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7 Tips To Secure Funding They Don’t Teach In Business School

YoungUpstarts

Go B2B… 2C. Asif Khan founded Caremerge in 2012 and recently received multi-million dollars in funding, Asif Khan has over 20 years of experience in technology. Visionary investors love this stuff because it’s all blue ocean ahead which means minimal to no competition.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. RentJuice is doing much the same in real estate software.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Each of Feenix’s portfolio companies receives an investment in debt or equity and utilizes a subsidiary of Feenix as its credit card payment processor (“Feenix Payment Systems”).

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Final Close: The Story Behind NextView's Own Fundraise ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

February 21, 2012. Our portfolio has grown to 15 companies today, the bulk of which is on the US East Coast and roughly half the companies have already progressed from the seed stage to completing Series A rounds. Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way.

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Opportunistic & Thematic Investing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

May 16, 2012. And we invest in US-based startups, primarily on the US east coast though we’ll consider other parts of country on a selective basis (roughly 15-20% of our portfolio is in the SF Bay area). 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. And Why 20%?

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Ionic Security Raises $9.4m from Kleiner Perkins, Tech Operators, ff Venture Capital

David Teten

I couldn’t be more excited to share that one of our portfolio companies, Ionic Security (formerly Social Fortress), has raised $9.4 I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures.

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Demand Creation Online Course By SiriusDecisions

entrepreMusings

Aruni joined Bulldog in June 2012 with a background in technology entrepreneurship, B2B sales, consulting, and operations. The 6 basic elements that the course revolves around are: Demand Type, Relative Targeting, Lead Taxonomy, Buying Cycle, Portfolio Marketing, and the Demand Waterfall. Gunasegaram, Account Director.

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