Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of those demanding angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. Way back in 2015, the Kickstarter Pebble smartwatch raised $20.3 Early crowdfunding successes have been undeniable. million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Josh was a perfect fit for us because he is global president of Accuen , which is the data-drive, programmatic buying part of the global media empire that is Omnicom. In the Early Days.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group. Funding 101 Panel at 3DS Global Roundup w/ myself, Bart Bohn and May Samali. In the venture capital world, it’s similarly staggering, with 4.2% What does that look like?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2015 Nerdwallet.com chose it as one of the best places to start a business, as well as the #1 city for female entrepreneurs, and for good reason: It’s an affluent urban center and was ranked as one of the top 20 most productive metro areas in terms of GDP. Boulder, CO. Las Vegas, NV. Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 21, 2016

There’s a lot more data contained within, but my read from these is that VC investment is down significantly since the highs we saw in 2015, but is now holding steady at it’s new level, both globally and in the UK.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

I later became convinced that my different perspective (female, immigrant, global) enhanced my ability to see opportunities where others didn’t. Limited partners (LPs), who manage the capital that gets deployed into venture capital funds, can play an important role in diversifying the funding landscape.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

In 2015 Nerdwallet.com chose it as one of the best places to start a business, as well as the #1 city for female entrepreneurs, and for good reason: It’s an affluent urban center and was ranked as one of the top 20 most productive metro areas in terms of GDP. Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 14, 2015

Last week, I wrote about how some very positive economic factors - ranging from low oil prices to low interest rates to US technological leadership to just good old-fashioned confidence are coalescing to set up 2015 as one of the best years ever for US business. Pursue Global Markets. trillion mark in 2015. Truly a golden age.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted. These shares propelled him to billionaire status in 2015 when the firm’s market value soared. Carlson founded Polychain Capital in 2016. Ten years have passed since this crisis occurred.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

With the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent global lockdowns, telehealth has been rewriting all the rules on the way healthcare has historically been conducted. Pitchbook reports venture capital funding of US mental health startups as already surpassing the entirety of capital raised for 2019. Senior Care.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

As I look at the data, I am proud of what we’ve built and by all accounts we had a great 2015. I spoke at numerous conferences throughout the year, including the Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering, NY Times Live, Consensus, Money 20/20, and published several thought pieces in 2015 to discuss the potential of the blockchain.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As I look at the data, I am proud of what we’ve built and by all accounts we had a great 2015. I spoke at numerous conferences throughout the year, including the Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering, NY Times Live, Consensus, Money 20/20, and published several thought pieces in 2015 to discuss the potential of the blockchain.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Fitbit was started in a previous startup era, raised about $65M in venture capital, went public in 2015, and reached heights of over a $4B market cap. 1/ High End And Low End Disruption – Fitbit ended up owning nearly one quarter of the wearables market.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It took me some time to figure out a title and I eventually settled for “Building European Champions” as the region has proven its ability to generate very successful venture outcomes and will continue to be the birthplace of many successful technology companies. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

In 2015 Nerdwallet.com chose it as one of the best places to start a business, as well as the #1 city for female entrepreneurs, and for good reason: It’s an affluent urban center and was ranked as one of the top 20 most productive metro areas in terms of GDP. Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2016

. US private tech funding 2006-2015: $258bn (real). Jon Bradford, founder of Techstars UK, once said to me that corporate innovation budgets dwarf venture capital. The excess cash from Apple from 2006-2015 was greater than US VC funding in total. — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 27, 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. As we started to focus on what each of us wanted to do, Adam raised his venture capital fund – Plus Capital. She joined Mesa Global where she is doing both venture capital and investment banking.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Prior to founding Taxfyle in 2015, Richard worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an auditor. Fast forward to today; since we founded Taxfyle in 2015, it has earned the support and investment of numerous venture capitalists and is one of the fastest-growing companies in any sector in the U.S. Last year, Taxfyle ranked No.

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David Teten

JANUARY 18, 2015

We’re now gearing up for the 2015 version of ffMASSIVE , ffVC’s annual conference as part of SXSW. VEI is an in-school, live, global business simulation that offers students the development of skills in entrepreneurship, communication, personal finance, and technology. All proceeds went to Virtual Enterprises International.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. What is venture capital, really? And what does a venture capital firm do?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

Historically, while unicorn startups rightfully garner a lot of media attention and interest throughout the venture capital (VC) community, smart investors have spread their money around among a large number of startups, both large and small. at around 27 million. Of that number, only 98 are currently considered unicorns.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

With a little luck, 2015 could go down as one of the best years ever for American business. Barring that, on balance for entrepreneurs and executives out there seeking to make their mark, 2015 is looking nice and juicy. Business Planning Entrepreneurship Financing Investing Jay Turo Management Venture Capital'

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

We’ve already begun to see the effects of the 2014-2015 bubble in growth investing, and it’s comforting to know we are moving in the other direction, however slowly. Startups and the business of financing them have, with the help of Twitter, HBO Silicon Valley, and Shark Tank have become part of the global business lexicon.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. The difference?

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. —– Indie.vc

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. The $900M of SaaS VC funding in 2015 now represents less than Europe's largest financing round, with Celonis raising $1B in June this year. of market capitalization.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

But then the credit crunch and global recession took hold, and 2015 is a markedly different landscape for small businesses in need of finance. at present are ezbob, iwoca, Boost Capital, and Fleximize. Venture capital and angel investors. check out this post from the Entrepreneurial Handbook.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

By 2015, 32% of the population will use a mobile phone to access the internet. 2) There’s a hunger for venture capital funding. Spain, Argentina and Brazil have relatively low levels of venture capital activities ( Invest in Spain confirms this).

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 17, 2016

“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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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT. Entrepreneur, and Quartz.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Global and Local. I caught a glimpse of this energy during my Venture Partner tenure with the folks at GGV Capital , who’ve been successfully investing exclusively across China and the U.S. and seen the rise of absolute juggernauts with deeply global ambitions such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

5000 issue in 2015. Peggy Burke is a 30+-year design executive with expertise in creating global brands. And, Pitch Johnson who was the chairman of the board at Boole & Babbage and a venture capitalist, took me around and introduced me to every venture capital firm in Silicon Valley at the time.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ). 2021 Tech Trends: Israel is winning the global race for tech funding. Part of a global trend. Records were broken globally as well, both in terms of funding and number of unicorns. To put things in context: startup fundraising 2021 Global: $643 billion ??US:

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

We discussed the opportunity to go global and start by setting up a beachhead in the US. Jon and Clement hired several key US execs in sales, marketing and finance, which helped land the first $500k ARR deal with a flagship US financial services firm in 2015. A much bigger market.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Emmanuel Macron during the workshop in Versailles In this context I was invited, together with a large dozen of foreign investors, to participate in a workshop to discuss what France could to do to attract more venture capital from global firms.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. I never did find a VC to lead a round of funding for Localeur, but two things happened by the end of 2015. but it’s true. Most definitely. Not at all?—?although

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