David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was visiting as part of Terrapinn Private Equity World, a leading private equity conference for the Latin American technology community. You might assume the event took place in Sao Paolo or Mexico City, but no, it was in Miami, and will be again in 2014. The decision to host the conference in Miami is hardly unfounded.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Combined, these factors point to available money for business owners to invest in their ventures. The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Aside from enabling 8 billion people to communicate, the technology was patented and today generates $150+ million in annual recurring revenue. Later in 2014, Mitul played an instrumental role in transforming a loss-making mobile handset business into a profitable, and growing B2B enterprise cyber security business, achieving $2.7

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Amir Elaguizy pitching Cratejoy on stage at SXSW 2014 I know lots of investors from Texas and from around the world who are visiting Austin for SXSW and want to know where to go and how to plug in. Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. You can see a much larger list at the end.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

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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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. Buying that time and capital paid off, as Microsoft recently announced it would purchase GitHub for $7.5B. Satya strikes again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We were roommates at the time and launched two different companies out of a kind-of dumpy apartment: We both went on to raise millions in venture capital and build meaningful businesses in interesting spaces. In 2014 he launched what was the first cryptoasset venture fund, the Dapps Fund. Factom, Inc.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Combined, these factors point to available money for business owners to invest in their ventures. The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

We want to help build an investor community based in Singapore but with connections around the world,” explains Steve Leonard, Executive Deputy Chairman of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), who chaired the panel that helped select the six firms. All of them posed the same question, ‘How do I raise money?’”,

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. But by 2014 much had started to change. Jim raised another venture fund as did I at Upfront Ventures.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 18, 2019

As a result, an organization like Kauffman Fellows is more important than ever as it helps build an incredible community of the next generation of VCs to learn from each other. And, if you are having a board meeting that I’m a part of, take a look at my post from 2014 if you want hints about My Ideal Board Meeting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/03/2014.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

In early 2012, my HBS Alumni Angels colleagues and I launched the Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP), an initiative to help women and minority-led businesses to raise capital from the Harvard alumni angel community. ff Venture Capital) for investment consideration. Sheila Marmon, CEO, Mirror Digital.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2017

When we started Foundry Group in 2006, we were very clear that we were not going to build a legacy venture capital firm; one meant to outlive its founders. In 2014, Seth, Jason, Ryan, and I had the first of many conversations about our long-term plans for Foundry Group.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. Immerse yourself in the tech community at Techweek. Apps World North America will be taking place in the tech capital of the world San Francisco on February 5th-6th February at the Moscone Center. InfusionCon.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Cumming, Leboeuf, and Swienbacher (2014) analyzed 47,139 campaigns from Indiegogo — a crowdfunding platform with the option to choose either KIA or AON models. Education plays a major role in venture capital. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We are trying hard to live up to the guidelines we laid out for our investors, our portfolio companies and our community. Over the next few weeks I’m going to release a few posts on what we believe platform services are and why we believe they’re an important part of the future of venture capital. *.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Following Bitcoin, Ripple is the second-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization as of 2014. The Quantopian site is a community platform which invites prospective hedge fund managers to make use of its infrastructure and data to develop algorithms that are used in choosing and managing investments. Quantopian.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

The SBIR/STTR program made ~6,200 seed stage investments in 2014, dwarfing the seed investments made by venture capital. startups that don’t fit whatever’s hot in venture capital. It has since been adopted by the entire federal research community. Eleven U.S. were funded by the SBIR program. Lessons Learned.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

If that’s the case, I highly recommend participating in events like Google’s Startup Weekend (though it’s much more tech-focused) and other community-related events. It’s particularly good if you’re interested in venture capital funding and angel investment. Maybe you’re the same way. What to do next.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The ff Venture Capital team is hosting again ff MASSIVE , Friday-Sunday at Empire Control Room & Garage in downtown Austin. Community Run SXSW. City Running Tours presents SXSWi 5K 2014. Active Living ff Venture Capital Fitness Food Startup Texas Travel' Friday, March 7, 9 PM. 1206 W 4th St.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

billion for 2014. In April 2014 Facebook acquired the maker of Moves app, which is also part of this trend, called by many the ‘Quantified Self’. Initially there was some skepticism about how effective cognitive training was, but nowadays, as more studies are published, it is gaining acceptance from the scientific community.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 22, 2014

Earlier this morning, we announced our investment in Change Collective (our first investment of 2014). The venture capital industry is one that is experiencing unprecedented change. This is why I’m pleased to announce that we are looking to hire a Director of Platform and Community to join Dave, Lee, and I at NextView.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. According to David Rose , CEO of Gust, venture capital investors funded about 1500 startups last year, with Angel investors backing over 50,000 more. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 18, 2014

As of March 2014 it’s 87% more expensive to live in Silicon Valley than the USA average. That’s some strong evidence that raising the minimum wage throughout all the valley communities would make sense purely as an economic stimulant. The issue is continuing the incredible innovation that happens in Silicon Valley.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

If you live in a suburban community, there is little chance you could walk out your door and hail a cab. android ecommerce Internet iphone IPO marketplaces Mobile Payment Regulation Twitter Uber Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Analysis Errors Sharing Economy TAM UberX'

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Think of it as a cross between a landlord, summer camp, and venture-capital firm. In their minds, the companies they’ve just created from scratch are the future of innovation, built around a core of community. It has graduated nearly 100 companies in Boston alone, generating millions of dollars in funding and local revenue.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

To succeed in this ambitious initiative, the academic, business, and entrepreneur communities will need to collaborate closely. How can the Salzburg community come together to nurture ideas into startups and see these startups grow into globally relevant companies? He published the book Zero to One in 2014.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. It is set to announce a first class of 10 companies in early 2014. Meet-ups and community. BigCommerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

The minute your company reaches its peak acceleration in terms of growth is when all of the sleeping giants wake up to compete with you and will spend massive amounts of money to keep you from capturing a growth market and other talented entrepreneurs will raise large amounts of venture capital as people start to see value in the market.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be eating the world.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Those were teachers, accountants, consultants, entrepreneurs, and community leaders. or were forced to raise too much venture capital?—?something

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Last week''s successful IPO of e-commerce giant Wayfair (market cap $3B) and this week''s impending IPO of Hubspot (if it prices in the range, market cap $600m) has many in the Boston tech community celebrating. 2013 was the best year for IPOs since the tech bubble of the 90s and 2014 looks to wrap up even stronger this quarter.

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