This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you’re the founder and you’re a top salesperson, but don’t have a native understanding about the web and product builds, you have to face the fact that you might make for a very frustrating partner for a tech lead. editing and curation - Making qualitative judgements about what the user should see and be able to consume.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Overall, European and Israeli venture capital funds have a lot of dry powder to fund companies in the years to come, regardless of a potential recession. The UK continues to attract the most capital, followed by Germany, Sweden, France and Israel. In Israel there’s also been an influx of fresh capital.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

I suspect many of the first-wave of GenAI startups targeting the application layer will fall victim to this as the big platforms expand and partner to offer similar features. If you want to learn more about these advantages, I recommend Harry Stabbings “ 20 Minute VC ” podcast featuring Sarah Tavel , a partner at Benchmark.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This article is part of our “ Business Startup Guide ”—a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! Depending on the size and goals of your venture, you may need to seek financing from an “angel” investor or from a venture capital firm. Angel investment (similar to venture capital).

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. I welcome suggestions.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. We met at a private party hosted by his venture partner Mike Yavonditte and I outlined my concerns for the lack of precision of the algorithm.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

We’re bringing a select group of Texas startups to the East Coast for curated, 1-on-1 investor meetings in Atlanta, Boston and New York. Relevant companies should be targeting to raise up to $10 million from traditional venture capital.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

has partnered with the National Health Service in the UK to deliver personalised health assistance via an app. It needs to help us to discover and curate content that is relevant to us from all the noise. Machine learning in cyber security has already attracted a substantial amount of venture capital (e.g. Better search.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I have been able to curate a list of free online courses, videos, webinars, and other useful resources that should give you the confidence boost to get out there and get started. Partners and resources. See Also: Business Startup Tools: A Curated List of Our Favorite Tools and Resources to Build Your Company. The competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

As we head into 2016, we leave behind a year of robust trends for venture capital—or “VC”—funding. The Pacific Northwest had a great overall year for venture capital activity in 2015—even if you count the 59 percent dip in Q4. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 16:35-19:35). 40:30 –41:30).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

Resources abound online, but the noise-to-signal ratio is high, and the content needs to be verified and curated. There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. Check out the Digital Capital LumaScape below. Ultimately, you have to curate your resources. 1) Industry reports.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

While the company is not primarily a marketplace, each order is hand-curated by a work-at-home “stylist” who works part-time on their own schedule from the comfort of their own home. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. Interested in “Unlocking Wealth” Yourself?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

If you''re looking for business development partners, is there a "Partner" section on your website, or a way to capture leads from all the attention? Did you specifically state in the press that you were looking for partners? Venture Capital & Technology' Are you looking to hire? What makes a great employee?

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Austin Startup

MAY 16, 2012

Mass Relevance, the technology leader in social curation and integration, today announced that it has closed $3.3 million in venture capital funding. Mass Relevance will use the new financing to accelerate growth for the company’s platform among media, entertainment, consumer brands and retailers.

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David Teten

JULY 28, 2011

I hope you can join me at PluggedIn Ventures ‘ August 3 roundtable, 8:30-10am, focused on "How companies are leveraging real time data, content, and analytics" “Social Technologies and mobile devices mean that words, images, and video now travel faster than the speed of sound, across the street and around the world.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Gimlet’s first podcast, documents the process Alex Bloomberg went through to found Gimlet Media with his partner, Matthew Lieber. itunes.apple.com. itunes.apple.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

But it got me thinking about how often entrepreneurs overplay their PR so I thought I’d try to offer some advice and how to play PR with VCs (or more broadly with customers or business development partners). Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice startup technology vc. Strike one up for subtlety.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2017

See Also: Venture Capital Funding: A Curated List of Our Best Resources. Securing startup capital: A brutal experience that drags on and on. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. I could tell my partner was getting nervous. See Also: What Do Venture Capital Firms Want?

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

From big brands creating campaigns on Facebook to group buying sites like Groupon to subscription services such as Birchbox and Shoedazzle to highly curated specialty sites such as Fab.com , 2011 saw large increases in consumers buying online. eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2017

My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Brian Clark, CEO of Rainmaker Digital , founder of Copyblogger , host of Unemployable , and curator of Further. Copyblogger never took venture capital and made it to 8 figures in annual revenue without advertising. Marketing Podcast with Brian Clark.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Venture capital Rounds. million in its third financing round led by Pitango Venture Capital. Japan’s Softbank and current investors General Catalyst, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures also participated. Israeli venture capital news. Footbo raises $2.5 has raised $16.5

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

In addition to Stanford I also teach at Columbia, and at these research universities – Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, and others – they all now have an internal incubator, they have maker spaces, they have their own venture funds, they connect to the community, they connect to venture capital. It’s a big idea.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Superbly curated, and Guy Raz is just a pleasure to listen to. This Much I know— Carlos Eduardo Espinal, a friend, and partner at Seedcamp. itunes.apple.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Let’s explore some progressive interaction models that go beyond touch and into movement, infrared, wearable computing, sound and ambient data to really give us an idea of what our immersive interactive future may hold and how we might curate that future now. 12:30 PM: Who Needs Venture Capital? Gary Vee knows wine.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

On Friday November 9 , I’ll be participating at as one of 20 VCs at Capital On Stage in NY, an unconventional startup conference about funding in which investors present themselves to a curated group of startups – instead of the reverse. Nic Brisbourne, partner at DFJ esprit, wrote a laudatory post.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 7, 2018

The leader curates the agenda and we finalize it the week before the offsite. Whoever is on the board is not allowed to speak – they have to listen as the other partners reviews the portfolio company. Portfolio : We have lots of different approaches to this, but it’s essentially a deep dive on a portion of the portfolio.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2013

But that's pre-executive coaching from Jerry Colonna, pre-yoga, pre-five more years of maturing into being a partner at my own fund. I curate both personally and from lots of suggestions from others as to who should be there. Every year I run an event at the Shake Shack. 5) Make the kiddie table the fun table.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. See Also: A Curated List of Our Favorite 20 Marketing Tools.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

Venture Capital ?—? 2019 Capital Factory VIP Lounge during SXSW Interactive The 16th floor kitchen and coworking area will be buzzing with even more energy and excitement than normal. Search for technologies and industries you’re interested in, companies, people, topics… it’s easy. What do I search for? Startup ?—? Robotics ?—?

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards.

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