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Top Hat Raises $22.5M Series C in a Tough Vertical: What Can We Learn from their Success

Version One Ventures

Generally speaking, Ed Tech has proven to be a tough vertical, primarily due to the fact that it’s hard to charge consumers (students) directly. They took an innovative approach to distribution. While bottom-up distribution is pretty common now in other verticals, it’s important to realize that bottom-up is rarely done in Ed Tech.

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2024’s First Link Blog Post (Because Happy Birthday Matt Mullenweg)

Hunter Walker

Use that value to pay for the rest. And then if you want to be altruistic, be altruistic with what you can afford to distribute.” If you want to release your software as open source, release the bit (or a bit) that doesn’t have intrinsic business value. And Happy Birthday Matt!

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. This is particularly relevant for VC funds because they do not follow a normal distribution, they follow the power-law curve.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. This is particularly relevant for VC funds because they do not follow a normal distribution, they follow the power-law curve.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Lofty AI

Austin Startup

We’re actually a distributed team, so we’re in both SF and LA. We have a distributed team for a reason, which is that if you cut your travel time to work completely, you actually have a lot more time to work efficiently. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in San Francisco. This would have to be self-driving cars.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. This is particularly relevant for VC funds because they do not follow a normal distribution, they follow the power-law curve.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it.

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