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What I’ve Learned in the Last 5 Years as a VC that I Didn’t Appreciate in the First 5

View from Seed

Being dogmatic looks like: – Arbitrarily saying that VC’s must own a certain % (I remember people criticising USV early on because they “only” targeted 15% instead of the gold standard of 20%). – Saying you will never do a deal in a certain location (eg: never do a deal in Florida. Except… Chewy). Except… Spotify).

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Accelerator Spotlight: nudgem

View from Seed

SK: I was born and raised in Athens, Greece and moved to Florida to pursue a Master’s degree in 2014. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? SK: In the early stages of a company’s life, there are two things that really matter and that you have to get right. And your least?

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Disturbing

Austin Startup

Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. We just closed out in 2017 our 10-year early-stage venture fund started in 2000. The youngest of the litter has been busy tuning a very attractive general idea into a very specific and more IP-based product offering.

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Big Sky Capital: Investing in the Future of SaaS Startups

ReadWriteStart

Big Sky Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm , has recently announced the launch of its inaugural fund, with $20 million in capital commitments. While Big Sky Capital is based in Miami, Florida, the firm has a global outlook. Despite being based in Miami, Florida, Big Sky Capital has a global outlook.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Do any of these super angles reside in South Florida?

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Do any of these super angles reside in South Florida?

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[US] [Event] Launch Tennessee’s Southland Conference To Highlight South’s Top 50 Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

Launch Tennessee , a public-private partnership that supports the creation and development of high-growth companies in Tennessee, will draw attention on the top 50 early-stage companies in the South during Southland , its new conference highlighting the best in technology and Southern culture in Nashville on June 12-13.

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