Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. but more importantly there’s a community that wants to support and see others succeed. General Partners Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp are fixtures in the startup community, and especially in driving forward female entrepreneurship.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". VCs and fulltime angels bring a lot more than just money to the communities they invest in. It says so right on their website.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

VENTURE CAPITAL. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. GeekWire Events. Startup Resources.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Now with over 917 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.), the teams spent the last two weeks learning what activities, resources and partners they would need to actually deliver their solution. Partners are the external resources (third parties) necessary to execute the Activities.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2018

As many of you know, my partner Jason is from Detroit. In case you don’t know about Jason, prior to co-founding Foundry Group, Jason was a co-founder of SRS Acquiom and a Managing Director and General Counsel for Mobius Venture Capital. The Motor City. Prior to this, Jason was an attorney with Cooley.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common ways in which the Fortune 500 are working with the startup community at scale is through corporate VC arms, contests, packages of benefits geared to startups, and accelerator programs. 1) Corporate Venture Capital. 1) Corporate Venture Capital. 4) Accelerators.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. 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.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

The article starts off saying that “Matthew Varilek has traveled across the state, proselytizing the potential benefits of the Small Business Investment Company Program.” As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC.

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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”. This is a topic we care a lot about, given HOF Capital’s long-term strategy for partnering with universities and my forthcoming book on “ hacking the university ”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. Pitch your needs to friends and family.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2014

When I was there in October 2012 with my partners Ryan and Jason to run the Detroit Marathon we talked about the idea of getting more involved there in some way. My partners and I believe that Detroit hit rock bottom around 2012 and in a decade has the potential to be an amazing city once again. I’m fascinated with Detroit.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

There will be people, especially from the crypto community, that disagree with us on this one. We believe that these community driven economies are really interesting and expanding rapidly from gaming communities to everything you can think of. . Community driven Economies. Think loyalty programs 3.0.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This includes a number of international venture capital groups which have set up offices in the country, local family offices , and sovereign investment funds. One of the biggest advantages is the opportunity for founders to have 100% foreign ownership in their venture. One of these is the Innovation Hub program run by Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. Pitch your needs to friends and family.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. There will also be a constant stream of programming including official SXSW panels. public, private, debt, equity, market return, concessionary capital, etc. The SXSW Startup Crawl!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

Impact investing as a whole has enjoyed a surge of popularity and innovation over the past decade or so with increasing speed, spawning new investment vehicles like social impact bonds / (PFS) programs and more recently green bonds. Contrasted with an average VC fund size of $30M… there is a mismatch.

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Private Equity Venture Capital United States Equity 54

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. As an entrepreneur, you’re always fighting that external war whether that’s with partners or with investors.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2017

We are excited to announce that Chris Moody is joining Foundry Group as a partner. When we started Foundry Group in 2006, we were very clear that we were not going to build a legacy venture capital firm; one meant to outlive its founders. For a while, the only name on the list was Lindel’s. Welcome, Chris!

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Developing an efficient employee onboarding process and training program will be increasingly critical to the company’s ability to grow and manage culture. . Specifically, because NovOculi is seeking equity investments, the company needs to look into venture capital funding and angel investments. Employee training. Expansion.

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Botswana Business Plan Oregon Distribution 148

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. These kinds of success cases continue to happen in Japan’s startup community and in corporations that have to innovate to remain competitive in the global market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. So I did that kind of stuff. It was all technical.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Matt and I were on the FeedBurner board together and he’s got a powerful connection between LA and Chicago – another city with an incredibly thriving startup community. While they invest nationally, they have deep roots in both cities and are key players in the respective startup communities, along with the cities at large.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 24, 2015

At our firm, ff Venture Capital , we didn’t aim to go to Canada, but ended up there anyway. We’re a New York based early-stage venture capital firm. The question some of our limited partners ask us is, “Why?”. Another Canadian firm that’s attracted venture capital is InteraXon *, founded in 2007.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 19, 2019

There are sessions on using Lean to solve community problems , building effective teams , hiring and retaining the right talent , and applying Lean toward equity and diversity efforts. Arlan Hamilton , Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, built her company while homeless.

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Lean Programming San Francisco Silicon Valley 68

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

O perations – We work closely with a pool of preferred service providers who address the operational challenges of early-stage companies: accounting, financial modeling, sales acceleration, legal and regulatory needs, insurance, real estate, engineering, and community building. For example, consider public relations.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

On August 14–15, the Air Force, through AFWERX , hosted a two-day Spark Collider event at Capital Factory to bring newly awarded 19.2 SBIR Phase I companies together with relevant Air Force and venture capital stakeholders. It’s critical to understand the systems and programs in place when trying to work with the government.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Last week I posted an article on peHUB titled How to Create a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community. While I’ve spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley — both as an angel and venture capital investor — I’ve never lived there. The first was to energize the early stage software/Internet entrepreneurial community in Boulder.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. It’s home to a small but growing tech community that has been developing over the past decade, and that’s what piqued my interest.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to? [18:16] We've been this blend of community and a technology platform and we'd often get bucketed very much into one or the other. Carolyn Rodz (06:16): You know, I would say at our core, we're community, A community above all else. We never have.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2011

Rutgers’ Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED) , has announced a partnership with a minority-run early stage venture capital firm, H360 Capital , and NJIT’s Enterprise Development Center (EDC) , to attract technology companies to Newark, New Jersey.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars. All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Christy Cardenas , Managing Partner at Ecliptic Capital , warns that it can ultimately ruin your business, so you must be diligent with your investor choices. However, Sara Brand , Founding General Partner at True Wealth VC , said there’s never been a better time for women to raise money. Foundries North America.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! SXSW and Edelman have partnered to launch a special report of the Trust Barometer?—?Edelman’s

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Look for special programs for entrepreneurs, like the Arizona State University Furnace Technology Transfer Accelerator program that I am familiar with, available to non-students. Collaborative efforts with local companies, like Siemens Venture Capital, are available for certain technology and focus areas. Legal guidance.

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Arizona Phoenix Intellectual Property Incubator 239

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

Until you realize that vetting and helping companies is actually really hard--or did you not notice all the news that venture capital as an asset class doesn't beat the market. Who wouldn't want in on the next Union Square Ventures or First Round Capital funds? I certainly would! You also create an insider's game.

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