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Is Artificial Intelligence Still Relevant for Startups?

ReadWriteStart

It shouldn’t be a surprise that the buzz surrounding AI/machine learning and early stage startups peaked in 2018. From a technical perspective, “machine learning” means introducing data into a neural network, so the mathematical model learns to recognize patterns.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

We also have a better known brand than some of our early stage companies, so we can leverage that to help source talent. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors. For example, consider public relations.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

Hello Alice is a free, data-driven, and multichannel platform helping small business owners on their entrepreneurial journey by providing access to relevant funding networks and technical assistance tools while increasing owner success rates. 16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to?

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. Mailchimp looks like it’s going to be a huge exit down in Atlanta, but that might turn out to be a one-off. Angels can’t do it alone.

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Give First… Build First… or Both?

David Cohen

“How is an early-stage founder expected to interpret the Give First philosophy?”. That’s the polite way of rewording a question Keith Coleman, Founder of Fraudmarc (Techstars Atlanta 2017), posed to Brad Feld and me in an email a little while back. Keith got our attention with his subject line, “give first, finish last.”.

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U.S. Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days

allthingsd.com

In the largest sector, Internet, median deal size increased at every stage of funding for the first time ever, CB Insights said. Venture capitalists were particularly aggressive on early-stage investments in the second quarter. Coca-Cola - Atlanta, GA. Latest Video. Search » Featured Posts. Featured Reviews.