VC Adventure

JULY 1, 2021

Sweet Grace was born in 2008, as the Great Recession ripped through the United States, particularly affecting working-class communities like Lawrence, Massachusetts where Danaris lives. She had $37 in food stamps to her name. She can identify the exact minute the bakery was born. What are you going to do with $37 in food stamps?”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

Gender lens investing is part of the broader genre of “impact investing,” a term coined by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2007 that put a name to investments made with the intention of generating both financial return and social and/or environmental impact. Contrasted with an average VC fund size of $30M… there is a mismatch.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

A few caveats, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice, and it deals with law in the United States. Or it can be your brand , logo or domain name. Posted in Technology, Venture Capital. Tags: Technology Venture Capital. Outside the U.S.

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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. Diversity” and “Domain Experience”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

name your city]? You enter your credit card information and driver’s license once and then it’s $1 to start in and currently 15 cents per minute. I get why it works in Santa Monica, but will it really work in …. Yeah, I know your first thought. That’s what we all thought about Uber, too. Not at all.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. If you’re funding the same stuff as everybody else and if you started your activities when the clues were obvious you’re much less likely to drive enormous returns. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Austin-Based Venture Capital Firms There are a eleven venture capital firms based in Austin that are actively investing today, six of which are first funds. VC Firms Actively investing in Austin Companies Finally, there are a group of venture capital firms that are not based in Austin that are active investors here.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As we end 2012, Gust is the official, exclusive platform of virtually every national federation of business angels in the world including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, even China, all in their native languages.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Today, Sferra leads Hillcrest Merchant Partners, a Toronto-based merchant bank and venture capital firm focused on early stage and mid-market growth companies, which he co-founded with fellow managing partner, Mark Attanasio. That’s the complete package that those in the venture capital world are interested in seeing.

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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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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It really exploded our perception and visibility in the United States. Inbound interest for partnerships, for employment, for investment (increased) — you name it from small companies, small HVAC contractors to large companies like AT&T. Orders increased.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

These metro areas tend to be anchored by research universities that attract the talent and venture capital needed to develop fresh ideas that involve business and technology. Known as one of hottest vacation spots in the United States, Miami has been attracting quite a few tech startups over the last few years.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

And it was hammered home with Color —a startup without a product —raising $40 million, at a reputed $100 million valuation, from brand name VCs who should have known better. Some precursors to the bubble happened when Chinese Internet companies listed on United States stock exchanges. Filed under: Venture Capital.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Why get into the venture capital side of the business? I first got into venture capital about 10 years ago and I love my job. Unlike many venture capital firms that invest in certain geographic regions or specific technologies and sectors, Foundry Group’s investing activity is largely driven by a thematic approach.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

While we’re excited by the results, we’ve realized that we’ve been solving the problem for the 1% of new ventures that are technology startups. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. His name is Alex Lawrence. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S. Serendipity.

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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. Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The DEMO conferences for years has served as the launchpad event for big name companies and has a well earned reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow’s cutting-edge technologies. . Others Alon Alroy Bizzabo conference event startup technology United States' Google I/O. InfusionCon.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. Name and email address are required. Name is required to post a comment. Deskmag: Profiling Coworkers in the United States. SF Chronicle: Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer. venture capital.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. Your sell sheet should include: Your product name. A benefit statement.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab. Hewlett Packard. Who’s next?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

Austin has built a name for itself within the startup scene, ranking among the top cities in the U.S. For the Central and Southern regions of the United States, the city is the crowned jewel of startup communities. for funding amounts. Investing terms are better, you have more influence and the pay-out is ultimately larger.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2011

And Hamm should know something about leadership – he’s led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner in various venture capital firms and named as one of the United State’s top 100 venture capitalists by AlwaysOn in 2009, and teaches leadership at Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools and hospitals named after him? Sloan is not the only guy who got foundations named after him – if you have money to donate universities will be all too happy to create chairs and schools in your name.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Founded in 2008, Shanghai-based CooTek is the company behind TouchPal X Keyboard and TouchPal Contacts , which lets you type contact names directly on your smartphone’s dial pad. Success draws attention, and the last thing you would want to do is step on the toes of China’s Internet giants — namely Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 24, 2010

As we consider the broad implications of this polarizing issue, we must first step back and remember that inventors and investors devote time, energy and risk capital to innovate new products and technologies.

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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. . Pro Publica has a Nonprofit Explorer database searchable by principal name on all nonprofit filings, so you can see a person’s nonprofit activities. . Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Yes, the country north of the 49th parallel may have 1/10th the population of the United States , but when it comes down to pure entrepreneurship it punches far above its weight class. of partners at venture capital firms in Canada are women , which more than double the US rate of 6%.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 19, 2018

I hear a lot these days about gender imbalance in male dominated industries, Venture Capital being one of them. She is also the Managing Partner/President of Linden Venture Fund. Seeking educational opportunities, she moved to the United States with her husband and only $100 to their name.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. On Describing His Current Work without Naming His Fund/Investments. Venture Capital is not a complicated business.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. A majority of respondents regularly update their data on Crunchbase and Pitchbook.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. And 30 years later I was teaching in a building named after him and never knew a thing about him. That led me back to the history of radar in World War II – and a story you may not know. Just a quick history refresher.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Five international MBA programs also boast Unicorn founders, namely INSEAD (France / Singapore / UAE), IIM Calcutta (India), Vienna University (Austria), Tel Aviv University (Israel), and University of Otago (New Zealand) (Please note that I only included MBA programs, and excluded Masters in Science degrees). that of GSB).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Yes, the country north of the 49th parallel may have 1/10th the population of the United States , but when it comes down to pure entrepreneurship it punches far above its weight class. of partners at venture capital firms in Canada are women , which more than double the US rate of 6%.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 9, 2011

and invited anyone with constructive, practical ideas on how to revitalize IPO’s in the United States to contact me so that I could pass along their ideas to my colleagues at the National Venture Capital Association. venture capitalists. Small Cap IPO? Intuit, EA Sports, and many others.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas has 4 of the 11 largest cities in the United States and they are all within driving distance of each other. Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. Texas has world-class educational institutions across the state.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Many venture-capital-funded companies work this way. In the United States (and probably elsewhere as well), there are laws that you need to know before you even start the process of trying to hire someone. There are federal statutes and there may be state and local regulations as well. Know the Law.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Pascal Levensohn – Founder and Managing Partner of Levensohn Venture Partners, and Director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), where he is chairman of the education committee. competitiveness. Date: Monday, November 9, 2009.

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