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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David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2014

Each individual giver feels happy and bonded to the child, but the aggregate effect is fat kids. Your job as an educator is to do what’s in the long term interests of the child and community. Instead, it puts more pressure on educators to educate not just their children but their community. Mini rice cakes—unsalted.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. And Jamie hers.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 22, 2013

Not that VC dollars are the be all and end all, but it''s one important measure of the health of a startup community, and NYC''s latest quarterly numbers from the PWC Moneytree report are continuing a positive trend--not only relative to the Valley, but in the aggregate. Venture Capital & Technology' We''re up 11.5%

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

The agenda: * Quick introductions over breakfast * Three brief demos, including one from Hot Potato * Casual networking session, with free Wi-Fi on offer for those who want to stick around and work in a community environment. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link]. Saturday, January 30th. RSVP: [link].

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. Allyson says that she and co-founder Meg knew that more traditional sources of funding like venture capital wouldn’t be the easiest avenue for a social enterprise, so they connected with an organization called Investor’s Circle.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Before making the decision to join ff Venture Capital , I did some research on early-stage tech investing as an asset class and how it’s evolving. Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

billion, and 12 have been acquired for more than $6 billion in aggregate since presenting at the AIR Summit. Strategic corporate investors feature heavily in this activity, including members of the AIR community. Since inception, of the 85 companies invited to present, 30 have raised nearly $1.5

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. But a casual coffee with Emily Weiss on the eve of my last day at Social Capital ultimately changed those plans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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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. . Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up. The Amazon AWS-led revolution of startup innovation has led to a massive increase in the aggregate number of startups.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

This is the “tastes great, less filling&# debate that recurs on a regular basis in the venture capital and entrepreneur communities. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. Let me introduce other material that may be good for our community. Venture Capital. (3). Newer Post.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Education plays a major role in venture capital. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. Crowdfunding communities are no different. The problem? How can you reveal your reputation?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. Venture News.

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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. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 13, 2018

I went on the popular Facebook group “Austin Startups” and posted a link to my availability for virtual investor office hours on a first-come, first-serve basis from the broader community. Having said all that, who knows when this bubble will end and I’m still interested in meeting entrepreneurs with ambitious ideas around blockchain.

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Austin Aggregator Portfolio Distribution 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

I guess it may be impractical for Twitter to acquire Seesmic given it has raised considerable amounts of venture capital (reportedly $12 million) but the broader point for me is that I always believed Twitter should control the client versions of its product. But in any platform community this happens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Mark is a serial entrepreneur who is now active in the venture capital community for early-stage startups. Then there are the aggregator curators that bring together the best of the best from a wide variety of sources, without the single guiding light to make sure they are consistent and integrated.

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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. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. This is unintentional and inevitable.

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Venture Capital' Arduino and other open source hardware platforms are reducing costs in the same way open source software reduced costs for web companies.

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Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. Make it easy to “pilot&# new work with a test community of actively engaged readers, and provide a mechanism for measuring the impact of these pilots. For bonus points, make this a paid subscription.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Despite the buzz among entrepreneur communities, various restrictions may make crowdfunding impractical for companies raising money and the intermediaries that facilitate the process. .” Title III enables “crowdfunding,” or the ability to sell securities in small amounts to a large number of investors.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Specifically, the “narrow network” typically aggregates those providers that are willing to accept lower prices for their services (theoretically you could have a “premium” narrow network, but they are typically used to create more affordable plans). CVS Care Clinic Price Schedule: Benchmark Healthcare Investments. healthcare market.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Luckily, the startup community often courageously shares their stories – even when things don’t end well. Three notes before we begin: After reading these, you realize more than ever that the startup community is really like no other. It takes a lot of work to build a community. It’s free. Get started here.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. They created a reason for their customers to aggregate on their site on a regular basis. Blog to your community. Think Mint.com.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Riverside defines proprietary as any sale less than ~3 buyers involved Kinderhook looks for the “broken” auctions that didn’t get the right attention of the PE community. Intermediaries. Join the right clubs.

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Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

As expected, that deal took a bit longer than it would have had the Company raised a vanilla Series A to begin with (and subsequently raised a Series B) but the aggregate fees for the two transactions were still less than the standard Series A followed by a Series B. Second, they are simple.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. About this same point in time, the journalists that focus specifically on the venture capital industry noted something quite profound.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. Posted in Analysis , Venture Capital. Don't Believe Venture Capital Firm Websites.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Denver, CO, February 23, 2010 – The Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association today unveiled its final lineup of growth companies at the 27 th annual Venture Capital in the Rockies (VCIR) 2010 Winter conference. Related posts: Venture Capital in the Rockies. About VCIR. More information can be found at.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

At my firm, ff Venture Capital, we’re trying our part to rethink how the industry works, and also actively looking for opportunities to invest in companies creatively disrupting this sector, e.g., our portfolio companies Addepar and Indiegogo. In aggregate, angels are significant investors. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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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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