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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

At the outset, it is worth noting that when it comes to the world of venture funding, I am a bit of an outsider. Until a handful of years ago, I didn’t even know what venture capital was, let alone anything about the complicated process of actually acquiring VC funding. percent of venture capital deals, and received.33

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened?

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Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould

Steve Blank

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. The answer of course, was Venture Capital, but that was not in the cards—as yet.

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Y Combinator-backed startup opens up intelligent sales platform

The Startup Magazine

The startup is backed by Y Combinator, one of Silicon Valley’s premiere accelerators, as well as Nexus Venture Partners, a venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley and India. The venture capital firm oversees 1.5 billion dollars across its funds and was founded in 2006. According to Apollo.io

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Austin-Based Venture Capital Firms There are a eleven venture capital firms based in Austin that are actively investing today, six of which are first funds. VC Firms Actively investing in Austin Companies Finally, there are a group of venture capital firms that are not based in Austin that are active investors here.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. By 2006, he was still only dabbling in the occasional work-for-equity deal. Of course, Arizona Bay is a consulting company, not a venture capital firm, and doing the work of both simultaneously can be time consuming.

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Anthony Casalena: The best web entrepreneur you've never heard of

This is going to be BIG.

Back in March of 2006, nextNY held it's second social gathering--that time it was at Dewey's Flatiron. And yet, no magazine covers for Anthony. This is a pic of literally the first moment I met Anthony--back in March of 2006. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Good luck to him and his team!

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