Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I often feel the frustration of someone trying to build a startup in the wrong place and time, and wrongly attributing their struggle to personal limitations. I saw these addressed well in a new book, “ The Startup Community Way ,” by Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2020

After finishing a second national lockdown, amidst weeks of protests against the government and with borders largely closed to foreigners, you could safely say that these are not ‘normal’ days for Israeli startups or the Israeli economy. In September alone , Israeli startups raised $1.2 billion) which was a record year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

If you want to make a great first impression on a startup investor or an advisor like me, don’t try to convince me or show me how busy you are. Building an innovative startup is normally an iterative process, so don’t plan on making everything perfect the first time. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/13/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/29/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2020

A popular myth that most of you probably believe is that startups are only for the younger generations. Based on my own years of experience in big businesses, as well as startups, this is no surprise to me. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/08/2020. We are more prepared to focus on life-changing entrepreneurship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2020

As I was watching the investor show, Shark Tank , on TV the other night, I was struck by how quickly and how extensively the sharks focused on the background and character of the entrepreneurs, compared to time spent evaluating their products. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/06/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2020

As an angel investor in startups, I’m a believer that smart investors invest more in you as the entrepreneur than the next billion dollar solution you are pitching. I’m not looking for words, but examples of how your habits and attributes have produced results, even before your startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

The sum is equivalent to the combined annual revenue of Snap and Twitter for 2020. Donations/pledges – Patreon, the early mover of creator monetisation tools, raised $155M on a $4 billion valuation in April 2021 , tripling the valuation from a previous round in Sept 2020. Billion in 2020.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. trillion in 2020. Twenty four are in Dallas and 22 are in Houston.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 16, 2023

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founder: Sally Metelerkamp Business: Lived Founded: 2020 HQ: Otago Can you tell us a bit about your business? WORKING ON SOMETHING NEW, INTERESTING OR IMPORTANT?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

visitors far and wide will soon be visiting Austin yet again for the ever-thrilling SXSW Festival , and Capital Factory has the honor of hosting the official pre-kickoff celebration: Startup Crawl! On March 13th, prepare to tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. Where Can I Sign Up? Take home some sweet VIP swag.

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Transformify

JULY 23, 2018

When speaking of startups’ funding, most founders first consider VC or Angel Investor funding. Somehow, it is perceived in the startup world that this is the way to go. EUR 3 billion are available to fund a maximum of 7,500 startups by 2020! The startups are not selling equity or issuing new shares.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The 2020 crisis has hit every field of industries, but a superior entrepreneur knows that problems create opportunities. Another benefit of launching your business now is that thousands of qualified and trustworthy employees have lost their jobs or are being relinquished by their firms due to the business crisis in 2020.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The great-grandson of Hermogenes Lopez had a long history as an executive and angel investor prior to taking on the leadership role at Hawkers. Hawkers corporate partners include PayPal, PlayStation, Ford, the Los Angeles Lakers and Mercedes Benz. A Shining Future for Sunglasses Brand Hawkers.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

But the right funding strategy for her is $900,000-$1 million, potentially from angel investors or small funds. Tags: StartUp 101. Well, it turns out that with about $900,000 and 12 months, Siobhan can get to paying customers. She has been toying with raising $350,000, $2 million, so on and so forth. Trendy Loot. Photo by lco.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

In 2017, we released the Texas Startup Manifesto , outlining a vision of a united Texas startup ecosytsem where startup entrepreneurs treat the four major metropolitan areas as one big city when they are recruiting talent, fundraising, and acquiring customers. and we expect that number to grow significantly in 2020.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2017

Therefore, it makes perfect sense to develop relationships with seed investors, venture capitalists, angel investors, private investing firms, and even banks, depending on your business goals and growth capacity. Get a mentor. “A Let’s take a look at a few interesting statistics : There are projected to be 15.7

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Austin always has a strong presence at SXSW and this year is no different. Time: 12:30PM?—?1:30PM Time: 2:00PM?—?3:00PM

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

Arlo Gilbert The Forrest Four-Cast: March 6, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Tell us about the startup ecosystem there. Austin is the single greatest place on the planet to build a startup.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 12, 2020 Women who wear makeup know that leaving the house with more than a single lipstick is a pain. One of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Graham will pitch Renzoe in the category Consumer Technology & CPG (9:30 am to 10:30 am Sunday, March 15) before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 6, 2021

Despite the obvious challenges, we ended 2020 on a strong note and, so far, our portfolio family has been riding a huge momentum wave. contribution was made by various VCs and prominent angel investors to the Nexus Mutual foundation. Opyn raised $6.7M in Series A funding led by Paradigm. A strategic $2.7M

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

See Also: Business Startup Checklist. The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) predicts that two-thirds of nurses in Canada will be working in the community by 2020, compared to 30 percent in 2006. percent from 2014 to 2020. The most traditional routes are bank loans, small business loans, or angel investors.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The great-grandson of Hermogenes Lopez had a long history as an executive and angel investor prior to taking on the leadership role at Hawkers. Hawkers corporate partners include PayPal, PlayStation, Ford, the Los Angeles Lakers and Mercedes Benz. A Shining Future for Sunglasses Brand Hawkers.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

This is all part of the Texas Startup Manifesto which is about uniting the state of Texas into one startup ecosystem and helping entrepreneurs recruit talent, find customers, and attract investors from across the state. The Texas Startup Manifesto The roadshow was a successful trip that we will definitely repeat in 2020.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 27, 2012

Last week I participated in the EU’s Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 (“DAA12″), a speaker in the plenary session titled: “Delivering Internet-based innovation as a way out of the crisis: the role of Horizon 2020″ and as a participant in the workshop on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. the UK startup ecosystem.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. But for the first time since abandoning my law school plan A, my mandate was clear: I needed to work at a startup. First, congrats! Enter Box.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. In other words, these are angels looking for billion dollar opportunities as well. Tags: StartUp 101. Photo by emsago.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. Add to that the impact of their upcoming IPO - lots of angel investors and spin-off entrepreneurs are in the making. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It makes the following observation: When I first talked about the 1M/1M program, I had observed the need to contain the immense infant entrepreneur mortality prevalent in the startup ecosystem. I'd like to hear from venture capitalists, angel investors, incubators, and accelerators on this topic. Discuss.

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Transformify

JULY 13, 2019

What does diversity hiring mean to startups? The same is valid for conversations with investors as having all essential skills and expertise onboard builds trust. Often, startups successfully complete their first funding round because a member of the team understands the mindset of the investors and can walk in their shoes.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Jana handles everything from strategic business formation to employee matters, stock options, partnership agreements, partner disputes, confidentiality agreements, buyouts, global trademark registration, commercial leases and all stages of startup funding, and corporate restructuring. Lilia Stoyanov is CEO and angel investor at Transformify.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

The company has bootstrapped using services, a philosophy we espouse heavily in 1M/1M, and has simultaneously gathered a group of angel investors who are supporting it through the next phase. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

In fact, I think it is a great curriculum for certain angel investors too, especially those who are starting out, including angel groups that are just formed. What a great product - truly an excellent value for entrepreneurs. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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