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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. Often times when companies raise “bridge” financing (this is money from internal investors. This is unintentional and inevitable. We spoke briefly about why. Short answer: no.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. We don’t seem to get credit as a community for SpaceX or recognition as one of the fastest growing communities for commerce: Honest Company & JustFab.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. Good teams creating something of real value around which they can build a community now can tap another source of scale capital available to them. But many are. Fuzzy Governance.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. Good teams creating something of real value around which they can build a community now can tap another source of scale capital available to them. But many are. Fuzzy Governance.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Accelerators have been great for our respective communities. It’s where their passions are, too.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1. This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years.