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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

Both Sides of the Table

Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. I’m on record all over place saying that 70% of my investment decision is the team & 30% is the market. And Austin Murray runs sales & marketing – a role he also held at JAMDAT.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. The more they know your strategic objectives the more laterally they can act on your behalf in key situations. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

This math works in a normal market…. Unfortunately, it’s no longer a normal market. If you are selling to businesses (a B-to-B market) have your customers’ sales dropped? and Europe into a long recession? Whatever your product/market fit was last month it’s no longer true and needs to change to meet the new normal.

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5 Ways Venture Capital Is Shaking Up The Tech Startup Landscape In Asia

YoungUpstarts

KPMG’s Venture Pulse Q3 2017 reported that the Asian market has raised $12.3 With more money being invested in startups around the region, the barriers to entry that prevent startups from entering the market are reduced. Venture capital fundraising can be divided into three stages: seed, early stage, and later stage.

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European seed fund explosion – what does it mean?

The Equity Kicker

BrightSun have just published research on the number of seed funds in Europe. As you can see from the graphs below the number of seed funds is growing very fast whilst the number of later stage funds is flat.

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How to Launch Your Own Startup Part 4 (money, culture and becoming a manager)

The Next Web

It’s part three of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. While every business is structured differently, here is how I believe you should structure a tech business in Europe (as a first-time entrepreneur!):

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

Pension funding was above market using aggressive actuarial assumptions. It then spread across Europe to Australia and Canada. s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s.