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Completing your first capital raise: ten lessons for startups

NZ Entrepreneur

It’s been growth ever since, and in 2020 the company pitched for funding to scale up. Now, cofounders Paul Simpson and Dominic Sutton are sharing what they learned during the ups and downs of the journey. Now, cofounders Paul Simpson and Dominic Sutton are sharing what they learned during the ups and downs of the journey.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: LexSet

Austin Startup

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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The longest shortest 2 years

Austin Startup

Q1 2020 marks Reset ’s two year anniversary, from when we had our first conversation about how we could help distributed teams find affordable space to meet and work. Your partner matters To all those solo-founders out there?—?kudos kudos to ya’ll.

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2023 Predictions

Eric Friedman

I started making predictions for the decade ahead in 2020 , then made 2021 predictions , then 2022 predictions. This is a fun quote to start things off with because I began this journey with my 2020 predictions. I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. Bill Gates. 1: Failed it.

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2023 Predictions

Eric Friedman

I started making predictions for the decade ahead in 2020 , then made 2021 predictions , then 2022 predictions. This is a fun quote to start things off with because I began this journey with my 2020 predictions. I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. Bill Gates. 1: Failed it.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Syndio

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 Seattle-based Syndio has a bold ambition: to eradicate unlawful pay disparities in the workplace. This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time.

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Here’s Why 2020 is the Breakout Year For All You Gamers [Guest Post]

VC Cafe

By Or Briga, co-founder and CEO of Novos. 2020 has seen a sudden rise in the number of gamers. People of all ages are playing their favourite video-game titles in 2020 because of the extra time they have. 30 million USD was distributed in cash prizes among the top 100 players based on placements.

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