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How To Lose Fat And Gain Muscle With Venture Capital

David Teten

All venture capital and NIH funding data for CY 2010 – 2014 in USA. A standardized way to look at the issue is to calculate funding per DALY, i.e., the amount of venture capital (both private and corporate) and NIH research funding allocated to combat each year of healthy life lost. Source: NIH, CB Insights.

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9 Austin Startup Week Sessions at Capital Factory That Blew Us Away

Austin Startup

From tips on international expansion strategies to using XR as a musical instrument, these sessions at Capital Factory showcased some amazing innovation in Austin’s startup community. Whether you’re an experienced entrepreneur or just recently entered the tech community, keep up with our events throughout the year at Capital Factory!

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Snyk: How Freemium Can Help Your Start-up Grow from Series A to $2.6B in 30 Months

Cracking the Code

Earlier this year, I was on a panel with Guy Podjarny, Snyk’s founder, at SaaStock Remote to discuss how the team’s community-driven freemium approach led to the company’s stellar growth. With COVID, we’re getting into a world with tighter budgets and likely longer sales cycles. How did you define this threshold for Snyk?

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How Technology Can Make Builders More Relevant Now

Austin Startup

A lot of high-level trends are being incorporated in builder communities, which isn’t a new occurrence. Venture Capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has an investment thesis that tech companies can conquer existing processes faster than established insiders can see and adopt technological opportunities.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

It attracted a very high quality crowd of senior executives from major investment banks and members of the innovation community — two groups that don’t normally mingle. Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development. 2-18 month sales cycle. KUNZLE: Push us for fast decision.

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Getting A VC Job

Rob Go

The most obvious candidates of this sort are the folks who started or led community organizations focused on startups and their respective tech communities. Timing is pretty unpredictable, and it’s a long sales cycle. If you want to do something, try your very best to start doing it early and keep at it.

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The Unified Theory of Food Investing for Tech VCs

This is going to be BIG.

That's why Sherbrooke and Benchmark just put $8mm into Farmingo , to support these food communities via social software. Even if you're not a part of a food community, you could be buying a lot more local than you think. Brightfarms , which got $4mm in venture capital, sets up indoor farms inside your local supermarket or on rooftops.