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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. Co-Founder & CEO. Co-Founder & COO. David Harper.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. I didn't have any team.

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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.

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

reidhoffman.org

Analogies are a conceptual framework, so they’re not going to be 100% accurate. However, so many entrepreneurs try to pitch by analogy that some investors have fatigue when they see it. Even though we glossed over those slides, investors knew they could come back to those slides later and dig into them if necessary.