YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

With venture capitalists around the world shifting their focus to Asia, here are 5 ways the surge in venture capital fundraising is shaking up the startup landscape in the region. KPMG’s Venture Pulse Q3 2017 reported that the Asian market has raised $12.3 Drives development in technology.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health. In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, momentum shifted to the enterprise as large businesses supported innovation in PCs, communications hardware and enterprise software.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Three types of regional venture funds exist today: Regionally located funds, such as Foundry Group in Boulder, are located outside of Silicon Valley or NY but their investments are primarily in the Valley or NY… they are not a regional fund per this discussion. Large regionally based early stage funds have mostly failed.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

of venture capital deals. Those companies have garnered only about 2% of all capital invested. ” In venture capital, the industry- or sector-focused funds specifically disavow diversification: Andreessen Horowitz, which is a generalist as a whole, has launched dedicated funds across Crypto , Bio , and Fintech. .

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Originally backed by venture capital, in 2021 Daniel worked with TPG , a large private equity firm, to make them the majority investor. HW: Hiring, and PeopleOps in general, is an area where software has improved the quality and efficiency of workflows. Now AI has promised to take that even further.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. What is venture capital, really? And what does a venture capital firm do?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Layoffs are unfortunately likely to continue as funding for later stage companies continues to contract. For example, if you’re a software developer, consider taking courses on emerging technologies like artificial intelligence or blockchain. And it’s only February.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I have to start with a major negative: if you have to ask if your startup can get venture capital, then it almost certainly can’t. Venture capital is a very rarified atmosphere of high-end startups and emerging businesses with experienced management teams, high potential growth, secret sauce, and so on.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

645 Ventures 645 Ventures makes deeply-researched investments in institutional Seed to Series A rounds for exceptional companies who demonstrate stellar early results in the areas of market validation, product differentiation, team strength, and brand narrative.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. 20% initial ownership.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware and software, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months. It’s hard to think of a hardware/software or life science technology that dominates its space for years. Filed under: Venture Capital.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 15, 2013

ff Venture Capital has consistently generated a gross IRR on invested capital in excess of 30%, in a world where the average ten-year returns for venture capital firms are in the single digits. Software is eating every industry, including the entrepreneurial ecosystem itself. Now we can.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

A midst a 72% decline in funds raised by Israeli venture capital funds in 2009, Battery Ventures announced the completion of its new fund, BV-9, totaling $750 million. Maturity : Battery invests in companies at all stages – from seed to later stage private equity buyouts.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2012

In 2011, Israeli venture capital funds invested $525 million in Israeli companies, an increase of 42% from 2010, and a rise of 28% from 2009 levels. The communications and software sectors followed with 20% and 19% of the total investment respectively. Mid and later stage companies attracted $1.48

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2010

Audrey Watters posted “Is Venture Capital Broken?&# The title is direct reference to an essay, titled “Venture Capital is Broken&# , which angel investor Chris Sacca released as the “creed&# of his new investment firm, Lowercase Capital. Lowercase Capital’s Creed. Do you agree?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2012

In 2011, Israeli venture capital funds invested $525 million in Israeli companies, an increase of 42% from 2010, and a rise of 28% from 2009 levels. The communications and software sectors followed with 20% and 19% of the total investment respectively. Mid and later stage companies attracted $1.48

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Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

Instead I’ll suggest there are two specific questions that really matter, the answers to which will have the biggest impact on the next 1–5 years of startups and venture capital. Paraphrasing, he basically said this was “either what it looks like when ‘software eats the world’ or things had gotten overheated.”.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Goldman Sachs and CB Insights recently reported that startups have raised over $1 billion in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) this summer — more than the total amount of venture capital raised during the same period. Need for growth capital. A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Goldman Sachs and CB Insights recently reported that startups have raised over $1 billion in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) this summer — more than the total amount of venture capital raised during the same period. Need for growth capital. A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

In the traditionally slow moving world of venture capital they have gone from standing start to raising $4bn across three funds in 5 years – Summit Partners , an older highly successful later stage VC took 15 years to achieve the same feat. Venture Capital'

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

One excellent way to do this (with a good bit of help from the experts), is to create a draft business plan using LivePlan from Palo Alto Software. That’s why investors attend Demo Days and look for acceptance into such programs as one of several ‘validators’ of a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

For starters – we all know the argument that more enterprises are buying SaaS software because it works more easily than on-premise software and that expectations set by our consumer lives to have software as easy and convenient as Amazon, Google or Facebook drives our business lives. At least later stage investors.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While there have been times in the last dozen or so years, usually during times of venture capital excess, that cash to founders, early-stage executives and other key employees has matched regular market compensation (still with the upside of the equity), this is not true in the vast majority in the start-up game. Predictions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

And I think fortunately these days there are more opportunities to, to sell down along the way as companies get big enough later stage investors will come in and offer to buy a small chunk of earlier investors. So it was one that, um, someone had selected and they did screen screen recording and screen sharing software.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

From software and hardware design to advanced manufacturing, Texas is fertile ground for innovation, investment, business starts and smart job growth. 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.”

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

For those unfamiliar, there’s a very specific model for investable ventures and, while we had one, the kind of capital we needed?—?swing swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t We have the consumer market, but not investor market for what I’m selling : B2C software.)

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

You see, Dan knows more about venture than most people; and if Dan isn’t aware that “pre-seed is a thing,” then I haven’t done a good enough job of explaining to the world what I and K9 do! When I first began in this industry, people would claim that it’s cheap to start a software company. Those times are long gone.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. We had to buy expensive Sun servers, Oracle databases, Unix licenses and build complex software.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.” Think about it – most entrepreneurs who manage to raise seed money or venture capital usually raise enough money for 12-18 months maximum. People seldom understand that when enterprise customers choose your software it isn’t just a purchase order.

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Jason Ball

FEBRUARY 16, 2008

Qualcomm, Inc ( NASDAQ: QCOM ) announced their European fund last May , in addition to Qualcomm Ventures in the US, China and India. As a consequence, you’ll see a shift towards these sectors in the blogging content.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← More on Liquidation Preferences Happy Holidays → Where Do Tech VCs Invest? So, for example, $88 million was invested in Software companies with the round gross proceeds of less than $1 million (i.e.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.”. Think about it – most entrepreneurs who manage to raise seed money or venture capital usually raise enough money for 12-18 months maximum. People seldom understand that when enterprise customers choose your software it isn’t just a purchase order. I want to do this again.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

For this discussion, we were joined by CEOs Jared Hecht of Fundera, Joshua Reeves of ZenPayroll, Matt Rissell of TSheets, and our own Sabrina Parsons of LivePlan and Palo Alto Software. They cover funding for small businesses from the initial funding stage to later stages of growth, and other areas in between.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

We are happy to speak with you at any revenue level, but somewhere in the $150k-range is when founders may start to look for seed capital. On that note, there is another fund with a similar mission to TinySeed’s, but it’s later stage: Indie.vc. Traditionally, venture capital has consisted of unicorn-hunting.

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