Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.

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David Teten

MAY 29, 2013

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital, and The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York are once again co-sponsoring Flashpoint’s upcoming New York Demo Day, on Friday, June 14, 2013, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM. The event will be held at SUNY Global Center, 116 East 55th Street, New York, NY.

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David Teten

MAY 29, 2013

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital, and The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York are once again co-sponsoring Flashpoint’s upcoming New York Demo Day, on Friday, June 14, 2013, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM. The event will be held at SUNY Global Center, 116 East 55th Street, New York, NY.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Yes, venture capital is very good for scaling businesses rapidly. I personally have nothing against venture capital. Next week, we will delve deep into cloud computing businesses. To prepare, please study the Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing trends and opportunities series. Very encouraging!

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common ways in which the Fortune 500 are working with the startup community at scale is through corporate VC arms, contests, packages of benefits geared to startups, and accelerator programs. 1) Corporate Venture Capital. 3) Freebies. 4) Accelerators.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

To be successful, a venture needs this laser focus. Most of the firms had some critical component that had something to do with using Web protocols or the cloud. Dining Circle runs in the cloud rather than the dedicated PCs that OpenTable.com provides to their restaurant customers. It is all about the Web. No surprise there.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. ————-. Customer Development Education.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

To do the bookkeeping for some of his business clients, he used a DOS-based program called One Write Plus. The program went over to Windows, but he never liked that version, so he stuck with DOS. I''d bet anything he was one of the last active users of the program. In a cloud world, software has a continuous cost of upkeep.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

There will also be a constant stream of programming including official SXSW panels. 1:30PM HILTON AUSTIN DOWNTOWN, SALON K SIMÓN BORRERO, Rappi RODOLFO GONZALEZ, Foundation Capital COURTNEY MCCOLGAN, Runa HR DANIEL VOGEL, Bitso Latin American startups are attracting a record amount of venture capital funding. What gives?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars. All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2020

We interviewed Bill Walsh, CEO/Founder of Business Coaching / Venture Capital firm Powerteam International. To start, describe your product/service in 10 words or less: A: Our Powerteam International Success Education programs help entrepreneurs survive & thrive! Bill hosts and speaks at events all over the world!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Austin has it’s own draw and it has “emerged as one of the hottest startup hubs in the country” according to Hugh Forrest , Chief Programming Officer for SXSW (and one of the angel investor backing this competition). Access to capital —  Austin has almost a dozen venture capital firms and a dozen more in the fundraising stages.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Interesting to see Y Combinator revise funding portion of its program … The YC VC Program – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? Facebook Remains Gaping Hole in Advertising Industry’s Privacy Program | Advertising Age – [link]. A poor effort to defend a P/E ratio of 666 (Salesforce).

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Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

The answer is the cloud. As cloud computing and applications have become more prevalent in every size and type of company, configuring these applications remains a pain point that business operations and IT departments know all too well. You might well ask: why is this more of a problem today than it was a few years ago? Enter Salto.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

There’s no use banging your head against a VC’s door with a social network venture if they only invest in biotech companies. Gust takes advantage of the cloud, and you should, too. While VCs are the toughest nut to crack, there are many other (often better) sources of seed capital that may be available to you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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SiliconHills

MAY 2, 2017

Bitfusion, an Austin-based startup, announced Tuesday that it has received $5 million in venture capital funding. Vanedge Capital led the Series A round with participation from new investor Sierra Ventures and existing investors Data Collective, Resonant VC and Geekdom Fund.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Their most profitable segment is very high-end processors used in data centers in servers and the cloud. For the first 75 years of the 20 th century, when capital for new ventures was scarce, the smartest engineering talent went to corporate R&D labs. Risk capital has provided financing for new ideas in the form of startups.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

A few months ago, VC Cafe launched a series on startup engagement and outreach programs of large tech companies. After covering Google startup outreach and support (from first hand experience), today I’m happy to add Amazon and AWS, by looking into the variety of ways startups can engage with the commerce and cloud giant.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

In the past I’ve covered the rise of corporate venture capital and the growing number of Fortune 500 companies who are actively launching CVC arms or investing in startups/funds. In this post, I’ll try to organise the various startup engagement and outreach programs at Google. M&A – Acquisitions.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

The University of Houston has the number one undergraduate entrepreneurship program in the country and Rice University has the number one graduate entrepreneurship program in the country. Research Institute, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and several public universities and Department of Defense research and development programs.

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

Those 3 startups will join another 17 to comprise the next batch of startups in the 500 Startups Accelerator Program. This is the second class of startups for the program, the first class having graduated this past spring. Those winners are StoryTree , Culture Kitchen , and Volta. The full list is below). startupcto

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

A mobile wallet cloud-based platform is offered by Paydiant Inc. The Paydiant platform allows its business customers the ability to offer mobile payments in addition to ATM cash-access functionality and loyalty programs. It has raised over $35 million in venture capital funds. Paydiant Inc.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

McKenna had a brief exchange with a contact who worked at a trading and venture capital firm in February 2020, when cases of the pandemic started to be reported across the U.S., Do employees have access to the programs and files they’ll need to do their work? which gave him the unmistakable impression that disaster was looming.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Cloud Computing. (1).

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 5, 2020

But while it’s certainly possible to use SPACs for financial engineering, Reinvent Technology Partners , the SPAC that I sponsored with Mark Pincus and Michael Thompson , is focused on a very different opportunity, which we refer to as “venture capital at scale,” which offers greater and more sustainable benefits.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2012

Organized by technology startup accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator – better known locally as JFDI Asia – the recent JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp saw some 11 local and regional technology startups undergo a tough 100-day program that saw them attempt to turn a prospective idea into a potentially sustainable digital business.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. This prevents automated programs from posting comments. Cloud Services. venture capital. However, Ive learned four lessons the hard way: 1. Most tech start-ups fail. The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. SaaS scale (as defined in Law #3 of the 10 Cloud Computing Laws) is reached when least two of the sales reps are making their $100,000 MRR quotas. $1 Cloud Computing. (1). Venture Capital. (3).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Paycheck Protection program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program. Check if the the Paycheck Protection Program , ( here and here ) which provides 100% federally guaranteed loans to small businesses, can apply to your company. Also see if the the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program applies. Workers can return.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Whether you run or work for a small business, summer camp, an after-school program, or an ad agency, CRAZE Conference can help your business grow. Venture Summit Silicon Valley is taking place at the dynamic new Draper University, where participants can easily meet up, socially network, and make deals happen. Craze Conference.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 4, 2015

The confluence of Big Data and high quality, low cost software-as- service ( SaaS ) programs and applications for virtually every business purpose has made the path clearer than ever as to what entrepreneurs and executives must do to build real equity value in their companies. Pretty cool, eh?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Techstars has become a power player in places like Boston, Boulder and Seattle: The program, known as a startup accelerator, takes entrepreneurs and offers them office space, funding and advice, taking a stake in the companies in exchange. Think of it as a cross between a landlord, summer camp, and venture-capital firm.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

There have been a number of thoughtful "early warning sign" posts in the past few days including one from Fred Wilson ( Storm Clouds ), one from Mark Suster ( What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common ), and Roger Ehrenberg ( Investing in a frenzied market ). Tags: Venture Capital angel seed VC.

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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. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. This led to an explosion in startups.

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Board Effect

JUNE 10, 2019

If you’re interested in more of a partnership, you’ll also find opportunities to work with venture capital partners or local angel investors. Try searching grants.gov for a searchable directory of over 1,000 federal grant programs. Again, be aware that they’ll usually expect some stake in the company for their trouble.

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