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10 Tips for Finding Venture Funding

Up and Running

I have to start with a major negative: if you have to ask if your startup can get venture capital, then it almost certainly can’t. Venture capital is a very rarified atmosphere of high-end startups and emerging businesses with experienced management teams, high potential growth, secret sauce, and so on.

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Welcoming the Newest Partner to Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

Today is amongst the proudest days I’ve had at Upfront Ventures — getting the chance to announce that Kevin Zhang has been promoted to Partner. years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. I mentioned at the start that Kevin has taught me something about Venture Capital.

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A digital goodie bag

VC Cafe

You may have stumbled on LinkedIn posts enticing people (mainly startup founders) to leave a comment if they would like to get a copy of a document/list/database. Venture capital. While some things change slowly, maintaining the list current proved tricky as time went by. Hope you find them helpful. ? Online education.

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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. Set up the basic marketing toolkit: deck, website, accurate online databases, and social media accounts. . It’s virtually mandatory to develop a detailed, data-backed deck, and ideally a video pitch. Lastly, gather feedback.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5 Where do all of these engineers end up?

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Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL to make your database fly

gigaom.com

Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL to make your database fly. With Facebook engineers, it appears the high-performance database apple doesn’t far fall from the tree. All told, he claims MemSQL performs up to 30 times faster than disk-based databases. Collaboration. By Derrick Harris. 18, 2012, 4:30am PT. 4 Comments.

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8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

Both Sides of the Table

That’s why I was so interested in having “ The Gotham Gal &# come on This Week in VC ( video link on YouTube , download iTunes, episode 15) ) and dispel those myths. I think this video should serve as an inspiration to any young aspiring female entrepreneur (and male!) She did this because she had great rapport with buyers.

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