BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ). Today, we are up to announce boldstart v + opportunities ii, $230m to continue backing Developer First + SaaS founders from Day 1 to Scale.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. To maintain stability, you have to update your operating procedures, processes, and people as your organization develops. To maintain stability, you have to update your operating procedures, processes, and people as your organization develops.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

Friends and family are key at the idea and early development stages, when you have minimal business valuation. Angel investors typically provide early-stage rollout funding, while venture capital firms won’t be interested until you have real traction and revenue during scaling.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

This means we invest in product-driven engineering teams where all of the development is done in house and where rapid iteration is a key to success. Smart enterprises are analyzing all of this data to make better decisions, increase revenue, and improve operating performance. This is yet another example of the consumerization of tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. In contrast classical computers have very low error rates and operate at room temperature. At the same time, a week doesn’t go by without another story about a quantum technology milestone or another quantum company getting funded.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. military had to develop new ways to collect intelligence.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now the Soviets had first hand knowledge of how their air defense systems would work against the nuclear armed B-52G and H models in an operational environment. All as an integral part of the Strategic Integrated Operating Plan – our war-fighting plan to destroy the Soviet Union. 23 to Ann Arbor when the leaves turned in the fall.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be eating the world. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital ‘s approach to building a fitness office. UPDATE: ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. Thanks Tim!) Motion is better than no motion; stasis kills.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

We are seeing Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta rushing to integrate generative AI features into their products for consumers, enterprises and developers, and every week we learn of new mega rounds into AI research teams looking to bring generative AI technology to every field, from health to education, commerce, entertainment, etc.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

It uses new words to define programming steps, job descriptions, development tools, etc. For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

But we learned so much, our engineers could develop a product that would imitate many of the things we did manually. You raised four rounds within 18 months, waiting until your third round before coming out of stealth mode. We had to compensate for not operating in the main market where our customers were. Focus is everything.

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