Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

It’s understandable, then, that the term “unicorn” has come to be used routinely in the world of business funding to refer to those rare and beautiful privately funded startups—especially in the tech space—that have reached the upper echelon of valuation, being valued at over $1 billion. at around 27 million.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

Within weeks of showing up at market for the first time in our white 10×10 foot tent, Chaia had been named “one of DC’s top nine tastemakers” Our style of cooking focuses on what’s freshest at the farm market and what’s in season. BS: We are active on all of the social media channels above, save for Tumblr.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

Within weeks of showing up at market for the first time in our white 10×10 foot tent, Chaia had been named “one of DC’s top nine tastemakers” Our style of cooking focuses on what’s freshest at the farm market and what’s in season. BS: We are active on all of the social media channels above, save for Tumblr.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One of the people I respect the most in the VC/PE media ecosystem is Dan Primack. A follow-up post, titled The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue , on June 5, 2015, explained this further: Pre-Seed is the New Seed. There are a now a handful of funds, K9 included, that are Pre-Seed funds in name and practice.

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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. Almost immediately, people started to dig what we were doing: Digital Trends named Localeur one of their favorite new apps of SXSW 2013 and other press followed.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Texas is embracing that as we see the impact of the internet being increasingly applied in Texas’ substantial industries of old: education, health, agriculture, real estate, energy, media, and more. Through the series of funding rounds, companies do not need to go through an IPO to obtain capital or a higher valuation. Imagine that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

If you can’t find anything innovative in your user interface, process or algorithms, you need to think again and add something for a competitive barrier to entry and increased valuation. Any intellectual property will help, including trademarks, copyrights and domain names. No proprietary content is death.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I imagined a future Wing media arm with a TV channel, a venture capital fund… …and then it all came crashing down. I found it very hard to believe that any of the problems The Wing faced in 2020 and its lead up were dramatically different from anything going on in any brand name hotel, restaurant group, or any other hospitality business.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The fact that we have a single ‘media’ organisation – and yes they are a media company – with massive influence over 2.4 What happened: Antitrust actions commence on Big Tech + Greta Thunberg named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. billion constituents should make all of us us lose sleep at night.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

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