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Congratulations to Upwork

A Crowded Space

Very shortly after I joined, Greg Gretsch (now my partner at Jackson Square Ventures) co-led oDesk’s Series A along with Venky Ganesan (partner at Menlo Ventures and lead investor in Rev.com). Full Circle My time at oDesk / Upwork directly led to my current venture capital career.

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What do your VCs care about and does it matter?

This is going to be BIG.

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley.

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UK venture post Brexit – plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose

The Equity Kicker

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” is an old French saying that translates literally as “The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing” Before the Brexit vote there was a lot of debate about the trajectory of the venture capital markets and that has intensified considerably in the last couple of weeks.

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Oksana?s Story: Geoffrey Frost

Austin Startup

I hear a lot these days about gender imbalance in male dominated industries, Venture Capital being one of them. While not as imbalanced as physics, there were still more men then women that advanced to the partner track. CEO/Managing Partner Sputnik ATX Austin, TX ? —?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?—?–

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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. TheStartup.eu Meet Tipsandtrip. Total cost: $5000.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. .