YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

In 2018, Canada had a record-low unemployment rate and as a result we are seeing more companies, startups and online-based businesses dedicated to serving the niche-jobs industry. Graphic designers and illustrators are no longer considered a starving artist and computer network technicians are keeping the tech companies running.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group. Las Vegas, NV.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

Over the years, the rapid growth of startup networks is seen in almost every sector. of venture capital investment in 2018. Another reason that makes it difficult for women to gather adequate funds is more than 89% of investors are male in the Venture Capital World, who often overlook women entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Come network with your friends and share your secret parties, plan your conference sessions, and discuss whose undiscovered indy band is cooler. On the first official day of SXSW I’m going to be at the convention center all day until I head over to Capital Factory to kick off the SXSW Startup Crawl !

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 2, 2019

We’re proud to say that we wrote a blog post every week in 2018 – and we’ve done that now for the past three years. In case you didn’t catch each and every post, here’s a look back at some of our favourite and most read pieces from 2018. What are the opportunities for the next venture-scale marketplace business?”.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2024

Bucher, founder of venture capital firm Day One Ventures, was recently accepted into the Milken Institute’s membership program, with her official induction taking place at the prestigious global conference. As a general partner of Day One Ventures, she supports companies and founders who demonstrate this same dedication.

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View from Seed

APRIL 3, 2019

Yet, despite the attention and efforts in 2018, funding to female-founded startups continued to plateau: 2.2% of venture capital went to companies with only female founders (Pitchbook, October 2018). 17% of venture capital went to companies with at least one female founder (Crunchbase, January 2019).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

A warm introduction from a mutual connection is always the best way to meet an investor, which is why it pays to build bridges and expand your network as an entrepreneur. Lu Zhang is the founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund , a company dedicated to promoting early-stage venture capital for entrepreneurs.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

In my own view, this is awesome news — because I’ve been an investor in Aurora since February 2018 when I co-led its Series A round for Greylock and joined Aurora’s board. Meanwhile, market pioneers in blitzscale-up mode are exactly the kind of company Reinvent aims to serve with its “venture capital at scale” strategy.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

For each dollar men raise in early-stage venture capital, women raise an average of $.38, Yet in a 2018 study of more than 350 startups conducted by Mass Challenge and Boston Consulting Group, businesses founded by women yielded higher revenue—more than two times as much per dollar invested—than those founded by men.

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VC Cafe

JULY 31, 2020

Last year I published on VC Cafe a post titled the 7 habits of highly effective people… in startups , and this time will I apply the book’s principles to the world of Venture Capital. Let’s dive into the 7 habits of highly effective people and how they can be reflected in the world of venture capital.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

It encourages users to form social networks around shared values and offers tools for petitions, pledges, surveys to foster digital activism. Engaging with your base of supporters enables more straightforward communication and furthers the influence of your campaign amongst their personal networks.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Whereas in 2016 I struggled to come up with one, and whereas in 2017 it was obvious it was Coinbase, with 2018 comes the most money poured into U.S. In 2018, it was that kind year. This is the company, in my opinion, which only first appeared on the radar of most investors in 2018. [Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2018

With the current global movement for women’s rights and equality, IWD 2018 has spawned numerous initiatives including #PressForProgress and #TimeIsNow. While the hashtags vary, the common theme of 2018 is action. For many VCs, deal flow is extremely network driven and often our networks look a lot like us.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. It’s a cliche that one of the most important benefits of attending an elite university is the network.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

In 2018 and 2019, we connected together all four cities with staff, programming and a Texas-wide mentor network. In 2018, we launched in Dallas with the help of The DEC, the Dallas Regional Chamber, UT Dallas, Accenture, Deloitte, Varidesk and many other partners. The Network Effect?—?applies We have a bright future.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

Meanwhile, Philly quietly chugs away drawing entrepreneurs and venture capital (VC) dollars. Philly welcomes startups with a growing network of coworking facilities, incubators, and accelerators. The City of Brotherly Love cracked the nation’s top-10 venture activity regions in 2018 when $1.4 A Robust Talent Pool.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Throughout that development process the marketing team kept pressing, leading the company to 50,000 influencers over the Summer, which made us the largest warm contact influencer network in the market. During the latter half of 2018, I had just graduated and was having a hard time breaking into my desired field.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It possesses a strong corporate base, talented workforce, and a vast network of nationally ranked universities, startup development organizations and innovation-minded companies to support a robust tech ecosystem,” said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. In Houston, we are not just running, we are sprinting?—?in

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

It’s all part of his platform as Portfolio Manager of Fintech Ventures Group (FVG), a Vancouver-based, venture capital company that works with Internet startups and other tech businesses. For companies that are in a more advanced stage of growth, venture capital can be key.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

So, as a follow up, I thought I’d share some high level stats on our investing activity since we kicked off Fund III nearly a year ago in October 2018. . Yes, we still invest in marketplaces as this is one subset of network effects (our investment thesis). . 8 investments. Only 1 investment in SF Bay Area . 3 marketplaces .

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Haystack

JUNE 1, 2018

A well-networked LP recently remarked to me they’ve estimated over 150+ of the 500+ known seed funds are currently “in market” right now. At the start of 2018, I did not expect so much activity across the VC industry. Yet for many, it didn’t come as a surprise. Check out this graph and see for yourself: Yikes!

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Without venture capital, without external loans, I bootstrapped my business and brought it to acquisition – in a field traditionally dominated by males ( 16% of male entrepreneurs are in the tech industry, compared to 4% of females ). iBirth was acquired in June 2018 by Babyscripts, Inc.,

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 16, 2018

This ten-week program, based at the Americas Regional Services Center in Columbus, Ohio, enables startups to trial their products at scale, network with industry experts, receive mentoring from the leadership team of the BMW Group Financial Services NA and access funding from L Marks. BMW Brings Innovation. Data Analytics and Insights.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. It’s a great business.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

This is particularly true in the early stages of a new venture when you may be a solopreneur or working with a very small team. Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? May 10th and 11th, 2018. May 1st – 3rd, 2018. SaaStock 2018. October 15th – 17th, 2018.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Well, actually, quite a few tech companies IPO’d in 2018, though many of those are a bit underwater now given December’s public market volatility. I subscribe to the thesis by USV’s Albert Wenger , that we are in a “ World After Capital ,” where capital is abundant and it is attention which is the scarce asset. I predict: soon!

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

However, 2018 has other ideas, with the most money ever invested in U.S. venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. Private equity/venture capital managers have a much longer duration than most any other fund type. Placement agents have to offer their investor network a range of funds to support themselves. But can you?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). Deliveroo), but in comparison with Google and Microsoft, Amazon has yet to launch an official Corporate Venture arm (read more about the rise of corporate VC here ).

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 9, 2018

Others wanted to know whether venture capital was going away. Complete Newsletter linked here: The FPV Blockchain Weekly #17, April 9, 2018. What were students most interested in? Many asked about the potential for re-centralization of technology and power, similar to what we saw with Facebook and Google.

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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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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Perot Jain , one of the most active early stage venture firms in Texas, is joining DivInc and The DEC to support our $100,000 Dallas Diversity & Inclusion Challenge and help us get the word out as far and wide as possible! According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active investor in Texas since 2013.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JULY 26, 2017

Expanding the Enterprise Europe Network’s (EEN) range of services including advice on scaling up and cooperating more with local business incubators, science and technology parks. Creating a separate instrument dedicated to networking projects in less-developed regions.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

Our team joined BC in 2018, and less than 6 months after that BC was acquired by Autodesk , where I continued on for about a year. I certainly didn’t know a ton about venture capital or the tech industry at large. What we were really building was the first professional network for all of the $10T construction industry.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 22, 2018

On Wednesday, when the crypto market plummeted, CNBC aired a clip of recent interviews I’ve done with the network where I warned of the overheated market, linked below. This Venture Capitalist Called Bitcoin’s Correction in December, Here’s How She Knew , CNBC, January 17, 2018.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Most investors rely on their network of colleagues and service providers to source investments. Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC.

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