Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. Ada Ryland continues to help founders gain clarity and navigate through some tricky territory in the early stages.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. And the best early-stage investors know this.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It continues to be highly dependent on company, stage, and location. At the early stages, raising the first $2m tends to be straightforward in most geographies that have meaningful startup communities. Since we are early stage investors, it simply doesn’t matter if we are a short term bull or bear.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 9, 2011

The event gives emerging companies the opportunity to pitch and network with investors, executives, customers and the media. Bigger companies like Google have tons of cash and are looking to buy early stage companies (so you can get a big payday). Last week marked the 6th year for the conference "Launch: Silicon Valley."

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Editor’s note: Local tech media company BostInno (a division of the American City Business Journals) hosts an annual Boston State of Innovation conference. So, the bar will be different for each investor, and for very early stage fundraising, the goal is to find true believers more than convincing skeptics. (My

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Most investors and other members of the American elite come from a homogeneous background: white, male, straight, Christian (or Jewish, at least in the finance industry), tall , handsome , physically fit, graduate of a select university, with American parents of upper middle class or higher socio-economic status.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). This means more noise in the system for seed stage investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. It literally drove FOMO.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

In my view the terminology being used for early stage investors by the press and the media is not as clear as it should be. I’ve talked about this on several occasions when I’ve been at conference and on panels, but I figured it would make sense to do a post explaining my taxonomy of the early-stage investing world.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The data set is about 1,200 rounds of financing for US tech companies that completed the 2010 CompStudy survey. Hardware / semiconductors is stereotypically a capital intensive business, but the data suggest that more money is going into early stage deals than later stage deals. Not sure how to explain that.

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2010

Here’s Audrey’s excellent summary: In it, Sacca observes that 10 years ago, it cost more than a million dollars for a tech business to launch, with steep hardware, software, office and internet costs, not to mention the “lavish parties so print media would write about their pipe dreams.&#. Lowercase Capital’s Creed.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. Old media’s problems are the costs not the lack of paywalls. November 29, 2012.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

the dip in capital invested but rise in deal flow is a sign of health as investors return to funding more early-stage deals,” said Jessica Canning, global research director for Dow Jones VentureSource. For a detailed venture financing report on Europe, visit [link]. venture financing is available at [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I’m super proud to announce that DataSift has just completed a $42 million financing round coming at the end of a year where its revenue grew several hundred percent year-over-year. I’m an early-stage investor. Social Media Tech Market Analysis' Not so DataSift. We co-led the A-round with IA Ventures.

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