View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

The quality, network, or experience of your local investors is likely fairly different from those in other markets. The good news is that just as companies are getting more and more comfortable with remote communications, I find that investors are also getting more and more comfortable supporting companies from a distance.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Blink, A New App For Ephemeral Text And Photo.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2018

Seriously consider these seven tips before any deal reaches the negotiating stage. Use your network to search out CEOs funded by any investor you are considering. All entrepreneurs want to demonstrate that they’re competent, courageous, and bold, however, always take a co-founder or trusted advisor along.

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Rob Go

JULY 18, 2019

The quality, network, or experience of your local investors is likely fairly different from those in other markets. The good news is that just as companies are getting more and more comfortable with remote communications, I find that investors are also getting more and more comfortable supporting companies from a distance.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. To help you more effectively build your early teams, we asked a group of founders to share their favorite interview questions when they build new startup teams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Because of the incredible array of information available, we have a desperate need for filtering mechanisms. Does anyone really watch the full NBC lineup anymore?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Network effects of cities and innovation — and how it ties to inequality Just as there are network effects in online platforms, where a network grows more valuable to users the more users that join and use it, there are also network effects in the physical world. The same applies to cities.

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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. I’d expect a similar shift in venture over the next decade or two.”.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Social Network Lists. Trending Stories. Duqu Virus Tied to Microsoft Windows Bug.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

New York never went through a phase as a suburban startup hub… basically just an urban boom as Silicon Alley 1.0 But more broadly than just that,the direct costs of launching a startup have obviously plummeted which makes being a founder more accessible than historically. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S. So how early should the founders pack their bags and ship out to the U.S.? Israel has been branded the “startup nation.”

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Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

Anneke Jong: I’ve talked to and advised many seed stage startups, and I find they often have an awesome high-level pitch, but if you start asking questions just one layer deeper, most of the answers are, “Errrr, um….we That wasn’t the case when I met with Greg Hong and Joe Marchese, the co-founders of Reserve.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

Anneke Jong: I’ve talked to and advised many seed stage startups, and I find they often have an awesome high-level pitch, but if you start asking questions just one layer deeper, most of the answers are, “Errrr, um….we That wasn’t the case when I met with Greg Hong and Joe Marchese, the co-founders of Reserve.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. The hybrid social network, communication and crowdsourcing platform allows startups to access investors, and has also become a resource for investors looking to boost dealflow and connect with other investors.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Technology is changing the way we do business; crowd sourcing and social networks have become a default security system. Redistribution of resources and services through social platforms is creating new business and new revenue streams by monetizing previously underutilized assets. Adam Berk, Founder of Neigh*borrow.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The numbers I’ve heard from most everyone is that only about 20 percent of companies that have gotten a seed round in the last year will be able to raise a Series A. I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs.

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