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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

View from Seed

Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. Glen Mello: Venture debt is a good complement to equity. It’s generally got a lower cost compared to equity capital and can help support growth. What are some pros and cons?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. We both loved this company (and lamented the fact that we weren’t investors since they were founded in LA before relocating to Silicon Valley). Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally.

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Introducing Bolster Prime and Bolster Ventures (and their back story)

OnlyOnce

worked as advisors and mentors to numerous early stage founders and startups. I’ve never written before about those other “potential business opportunities” that our team was exploring along with our prior investment syndicate, Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures, Greg Sands from Costanoa Ventures, and Brad Feld from Foundry.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

When it comes to founders, Texas has jewelry mogul, Kendra Scott; Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban of Shark Tank; Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble; video game developer, John Carmack; Vista Equity Partners Founder, Robert Smith; Michael Dell of Dell Technologies; and now Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla! After more than eight years?—?they’ve

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

in equity & loans which was ultimately worth >170x ($355M) when DEC went public about a decade later. Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre [Silicon Valley] –> Itself an outgrowth of the venture investing arm of the original Bank of America (based in SF), Merrill Pickard backed many startups that ultimately went public.

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Investors! Join Me On An Epic 3 Day Roadshow Across the Great State of Texas

Austin Startup

Find out what the buzz is all about and make valuable connections with local investors who you can syndicate deals with. a lot of them are moving here from Silicon Valley! Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas since 2013. Who should come on the bus? and around the world. Big thanks!

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Smoke vs Fire: Handling ?Preemptive? Interest From VCs ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Startups in NextView’s portfolio frequently receive inbound interest from other VC investors who are intrigued about what they’re doing, and I often talk with other early-stage entrepreneurs how to approach similar situations. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Author howerl.