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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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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we never lost the finance bug. We were infatuated with tech. Factom, Inc.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. At its current 20-25% revenue growth rate, TripAdvisor will join Akamai in the billion dollar revenue club in 2014. Scaling Lesson 2: Maintain a Sense of Urgency.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 So how do Israeli ventures scale up? Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing. billion in 2013.