VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 ” Let’s meet in the virtual world – Even as IRL events return, expect these virtual destinations to continue as a way to make events more accessible to a global audience, according to Ketchum. Fortnite alone made $1.8 social media.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you!

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As entrepreneurs with a passion for helping others, they’ve built a company that is vastly accelerating the ability to deliver healthcare to the most needy global communities. Her work has been commended in leading industry publications and gives her unique strategic insights into the global healthcare ecosystem.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Old and new friends have reached out to welcome us to their community and share ideas about how we could play an impactful role in this remarkable city and state. Even in 2020, a difficult year by any measure, the Austin community has surpassed all of my expectations. Charles Holley, Joe Ogilvie, Ross Perot Jr.,

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. The Grand-daddy. Worked with.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

To achieve the trifecta of startup success (money, talent, ideas), a vibrant startup community can make the difference between success and failure. We attract great global talent. My last investment is an enterprise company from Malaysia that went global from day one. Bridgette: Jon, you run several accelerator programs.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Facile internet connection has also contributed to the globalization factor. We are talking about copy trading, a method that has appeared thanks to the rise of online communities. Online apps, the Internet, and instantaneous connections have helped traders to perfect their methods and build successful trading portfolios.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

There is also a network effect of portfolio companies with early GPs. This makes for “taking” a game community easier, and introduces new complexity for big game studios. If communities are a moat , now they are even more important to protect. Game mechanics within communities will be fascinating to watch.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 2, 2018

We’re particularly proud and excited for this development, as it’s two portfolio companies joining forces! Blockstack is currently hosting a global speaker series, Decentralizing the World , where thought leaders discuss and present on key topics related to decentralization, the new internet, censorship, token economies and more.

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David Cohen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For those of you in Boulder or Seattle that interpreted the communications as a disparagement of the startup community and its impact – that was definitely not the intent. So in 2024 we will still run more than 50 cohorts in 30+ locations globally and into the foreseeable future. We’re sorry for that.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It is akin to an old-fashioned barn raising but on a global scale, organized by engineers with good intentions to protect users, and ensure that the web remains a vibrant and trusted ecosystem into the future.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Elizabeth: An investment in a NAWBO membership provides a portfolio of benefits that propel business growth and fuel personal and professional development. Our role within the international women business owner community continues to reach new corners of the world. NAWBO offers many benefits at both the national and local levels.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

Turns out, it’s all of the above working together to fight a global pandemic. . With fear and uncertainty of a global pandemic, there is a greater urgency for self-care. In fact, there is a big opportunity for Scanwell Health (a V1 portfolio company) to lead the charge in being the next generation LabCorp/Quest Diagnostics in the home.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 1, 2023

They also understand the state of global real estate investments and see the new opportunities they have in investing in various properties in the future. . These projects are not centered in one specific region but across many where people would like to be a part of the community and economy. . The global economy keeps slowing down.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. Most investors like the idea of adding venture investments to “diversity their portfolio,” and create great up-side potential.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

After having to reduce and rethink our strategy during COVID, we observed that our community and sales have skyrocketed. 8- Shifting our focus on the global market. We expanded our services to the whole world, and it paid off as we are now a global company handling ten times our original client base. #2- Long-term view.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

If you want to feel bullish on how Lightning can be used as global payments rails, read this comprehensive essay by Nicolas Burtey of Galoy. TL;DR: The best analogue for Bitcoin itself is a global settlement layer like Fedwire (run by the Federal Reserve for interbank settlements with an average transaction size of $2 million).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2016

Every business is global, but patent rules differ around the world. Some companies called patent trolls purchase or license software patents to build a portfolio that they can sell to the highest bidder or use to hold startups hostage due to limited resources through royalties and litigation.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Prior to working with Citius, he helped global businesses generate up to $200M in annual recurring revenue and realise valuations of $1Bn+. Mitul also has a tremendous knowledge of sales systems, having built and led global GTM teams of 70+ people in Sales (inc. Giving back to the community.

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Board Effect

JULY 28, 2023

At the heart of Modern Governance Summit lies a strong commitment to empowering nonprofits and community banks with the knowledge and strategies essential for navigating today’s governance challenges. The post Modern Governance Summit 2023: Empowering Community Organizations for a Thriving Future appeared first on BoardEffect.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

No code and a global workforce make it possible. I had a few calls and messages through the Upwork system and landed on someone that was easy to communicate with, had done great work, and thought could deliver what we needed in the time we had. Offering up a discount to these communities is also a great way to make progress.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

Global brands such as BBC, Sony, MTV, and the New York Times use WordPress as their go-to platform to host and display their content. Because they have been around for over two decades, they have an incredibly engaged community, and many developers and tools build their applications with WordPress in mind. . Image source ).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2013

I believe in serving the art community and I consistently devote my time to interact with the aspiring artists through deviantART, chat-rooms and streaming my art on Livestream regularly. Kai Lim: I am also known by my handle UkiTakuMuki within the online art community.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group. Funding 101 Panel at 3DS Global Roundup w/ myself, Bart Bohn and May Samali.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. The founders are committed to the global distributed computing community and engage fully by offering and sustaining a free community versio n for life. By now, a few trends are emerging.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital , reports that “37% of our portfolio companies would be considered ‘impact’ qualified companies. 85% of their companies have under $1m in annual revenues.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Sometimes hiring managers have fixed ideas that prevent them from objectively evaluating candidates when putting together national or global teams. Austin has a relatively small tech community, so reputation is a stronger factor there than it would be in a huge market like New York City. Get creative with candidate sourcing.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis had a major adverse impact on the global economy. billion in global remittances. The World Bank projection for 2020 is that global remittances will decline by 20%. They are the only source of savings for a multitude of communities. GDPs of most countries declined. In 2018 the country received $6.8

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. There are 20x more consumers online.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2020

A wave of entrepreneurship around the world was unleashed coming out of the Global Financial crisis in 2010. Techstars has been extremely active around content, community, and engagement around how entrepreneurs can help with Covid-19 as well as how they can navigate the challenges to their business.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Value of the global entertainment and media market (Source: Statista ). I was recently asked by Sifted to recommend exciting Creator Economy startups to watch, that are not part of our portfolio. The growing app portfolio of Lightricks: from Facetune to small businesses, Lightricks wants to be the mobile photoshop and video editor.

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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

Technology innovation, globalization of markets, and recent market volatility such as the 2008 market collapse are driving painful changes (for some) in the asset management industry. How are investors thinking and protecting against volatility in their portfolios? However, this is about to change.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

To help them provide for their families, I would like to employ people in my community first and hopefully extend to other communities as well as I will also be partnering with other small businesses. In just a few short years the disruptive elements of advanced technological change will be felt globally.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. These conferences are not only a great way to raise your startup’s profile, they also serve as valuable networking opportunities within the tech/VC community.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 8, 2010

financial probe digs into a murky industry , "So far there is exactly one person [Don Chu of Primary Global] who works for an expert network with any specific allegations against them." How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies.and Buy a Company with Private Equity Backing.

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