ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In fact, I just did a case study on Coastal Contacts , a $150 million e-commerce company that sells contact lenses online and has built itself up largely by using inventory financing as opposed to venture capital and equity financing. Google Adwords advertising. That sounds great.

Silicon Valley 117

Silicon Valley Malaysia India China 117

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. 6:00 PM Capital Factory?—?16th 3:00PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon March 12, 2018 12:30PM?—?1:30PM 1:30PM Hilton?—?Room

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Intuit 2020 Research Report. Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. Posted by: Atlanta Search Engine Optimization | April 16, 2008 at 07:38 AM. government policy. Intuit 2020 Trends Report.

Equity 40

Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they trillion in 2020. In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here?

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

After all, in the year 2020, investors that had access to VC-backed IPOs, earned $206 million in average one-day gains for each of 165 separate offerings, for a total of $34B in one-day wealth transfers (including over-allotments). Last year, 2020, the AVERAGE IPO was underpriced by 47.9%! Here is the real gut-wrenching punch line.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

As the company is still growing, we can easily guess that in 2019-2020 time frame, Airbnb will be delivering around $50B per year to home-owners who were previously sitting on highly underutilized assets. This is a major “unlocking.”. Here are an example of two such companies that we have funded in the past few years.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It is the “venture capital” of the Navy and Marine Corps. Founded in August 1946 in the aftermath of World War II, ONR provided support of research projects at universities when government funding to universities had dried up. We’ve got to get to 2020, or 2018, or 2015. We’ve got to break that pattern.

Technology 202

Technology DC Acquisition Silicon Valley 202

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). We had to be US-based. ? It worked pretty well. You're basically driving a car too fast.

San Francisco 62

San Francisco Europe New York Cofounder 62

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

And in comes the Google App Engine as Google's offering in this context. Well, it turns out that to port long tail productivity apps to Google's App Engine is a somewhat cumbersome job, and requires a lot of custom development. Building new apps is also not as simple. Enter OrangeScape. Photo by ilco. Discuss.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley Massachusetts 114

Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

The Texas Startup Manifesto The roadshow was a successful trip that we will definitely repeat in 2020.  —  @TexasManifesto ZPEG Engine - ZPEG.com That night, the trip culminated in the Capital Factory 10 Year Anniversary Party as thousands of members of the Austin startup community turned out to celebrate.

Texas 48

Texas Houston Dallas Startup 48

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

Or one in which to get a government license to build a crypto trading platform, you need to pass background checks to make sure you haven’t been too disruptive on your way to building financial disruption. Venture capital is supposed to make a high multiple of return for the risk. Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) May 28, 2020.

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Michigan Deal Flow Accredited Investor Equity 117