YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

2014 will be a formative year for new business owners and early-stage entrepreneurs. Continuing into 2014, there will likely be a shift in the role of the investor into a more hands-on player in businesses. by Melissa Thompson, CEO of TalkSession. For those would-be entrepreneurs debating the startup leap?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Solicit venture capital investors. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/03/2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. The biggest difference from experience is that in bad markets people without venture capital experience or strategies are the first to the exit. Their money works the same way as mine does.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 2, 2015

Techcrunch reported yesterday that London startups raised $647m in Q1 this year, passing $500m in a quarter for the first time and up 67% from $411 in Q4 2014, which was itself a record. For those worried about bubbles, comparison with Silicon Valley suggests there should be plenty of headroom for growth in London and UK venture capital.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Founded in 2014 and based in Brooklyn, it has already produced some of my favourite podcasts: StartUp?—?Gimlet’s The third wave of podcasting.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Wikipedia describes a Podcast as follows: A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files which a user can download and listen to.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

When we started NextView, there were relatively few seed focused venture capital funds in the country, even fewer on the east coast, and almost none in the Boston area. Most were the same threats that existed when we started NextView, just the 2014/2015 version. New Competition. Today, the landscape is very different.

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