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Six Tips For Startups Outside Of Traditional VC Hubs

YoungUpstarts

For m­any years, conventional wisdom held that a promising startup needed to be located in a traditional venture capital hub like Silicon Valley, San Francisco or New York to be successful. These often serve as hubs for local investors and can provide access to advisors, mentors and other professionals who can help grow your company.

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Thoughts from the road: building startups and collective ambition outside Silicon Valley

Version One Ventures

It meant frequent flights or moving your company to San Francisco to raise money from Bay Area VCs. The Bay Area is home to smart and strategic investors that contribute far more than just dollars. Just a few years ago, if you wanted to do something big, you needed to go to Silicon Valley. running around the Bay Area.

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Never Been Easier to Become a VC. Never Been Harder to Stay One.

Hunter Walker

As we approach Homebrew’s one year anniversary we’ll do a smaller scale meeting with our investors in San Francisco. strategic investors (including corporates). traditional institutional LPs such as fund of funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds ( our investors ).

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How to deal with the Series A crunch

Version One Ventures

As I’m assuming this is a common question heard in huddled discussions in offices from San Francisco to Boston, here’s my advice on how to navigate today’s financing waters: If you haven’t raised your seed round yetâ€Ĥ If you’re looking to raise your seed round, aim for more money than you had originally planned.

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Box launches Box Accelerator as its COO reflects on working with young entrepreneurs

The Next Web

Venture Partners, and strategic investors salesforce.com and SAP. I remember in 1994 I was strolling down a street in San Francisco with Jim Breyer of Accel and we were both young guys then. Strength in experience. One of his older partners said, “What if the US government allowed the Internet to be commercialised?”

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