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“I try not to ride the emotional wave of startup life like I sometimes did before” and other lessons from a second time founder

Hunter Walker

I love working with great people and as a venture capitalist, am fortunate the number of founders I’m impressed by far exceeds our investment capacity. Here’s an example of a founder that I’ve known for a while who recently raised a seed round with different firms than ours. The needs of the lead investor for ownership?

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Founders Interview: Atlas Group London – ConstructionTech Transforming Healthcare

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. This entails deploying a DevOps model in our first year of development.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again. Steer into your investors’ objections.

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What’s a Seed Fund to Do When a Seed Round is $20 Million?

Hunter Walker

That is, raising $5m+ at a $20m+ post-money, lead by a large multistage VC. With Homebrew we’re focused on being ‘partners of conviction’ to founders during the first few years of their companies. Heading into Homebrew II, Satya and I are still discussing our framework for evaluating these opportunities.