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.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Written by David Shelters , managing director of Bangkok, Thailand-based investment banking and financial advisory firm Karon Business Consulting, the book should be an eye-opener for aspiring and new technology entrepreneurs and can help you navigate the dangerous waters known as venture capital.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2013

From their website: While microfinance has helped millions, many people have been left out: Think remote rural villages in Kenya or recent refugees with no credit history in the United States. EarlyShares is a pretty sophisticated fundraising platform looking to compete with traditional venture capital firms.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

Since the field’s estimated beginnings in 2009 , subsegments like “feminomics” and “inclusive finance” have spun off, but at it’s core gender lens investing is: incorporating gender as a factor to guide investment strategies. Contrasted with an average VC fund size of $30M… there is a mismatch.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2017

The Association of Enterprise Opportunities , a national organization that advocates for micro business development, states that roughly 8,000 business loan requests are declined each weekday in the United States. Accion also provides microfinance and larger loans to small businesses throughout the United States.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Many startups and businesses dream of landing funding from angel investors and venture capital. However, very few businesses ever acquire venture capital funds. . Unfortunately, these atypical visionaries are unable to connect with people who control capital and investing. Find alternative funding streams.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. The evidence: (i) Startups are responsible for virtually all the new jobs created in the United States since 1977 (Source: Kauffman Foundation). … Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S.—Microsft,

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

You will see the majority are in the Bay Area, and then New York City, and a bit more around LA and Seattle — and things get really scattered.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

1:30PM HILTON AUSTIN DOWNTOWN, SALON K SIMÓN BORRERO, Rappi RODOLFO GONZALEZ, Foundation Capital COURTNEY MCCOLGAN, Runa HR DANIEL VOGEL, Bitso Latin American startups are attracting a record amount of venture capital funding. Yet female founders received only 2% of venture capital dollars in 2017. What gives?

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. David Teten, HBS 98, Partner, ff Venture Capital, will discuss his research study on VC portfolio operations, recently featured in Forbes ).

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

When it comes to launching a startup, most founders think they should reside in the United States, Silicon Valley, in particular, to have a successful business. According to Jungle Ventures, Southeast Asia’s technology startups had a combined valuation of $340 billion in 2020. This amount can triple by 2025.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having having raised $300 million?—?less Not at all.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

Almost 30 years ago, my father decided to uproot the entire family from Taiwan to the United States so that his academically “inconsistent” son could have an education tolerant and perhaps even encouraging of his idiosyncrasies. Furthermore, entrepreneurs don’t necessary build their businesses to be venture-funded.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

China has embraced state capitalism in a way Wall Street can only dream about. Startups, Venture Capital and the Communist Party: how did this happen in China? But before startups could happen, China’s basic science, technology and finance infrastructure and ecosystem needed to be built. Like the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

In the 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. A wave of innovation was about to meet a pile of risk capital. Why It’s “Silicon” Valley. But by the early 1960?s

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) Fortunately, I was accepted into the program and that allowed me to legally stay in the United States. What has worked for the United States for so long is that these people gravitate towards the United States.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

China has embraced state capitalism in a way Wall Street can only dream about. Startups, Venture Capital and the Communist Party: how did this happen in China? But before startups could happen, China’s basic science, technology and finance infrastructure and ecosystem needed to be built. Like the U.S.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. Venture Capital. (3).

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Small Business Administration loans are often one of the first places that small business owners in the United States think of looking for a loan, and they’re right to. Venture Capital: Venture capital is really only an avenue if you fit the specific criteria. The United Kingdom Funding Resources.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

Many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley believe that the financial services industry in the United States is “ripe for disruption. ” There are now 61mm unbanked citizens in the United States, and that number is rising. The basis of this argument is really two fold. ACH Payments. Perhaps the most ludicrous piece of the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

While 2011 is only eight years ago, it’s a lifetime in the world of finance, private equity, venture capital, and business. That year private equity firms initiated one of every five mergers globally and even more, 29 percent, in the United States. They began to worry that the market was overheating.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet. They had already done one startup before that was venture-backed and they realized that they should only raise venture capital once they are ready. .” But it wasn’t that simple!

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2019

million Series A financing. Boundless Immigration aspires to be the leading brand around legal immigration in the United States. We originally invested a small amount in Boundless’ seed round in 2017 and just led a $7.8 This is a case where there isn’t a tradeoff between making a profit and making an impact. innovation economy.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

BlueVine, which is based in Redwood City, California, offers online working capital financing to small- and medium-sized businesses in many industries. I wanted to make the process of obtaining small business financing significantly easier and faster for business owners like my dad.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

“Small businesses should be a top consideration as the President and other legislators seek to jump start job creation,” says John Paglia, lead researcher of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project and associate professor of finance at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. were successful.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to a study by CB Insights (2017), a software that gathers essential data from investors, companies and industries, more than 70% of startups do not exceed the first stage of venture capital investment. The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. Why do so many companies fail?

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Up and Running

MARCH 4, 2022

According to the United States Small Business Administration, there are approximately 32.5 A business plan does far more than help secure venture capital when you’re starting out. Making your goals too lofty may hurt your chances of securing financing, too. million small businesses at the moment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? We discussed: 1.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. I wont bother going into details on start-up financing terms ( see this post for an overview of typical VC terms) except to say if you dont know and understand: the firms cap table and valuation. Deskmag: Profiling Coworkers in the United States.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Yesterday, TechCrunch posted a neat slideshow on the nine largest venture capital and private equity financing rounds of the past 24 months. And the emphasis is clearly on the World - as four of the seven companies profiled ( Didi Dache , Flipkart , Meituan , and Xiaomi ) have businesses focused outside of the United States.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2012

At least one venture capital firm is out to make money helping them out. It’s the emerging middle class of the United States.”. There’s a lot of money in poor people. KPMG reports that America’s 88 million consumers who are “unbanked” (no bank account) or “underbanked” (no credit) earn $1.3 trillion a year.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

For the Central and Southern regions of the United States, the city is the crowned jewel of startup communities. Of these rounds, nearly every one was classified as a Series B or later-stage round, with the exception of a few debt and equity financing rounds. for funding amounts. What does this information mean?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.” billion in venture capital invested in the Austin metropolitan alone.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 12, 2012

But before you think about going the route of Blowfly Beer, you must understand that if you are based in the United States, you can't use this funding method. Note that legislation is currently underway to try to make it legal in the United States (and I will continue to follow the legislation and update you).

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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. Many of the women I know have explicitly stated that they feel dramatically safer in an Uber versus a taxi. Different Economics.

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