Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Union Square Ventures – one of our favorite co-investors – added to Top Hat’s existing investors and USV’s Albert Wenger joined their Board of Directors. This funding is big news, particularly since 2016 was a weak year for Ed Tech funding. Ultimately, success comes down to the persistence and hustle of the founders.

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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. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Reviewing financial & operational performance. Founder’s perspective.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 In 2016, women were the recipients of 4.94 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition. I don’t know this world on an intimate, personal level. That’s the problem.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2015

By Al Fialkovich, Managing Director, Founder and Co-Owner of Transworld Business Advisors of Denver. It has been a national conversation in recent years and no one can argue that the impending baby boomer’s retirement will affect how business markets operate currently. Thinking of selling your business in the next five years?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Dan Brown, the inventor of Bionic Wrench and founder of Logger Head Tools, is a prime example. Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures. Between 2011 and 2016, leading banks like JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America made 947,907 transactions for patent loans.

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2017

Back in December 2016 I had the idea to develop a startup pledge for diversity and inclusion here in Austin and since have informally been working with some folks to develop the idea. My goal is to get enough thoughtful eyes on the project to launch later this year. Anyone interested in helping, please let me know.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Turkana is home to Kakuma refugee camp, one of the largest refugee camps in the world, with over 200,000 residents and where we have been operating since October. Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January. The founders?—?Alex I joined in March 2017.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 25, 2016

” That is, how do we ensure Homebrew is among a small group of firms that talented founders seek to connect with early in, or prior to, their fundraising process. And it’s probably one of the biggest differences in seed investing when you compare 2006 vs 2016. Most of our investments are listed on our website. ]. .”

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Despite these positive moves, the same NUS Enterprise study reported that half of Singaporean startups operate at a loss. Of the 530 Singapore startups surveyed in 2016, a quarter recorded no revenue at all while 29 percent generate revenues but were spending more money than they earned.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. 5000 list , which lists private American companies based on three-year revenue growth between 2016 and 2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2017

percent growth in 2016. Like Paul Graham , founder of Y-Combinator, said a long time ago, I see startups succeed or fail every day based primarily on the qualities of the founders. The economy has some effect, but as a predictor of success it’s a rounding error compared to the founders. Look in the mirror.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. in 2016, as an advanced e-mobility and automotive technology company with the mission to develop world-class, emotionally-compelling vehicles featuring the most forward-thinking automotive technologies in existence. Thanks to Brandy Runyan, Black Diamond PR Firm, LLC ! #2-

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Nearly every startup I have spoken to over the years – including some where I’m a co-investor – talks positively about the support they’ve gotten from A16Z. As many of us are ex operators I think it intellectually suited us. The reason that marketing resonated so much for us as a 2016 priority is: Portfolio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2016

Other entrepreneurs don’t even realize that they badly need a co-founder or team leader who can complement their own skills. Update yourself on their history, founder backgrounds, and competitors. Practice active listening with advisors and startup founders. Be sensitive to culture and operating mode.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2018

Meyers and Kate Pope Hodel, co-authors of “ Beyond Collisions: How to Build Your Entrepreneurial Infrastructure “ How does a community find funding to support building and encouraging an entrepreneurial infrastructure? Many traditional funding sources are reluctant to fund underlying operations. by Maria E.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 21, 2017

See Jeff Leventhal’s post ( boldstart venture partner and Workrails cofounder/CEO) on why services continue to matter for cloud vendors. From a customer and revenue perspective, Mulesoft has continued to move upstream as their average selling price was $82k in 2014, $105k in 2015, and $143k in 2016. Same goes for why on-prem.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Claudia Freed, CEO of the Wheaton Illinois-based nonprofit EALgreen. Through the 5 R’s of the circular economy—Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Recycle—EAL converts donations of customer returns and other excess inventory into operational savings for colleges.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. Walmart’s $3.3B Disclosed funding: $40.4M.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

If you are a small business operator, risks are something you often want to avoid. Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. 2 PwC, 19th Annual Global CEO Survey, January, 2016. Attracting Overseas Customers.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Renske Lynde, Co-founder & Managing Director, Food System 6 Accelerator. Derek Denckla, Investor and founder of Slow Money NYC ; Convener Food+Enterprise Summit. Derek Denckla, Investor and founder of Slow Money NYC ; Convener Food+Enterprise Summit. You need science to back-up claims. Brian Halweil, Editor in Chief.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. With KOYA, you can easily treat your co-worker to a class at their favorite yoga studio in New York or surprise your partner with a personal message at the park where you first met. In late summer of 2016 I was deep into the biggest crisis of my life.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

With a smart grid, you can improve outage detection, speed of data capture, continuing and disaster recovery, field service operations and overall grid modernization techniques.”. In 2016, the city agreed to add a smart eco technology center to showcase sustainable development, The Straits Times reported. Smart Transportation.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 13, 2016

So before even figuring out what to fix, let’s just make a firm commitment to connect all of our important business processes (marketing, sales, operational, financial, etc.) This frees me up to focus on the things I do excel at and I can run a more efficient operation. " too easy to measure Data Points and Metrics.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Institute includes a co-working space and accelerator (the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas), an incubator, a training group, a seed fund, and much more — all working together under the unifying, umbrella theme of entrepreneurship. I’m also executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

We are thrilled to welcome Ajay Sudan , who brings with him 15 years of operating experience including six years at Palantir where he was responsible for launching several new businesses, including their healthcare business, which he grew to $100M+ in sales. Prior to that, he worked at Microsoft in product management and marketing.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 23, 2015

” I was told this several times about becoming a parent but the same can be true about the life of a founder. They don’t give me bonus credit for spending time with our founders daily, weekly, monthly. Get Homebrew operations up and running. Overdeliver on the promises we made to founders we backed. #3

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Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

As cloud computing and applications have become more prevalent in every size and type of company, configuring these applications remains a pain point that business operations and IT departments know all too well. The answer is the cloud. Enter Salto. Salesforce + Workday) and managing very complex tools such as CPQ.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

And after my surgery in 2016, I dived right into starting my own business and got a job with a photography company based in BC Women’s Hospital where I went on to photograph over 1,000 babies for over two years! My co-founder and I have both been professional matchmakers for over 20 years each when we started our business.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. But they all take so much time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2022

David is the Founder and CEO of David Novak Leadership, the parent organization to five nonprofits dedicated to developing leaders at every stage of life, from ages 5 to 65. David is also the Co-author of his newest book – Take Charge of You: How Self Coaching Can Transform Your Life and Career. And I said, who could I learn from?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4 Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Raised $8M in series B in September 2016. Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We loved the founders, but didn’t have much conviction around the scalability of a browser plug-in and the fact that this was a bridge round. Ryan and his co-founders proved us wrong big time and built one of the largest social media management companies. We met Sonder’s founder Francis Davidson many times between 2014 and 2016.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers. My co founder Jonathan Hill realised how important good food was due to his father passing away from eating poorly. We kept doing that until we grew into what we are now.

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