This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 21, 2025

I cant tell you how many times I got announced as a successful VC when I was introduced on a panel or sat across the room from a potential limited partner telling them I was. This is what I know it feels like for a lot of founders and investors alikefloating in the rarified air of extremely successful people defined by their outcomes.

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StartupNation

JULY 17, 2025

But with a strategic financial plan, you can position your startup for sustainable growth and a strong future. As a startup, resources are often limited, so every dollar needs to go toward driving growth or keeping operations running smoothly. You’ll need to balance your budget, find the right funding, and navigate risks carefully.

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

I’ll never forget presenting to a particularly skeptical VC who kept questioning our projections. For example, when pitching a renewable energy startup, I used a visual timeline to showcase the growth of the clean energy market, highlighting the potential for exponential returns.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Watch/listen to the Interview: In this interview Richard Liew talks with James Burnes , Chief Executive at Ministry of Awesome , a Christchurch New Zealand based startup hub helping high growth startups throughout New Zealand to start, grow and scale up.

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Founder Bounty

JULY 25, 2025

If you scan LinkedIn you may be able to see the amount of VC's that have little to no startup experience. I am a VC scout, but have not been approched by the silicon valley VC's for a full time position. I have been through Antler and saw a lot of the partners also did not have startup experience.

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 25, 2025

This varies on the region but below are some of the key figures Investment Amount Antler typically invests $100,000 to $200,000 in pre-seed startups. They also help startups raise external funding through their investor network. Startups must pass Antler’s internal investment committee review to receive funding.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In 2025, startups beyond the coasts and outside of the traditional tech hubs will face new challenges and, with customary resourcefulness, also seize new opportunities. With scarcer exit opportunities and LPs looking for returns, VCs may retreat further to perceived safety in traditional techhubs. startups in Q1-Q2 of 2024.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 3, 2025

Singapore’s state-owned investment firm Temasek is significantly pulling back from early-stage startup investments, shifting toward a more cautious strategy amid rising interest rates and past high-profile losses. The fund’s exposure […]

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In 2015, a then 18-year-old Harry Stebbings launched The Twenty Minute VC from his bedroom in London. Harry wanted to learn about venture capitalhow investors think, what makes a great startup, why some bets pay off while others flop. No background in venture capital. No industry connections. No podcasting experience.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 21, 2025

But I’ve also seen a few change quite dramatically based upon the progressing ‘game on the field’ and my own VC experiences. One example is whether it’s assumed that seed VCs maximize outcomes by religiously holding their shares until the company itself exits. VC Skillset VCs are investors, not traders.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

If the business is not a startup, expect to supply income statements for the past several years as well, to emphasize trends in revenue and costs. VC rule of thumb Most VC’s look for a 10x opportunity – that is – ten times increase in the valuation from investment to liquidity event.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 3, 2025

Mediocre VCs get wealthy themselves but they won’t make money for their LPs, and are, at best, just a WITHDRAWALS ATM for average startups. “ Different & Excellent ” equates to something that doesn’t exactly look like other VCs.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 23, 2025

Malaysia has rolled out new tax incentives to attract more investment into its venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors to deepen the funding pool for local startups. Second […]

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 20, 2025

Singapore-based early-stage investment firm Investigate VC has announced the launch of its new global fund series, Fund 2 (I–III), with a target of raising over $500 million in assets under […]

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 13, 2025

Eight Roads, a US venture capital firm backed by Fidelity Investments, is preparing to sell its stakes in around 40 Chinese tech startups, according to a Bloomberg report. The planned […]

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

billion under management, Playground has built a reputation for identifying startups capable of delivering transformational outcomes. Snowcap represents a rare opportunity to realize dramatic performance and power efficiency gains,” said Pat Gelsinger, General Partner at Playground Global and Chair of the Board at Snowcap. “The

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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. Now there are many more folks on startup cap tables with access to incremental capital to purchase slugs of stock, plus many fund LPs are looking for direct investment access.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. Return p.a.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. Return p.a.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. Return p.a.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. Return p.a.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. Return p.a.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Upfront Ventures was created 20 years ago as one of the original VC funds in Los Angeles. 10 years ago we found ourselves trying to persuade LPs and VCs that it was worth spending more time getting to know the LA market and now the most common refrain that I hear from them is “there really is something going on in LA.”

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 20, 2025

Getting into VC is very very difficult. This story is a case of 2 of the exact same profile of people, one with and one without operating experience getting into VC both who had worked in investment banking but one of which got an offer from a top tier VC and the other didnt. Which investors make the best VC's?

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. Return p.a.

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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. I thought I would write this as I have seen Nischa rise from a small amount of subscribers to amassing over 1.72M YouTube subscribers. We both have similar backgrounds, having also been working in investment banking.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2022

What Alan recognized was that most IRL forums and networking events are absolutely awful places to pitch and here’s why: 1) When a VC shows up in person, they’re looking to replicate the kind of top of the funnel they would get in an hour or two’s worth of e-mail, and that’s not going to happen if you corral them into a corner for 30 minutes.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

But I have been in close contact with the NVCA, many of the major law firms and many of the major VC firms. Am I ineligible since I’m VC-backed? There is nothing in the rules that state that VC-backed businesses are ineligible. I am not claiming to be the world expert on this. shouldn’t I? The short answer is “no.”

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 16, 2014

If I can provide helpful context about some of the seed stage startup best practices, great, but they know their company best. I''m learning everyday and I count on founders to be the ones that bring the best insight into the problems they face in their industry. I am not anyone but myself, or the next anyone.

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

The team owns, operates and manages over 150 million square feet of real estate, making Camber Creek one of the biggest value-add venture partners for real estate tech startups. Key Questions To Answer When Pitching Real Estate Tech VCs Is there demand for the product? For some startups, proving demand can be more difficult.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 6, 2015

Turns out that not only is he real, but he''s one of the most genuine, thoughtful, and egoless people I''ve met in the startup world--a real breath of fresh air. You''ve been in VC long enough to see lots of different funds, partners and deals. You get a lot of choice as a VC as to who you want to spend your time with.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Take the story of luggage startup Away’s CEO Steph Korey. Don’t get me wrong--the mental and emotional well-being of startup employees is a serious issue. In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. VC David Sacks tweeted “?? It’s male founder friendly.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

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Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

In this Dreamit Dose, associates Alana Hill and I, Elliot Levy , offer five things we wish founders knew after screening over 1,000 startups in the last year. Learn how to pass a VC associate screen in under 10 minutes! Startup databases include Crunchbase, AngelList, Pitchbook, and more.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 11, 2021

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell - VC (@ceonyc) She’s the best. She was born 10 weeks early, on Labor Day, and like startups never are, has performed up and to the right nearly every single day that she’s been alive. This is my daughter, Mirren.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 26, 2025

vc, a venture capital firm based in Singapore, has finalized a $30 million fund to support innovation in the deep tech sector. The fund is dedicated to helping early-stage startups […]

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Revolution

AUGUST 2, 2022

Rise of the Rest also hosted a Northwest Arkansas Startup Community Roundtable to help connect individuals within the regional innovation ecosystem with those visiting for the Heartland Summit to share experiences, challenges, and best practices for supporting entrepreneurs. with more than a few Foxtrot pit stops in between.

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