Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Instead, we are being intentional about how to support an increasing number of Black board members, founders, CEOs, teams, suppliers, and anti-racist products. DEIS will present practical solutions for startup teams, accelerators, ecosystem builders, investors, and big tech companies. It is not a performative event. No hashtags here.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2020

Many startup founders I know avoid establishing a formal advisory board or board of directors for as long as possible, with the excuse that this is just another burden, or it has more risk than value to the founder. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/24/2020. Start with a small number of board members.

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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. Founder Nathan Barry launched in 2013 to help creators sell their books and courses but failed to meet revenue goals and eventually stalled. Use brand marketing strategies to build brand equity.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

When it comes to launching a startup, most founders think they should reside in the United States, Silicon Valley, in particular, to have a successful business. If you leave aside the devastating impacts of Covid-19 on the economy and people, this pandemic was able to change the prospects of startups in Southeast Asia.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

On October 15, Capital Factory hosted the Latinx in Tech Summit, where over 100 founders, investors, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the city gathered together for an inspiring and insightful afternoon. As we head to 2020, Latinx will be the MAJORITY in the US. I've never been around this many Latinx in tech.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Intuit 2020 Research Report. Planning, Startups, Stories. Working for Equity Instead of Cash. has an article on service firms waiving their fees and instead taking equity in their clients. what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. Reports and Resources. State of Independence in America.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC?

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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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Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

There’s a reason why Austin has been named the top tech city in the US in 2019 and 2020 by CompTIA. With the sheer number of startups, talent and investment funds within Austin or moving to the city, it is no surprise that the number of individuals relocating to the area continues to increase.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2019

What’s more, startups founded by women are 20 percent more likely to be revenue-generating and bring 35 percent higher returns to investors than all startups combined. Targeting funding opportunities aimed specifically at women-owned businesses should be a priority funding strategy of any women-led startup or small business.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Coca-Cola has brand equity that makes people gravitate towards it. With the right framework, any startup can achieve this in their industry. In this article, you’ll understand what brand equity is and how to build it so your audience reaches for your product, service, or solution over the rest. Brand equity. Image source.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2019

On Monday, September 23, Austin Startup Week had an impressive kick-off at Capital Factory where over 400 women and allies gathered at the 3rd Annual Women in Tech Summit! Although she spent her early years studying to become an astronaut, she realized that becoming a founder was her new calling. Women leaders from across the U.S.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Last year I decided to do my first ever public predictions for 2020 and the decade ahead. This did not end up happening at all but there are a few startups working in this space which I think have a shot 2/ NFTs (non-fungible-tokens) will emerge as a killer use case inside an incredibly fun game at a scale. 2020 Prediction Results.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

The sum is equivalent to the combined annual revenue of Snap and Twitter for 2020. Donations/pledges – Patreon, the early mover of creator monetisation tools, raised $155M on a $4 billion valuation in April 2021 , tripling the valuation from a previous round in Sept 2020. Billion in 2020.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

December 7th, 2020 7 PM EST/6 PM CST As the economy continues to go digital and high-tech, Black and Latinx communities are slowly tracking to gain equity in the tech space. At the same time, high-tech and Fortune 500 companies are struggling to hire and retain talented people of color.

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2020

Their focus is on talking to founders to understand what their specific business needs are in the immediate future and the coming months. Company A didn’t really plan to raise in 2020 and they have plenty of runway into 2021. Company B wanted to raise capital in 2020. There are three types of companies broadly defined.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The company’s founders struggled to meet with demand and order fulfillment suffered. Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. In 2020, the company launched a new line of sunglasses that’s environmentally focused.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. The pressure to protect portfolio startups seen as potential fund returners will be profound.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Quicc co-founders Jason Toevs and Mike Mathia. The Forrest Four-Cast: January 31, 2020 Make video captioning easier and better in a world where audiences now watch extensively without sound. Mathia shared some thoughts about his startup experience?—?and What is your top goal for Quicc for 2020?

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

million businesses in 2020, up 24% from the previous year. The question for many entrepreneurs is, how do you start a business the right way with the right startup business structure? . A common mistake made by entrepreneurs as they assess their startup business structure is to try and do everything themselves.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

And that’s how I started my private equity business where I acquire both online and offline assets such as lead generation websites and physical real estate. The day after receiving my degree, I was in my car driving across North America to start a job at a promising technology startup. Thanks to Daniel Javor, Next Luxury ! #4-

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Transformify

JULY 23, 2018

When speaking of startups’ funding, most founders first consider VC or Angel Investor funding. Somehow, it is perceived in the startup world that this is the way to go. EUR 3 billion are available to fund a maximum of 7,500 startups by 2020! It is a grant, not an equity funding. Why non-dilutive?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”? especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. Pre-seed round tends to be the first ‘institutional’ round of funding in a startup.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Left to right: Heather Shen , CTO; Melina Lopez , CPO; and Elise Smith , CEO The Forrest Four-Cast: February 25, 2020 As the saying goes: Before you judge a person, walk a mile in their shoes. My co-founders and I all met at Stanford so Palo Alto is really where it all began. Palo Alto will always be special for the Praxis Labs team.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

To be fair, not all of them held this view and many of them were investing nationally earlier, but as we flip over to 2020, there is a general acceptance among Bay Area VC partnerships that they need to be able to invest across the country, not just NYC and LA or Seattle. There are too many startups to keep track of.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The company’s founders struggled to meet with demand and order fulfillment suffered. Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. In 2020, the company launched a new line of sunglasses that’s environmentally focused.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2020

The relationship between a founder and their startup is a unique one?—?we’re We made it from nothing, built it up with sweat equity, do everything in our means to make this thing grow, and wait to see what happens. We didn’t have the exuberance of first time founders in the first year of their business?—?we

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

This is all part of the Texas Startup Manifesto which is about uniting the state of Texas into one startup ecosystem and helping entrepreneurs recruit talent, find customers, and attract investors from across the state. The Texas Startup Manifesto The roadshow was a successful trip that we will definitely repeat in 2020.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2020

When Corona hit, the founder, Jacob Bernstein, quickly realized that his software made virtual meetings even more productive, and because it is designed for results and accountability, was a better way to organize workflow for virtual teams than other products like Slack and Microsoft Teams. Originally published at [link] on March 19, 2020.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I often feel the frustration of someone trying to build a startup in the wrong place and time, and wrongly attributing their struggle to personal limitations. I saw these addressed well in a new book, “ The Startup Community Way ,” by Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 7, 2020

The fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic poses major challenges to businesses, especially startups. But even with these actions, the company forecast that its 2020 revenues will be less than half those of 2019, and it announced on May 5 that it would be laying off nearly 1,900 of its employees (about 25% of its workforce).

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

Finally, we had a discussion on Adam's proposal to sell 20% of his equity for $50,000, which I thought was preposterous. Also, folks, remember, the Microsoft India Startup Grant application deadline is May 31. I advised Adam to also build this as a B-to-B business selling apps to snowboard wax makers and even board vendors.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

And, oh by the way, we also really like the idea of the 1M/1M entrepreneurs building valuation and negotiating leverage through these business development efforts, instead of signing off large chunks of their company in form of equity early on. I would never take investment in a startup from a hedge fund. Photo by nosheep. Discuss.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The smart city industry is projected to be a $400 billion market by 2020, with 600 cities worldwide, TechRepublic reports. It’s using sensors to collect data about the movement of people, all forms of vehicles and bikes,” Herman Chandi, co-founder of analytics company CommunityLogiq, told TechRepublic. “A Examples of Urban Tech.

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