The Startup Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

These platforms can provide the necessary financial backbone to launch your ideas on a global platform. Benefits of Free Crowdfunding Sites With the advent of online crowdfunding platforms, the world has seen a significant shift in how startups and nonprofits raise capital.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

” Applications for the second year of the Rockstart Accelerator program are open now through January 20, 2013. ” Applications for the second year of the Rockstart Accelerator program are open now through January 20, 2013. .

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. Carlson founded Polychain Capital in 2016. Ten years have passed since this crisis occurred. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2019

million Series A financing. legal immigration is a foundational activity that keeps America fresh and helps our country maintain its edge on a global stage. Sometimes, life gives you an easy decision. Investing in Boundless Immigration was one of those. In the U.S., society, and make this a stronger country to be able to become a U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. And Jamie hers.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 5, 2014

And the answer to when/if it will end comes down to when/if the global economy starts growing more rapidly and sucking up the excess liquidity and policy makers start tightening up the easy money regime. But I think cheap capital is only half of the equation. I have no idea when and if that will happen.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. You’re a small fish. This team is talented. They wanted advice. And probably some money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. What is venture capital, really? And what does a venture capital firm do?

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 3, 2014

In 2013, we helped utilities and their customers save over 1,900 gigawatt hours of energy. I then went into venture capital. As a Partner at Khosla Ventures I got to help teams like Climate Corp, Skybox Imaging, Solum, and Pellion build world changing businesses. It’s a global phenomenon.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

trillion in 2013, both a new record and up more than $700 billion since 2009. companies, aided greatly by an English language and America-dominated Internet, every year become more and more effective in marketing and selling to global customers (while global customers in turn become far more comfortable in purchasing across the wires).

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

It’s been quite a journey getting here and there’s still a way to go as cryptocurrencies integrate with our global financial system. He shared his tips for building a global business, hiring, what he’d do differently and more… The Chainalysis journey ? How did you initially think about going global from a sales perspective?

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

On July 17, Ultimate Software, a $10B HR software gorilla, announced the acquisition of Peopledoc for $300m - the largest software exit in France since the acquisition of Neolane by Adobe in 2013. We discussed the opportunity to go global and start by setting up a beachhead in the US. A much bigger market.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. On Sushi and VC.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Upwork is a global freelancing platform where businesses and independent professionals can connect and collaborate remotely. As you can see, that can be a big mistake.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” (co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). Of the 43 U.S.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. billion in 2013. So how do Israeli ventures scale up? But is all of that changing?

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

According to the National Venture Capital Association/Dow Jones VentureSource, the VC industry is dominated by men (89% of VC Partners), specifically white men (76% of the total). purchasing power in 2013, with African-Americans comprising $1 trillion and Asian-Americans comprising $700 billion. trillion of U.S.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

However, as Europe’s SaaS acceleration began in 2013, and given that the median time to IPO from this group is 10 years, it will take time before we see a meaningful geographical change in SaaS IPOs. in SaaS companies globally. Out of the 12 IPOs, Mimecast is the only company from Europe. in the US, $2.6B in Europe and $0.9B

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. easy business finance software. About VC Cafe.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” .

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