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The Role Venture Capital is Playing in Online Schooling (Guest Post)

VC Cafe

A Bloomberg Business Week article reported that $177 million in venture capital funding was released to American educational technology companies in 2010. This figure was triple the total investment made in 2007. Venture capital can make an immediate impact on an online schooling company’s bottom line.

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

Another thing I noticed was that I was now referring companies that I had invested in at a “pre-seed” (capitalization intentional) stage over to folks who would previously be considered my peer venture funds doing Seed-stage investments. Yes, history is repeating itself!).

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Separated at Birth: Techstars and Startup Weekend

David Cohen

Startup Weekend was quite literally born in my office at Techstars in 2007. Techstars was helping the ones that were building businesses by growing their networks, providing intense mentorship, attracting seed capital, and scaling up through additional funding.

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

In 2007, Paul Graham gave a variety of causes for startup death in How Not To Die. 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. He wrote: When startups die, the official cause of death is always either running out of money or a critical founder bailing.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

The great thing is, in 2007, we visited 75+ resorts for a demo tour, and have many leads I can follow up on. We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor. I think this video would help you best. talk I gave on social marketing for startups (top right) [link]. Thanks alot! It’s not about you.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started at Udemy, in Turkey in 2006 and 2007, there was no funding available. We had to raise some seed capital. So, I was really interested in programming, design development, but I didn't realize the kind of business aspect for a very, very long time. In seven days, we launched the application.