NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Founded in 2015, Niesh provides an app designed to meet the challenges of the modern university student, and now offers both a suite of services for brands to connect with the youth market and deals to make every student’s life easier. New Zealand startups need to know that the local market is limited by the relatively small population of 4.8

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

But whether you are trying to build daily, habitual products for business users like Slack or InVision or trying to reach truly mass market consumers like Wayfair, Jet, or Chewy, there is someone in the Guild who has faced this challenge at the early stages of a business and at scale. Back to Top).

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

Success in early stage investing is about spotting unique talent and collaborating with entrepreneurs to help grow their businesses, not a prescribed method of pattern recognition. Or a male founder who can do the same, but prefers to stay off social media and recharge by spending time with his family?

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. However, to diversify its workforce and economy, in 2015 the country adopted TizaaWorks. Business / Finance. Fundraising, Management, project budgeting, budgeting.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Most impressively, there seems to be a thriving startup of every flavor, with many more joining the list of Pillar Startups on the Guide in 2016 compared to 2015. This is true when it comes to early-stage funding, but also as it relates to support platforms being built by local firms to help Boston-based startups.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The following interview by Steven Loeb was published in Vator.tv on 5 September 2015 and is reproduced below in its entirety. What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It continues to be highly dependent on company, stage, and location. At the early stages, raising the first $2m tends to be straightforward in most geographies that have meaningful startup communities. Any current trends that stand out to you that are changes from the 2015 environment? Will this continue through the year?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. We’re changing the hyperlocal media landscape by adding contextual relevance to stories. What inspired you to start this company?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I started my side hustle back around late 2014, early 2015. I run an early stage-startup called Smarthome NX that helps consumers discover Smart home technologies through content, collaborative partnerships and commerce. Due to the need of having to market myself, I learned social media and SEO.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. I’m particularly interested in how language once used supportively for empowerment by some female CEOs (#girlboss) can then be used negatively by media and detractors later on. It was also one of the hardest.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

The Pacific Northwest had a great overall year for venture capital activity in 2015—even if you count the 59 percent dip in Q4. The MBA@UNC map highlights Madrona Venture Group, which Pitchbook reported to be the “most active venture firm in the Northwest” in 2015. Pacific Northwest. billion invested in 374 startups in that area.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. This is what our hiring landscape looked like over the past year: Pre-2015, we hired three founders: 1x hustler in charge of strategic growth hacking. 1x hacker in charge of product/development.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

During this time she began showing increasing signs of early-stage dementia. I learned firsthand about the everyday challenges those living with early dementia face, including using the telephone. Geiger, Twelve31 Media, LLC ! #20- After numerous medical issues arose, I spent the next six years as her primary caregiver.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. Konstantinos says, “As we were validating the value of our solution and recruiting early adopters, we started talking to a few VC firms. 4 Reasons to Brand Your Business.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2016

At the same time, enterprises today can leverage the cloud to make faster, more efficient software changes; use social media to connect with customers; deploy predictive analytics to determine what their customers will want and connect and control devices via a central point with the Internet of Things (IoT).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 4, 2015

Some of these efforts gain a great deal of attention via the media, but most of them are somewhat obscure (unless you’re willing to dig a little ) and will never even make it onto our radars. 254: Support Our Startups Act of 2015 (Introduced 1/9/2015) Here is a great piece of legislation, sponsored by ( friend of crowdSPRING !)

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. So why invest in that period of uncertainty unless it’s early-stage and thus valuation matters less. It was a nerve racking morning. My favorite Tweet of the morning came from Hunter Walk.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 9, 2015

While it was a joke, but Trevor Noah gets him to move from writing letters, to phones to eventually asking people to share thoughts on social media using a hashtag. From Snapchat to Instagram, the younger demographic, for instance is on social media. Even big brands like Starbucks are not saved from social media fan ire.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2016

While some people are good at reflecting on the past year and looking forward to predict the next year (one of the best in the VC world is Fred Wilson – read his posts What Didn’t Happen , What Happened In 2015 , and What Is Going To Happen In 2016) , I’ve never been particularly good at a one year time frame.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb. I’ve spent my entire career helping to build early stage companies and I feel very fortunate to share my experience with founders everywhere.”

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Savary, Goldsmith, and Dhar (2015) were collecting donations in a field experiment. self-indulgence), which increase the negative self-attributions associated with not giving.” ( Savary, Goldsmith, & Dhar, 2015 ). Yet they incentive people to donate, even in the early stages of a campaign. So proceed with caution.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Manu Kumar (@ManuKumar) October 13, 2015. This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). Earlier today I tweeted: Calling #PeakVC.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

billion in total, to extend deployment of fibre-to-the-premise and fibre-to-the-cabinet to around two thirds of Britain by 2015. In addition, the company will focus on the development of commercial drugs from molecules in early stages of development. billion), or 2.5 billion in 2007 and de-listed from Nasdaq. MS Tech Ltd.,

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

One of the cool things about being a fund that works with so many early stage companies is that bringing the whole portfolio together in one place results in a lot of collaborative learning opportunities. Social Media Content from your Employees. Yesterday, First Round had its annual CEO Summit.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

It’s like blaming the media for incessantly covering Donald Trump and then watching the ratings when Donald Trump is at a debate and being surprised that the media gives him so much coverage. Our late-stage, privately held technology market is clearly in a bubble. None of these. It’s just a market.

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