Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2020

Prior to co-founding Foundry Group , he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures. Brad is a writer and speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship. What part does distributed work play in creating startup communities?

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2020

the Great Covid Crisis of 2020 will be well behind us. I don’t doubt that there is opportunity in some of these offerings, but I question if there is a long-term sustainable venture that’s appropriate for venture capital. When your startup is going public in 2028, (hopefully!)

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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. Was this a lost decade for venture capital? The power-law curve is when the distribution of returns is heavily skewed.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

But in light of where we are in 2020, especially with regard to the degrading efficiency and sky-rocketing cost of capital through the structurally broken IPO process, SPACs may emerge as a legitimate third option for helping Silicon Valley companies efficiently and cost-effectively transition into the public markets.

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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. Six of the ten cities who gained the most during COVID were in Texas. Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

Here is a quick video: It all started with this tweet by Jeff Richards of GGV Capital ( @jrichlive ) on Twitter: Caption this: pic.twitter.com/EoOHzVKhYh — Jeff Richards (@jrichlive) February 7, 2020. Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Current worldwide statistics as of 10 May 2020, (from gisanddata.maps) show that there are over 10 million people infected with this virus and just over 503, 500 deaths. Governor Cuomo, governor of New York State, USA, highlighted the quintessential issue with the coronavirus pandemic in his conversation with Howard Stern on 13 April 2020.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Mature startups with proven business models and the potential to reach the public markets within a few years will be the safest place to park any new venture capital that comes into the ecosystem. And finally Israel, the market I cover primarily with Remagine Ventures , was also down 36%, resembling the 2020 levels.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

They focus on helping content creators and app developers create, identify, package and distribute those meaningful video highlights in ways that help them reach more customers and generate more revenue. I was living in Sacramento and had worked in venture capital with Intel Capital and a Sacramento-based VC fund.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Congratulations, class of 2020. In 2020, entering the real world means staying at home, sheltering in place. So what’s the YouTube or the Facebook of 2020? But for you, in 2020, when jobs are hard to come by, what does that mean? In other words, compared to you guys, we had it pretty sweet. Instagram Influencer.

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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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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

The Internet made it easy to distribute cognitive games, and mobile devices meant they could be played anywhere. The revenue for brain health (including both games and biometrics) in 2020 is projected to be $6 billion. Both companies are backed by venture capital funds. Cognitive gaming became a viable business.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. Home prices are moving in lock-step with higher salaries, to the point where many investors are hunting for deals outside the area, where teams are now starting off distributed or with a plurality of offices to locate some functions outside of the Bay Area costly square footage.

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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. Analysis and storage of data are the two important challenges for organizations large and small. Hardened Cybersecurity Defense.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Since its Series C in November 2020, Chainalysis has increased ARR by more than 100% year-over-year, doubled its client base and now supports more than 100 digital assets across 10 native blockchains (around 90% of cryptocurrency economic activity). I met [Kraken co-founder] Jesse Powell here. ? How did Kraken come about? ?

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

One of the 2020 giants also left this select club: Zoom, which was impacted by the failed acquisition of Five9 and people’s gradual return to offices. While the average forward revenue multiple has declined slightly since its February 2020 peak (19x), it’s still higher today than last year at 17x vs 15.8x in Sept 2020.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP. The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

The Texas Startup Manifesto The roadshow was a successful trip that we will definitely repeat in 2020.  —  @TexasManifesto Day 3 of the @jpmorgan Texas Startups Roadshow continues with Kendra Scott, CEO & lead designer at @KendraScott and Robert Guantt, Founding Partner at Capital Creek Partners.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit? While the number of IPOs in 2020 is close to 2019, the average valuation has doubled compared to last year, driven in particular by the massive IPO of Snowflake, which reached a $70 billion market cap on its first trading day.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

He comes from a background in venture capital from inside and outside the Valley, as well as entrepreneurship work with startup efforts around the world. I second his list of top innovation challenges and strategies to capitalize on untapped global startup opportunities: Create new markets rather than disrupt existing ones.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Specific benefits of global internet marketplaces: Increase wealth distribution (all examples). This is a major “unlocking.”.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” . of 3,981 VC funds below $2b in size returned at least 2X Distributions to Paid-In Capital (2X) or more.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

They then, in turn, brought that software into their small businesses, their sub-groups within companies, and provided the kindling of distribution within work-related networks. While that consumer window was no longer opening, individual consumers began discovering new software tools to make themselves more productive.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

of venture capital deals. Those companies have garnered only about 2% of all capital invested. ” In venture capital, the industry- or sector-focused funds specifically disavow diversification: Andreessen Horowitz, which is a generalist as a whole, has launched dedicated funds across Crypto , Bio , and Fintech. .

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Organizations as large as WordPress run 100% distributed teams. billion and may go public by the end of 2020. Distributed Teams Are The Future of Work. In fact, some venture capital firms and angel investors work remotely too. The organization shut down its office a few years ago and went all-remote.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 19, 2021

Founded in 2012, Evocalize doubled in size in 2020, and is on track to double its headcount again in 2021. Evocalize is backed by Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group and Second Century Ventures , the venture capital arm of the National Association of Realtors.

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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). Stephen is a Capital Factory Mentor, serial entrepreneur and former General Partner at Austin Ventures.

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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 finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, 1M/1M Program has a bold mission.

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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. It simply means that our methodology prepares them better if they do decide to raise capital, as well as calibrate their fundability at different points of the journey. What makes 1M/1M unique? on a global scale.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

I don't have to tell you what the racial distribution of the group benefitting looks like relative to those doing the work. Venture capital is supposed to make a high multiple of return for the risk. Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) May 28, 2020. No current founders, pls.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). free, distributed source code control management system. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital. Venture Hacks equity section. About VC Cafe. Seed Startups.

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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. So, we can look at a lot of things – and I’ve seen a lot of tweets today about this – that say it’s like December the 37th, 2020.

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