Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

On August 14–15, the Air Force, through AFWERX , hosted a two-day Spark Collider event at Capital Factory to bring newly awarded 19.2 SBIR Phase I companies together with relevant Air Force and venture capital stakeholders. Really impressive & demonstrates how serious the @usairforce is about fostering true #innovation.

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SBIR Government Venture Capital Startup 48

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

At HOF Capital, we support our companies through 7 main levers (i.e., the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . 3) Raise capital. When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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B2B Cloud Europe 62

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. I’d expect a similar shift in venture over the next decade or two.”.

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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. The companies were all part of Capital Innovators, an accelerator venture fund that has been operating since last fall. Two events this week in St. Louis tech investor.

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St. Louis Kansas City Technical Review Kansas 127

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 78

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft.

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IP Intellectual Property IRR Cofounder 223

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. I was fortunate enough to speak with co-founder Allyson Cote, and hear the Maternova story, as well as some of its exciting plans for the future. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator.

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Cofounder Sweat Equity Social Media Business Model 60

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. The company is currently seeking first-round venture capital and institutional funding.

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Illinois Aggregator Chicago Widget 165

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2016

by Amit Damani , cofounder of Vista Rooms. Currently in its 7th season, the show features a panel of potential venture capital investors, called “sharks”, that considers offers from aspiring entrepreneurs seeking investments for their business or products.

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Cofounder Startup SEC India 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. As we started to focus on what each of us wanted to do, Adam raised his venture capital fund – Plus Capital. She joined Mesa Global where she is doing both venture capital and investment banking. And Adam his.

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Early Stage Venture Capital Los Angeles Coder 290

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

When it comes to caliber and depth Quora , the fast-growing Q&A site started by a former Facebook Co-founder, delivers. Both in terms of product, potential for exit and viral growth&# and aggregated the community answers. I asked a simple question: “ What are the top startups in Israel 2010?

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Viral Venture Capital Aggregator 94

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. What She’s Learned, And What You Can Learn From Her. We had overlapping circles and then became friends. Enter Box.

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IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 90

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rasheed Sabar , Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Correlation One. billion, and 12 have been acquired for more than $6 billion in aggregate since presenting at the AIR Summit. Carrie Jaquith , Lazard – VP, Digital Product Manager & Head of Emerging Technology Group. Mazy Dar , CEO of OpenFin.

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Private Equity Cofounder Aggregator Equity 60

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. It’s free.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. I think I just really feared working for the Man.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding. Add to this that 72.7%

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. The aggregate value of the 67 public cloud companies have surpassed $1T in February 2020 to reach $1.4T The Accel 2020 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October. at the time of this post.

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Europe Cloud Valuation 71

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There are some obvious structural reasons why a shakeout in the venture capital industry takes a long time. The reality is that it wasn’t until the GEC (Global Economic Crisis, Great Recession, Credit Crunch, call it what you will) of late 2008 and early 2009 that the shakeout really began for venture capital.

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A check-in aggregation platform. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment. Venture News. VoiceBase - Transcription and search of voice communications (presentations, conference calls, etc.) TuneUp - iTunes plug-in that cleans up your music library.

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Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

David Teten

JULY 21, 2011

ff Venture Capital is launching a periodic Meetup for people who work in the innovation community and who are parents of pre-teen children. Our Venture Partner Michael Yavonditte (father of a 2-year-old) and I (girls ages 6, almost 4, and 8 months) are leading this. ”, which in aggregate is quite a large company.

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Venture Capital Affiliate Aggregator Community 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My founders and I started the company about three years ago. The way that I leverage that is when I’m faced with a decision before I go to make the decision and let’s say my executive team and I or my co-founder and I or just myself I get an idea and I think what if we were to do X, Y and Z.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

The fund is backed by David Moche, a Florida based real estate investor, and one of the co-founders of About.com. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates. The founders Ido Volff and Barak Abraham put an emphasis on gamification, rewarding activities in the system with virtual points for contribution.

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Incubator Startup Florida 99

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

The 23rd started with a quick overview of the achievement of our Software and SaaS portfolio in 2007 presented by Byron Deeter, the co-head of our West Coast SaaS practice. This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B

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Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009.

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Professor VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

I had a conversation recently with Alex Mittal, Co-founder and CEO of FundersClub (FC) and decided to revisit my blog post from last fall that was skeptical of crowdfunding for angel investments. FC is the latest Kickstarter type site to launch to give entrepreneurs the opportunity to raise financing from a large number of individuals.

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Accredited Investor SEC Cap Table Angel Groups 42

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Chang Xu for her tireless effort in helping me prepare and analyze the data) If you met with LPs to raise a fund in 2009–2012 the most common refrain was, “We have too many managers and too many dollars in venture. Note that all of these names were not started in Silicon Valley. link] So here are some details (please thank & follow!

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