This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 3, 2010

I’m more apt to hug female friends of mine from the startup world than I am in any other industry. I do a lot more recreational things with people I know in the tech scene than I ever did in finance. It’s all part of a culture of, for lack of a better word, intimacy, that happens in the innovation and startup world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Last year, fintech API infrastructure players came into the African tech scene, ushering in Plaid-like services to businesses and developers. Per the company’s statement, the plan is to “pull a Stripe-Shopify-esque tag team.”. “We African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. To generate growth in a startup, it is almost always necessary to raise external capital to run the necessary. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s a myth that only the top startups and the best startup jobs are in Silicon Valley or New York City. As a Midwest company built for Midwest startups, we know that’s just not true. In the last decade, Detroit has seen a huge growth in tech employment. Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies 2021.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Paul Kedrosky made the case for “naive optimism&# being an important part of startup success. For that reason I don’t even look at deals in the biotech or clean tech fields. I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel-good startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

It costs less money to start companies so the world should have way more startups.&# I’ve heard the “world is different&# argument in every bubble I’ve ever seen. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

You can tell if they have a deep-seated competitive spirit. Can’t go a mile deep on competition? I wrote a blog post about being hands on where I argued that startup founders need to be hands-on or in my words, “you can’t run a burger chain if you’ve never flipped burgers.&#. Unfortunately.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

We believe that the next big opportunities will be with innovative startups who can exploit the huge potential in specialist markets, from migrant workers to fertility finance. Startup of the Week: India approves SaNOtize-Glenmark anti-Covid spray. Join Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang on FinTech’s future. R egister Now.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

has startups such as Oura , India has Ultrahuman and Pi Ring as two of the early players. The startup has been working on the device for over a year. Finger as the new nucleus Tech giants such as Apple, Samsung and Huawei have long focused on the wrist. However, smart rings have thus far failed to drum up the same interest.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series. So I was surprised at the sheer volumes of decisions that had to be made when I became a startup CEO. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. I still really like this CEO and have deep respect for this person outside of the role of being a CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. Tags: SoCal Stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

These kind of companies were seldom startups. I’ve spoken to many of these “outbound dialers&# and in almost all cases they said it was “a necessary evil&# to get into the trade rather than a “worthwhile experience&# in which they learned a great deal about entrepreneurship, startups or any given industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

After that it’s domain experience, access to VCs and deep pockets. He’s backed so many of the Silicon Valley’s young elite tech professionals. I guess what I’m saying is that startup investing (whatever the stage) is not a stock picking job. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Answers OnStartups- Shortly after I started blogging I noticed a website called “ Answers on Startups ,&# which I instantly loved and spent a bunch of time on. It was this sort of techie / geeky looking UI implementation of questions that anybody could ask about startups. I saw some questions where the tags looked wrong.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. On top of this, Monzo’s tech infrastructure is much cheaper to operate than its competitors. While a seemingly obvious insight, this has been an enduring differentiator.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Image Credits: GPC Smart Tags Because the company is throwing itself into a market that is relatively well understood, its challenge isn’t to explain what it is doing but how it is moving the market forward. Again, this is not a deep tech play or a market shrouded in mystery. Great competition overview.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! First off, 3-year-old one-click checkout startup Fast announced it was shutting down after struggling to raise more capital to keep operations running.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

When I was running startups I felt like a horse with blinders on because I was super focused on the content management market and ignored many other markets. I get to do a deep dive on their business model, product roadmap and competitive positioning. Then I spent many years as a startup CEO. We travel together.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

Often if you have deep pockets (or a proper fund) you’ll can protect yourself by getting out your checkbook again. But this only works if you have deep pockets. Importantly, what does this all mean for startups? Tags: Tech Market Analysis. I did a short explanation of this whole phenomenon in this video.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

He displayed a deep mastering of the power of the Internet, direct marketing and Twitter to manage his business. Tags: SoCal Stuff LA SoCal startup technology. He obviously believes this since he has become CEO of TopSpin Media – a firm designed to do just that. But in this case Chamillionaire stole the show.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Thomas Duscha, founder and CEO of Berlin-based battery swapping startup Swobbee , was in Poland visiting family in early March when the reach of the Ukraine crisis galvanized him to action. “I Duscha started with a post on LinkedIn that put out a call to action among the tech community in Berlin. Image Credits: techfugees.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I find this is more often an ex operator VC and often somebody who deep down is a product guy. If you’re not intimate with the product it’s hard for me to buy that you’re going to be a successful tech entrepreneur. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There have been a number of high profile tech IPO s in the recent months including companies such as OpenTable and more recently LogMeIn. But we may also be at the “end of the beginning&# (to quote Churchill) of the deep recession. (but I’ll save that for post 3/3). billion and Omniture to Adobe for an astounding $1.8

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Of course if I’m not ensconced in deep, thoughtful work then by all means I answer the call. Dmitry walks the audience through the basic techniques that most high-tech savvy professionals use to streamline our digital lives. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I’m just getting started.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. On top of this, Monzo’s tech infrastructure is much cheaper to operate than its competitors. An early example was its approach to technical hiccups.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 4, 2021

This deep dark healthcare hole requires a significant amount of time and patience to navigate. Want to know how top founders, speakers and tech investors think? Early-bird tickets for EH’s first-ever Startup Summit, an all-virtual event, are going fast?—? Everyone is drowning in admin. We’re seating you at the head of our table.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2011

I always start my annual trip on my own with a bit of an East Coast tour to do business meetings with other investors and startups and meet my family at BWI on a Saturday. So I Tweeted him that I’d be delighted to meet a group of startup entrepreneurs and I’d even buy them all lunch. 2-for-2 on Twitter serendipity.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Sam: Prior to that, you had another startup that you sold for a significant amount of money, we can talk about that. Sam: You're an angel investor in a lot of different startups, including Coinbase and things like that. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? That's pretty funny. Let's jump in.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Israel-based AI healthtech company, DiA Imaging Analysis , which is using deep learning and machine learning to automate analysis of ultrasound scans, has closed a $14 million Series B round of funding. “Our data sets are tagged and classified by several physicians and technicians, each are experts with many years on experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were frustrated that despite having the (monopoly) infrastructure that brought you the Internet, the majority of innovation and profits went to Silicon Valley startups. So we as consumers (and as a tech industry) languished for 7 years. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Steve Jobs? Not so much.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

50% of them were interested in life sciences, 50% in tech (e.g. My constituencies were broad and I felt like going deep into one single area would have bored large groups of the people on any topic I picked. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. They had more advanced degrees.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This affects M&A activities for startups, which with the reduction of the IPO market could spell lower returns in the short-term for technology startup investors. Either won’t bode well for angels if they’re also hurting on non tech investments. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. In the end.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

This is where bootstrapping French startup, NLPCloud.io , is plying a trade in MLOps/AIOps — or ‘compute platform as a service’ (being as it runs the queries on its own servers) — with a focus on natural language processing (NLP), as its name suggests. Salinas says he plans to hire five people by the end of the year.).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Startups and VC. The venture market has been a tough one for many startups trying to get a better hold on their runway. And we have five more for you: Thrift shop : If you’re gonna pop some tags, Archive is helping your favorite brands create a new revenue stream in the world of secondhand stores. Big Tech Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. The mobile operators were run largely by the same people who ran the wireline telcos a decade early and still felt screwed by the tech industry. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. This is where the digital media puck is going.

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