VC Cafe

JULY 3, 2020

A new report by IVC shows funding volume of Israeli startups in H1 2020 is higher than the previous year, despite the pandemic. – Israeli startups raised a total of $2.455 billion in Q2 2020, higher than the equivalent period in 2019 ($2.2 Read the new preliminary Q2 2020 report by IVC: [link].

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

2020 has turned out to be a really interesting test of what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. What I meant to say is 2020 has provided us a bunch of forced learnings around collaboration given that much of the tech world shifted from “mostly together in offices” to “mostly apart, at home, supported by software.”

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David Cohen

DECEMBER 9, 2020

” with the goal of sharing the Techstars view of how things have been changing given the events of 2020. Here’s an update to that data through the end of October, 2020. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020. Total M&As YTD.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Finance is a new, early-stage, New York-based VC focused on East Coast companies. The post Startup New York venture capital firm seeking fall virtual interns appeared first on David Teten. Company overview. The firm particularly has interest in fintech, edtech, and salestech.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Building a tech startup? The number of local (AUS & NZ) billion dollar companies, as well as the rapid growth of publicly listed tech firms, is growing (Crossroads, 2020). While capital to large tech companies is increasing, smaller rounds for early-stage companies is drying up.

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David Teten

JUNE 10, 2020

SOP Capital is a new, early-stage, New York-based VC focused on East Coast companies. The post Startup New York venture capital firm seeking summer/fall virtual interns appeared first on David Teten. Company overview. The firm particularly has interest in fintech, edtech, and salestech.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. Let’s dive in.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

At the front-end of these innovations are startups – organizations the Department of Defense hasn’t previously dealt with at scale. Mrinal and Jeff’s article below explains how startups can adapt and thrive while working with the Defense Department. And how the Department of Defense is learning to work with startups.

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2024

Similarly, I’d argue that the early-stage venture “product” has elevated across the board. VC’s across the board have generally upped their game and are much more involved in the startup ecosystem and with their portfolios. A lot of offerings that were innovative at one time are table stakes today.

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David Cohen

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

” with the goal of sharing the Techstars view of how things have been changing given the events of 2020. Here’s an update to that data through the end of October, 2020. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020. Total M&As YTD.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

After about a year of consulting + executive coaching work as COO-As-A-Service for startups, I am happy to announce I’ll be joining the folks at www.Company.co. These things are right up my alley because it’s what I love doing and align with my goal to be the best advisor to early-stage founders.

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View from Seed

JULY 13, 2022

I only worked at really big companies before I founded Waivr, so the startup world is all sorts of fun and interesting to me. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? I left Deloitte and worked as a PM at Figure Technologies before joining Carolina full-time at Waivr in 2020. And your least?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Even in 2020, a difficult year by any measure, the Austin community has surpassed all of my expectations. ai , a Breyer Capital early-stage investment, list on the New York Stock Exchange. We also have several stealth startups that sit at the intersection of AI and healthcare. Breyer Capital Austin?—?End

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. The entire startup ecosystem is interested in the 1% of entrepreneurs who are fundable, have already defined strong market opportunities, and are already well on their way. Photo by tatlin.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2020, there were 8,000 martech solutions. This philosophy comes from The Lean Startup methodology , which relies on testing hypotheses to better understand your customers’ pain points and goals. It can also be helpful for startups looking to expand without the resources to branch out beyond their existing target markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Here are a few of my favorites sampling techniques that I have seen work out well over the years: Take a job for a while with an early-stage startup. One would keep a regular job, with medical benefits and normal work hours, while the other was deep in a startup. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/24/2020.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 19, 2020

I had a few things on my mind related to the startup environment right now as it relates to Covid-19 and the massive market disruption that we’re in the middle of. With that, here are some general observations on the market as well as a few things specific to startup companies (relevant across stages).

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

Forerunner Ventures is one of Homebrew’s favorite co-investors for consumer commerce/retail startups. At the time, no one was investing in early stage consumer companies — it wasn’t a “thing” yet. Firm founder Kirsten Green has an amazing analytical mind combined with empathy for the consumer. EK: It’s a great question.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2020

Why Startup Communities are Essential written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Brad Feld, c0-author of a new book The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2018

When you launch a startup, getting the business off the ground is all-consuming. However, adequate business insurance is crucial, even in the early stages. If you’re not sure what insurance your startup needs, here are seven types of insurance every startup should consider. Insurance may not be top of mind.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? money for an early-stage venture catering to a foreign market is abysmally low. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer. Photo by [link].

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, after two short years and $3 million raised in startup funds, recruitment AI company Ansaro shut down due to bad market fit. Despite targeting its young user base with content that has little to do with insurance, Lemonade has grown to a base of 1 million users and posted $94 million in revenue in 2020 in six years.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 25, 2020

As an early stage investor I look at A LOT of pitch decks. You see, I’ve never been presented one of these slides where the startup pitching isn’t in the “upper right” (canonical best) square. Sometimes alone by themselves, incumbents and adjacent startups spread elsewhere.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2020

A fact of startups is that they run with limited cash and the current situation just happened to inadvertently catch many companies unplanned at the wrong time in a fundraising cycle. When your startup is going public in 2028, (hopefully!) the Great Covid Crisis of 2020 will be well behind us. 1) Simply ignore it. .

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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. Being too early is the same as being wrong.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

One of the top reasons startups fail is timing. In his vision for 2020 , Mark Zuckerberg said it’s likely that AR and VR will be the next major platform after the mobile phone. Mark Zuckerberg’s 2020 vision. It will become that much a part of you.” —Tim Tim Cook , Apple CEO.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. So at any point, if you are trying to raise money, and you are hearing from investors that you are too early and have too little validation, it may be a good thing. Then Liana Thompson pitched Trendy Loot , a very early stage deal site for low-end jewelry.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. Some of these businesses should definitely apply for the Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge grants.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ). The answer is likely a mix of both.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2021

Greetings from Houston Mural located in Houston Heights If your startup is located in the Houston region you may be eligible to compete for a $50,000 investment! Startups, submit your application Capital Factory Ventures Application Who Can Apply? They’ve raised $7.2 million in funding to date.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

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. What would a startup team look like based on this data only? Lagos, a Nigerian port city, is the home of more than 60 startups focused on solving social problems.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ). The answer is likely a mix of both.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

During that time, we successfully ran three accelerators in two cities and convened more than five hundred resources, experts, partners, business leaders, and investors to support 181 startups from all corners of the world. This year, we’re looking to turn the startup support industry on its ear. This year is going to be huge.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand. Tags: StartUp 101. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. Photo by brokenarts.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 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. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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