VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. based Angel capital with early stage technology companies in Israel, and do so in a way that substantially mitigates the risk of seed stage investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President. Following several completed advertising campaigns, Ad.ly currently has 70,000 publishers reaching 45mm readers.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc. Below are some tips for aligning the startup team with the capitalization strategy. With little to no revenue, many early stage entrepreneurs turn to the Co-Founder model to build credibility for their startup when raising seed capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. Back in 2017, Fred Wilson noted the strategic importance of the seed stage , writing: Seed is really hard. You lose way more than you win.

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View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. Note that many were included in our pitch deck templates for raising seed capital. You can find those here. ).

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Every time there is a big technology exit (usually via M&A), I attempt to quickly unpack key takeaways from the transaction. venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Ajay Kshatriya , co-founder and CEO of Biota Technology , which applies DNA sequencing technology to the energy industry. Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Ajay Kshatriya. Steven : Nope, hubris.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Ajay Kshatriya , co-founder and CEO of Biota Technology , which applies DNA sequencing technology to the energy industry. Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Ajay Kshatriya. Steven : Nope, hubris.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Europe produces plenty of small businesses: restaurants, small technology firms, clothing stores, hair salons, and so on. Access to capital continues to be a challenge in Europe. It only gets worse when you attempt to operate in multiple European countries, as anyone with the ambition to build a large company has to.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

Many third-party educational organizations exist to maintain online schooling ventures, and these organizations typically receive most of their funding from venture capital firms. The same is true of educational technology developers. The use of venture capital for developing educational technologies is increasing rapidly.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. Further, not only does substantial value accrue to the community but control and governance over the underlying technology and protocol accrues to the community and token holders as well.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. Further, not only does substantial value accrue to the community but control and governance over the underlying technology and protocol accrues to the community and token holders as well.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners. For more information visit BantamLive.com. and Path Intelligence.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

Through connections, or through a chance meeting at a networking or social event, an angel investor hears the entrepreneur's story, likes them and their technology, and on the spot, writes a check to provide the company with its first outside financing. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Our BHAG is none other than disrupting the healthcare lending industry through technology, originating $1B in healthcare loans in 2021. We run on cutting edge technology, which enables us to serve clients nationally and scale quickly, unlike traditional competitors in the space that still do business by mail and fax.

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David Cohen

JUNE 16, 2015

Marc Nager, Clint Nelsen, and Franck Nouyrigat got involved and brought real structure and operating chops to the table. Techstars remained involved informally – we hosted and attended events, promoted them, and ultimately funded many companies that emerged from these weekends through our accelerators and venture capital funds.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. One independent expert on the VC industry told me recently that there really is no “venture capital” today, only “continuation capital. A few more stats make that picture look worse. Translation?

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. TheStartup.eu Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Meet Tipsandtrip. Tipsandtrip was born from an idea of social media consultant Juliette Bellavita and Blogo.it

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