VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

Live operations refer to the ongoing management and maintenance of a game after its initial launch, and can include things like events, updates, and community management. Unity, Riot Games, Microsoft, Google and Playtika, are just some of the recent companies who announced layoffs, affecting thousands of jobs. billion in 2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Offshore 257

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. When the Chinese government censors (run by their propaganda department ) shutdown access to yet another U.S. And when the government tools to detect encrypted VPN’s get more sophisticated, (as it did last year), Chinese users just use stealthier tools.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Andressen Horowitz,ff Venture Capital,HOF Capital, Sequoia .

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2014

The United States is not uniform in its friendliness toward small businesses, and some states make operating a business easier than others. The state’s economy, government incentives and training, business regulations and workforce are other crucial factors. Government is a large employer—given the state’s proximity to Washington, D.C.—and

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Offshore 120

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

On August 14–15, the Air Force, through AFWERX , hosted a two-day Spark Collider event at Capital Factory to bring newly awarded 19.2 SBIR Phase I companies together with relevant Air Force and venture capital stakeholders. The more successful Jeff became, the more assistance he needed to organize his day-to-day schedule.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Operating without a website is increasingly rare, and ignoring this weakness for too long could have disastrous consequences. This is one area in which being a small local firm could be a major advantage, but international market research and more information about the government export initiatives are required. Employee training.

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Botswana Business Plan Oregon Distribution 148

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. When the Chinese government censors (run by their propaganda department ) shutdown access to yet another U.S. And when the government tools to detect encrypted VPN’s get more sophisticated, (as it did last year), Chinese users just use stealthier tools.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2013

So when the city government seems to be bending over backwards to make tech companies want to start and grow their businesses here, conducting business here might be another story. Government served an incredibly important role regulating ground transportation in the past. It''s embarrassing for us as a tech community.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

What’s more, the Swiss government is proactive in encouraging this by reducing red-tape to streamline startup processes and remove roadblocks to success. More than 220 fintech companies are based in Switzerland overall, out of which over 100 operate in the blockchain sphere. Switzerland also invests about 3.4%

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VC Adventure

MARCH 19, 2023

Most of this consolidation has come at the expense of smaller community banks and largely, the consolidators have been the country’s biggest banks. SVB itself banked companies across the US and was one of the few banks that would take on smaller venture capital funds (the average venture capital fund size is $56M, according to the NVCA).

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Community Portfolio 87

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 8, 2010

" "Because the light is so much better" The US financial regulatory apparatus looks terrible now because of the Madoff scandal (which was not a hedge fund) and the 2008 financial meltdown (caused by the large banks/mortgage companies, bad regulation, quasi-government agencies like Fannie/Freddie, and consumers who took on too much debt).

Networking 122

Networking Private Equity SEC Software Review 122

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Goldman Sachs and CB Insights recently reported that startups have raised over $1 billion in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) this summer — more than the total amount of venture capital raised during the same period. Need for growth capital. A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Goldman Sachs and CB Insights recently reported that startups have raised over $1 billion in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) this summer — more than the total amount of venture capital raised during the same period. Need for growth capital. A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again.

Early Stage 20

Early Stage Equity Venture Capital Government 20

Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

As local governments work to transform their regulatory environments into ones that promote and nurture the establishment and growth of small businesses, it’s becoming easier to measure and rank their efforts. Simple licensing procedures: Cities with convoluted or erratic licensing requirements will be much harder to operate in.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2020

A grant is financial assistance awarded by the federal, state, or local government. If you’re pursuing a grant, government and SBA options are likely the most common but difficult routes to go. Venture Capital and Angel Investment. It encourages lean operations and can help you avoid taking out too much funding early on.

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Small Business SBA Bootstrapping Venture Capital 118

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

New York 116

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 116

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

While this signaled that investments in technology companies could be very lucrative, both Shockley and Fairchild could only be funded through corporate partners – there was no venture capital industry. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. A wave of innovation was about to meet a pile of risk capital.

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Engineer Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital 305

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The venture capital landscape in Asia is varied and complex, as most of the active firms on the continent are concentrated in just a few areas. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. China’s top dogs include the likes of GGV Capital , Sequoia China , IDG , Qiming , and a handful of others.

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Scheduling time to look over a surgeon’s shoulder in an operating room is tough. It will have a simulated procedure space that can be configured as an Operating Room, Emergency Room, Intensive Care Unit and other clinical/procedural settings. Getting time to brainstorm with payers or experts in clinical trials is hard.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The other change is that universities, instead of being passive, have become active in building an entrepreneurial community. I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.” They’ve become outward-facing universities. PB: Everyone looks for a turnkey solution.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Applicants were told that ERA was doing electronics work for government and industry. Unfortunately for the company they couldn’t tell anyone as their customer was the most secret government agency in the country – the National Security Agency. Paul was the place to be. How Did ERA Grow So Quickly? million today.)

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games. STOIKY is his callsign.

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Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles.

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Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. For entrepreneurs seeking assistance in R&D, Toronto is a great bet.

Silicon Valley 83

Silicon Valley Canada Entrepreneur Startup 83

Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

If you are operating a new or small-scale business of any kind, a grant could be a great way to improve your prospects and inject some cash into your operational equation. Generally, these grants will be funded by either the British government or the European Union, but the distribution mechanisms tend to be very local in their scope.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Finance Finder 60

The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. Most investors thought of their job as picking good companies and making sure governance was strong. Low handicaps weren’t good!

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Portfolio LP Venture Capital Partner 84

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. So what can a community do?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2010

If you think that bankers and lawyers drive innovation, this is a “good thing”; otherwise, this is an utterly disastrous government-sanctioned redistribution of wealth that discourages software innovation. This, I think, will be the unintended consequence of Bilski and the alignment of the government against innovation in software.

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Software IP South America Investment Bankers 132

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. For entrepreneurs seeking assistance in R&D, Toronto is a great bet.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Canada Entrepreneur Startup 48

Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

As an independent agency of the government, the SBA partners with both public and private organizations to deliver its services, including loans. Because loan guaranty requirements and practices are dependent on the US Government, changes to policies or economic conditions may change lending terms. Community Advantage Loans .

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The Alexa Fund also provides up to $200 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation. Amazon AppStore – The Amazon Appstore (mobile/tablet) for Android and Fire OS operated by Amazon.com. Amazon Pay – For startup payment acceptance and collection. Physical space.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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