marketing and operations to fuel growth. Opendoor’s residential real estate business relied on non-digital processes — like inspections and repairs — alongside product and engineering. What is a “Dream Team”?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

I also recently joined another WhatsApp chat #miamitechlife that includes a local community of founders, investors, executives and local leaders to meet, collaborate and network while engaging in fun activities around Miami. I would be thrilled to find an investment based in Miami, however Clerisy is not focused on a specific geography.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The company is now taking on the likes of Robinhood as it gears up to launch its own investing platform, which will give its cardholders a way to buy stocks with the reward points they earn using its card. Eric Wu, co-founder of Opendoor , stepped down from his role as CEO of the real estate fintech. Seen on TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Specifically, Boom says it will invest in its proprietary plug & play technology for managing the commercial photography production pipeline, and build a presence in 180 countries, including opening offices and studios in London and New York. The platform matches a client photoshoot request with the best photographers in the area.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Cross-border investments. Data from FDI Markets * , the Financial Times’ cross-border investment monitoring service, indicates that London has attracted the highest number of foreign direct investments ( FDI ) into tech from international companies for the past few years, ahead of Singapore, Dubai, and New York. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Instead, as TC+ editor Alex Wilhelm reported , UBS “invested $69.7 The pitches range from building the Square for micro-merchants in Latin America to creating a way to angel invest in your favorite athlete.” billion was scrapped. million in the company at a valuation that Wealthfront described as $1.4

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2019

Once a year, the top leaders from Impact Hubs around the world come together for the Global Gathering, where in one of our locations they review, shape, and decide on the strategy and governance of our network. This is an event for the network’s dedicated Makers (what we in the community call employees of Impact Hubs all over the world).

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StartupNation

MAY 5, 2021

Tom Ferry, founder and CEO of Tom Ferry International , ranked the number one real estate coach by the Swanepoel Power 200, and New York Times best-selling author of “ Life! I think about that every time I raise a fund or hear an entrepreneur pitch me. — Invest in authentic relationships. Humbly say yes.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

But they do small, seed like investments when they like the entrepreneurs. One of the hotter companies lately in the mobile social networking is FourSquare, which raised $1.35 Many angels were forced to fold given their tremendous losses in real estate and the stock market. So how can I justify doing seed investments?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The competencies around building homeowner distribution, and building a network of suppliers and contractors that can fulfill on these projects that could be applicable to other types of renovation or construction.”. We’re not pigeonholing ourselves to just doing ADUs,” Czarnecki said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Freestyle closed its sixth fund, adding $130 million of dry powder to invest , while Gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) has a $110 million block of cash in the form of its second to deploy into the crypto universe. Tis the season for new venture funds, apparently. Docker was on the ropes for a little while, there, but hooo boy did it make a comeback.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

based investment firm founded by AOL co-founder CEO Steve Case and former AOL senior exec Ted Leonsis, is raising $500 million for its fourth fund, shows a new SEC filing. The outfit is also investing out of more than one fund at a time. Orchard real estate platform raises $69 million Series C led by Revolution Growth.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) ( Note to reader: this week’s essay is a continuation of my piece from last week, “A Samurai, a Knight, and a Yankee”.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That does not always lead to success, but it helps founders to avoid investments of resources into unpromising markets and ideas. Social networks, expert and consumer blogs, blogs of relevant influencers, test portals, and tools like Google Keyword Planner. How many people experience the problem?

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

Last night, SoHo stores were looted, and nowhere in the coverage will it mention that the whole neighborhood has been one giant flaunt of real estate zoning law for years--illegal occupiers of their space. Because of that, my deal flow is better, and the investments I can make on behalf of those who funded me will be better.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? I don't know if you recall this Sam, that there was something that was said about VCs or investment or something. You can invest in things. We're also going to talk about your ideas.

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