Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Outreach was named to the 2020 LinkedIn Top Startups list, which uncovers the 50 companies that have stood out this year, attracting investment, employees and attention. EdTech startup Top Hat acquired another education publishing company, recently closing a deal to purchase Bluedoor. . Scanwell Health was awarded a $1.6M

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2020

Despite the fact that the number of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) for startups have continued to stay low, I still hear it touted often as the preferred exit strategy. According to TheStreet , US IPO market results in Q2 2020 posted a strong bounce-back from Q1 with 58 IPOs, after a slow start due to the Covid19 pandemic.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

We asked 30 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2020. #1- My goals in 2020 are to maintain personal balance and positive attitude even as the business grows over 200% in the year. This has been my main goal for 2020. 1- Rededicate myself to my practices. Photo Credit: Danh Tran.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. Even some of the most prominent startup household names in Silicon Valley saw their demise last year — and everyone entrepreneur and startup face this fear. Do Not Fear! This is an Opportunity!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Many entrepreneurs I have mentored make big mistakes in this area, by hiring low-cost friends and family, with minimal skills or training, and expecting them to have the same work ethic , passion, and business knowledge as the founder. Outsourcing can give your startup a more mature image. Startups all need that flexibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

Based on my own experiences in startups, and many years of advising new business owners, I’m convinced that there are a few common frustrations that we all need to anticipate and prepare for, rather than let them be a surprise and a painful dent in your enthusiasm and personal satisfaction from living your dream.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

With the stock price off since IPO and the need to “rollup” enterprise chat + video MSFT takes a swing at solving a huge b2b problem with a startup friendly platform. 8/ Deep Fakes become a huge problem for the 2020 elections. Happy 2020! Seeing the world, augmented by tech, becomes a reality.

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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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

2021 was a banner year for Israeli startups, breaking new records in fundraising, new unicorns, and exits. Israeli startups are on fire. According to the 2021 Tech Review report by IVC , Israeli tech startups attracted a record of $25.6 billion raised in 2020. billion raised in 2020. What comes next? China: $104.4

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. When they graduate, the Stanford students on these teams have the pick of jobs in startups, companies and consulting firms. Our goal was to teach both theory and practice.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Entrepreneurs and business owners have never faced a crisis like the 2020 pandemic. It is safe to say that 2020 is the most crucial time for your business to be visible in the trendy digital era. He loves writing informative blog posts to help small business owners and startup founders in their entrepreneurial journey.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Catherine Mandungu is the founder of Think RevOps , a company that began as the pandemic was brewing. The tech industry is valued at $1tn in the UK alone, and with an increase in startups and scaleups, this number will only increase. Therefore, it seemed natural to move into the tech startup and scaleup space.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Pitchbook estimates that there is about $290 billion of VC “overhang” (money waiting to be deployed into tech startups) in the US alone and that’s up more than 4x in just the past decade.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2020 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. 2020 was an unpredictably eye-opening year that brought forth swift change, lots of uncertainty, and a shift in perspective for many. I wanted to take a look back at the most popular episodes we aired in 2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always surprised by the fact that some never seem to be able to that first startup going, while many others never seem to stop, starting their second or third initiative before the first one is fully hatched. I’m now convinced that serious entrepreneurs relish the startup process more than success.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Below are four examples of organizations doing just this, including household names and some more up-and-coming startups. Danish-based startup Inpay was formed after founder Jacob Tackmann Thomsen realized money donated to help orphaned children in Myanmar after 2008’s Cyclone Nargis would lose 5% to fees and take days to arrive.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Now, 150 days after October 7th, the Israeli startup ecosystem is once again in a tough spot. Creating companies, raising funding, completing multi million M&A deals.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

90% of Indian startups fail within the first five years of inception. Founders face multiple challenges when they are in the initial faces of a startup. Let us tell you what conversation intelligence is and how it can help your startup. How can conversation intelligence help your startup?”. Wondering how?

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Thus investing in startups should always be approached as a low odds game.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 12, 2020

These two approaches will define our lives behind 2020. But the lockdown has also created a few niches for startups that no one could think of before. If you want your company to be at the edge of improvements – hurry up and discover the potential startup niches! This seems like one of the solid startup niches, right?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 12, 2020

These two approaches will define our lives behind 2020. But the lockdown has also created a few niches for startup founders that no one thought of before. If you want your company to be at the edge of improvements – hurry up and discover the potential startup niches! There’s still the gap.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time to take steps to start your business in 2020. If you want to increase your chances of startup success, you should invest in the expertise of select professionals with specialized skills, even in the earlier stages of your company. What’s the problem with this approach?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 28, 2020

by Rohan Thambrahalli , the Founder and President at UpstartWorks. Following 2020’s shift to remote work, virtually every business adapted in ways they’d never previously thought possible. The days when entire startups ran on GSuite don’t seem that far behind us. Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained. De-Emphasize The Tools.

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VC Cafe

MAY 20, 2022

The memo to YC startups advising startu ps to plan for the worst. I collated some of my favourite pieces of advice in my post ‘ advice for startups in a downturn ‘ On the importance of becoming ‘Default Alive. The landscape was added to my 2022 Israeli startup landscape collection (a few great ones in there!).

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Denver Startup Week , the largest startup week in the world, happens next week. Tuesday, September 15th from 11:00-12 noon MT – Individual Author Showcase: ‘The Startup Community Way’ with Brad Feld. Come join us for some of these, or any of the other hundreds of events at Denver Startup Week 2020.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

It’s been growth ever since, and in 2020 the company pitched for funding to scale up. In early 2020, Sutton set up meetings through cold and warm outreach over email, LinkedIn, and networking through angel and tech start-up groups. A company is more than the CEO / founder, so tell your angel investors who’s in your team.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For the past 10 years, with interest rates near zero, VC investors plowed record amounts into tech startups and enjoyed a seemingly ‘easy’ investing environment. Prices went up from round to round, and startups were encouraged to grow, grow, grow, and not to worry about profitability. Don’t just take it from me.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2019

To take place on 19-21 February 2020 at Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre, the event will host over 3,000 attendees from over 40 countries, as well as featuring over 200 tech partners, more than 60 startups and 50 investors. The post [Event] People Matters TechHR 2020 appeared first on Young Upstarts. and 100+ speakers.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 14, 2020

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series features intimate chats with some of the latest founders taking hold of the startup ecosystem today. 2020 is about growth: increasing brand awareness, reservation count, and Tesla partners. Do you have a sustainable idea that you’d like to explore in the startup scene?

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

One of the most highly anticipated startup IPOs of recent years, we now get a peek inside Airbnb’s business. You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Unfortunately, for startups entering a regulated market following this advice this might not be the optimum path. It’s the antithesis of how founders want to build a business. And why was Bill’s advice of staying away from Washington flawed for startups? These barriers to new innovative startups are called economic rent.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

This past month, SXSW called on the community to enter proposals for conference sessions at all SXSW 2020 events— and so the buzz begins. We’re proud to share that our members, startups, entrepreneurs and Innovation Council partners submitted a total of 17 proposals to the SXSW PanelPicker this year! Deadline to vote is August 23.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

2020 was a good year for Zoom. Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. –JJ Oslund, The Startup.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

2020… where to start? If you look at the prediction lists of 2020, none (or at least very few), would have foreseen the chain reaction of Covid-19 to both enterprise and consumer trends. billion (up from $175 billion in 2020) but not sustaining the 20% growth experienced in the pandemic. Twitch stats in 2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

In my work with new startups, I often find people who believe that the terms “ entrepreneur ” and “ inventor ” are interchangeable. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/17/2020. Yet I find a big difference between “starting a new business” and “creating a new product.”

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