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The Biggest Threats to My Business

Rob Go

Non-institutional Leads. I’ve seen a few cases now where a number of very high-quality institutional investors were interested in investing in a company at valuation, but a non-institutional investor was willing to set terms 1.5 – 2X higher than that valuation. The institutions walked, but the round got done.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. It’s also important that Texas is a right-to-work state that limits the use of non-compete clauses for talent. all Bay Area firms?—?investing

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