YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

In today’s business environment where innovation and technology converge and the modern day entrepreneur has more support and incentive than ever to begin their dream startup company, more often than not discussions about state and local business taxes have a similar tone: “The company is losing money; we don’t owe any taxes.”.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The traditional venture capital model calls for a degree of faith in the teams you choose to invest in. One technology company that is changing the game on this front is Momentum Ventures. There are many reasons why the traditional venture capital model is flawed.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2013

“Our vision for crowdfunding is about helping people achieve their dreams – be it starting a new business, developing a new invention or creating a technology start-up – and leveraging the power of the crowd beyond just the funding event,” says Jason Graf, co-founder and CEO for CrowdIt. “We

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

AI is getting tremendous attention and significant venture capital, but AI tools frequently underwhelm in the trenches. Since GPT-3 is good at generating documents, it’s easy to imagine applications of this technology in legal organizations. Rudy is an attorney, technology entrepreneur, TEDx speaker and best-selling author.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As a venture capital firm, Yida Gao’s firm Shima Capital focuses on early-stage blockchain companies particularly those around Web 3.0. The post Yida Gao, Shima Capital: Handling An Underperforming Market appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I gave a presentation at a legal technology conference last week. Law firm principals are often faced with a critical decision when it comes to technology: should we purchase an “off the shelf” application or should we use in-house resources to develop a custom application that meets our exact needs. by Ryan Gerhardy, CEO of Pitchly.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2016

In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. We received a venture capital investment. Soon after we launched, dial-up began its slow, miserable death at the hands of broadband.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2014

For technologically inclined businesses, Texas has increased its STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce by 34,000 since 2009. Austin in particular is a technological and cultural hub. North Carolina is also one of the top states in the country for venture capital investment.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

The access to some of the world’s brightest minds in technology, the proximity to some of the industry’s most influential brands, and the vast networking opportunities in both start-up and investor communities is hard to ignore. By Raj Narayanaswamy, cofounder and Co-CEO, Replicon.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

One of the most effective ways to spot solid potential in an early-stage startup is by checking out the working technology, as well as the current operating model, making sure it’s seamless and user-friendly. The technology that powers up any developing start-up or company is the foundation of its projected success.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Written by David Shelters , managing director of Bangkok, Thailand-based investment banking and financial advisory firm Karon Business Consulting, the book should be an eye-opener for aspiring and new technology entrepreneurs and can help you navigate the dangerous waters known as venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2019

They had unique technology, but needed help better explaining why that mattered to buyers who were stuck in the old ways of thinking about network security risk, products and categories. When FireEye became my client, their revenues were stalled in the low millions of dollars a year.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Many founders believe that the most difficult part of starting up is in the initial part – meeting venture capital investors, finding the right co-founders or employees, and even building the correct culture for the company to thrive.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

In these scenarios, most founders will have trouble tapping the institutional Venture Capital market and will have to do a bridge round or multiple bridge rounds. . Exacerbating the problem are the subjective standards by which many young companies are evaluated.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Many of these companies are pre-revenue and in the cash burn stage as they try to establish their technology and market. Michael Gallaher is an experienced Audit Associate at Sensiba San Filippo specializing in venture capital funds and venture backed startups in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This includes a number of international venture capital groups which have set up offices in the country, local family offices , and sovereign investment funds. The goal is to help prepare teachers and students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). We all know the UAE is a business-friendly environment.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Competition from other startups and established incumbents, constraints on time and capital, and limited access to talent and technology resources are just a few of the hurdles nearly every first-time founder faces while trying to build a business. In the startup world, opportunities are fleeting, and obstacles are ubiquitous.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Sferra followed this by spending two years at Pinetree Capital, a small-cap focused firm and an angel investor in the mining, energy and technology sectors. Donato Sferra recently spoke with Young Upstarts about his professional background, the venture capital space and ideas that he is excited about.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Techventure , one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs, is back. which celebrates the vibrant developments taking place in Asia that have helped Asian corporations take the lead and capitalize successfully in many areas of technology.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2019

economy, with firms such as Credit Karma, Tradeshift and Plaid enjoying extraordinary success as they use technology and innovation in an effort to transform the financial services industry. You will face challenges and one of those could be raising capital. Options for raising that capital include: Venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

“The six venture capital funds and fund managers selected have an excellent reputation of helping build the companies that they fund, and their successes will further strengthen our tech-startup ecosystem.” “In 2010 I traveled Asia, meeting over 80 startups from a dozen countries.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars. All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2011

Unfortunately (and perhaps not surprising given the silly nature of some of these technological “advances”), there’s still no app for good old-fashioned common sense — that is something no one in business can afford to be without. Technology has made many aspects of business more convenient and cost-effective.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2017

That business is RapidMake 3D Printing, a Toronto-based company that makes smaller 3D printers that have helped push the technology into the consumer market. I went to a high school that was focused on science, technology, engineering and math, so I had a pretty solid background in all of those. Konrad Malik: Definitely not.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Let’s say you have a great business idea that leverages the power of technology to meet a certain consumer or lifestyle need. 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. San Francisco.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As technology continues to evolve, it has become easier for just about anyone to start their own business. Creating the legal structure and gathering the resources needed for the initial capital are still the most important roadblocks to overcome. Fortunately, technology has made it easier to find sources of funding.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

It’s all part of his platform as Portfolio Manager of Fintech Ventures Group (FVG), a Vancouver-based, venture capital company that works with Internet startups and other tech businesses. For companies that are in a more advanced stage of growth, venture capital can be key.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

You’d probably go for one of the titans of technology who dominate the business media: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, to name a few. All these companies sourced venture capital (VC) to launch their companies. Even with Venture Capital, Most Startups Fail.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Competition for venture capital is fierce, especially among startups. AvantCredit was Chicago’s most funded startup in 2014, with over $1 billion in funding to date, including investments from Victory Park Capital, Tiger Global Management, Peter Thiel and Jefferies. . Thinking Aloud Al Goldstein startup venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2014

According to the National Venture Capital Association , the amount of money that VC’s invested rose 8% to nearly $30 billion in 2013. Do they have a scalable technology advantage? Startups need technology to help them efficiently produce more work. Investors keep pouring money into startups and early stage companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2011

Rutgers’ Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED) , has announced a partnership with a minority-run early stage venture capital firm, H360 Capital , and NJIT’s Enterprise Development Center (EDC) , to attract technology companies to Newark, New Jersey.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Founded in May 2013 by Atlanta Technology Angels, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Invest Atlanta and the Metro Atlanta Chamber, Startup Atlanta has also recently refreshed its website to achieve its aim of helping entrepreneurs connect with one another, as well as get supported by the ecosystem within the greater Atlanta region.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2017

by Mark Hasebroock, Founder and Managing Partner, Dundee Venture Capital. Warren Buffett is known to avoid embracing new technologies ever since his famous remark during the dot-com bubble of the 1990s that he doesn’t invest in technology because he doesn’t understand it. But not for long.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fintech has become a huge industry in the tech arena and thousands of companies each year are looking to create the next disruptive technology to break into the field. Following Bitcoin, Ripple is the second-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization as of 2014. It has raised over $35 million in venture capital funds.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Prior to TenantCloud he was a principal investor with Petros Partners, a venture fund focused on clean energy technology and prior to Petros he was the Managing Director of the J4T Venture Fund; a $50 million venture fund focused on Texas early stage companies. Treasury’s SSBCI Venture Capital Steering Committee.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Conferences are a great way to meet industry professionals, explore the newest technologies and innovations in your industry and to receive tips and insight for your profession. TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year. by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . Launch Festival.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2019

Venture capital has a big say in which companies and projects see the light of day. Dan is an entrepreneur, thought leader, and investor with a career-long focus in business process automation through the use of advanced technology and organizational development and improvement. They’re less dependent on external investors.

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