YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2020

Many do not have an adequate amount of cash to weather the storm and have to scramble to apply for government emergency loans and grants. If you want your business to grow faster by taking on investors and raising venture capital, you might want to switch your business entity from an LLC to a C Corporation.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. Welcome to our annual boldstart recap and enterprise predictions letter. First check to Series B?—?congrats

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If you don’t have time to perform the research or would like a second opinion, there are people you can go to for help, like government departments and your local SBDC. 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.

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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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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 These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Tens of thousands visit Austin every year for the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. Thus, the world’s scientists, medical experts, and governments are in new territory, determining what works and what doesn’t work as each country moves through the peaks and troughs of this pandemic.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

When anyone can work from anywhere, they don’t evenly distribute across the country. Some are running away from skyrocketing tax rates, dysfunctional government, and devastating wildfires. Breyer Capital also has an impact investing arm and has eight portfolio companies based on the African continent.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

They focus on helping content creators and app developers create, identify, package and distribute those meaningful video highlights in ways that help them reach more customers and generate more revenue. I was living in Sacramento and had worked in venture capital with Intel Capital and a Sacramento-based VC fund.

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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. There are a bunch of amazing autonomy and robotics startups in Texas, and most of them are working with Guinn Partners in one way or another.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2012

For a number of years, my partner Jason Mendelson has been teaching an extremely popular course at CU Boulder Law School with Brad Bernthal titled Venture Capital – A 360 Degree Perspective. Entrepreneurial Leadership in Government. Following is a first draft of a syllabus.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

If you don’t, please educate yourself on this site, Venture Hacks and the term sheet series by Brad Feld/Jason Mendelson, among other places. If you really want to understand the nuances in venture capital financing documents, please review the NVCA model venture capital financing documents. . under $500K).

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

This week teams figured out how to measure mission achievement and success, and our advanced lectures were on activities, resources and partners. Why Innovation in Government Is Hard. In companies this would be product line extensions, more efficient supply chain, new distribution channels. See all the H4D posts here.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

C corps, LLCs, and S corps differ significantly in the areas of taxation, ownership, fundraising, governance and structure, and employee compensation. Any company that raises venture financing will need to be a C corp in order to issue preferred stock. Such inflexible features are typically unattractive to venture investors.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today. What’s Next in 2012….

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’m the founder of LinkedIn and a partner at the venture capital firm, Greylock Partners. To achieve that vision, we need new technologies; new collaborative strategies between governments, NGOs, and the private sector; new methods of sharing and scaling what works. Networks of capital.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. Today, we are lucky to welcome Dan Kimerling of Deciens Capital. Venture Capital is not a complicated business.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 18, 2018

This blog post was co-authored with Adrian Colyer, Venture Partner and former CTO of Pivotal Nearly all businesses have process-related workflows that govern how their users interact with their service or automate internal tasks.and they are painful to code and even more painful to test.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. Semiconductors. Telecommunications. Transportation. Stock Quotes.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

Greylock Partners · Reid Hoffman | Philosopher Versus MBA. If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

Greylock Partners · Reid Hoffman | Philosopher Versus MBA. If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

She’ll have to quit her well-paid job at a respectable company and tell her parents that although she studied hard throughout school and got into a great college and graduated in 3 years that she is now leaving it to change the way that manufacturers sell products electronically through their distribution systems. So you become jaded.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. A quantum network’s value comes from its ability to distribute entanglement. Quantum Cryptography/Quantum Key Distribution. Securing and validating Quantum Key Distribution is hard and it’s only one part of a cryptographic system.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP. The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

To an entrepreneur, being asked to join a venture firm with an Entrepreneur-in-Residence title means you have been tapped on the shoulder by the VC gods. The CDROM content business in the early 1990’s was one of the many of the long line of venture capital fads. We understood none of this. More detail in future posts.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. — Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

With Whole Foods, Sweet Leaf Tea, Deep Eddy Vodka, Siete Foods, Waterloo, Outdoor Voices, Tiff’s Treats, P Terry’s, Veggie Noodles, and so many other success stories there is now a robust ecosystem of experienced entrepreneurs, angel investors, support organizations, distribution channels, and professional investors.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

On a global level, venture financing of private companies dropped 33% year over year, from a record $733B in 2021 to $490B in 2022. 2022 in Israeli tech and venture. Israeli venture funding dropped 40% compared to 2021, from $28.7 billion according to the 2022 Israel high tech ecosystem report by Viola Ventures.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

And, depending on the business you start, there may also be various government incentives. Gather information from government sites like the U.S. You don’t have to rely on banks and government organizations to fund your business. Angel investment/venture capital funds. Talk to people, including customers.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. As a result, productivity naturally improves.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

Thousands of small businesses are probably gone for good because of the failure of the federal government to act quickly enough. The sheer magnitude of the problem makes it almost impossible for the SBA and its banking partners. Seth Levine is managing partner of the The Foundry Group, a $2.5

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). Taboola and Outbrain – Content distribution, discovery and recommendations (Raised approx. NSO – Offensive cyber espionage tools for governments (Raised $130M) – 60% of the company is owned by PE fund Francisco Partners.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. About this same point in time, the journalists that focus specifically on the venture capital industry noted something quite profound.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. Israel Corporation is Israel’s largest holding company.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Yet, we were not successful in reaching our ultimate goal of raising what we needed in our time-frame to execute further on our venture. We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. I see a TON of conscious capital opportunity in there, too.

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