Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. Note that all of these names were not started in Silicon Valley.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

I lived in Düsseldorf for some time, and there I came up with the company name idea: “one (idea) for one (client)”, “each custom product for each client”, and “one and only solution for each business partner. 9- How my life and finances came to be. We picked up this name because I, as the founder, consider myself a nerd.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

The sudden arrival of the global pandemic has shifted the playbook for founders and venture capitalists. As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. I can have a wider reach and a higher volume of 30 minute meetings with founders.”.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account. Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. Over 4 million sellers have earned over $1 billion transacting on the site.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

In under 3 years we have been able to scale our business to 7+ figures, we started our food truck manufacturing company Dec of 2017, Trailer King Builders, and were on a mission to help entrepreneurs become financially independent with their foodtruck. Thanks to Patrick Bolanos, Trailer King Builders ! #3-Through Photo Credit: ????

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. By 2017, the fund was worth $250 million. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Today, he is worth $1 billion. Sachin Bansal.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 21, 2021

It was a difficult time of exploration and iteration, as many founders experience, and it took 10 long years to build the company from $0 to $1mm in revenue, a difficult phase. In early 2017, while the company only had single-digit revenue, it was already operating in North America, Europe, India and Japan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Find co-founders to complement your expertise. Successes via a single dictatorial founder are even more rare than billion dollar valuations. We all have strengths and weaknesses, so you need to find partners and team members who can fill in your gaps. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/06/2017.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Being a co-founder of a real estate investment company allows me to set my own objectives, determine my work hours, and reap the rewards of my actions. I started my Marketing company in the year 2017 and it has been a challenging during the growth phase, but what I enjoy most about it is learning and development.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

Joe Zhu is a quick study with a natural desire to offer assistance anytime, anywhere startups face marketing, operational, and financing challenges. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (PRWEB) JULY 12, 2017. Tianyi is also a co-founder of West Suburban Angels , a prominent angel investment group in the west suburbs of Chicago.

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Illinois Chicago Entrepreneur Cofounder 80

The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

In 2009, Tim started Investimonials, LLC, which was essentially a TripAdvisor for the finance industry. He founded the Timothy Sykes Foundations which is partnered with Make-A-Wish Foundation. In 2017, be donated $1M to Pencils of Promise. Investimonials has since reviewed more than 3,000 financial products and services.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews series , we sat down with entrepreneurs Sam Simon and Nasutsa Mabwa, the co-founders and owners of ServiceMaster By Simons. This philosophy is deeply ingrained in their company culture and helps set this husband and wife co-founder team apart as leaders and entrepreneurs.

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David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

Because of that insight, we co-founded the Venture Capital Access Program , focused on helping women and minority entrepreneurs raise capital from HBS Alumni Angels. New York, NY (April 3, 2017) – The US-MENA Tech Summit , the first investing conference of its kind, will launch in New York on April 25 th.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to a study by CB Insights (2017), a software that gathers essential data from investors, companies and industries, more than 70% of startups do not exceed the first stage of venture capital investment. These results were obtained after the following rounds of financing of more than 1000 technology companies in the United States.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2017, Austin was the topped-ranked city by funding amount outside of the Western, Northeast and Chicago regions. In 2017, the top 13 funding rounds in Austin were in excess of $20 million each, with a top round of $40 million (The Zebra). for funding amounts. Last year, nearly $1.2 billion in funding poured into Austin deals.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Or, put another way, great product managers are often the “weird kids” in the MBA program who, while sitting in a finance class, wonder if they should have enrolled in a design school or coding bootcamp instead. (I Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Techstars Austin 2017' Hi there! I’m Hannah, founder and CEO at Babbler. We completed Techstars accelerator in Austin in May 2017 and decided to join this journey for 3 reasons: We were looking for constructive criticism ; and we needed to get out of our comfort zone. That’s why UX is key, if you want to sell.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in early 2017, I worked with ABANA (network of financial professionals with ties to the Middle East/North Africa); Harvard Arab Alumni Association ; and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) to launch an annual Tech Summit in New York focused on the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”).

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. In other words, what percentage of sales are available to pay for growth, and to reward investors for financing that growth.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2019

Joel Gascoigne is the co-founder and CEO of Buffer, a social media management platform. By making his companies journey, experiments, problems and even finances public I have learnt many lessons. I do my best to learn and emulate his distinctive leadership style in my day to day role as Founder and CEO of Harmony Helper.

Entrepreneur 86

Entrepreneur Cofounder Los Angeles Leadership 86

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Next, we have Honor Lydon, co-founder and Executive Editor of BostonChefs.com. My lifelong goal as a child was to open my own restaurant one day and, with the help of 2 partners, I did just that in 1999 with the opening of my first restaurant, Bomboa, located in between the Back Bay and South End of Boston. link] [link].

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Boston New York Hosting Cost 120

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2017

1- My partner and son. Now, in my 30’s, I’m building an incredible startup that is transforming the beauty industry while helping men and women find confidence, and am happily married to my partner with a gorgeous son. We doubled in size in 2017 and employed our first fully remote staff members. 4- Support of my life partner.

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