YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2018

They work with attorneys to form corporate structures and help with financing agreements. Based in San Francisco, Millias has over 35 years of experience in assurance and advisory services, handling audits of publicly held and privately held clients in a wide range of industries.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

Sure, companies in the Bay Area – particularly Silicon Valley and San Francisco – consistently receive the highest percentage of venture money nationwide. But a slowdown in venture capital financing and questions about a technology bubble have led to many entrepreneurs and startups considering other avenues for growth.

Canada 100

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. If a society shuns people for TRYING you discourage people from creating truly breakthrough innovation out of fear of failure. Of course the naysayers are out again.

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Technical Review South Korea San Francisco Software Review 417

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2017

However, as a condition of financing they may require annual audited financial statements. For many startups this results in a need to raise additional financing through debt or equity arrangements. Many of these companies are pre-revenue and in the cash burn stage as they try to establish their technology and market.

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San Francisco Forecast Early Stage Term Sheet 133

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Their finances are also heavily regulated – insurers have to keep a set amount of cash liquid (to write the big checks) and diversify their assets according to specific rules (so they can have enough cash available for even bigger checks). They require the most money to operate and have to fill out the most complicated forms to get licensed.

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Technical Review Los Angeles Artificial Inteligence San Francisco 183

VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s the first big gathering of the year, a small sibling to the much larger Game Development Conference (aka GDC) taking place in San Francisco in March. First and foremost, PGC it’s a meeting palooza – I received over 40 requests for meetings, mainly from game studios all over Europe.

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Generative AI San Francisco Technical Review Europe 103

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2016

San Francisco is already well publicized. Today, institutions like the Launch Pad University and Americas Venture Capital Conference mean that a city is a hot place for startups to get financed. With luck, we might even make some money doing it. There is just one problem – you can’t do it alone.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2012

Following is a guest post from Cyril about the program along with a link to their Demo Day event in San Francisco on June 18th. The remaining traps to avoid are in the fields of logistics, distribution, financing and fundraising, among others.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Before EcoFlow Tech, she led the San Francisco Center for Economic Development’s Southern China effort where she worked with Chinese companies across the Pearl River Delta on building and financing strategic projects in San Francisco.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

From manufacturing to sales to finance, the supply chain routinely fails to command the respect it deserve. Andrew Armstrong is an independent business and market strategies consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area working primarily with technology and start-up phase clients.

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Management Forecast Los Angeles San Francisco 145

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

However after spending a week teaching 130 entrepreneurship students, ~35% of them women, and then walking through ~100+ WeWork and TechSpace offices in New York, I get the impression that the number of women leading startups in New York is much higher than in the San Francisco Bay area. Lessons Learned.

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Silicon Valley New York City New York Venture Capital 120

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. Uber initially worked well primarily within the San Francisco city limits. It now has high liquidity from South San Jose to Napa. Coverage density.

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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

SiliconHills

APRIL 10, 2020

The company, founded in 2010, is based in San Francisco but has a large presence and office in Austin. Austin-based Elsewhere Partners led the financing round. Airbrake, which makes software that tracks errors in web apps, announced this week it has raised $11 million in funding. Airbrake has an interesting history.

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San Francisco Austin Finance Web 132

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

So I was looking for a name that would include sustainability, impact, or social responsibility as well as investing and personal finance. In the end, it was a friend who was helping me brainstorm who came up with SustainFi (sustainable + finance.). I probably looked at 100 different options, and most of them were taken.

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Naming Entrepreneur PR San Francisco 143

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The question is, how can you balance your books when your whole life is on the line, not just your finances? of UC San Francisco. of UC San Francisco. They redden the ledgers of life with consequences well-documented by researchers. A Different Breed.

Cost 100

Cost San Francisco Software Review Technical Review 100

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Suddenly, those multi-million dollar financing rounds that startups raise don’t seem so outrageous! The San Francisco-based company made do with $50 million to build its product from scratch to current iteration. 4) WhatsApp. and the redesign of TED.com. 7) Shopify.

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Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 29, 2013

The post Funding goes global: location is no longer your financing destiny appeared first on Version One Ventures. News Albert Wenger canada marketplaces New York City Point NIne Capital San Francisco Silicon Valley Software as a service Union Square Venture venture capital version one ventures'

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Silicon Valley Global Finance New York City 161

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Go ahead and try it, then come back. Youve just experienced vanity metrics hell. Everyone knows those charts are totally unpersuasive. Bring your questions.

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Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Up and Running

JANUARY 23, 2019

While areas such as Las Vegas, San Francisco, and New York bring in the most tourists a year, know that high-mileage areas are already saturated with hotels and come with a more expensive up-front cost. This is why great hotels always compliment a great location. You can download a free Lean Plan template to help you get started.

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Software Review Las Vegas Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 83

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. What Has Changed in Financing? he promised me he’d drop Corp Dev knowledge), who along with Aditi Maliwal (runs our FinTech practice) will be based in San Francisco.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

Here they are: 1) I strongly prefer investing in companies located in San Francisco (city proper, not the Bay Area). I live in San Francisco, and I enjoy driving on Bay Area freeways as much as having a root canal done by a drunken dentist who hates my family. That’s a positive return to me.

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San Francisco Startup Silicon Valley Seed Stage 55

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

This includes well-compensated white-collar industries like finance, medicine, and legal services. In industries like finance, the ranks of upper management remain very white and very male. And female founders of startups are on the rise as well. . Look closer, though, and the picture darkens.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

San Diego ›. View More in San Diego ›. San Francisco ›. View More in San Francisco ›. San Diego Events ›. San Francisco Events ›. San Diego Home. San Diego Events. San Diego Jobs. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2013

We used the cards to finance initial orders as we built credit and terms with vendors,” Benz explains. Jeff Hindenach started his career as a journalist for the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Examiner. The card has no annual fee. Best card for all other expenses.

Small Business 157

Small Business San Jose San Francisco Software Review 157

SiliconHills

MAY 14, 2015

Vested Finance, an Austin-based financial technology startup, announced it has closed on $5 million in seed financing led by Sandleigh Ventures. The Austin-based company plans to use the money to expand its operations by hiring a development team to create and distribute its mobile app.

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Vesting Finance San Francisco Washington 48

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2015

Headquartered in San Francisco, AppDirect makes it easy for businesses to find, buy, manage, and monitor cloud services from a central location. The post AppDirect Is Hiring After Closing a $50 Million Financing appeared first on Feld Thoughts. That last part is particularly interesting from our perspective.

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Finance San Francisco Hiring Silicon Valley 70

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

One of our recent investments, offered by Founder Collective (FC) – an eight-year-old manager with offices in Boston and San Francisco – is an excellent example of what we look for when we invest in funds offered by other managers. In general, these investments were rarely competitive at the time of their first financing.

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Founder LP Technical Review Seed Stage 75

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

So went back to school, got my M B A from N Y U and had a very brief stint in finance. Felt like I had to try out finance just because I had my M B A from N Y U, and that's what people from Y U did. 70% of majors went into were finance majors, and I tried it, tried it out. At the time, there were about 10,000 other companies.

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Venezuela Cofounder Finance Global 73

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

This panel of leaders in the impact investing space will explore what impact means to a variety of different investors and describe how fund structures, financing instruments, and corporate form can help advance environmental, social, and governance goals in addition to profit. particularly in the Heartland?—?due

Silicon Valley 50

Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

He is co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London and San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. He's also the co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London in San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford.

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Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Framework Cofounder 66

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. This is possibly the most insightful startup article Ive read in a while. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Bring your questions. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

This can lead to lots of hype among investors and very rapid financings where VCs are forced to “act quickly” and provide term sheets in less than 48 hours. But that may be all that’s needed to grab a financing from investors that moved very quickly. They can create temporary growth in vanity metrics like downloads.

San Diego 60

San Diego Software Review San Francisco Silicon Valley 60

Growthink Blog

APRIL 21, 2013

For example, San Francisco''s Peter Dering wanted to raise money for a new product he conceived called the Capture Camera Clip System (an accessory for photographers that secures their cameras to their other gear). Which is really the same as customer financing, which has been around for a while.

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Accredited Investor SEC San Francisco Equity 95

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Bring your questions.

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Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Last Tuesday, while I was enjoying a week off the grid, AvidXchange announced they had raised a $225 million financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. This was an atypical investment for us as we participated in the financing through our Foundry Group Select fund. The post Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

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North Carolina Finance Charlotte Advisory Board 70

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In a nutshell — even if you’re obsessed with setting up shop in San Francisco or New York, Austin could be a great place to figuring out your business before increasing the cost base. Having said that, access to finance is getting better due to the influx of techies and the local scene maturing. However, prices are rocketing.

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Early Stage Austin Silicon Valley Texas 48

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2014

Once I had a few under my belt, I realized I was a start-up junkie, and founded Five Mill Ventures in San Francisco before I was 30. Not only did we upgrade the San Francisco “coder” uniform, we accelerated to profitability at warp speed to become what we strive for in all our companies: a “best practices brand.”

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San Francisco Business Model Silicon Valley Coder 154