YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

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. According to a report, in spite of playing a significant role in the U.S.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

Gaming is a sector that traditionally struggled to attract venture capital investment in the early days, as mentioned by Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins in the Gamecraft podcast. What events sparked the major revolutions in business models and distribution? /1 billion in 2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

A nonprofit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Government grants. Examples include charitable organizations, trade unions, and public arts organizations.

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Angel Investor Equity Technical Review Exit Strategy 132

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

The SBIC was instrumental in the creation of the venture capital business. If you want to see a fun quote on it, read A History of Silicon Valley which quotes: “ …many venture capital pioneers think the SBIC program did little to advance the art and practice of venture investing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2013

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Government grants. Yet I still get this question on a regular basis, so I’ll try to outline the considerations in common-sense terms.

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Equity Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy 207

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It’s become fashionable among some entrepreneurs, and even some venture capitalists, to badmouth the venture capital industry. But to paraphrase Winston Churchill, venture capital is the worst method for financing scaling startups except for all the others. Option 1: the government.

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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Government Grants. $3 US Government. Center for Venture Research. Venture Capital. $20 So, generally, these three major sources of capital are complementary, not competitive. The figure below shows the number of investors by investment size for startup ventures. Friends and Family (F&F). $50

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Valuation Software Engineering 179

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Government grants. Yet I still get this question on a regular basis, so I’ll try to outline the considerations in common-sense terms.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 218

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Sedibeng’s primary market advantages are their company culture, consistent “quality” branding, traditional brew recipes, and commitment to rural distribution. Specifically, because NovOculi is seeking equity investments, the company needs to look into venture capital funding and angel investments. Build an online presence.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified. government satellite in orbit. Venture capital and startups have spent 50 years institutionalizing the rapid delivery of disruptive innovation. In the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2011

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Government grants. Yet I still get this question on a regular basis, so I’ll try to outline the considerations in common-sense terms.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 238

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Government grants. Examples include charitable organizations, trade unions, and public arts organizations.

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Angel Investor Equity Technical Review Exit Strategy 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. A quantum network’s value comes from its ability to distribute entanglement. Quantum Cryptography/Quantum Key Distribution. Securing and validating Quantum Key Distribution is hard and it’s only one part of a cryptographic system.

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Technology Algorithm Stealth Distribution 436

Pascal's View

MARCH 12, 2010

This is the fifth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: Please differentiate between the governance of a VC fund versus the governance of companies in a VC fund’s portfolio?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. A patent is a government granted monopoly to prevent others from making, using or selling your invention – even if the other parties infringement was innocent or accidental. Posted in Technology, Venture Capital.

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Intellectual Property IP Software Review Non-disclosure Agreement 213

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. In just ten months, Warehouse Now has grown 400% year on year. Hardened Cybersecurity Defense.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 141

VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

Sector funding distribution according to Greenfield Partners. In addition to investments, the Israeli tech sector found itself getting more politically involved as the new government led by Prime Minister Netanyahu (who holds the PM for the sixth time) was sworn in. The case for US venture capital outperformance ( source ).

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. I think a lot of entrepreneurs don’t fully understand how venture capital works. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. I think a lot of entrepreneurs don’t fully understand how venture capital works. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2020

Many do not have an adequate amount of cash to weather the storm and have to scramble to apply for government emergency loans and grants. If you want your business to grow faster by taking on investors and raising venture capital, you might want to switch your business entity from an LLC to a C Corporation.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

In terms of access to venture capital, Israel was rated 2nd in the world. Taiyo has one of the most comprehensive generic product portfolios in the Japanese market and has a strong presence in all major distribution channels in Japan. Sony Classics bought the rights to distribute the film internationally.

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Switzerland Japan Technical Review 79

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It would be the biggest investment from the federal government in research and development since the end of the Cold War, and a lot of that would be in clean energy technology. To form a digital development fund to coordinate the R&D and the distribution pathways with our like-minded partners. In part it wasn’t a pay thing.

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Technical Review Technology China Taiwan 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2010

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Government grants. Yet I still get this question on a regular basis, so I’ll try to outline the considerations in common-sense terms.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 143

Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The decision to ramp up pre-approval production on multiple COVID-19 vaccines so they’d be ready to distribute if proven effective was a classic blitzscaling tactic. How do we achieve cooperation amongst a diverse range of governments, industries, and communities, all of whom have different and often competing interests?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

And it’s impossible to predict which handful of issues will actually get attention and change over the next four years; mostly governments produce gridlock, not change. It’s almost impossible to agree with any one candidate on all the issues. This sort of simplification is logical, and necessary.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If you don’t have time to perform the research or would like a second opinion, there are people you can go to for help, like government departments and your local SBDC. Depending on the size and goals of your venture, you may need to seek financing from an “angel” investor or from a venture capital firm.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies. Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Copyright is the right to control reproduction and distribution of original works of authorship fixed in tangible forms of expression. Patents are highly technical, hard to get, and the process is slow and expensive, but for those who succeed, the payoff is a 20-year government-sanctioned monopoly over the patented technology.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). Taboola and Outbrain – Content distribution, discovery and recommendations (Raised approx. NSO – Offensive cyber espionage tools for governments (Raised $130M) – 60% of the company is owned by PE fund Francisco Partners.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. One of the ones that really bothers me is how Venture Capitalists try and conflate what they do as being complicated.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Huston-Tillotson (@HustonTillotson) | Twitter Eugene Sepulveda CEO, Entrepreneurs Foundation Director, Capital Factory Sr. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

To an entrepreneur, being asked to join a venture firm with an Entrepreneur-in-Residence title means you have been tapped on the shoulder by the VC gods. The CDROM content business in the early 1990’s was one of the many of the long line of venture capital fads. We understood none of this. More detail in future posts.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 7, 2011

Introduction This post originally appeared in the “ Ask the Attorney ” column I am writing for VentureBeat ; it is part of my ongoing series regarding venture capital term sheets. The problem, of course, is that a so-called “walking dead” company rarely has the cash to buy-back the investors’ shares.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

We had to estimate hardware costs at various volume levels, distribution channel discounts, competitive pressures from Imsai and a few others, and then decide to go to market with a strong conviction in our pricing strategy. Heck, there was no venture capital in Dixie in that era. There was no thought of enterprise value.

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Technical Review Software Review Nevada Silicon Valley 48

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. Israel Corporation is Israel’s largest holding company.

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