View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. So, what does the future hold?

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2020

After all, especially for companies at the earliest of stages, ostensibly they will be building over the next decade or more, and are playing into megatrends that in the long run will vastly outweigh any temporary setbacks from a temporal crisis. the Great Covid Crisis of 2020 will be well behind us.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2020

Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. What part does distributed work play in creating startup communities? Why it’s so hard to predict where we are going in 2020. Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. 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.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

What better way to start 2020 than being mentioned in Inc.’s On top of that, we’re fourth in early-stage funding. They’ve been making a huge impression on the city, along with the rising Siete Family Foods startup which recently raised $90 million and tripled its nationwide distribution. According to Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020. How Do I Advise People When Raising Money in a Hard Market?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2020

Brent Wistrom edits the daily Austin Inno Beat email newsletter , which has emerged over the last five years as a must-read source of information for the city’s startup, entrepreneurial and investment communities The Forrest Files: August 6, 2020 Brent Wistrom is a senior editor at American Inno , overseeing half of Inno’s 14 markets.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And finally Israel, the market I cover primarily with Remagine Ventures , was also down 36%, resembling the 2020 levels. The numbers for the first nine months of 2022 show the extent of the slowdown in almost all parts of the Israeli tech economy, except in early-stage. The later the stage, the bigger the impact.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

And I think that in the early days it was sort of novel that people had content, and obviously like you said, the search engines didn’t have as much content to chew through so they would surface your content. For a lot of people, ironically, in 2020, it’s still written, which just feels very arcane, but still effective.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Distribution Channel for Product Companies. Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. why not become a retailer of the same basket of products that he wants to distribute? Photo by designkryt.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. — Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

trillion in 2020. In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. At the same time, early-stage companies are thinking beyond the high prices of Silicon Valley to put down roots and find financing and growth partners.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. With limited resources, this is a tall order, and it seemed to me that Justin's heart really is in the creative.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Early stage investing always comes down to two things: people and market. Growth rates for these new distributed apps and databases has reached critical mass. Companies are standardizing on NoSQL platforms, providing tailwinds for an estimated 35% CAGR in the NoSQL market from 2014-2020, according to some analysts.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Eugene Sepulveda (@EugeneAustin) | Twitter Ingrid Vandervelt CEO & Founder EBW2020 Ingrid Vanderveldt is the Chairman and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020). Steven Tomlinson, received national press as one of the first out couples both teaching in a major university’s MBA program.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. In the 1M/1M roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs we work with are in this rather vulnerable pre-$1 million revenue stage. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. What makes 1M/1M unique?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. free, distributed source code control management system. NESTA : They invest in early-stage companies, inform and shape policy, and deliver practical programs that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future. Horizon 2020.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Greylock general partner and the host of The 20 Minute VC pick back up from a December 2020 episode of the popular podcast , during which Hoffman discusses his wide-ranging career and key lessons learned. In fact, when you look at it, you say, “Ok, well, what are the early-stage consumer internet investments?”

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