Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. We we’re now a tight board of early-stage VCs, management and two hands-on operational experts in our target markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. Where are we today? and hasn’t abated.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. As VP of Product at Artsy, Fatma oversees the product organization responsible for product strategy, design, and development of its web and mobile platforms. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Go-to-Market Guild.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. According to Statistic Brain , angel investors, numbering almost 300,000, contributed a record $25 billion to early-stage startups in the U.S. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Importantly, we recently announced a $30 million financing that gives us the resources we need to build a global enterprise software company. It’s the executives who trust you to join the early-stage startups you’ve funded. It has grown recurring revenue by more than 500% and deal-size by 276%.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. The service would use early-stage smart phones and a push system developed by Rhino. In any case, Vusion didn’t quit work out.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The IMF just raised its global growth forecast from 2.5% So I believe that now is the perfect time to build a company and the perfect time for early-stage investors to bet on innovation. It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

For example, Qualcomm Ventures hosts an international business plan competition called QPrize , which targets mobile technology startups. The most common tactic we’ve seen from large corporations is providing a package of benefits for startups in order to build relationships with early-stage companies. 3) Freebies.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Kabam, the mobile gaming company, hit a major stumbling block in its early days when its financing was lost due to the 2008 financial collapse. Along the way, the company faced challenges while scaling and going global, and she’ll touch on those, too. It not only survived but was sold nine years later for $1Billion.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

During that time, we watched the first wave of mobile apps take off — Foursquare, GroupOn, Instagram, Twitter, etc. Our investment thesis is simple: Blockchains will impact trillions of dollars of economic activity across many industries globally. We look for projects and protocols that can rethink major classes of global commerce.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. These resellers buy devices from the U.S. GeoInvenio.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

He covers startups, music, social, mobile, health, and education. Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Ressi estimates that the debt note now accounts for over 50% of all angel and early stage deals. Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

The Food+City Challenge Prize is an international competition among early stage business startups encouraging innovation in the urban food system. link]  —  @jeffworr Social Maps and the Future of Location-Based Mobile users are becoming increasingly comfortable with sharing their location.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Our unique approach to investing, coupled with a pioneering spirit, provides the vision to guide early stage growth companies beyond today and toward future success. We invest in companies that sell to both enterprise/SMB customers as well as direct to consumers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

By comparison, last year’s global market for software-as-a-service, one of the hottest sectors for startup creation and investment, was estimated at $104 billion. billion in early funding. Dozens of outreach programs across the military now offer quick revenue to early-stage companies. Defense Department.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 26, 2019

SpdLoad is a startup development company focused on web and mobile development of Minimum Viable Products( MVP) for early-stage startups. Our company has set out two global objectives. She’s excited about designing processes and always finds the most efficient and non-ordinary way to build a focused team.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Patent reform is high on the list of priorities for most of the tech industry, particularly in the areas of software, Internet and mobile technology. Giving privately held companies maximum room to maneuver as they raise funding from accredited investors and participate in secondary markets can only strengthen the startup ecosystem.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Vision – what comes after the mobile phone. In his vision for 2020 , Mark Zuckerberg said it’s likely that AR and VR will be the next major platform after the mobile phone. His vision for the future of social is AR and VR to eliminate the distance between people and allow people to be present despite physical distance.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Just yesterday, Adam Medros , SVP of Global Product at TripAdvisor and an entrepreneur advisor for NextView, just asked about when the next event will be. So, if you’ve been a successful internet founder or have launched great web/mobile products, most founders would love to have you in a round even if your check size is small.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Just yesterday, Adam Medros , SVP of Global Product at TripAdvisor and an entrepreneur advisor for NextView, just asked about when the next event will be. So, if you’ve been a successful internet founder or have launched great web/mobile products, most founders would love to have you in a round even if your check size is small.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. What’s Your VC Tech Stack?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Amidst an increasingly connected world, globalization is the order of the day. However, while the benefits are many (including more efficient communication and greater potential for collaboration), today’s digital age can put increased pressure on young businesses to expand globally — and to do so quickly. from France.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. As Smartphones Reach A Global Tipping Point, Why Your Product Isn't As Simple As You. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

The opportunity set is much bigger than ever (50x more users, 10x time online, mobile, social, credit-card enabled, global) … when things work they work faster and at an unprecedented scale. to raise “opportunity funds” to fund the prorata participation of their best early-stage investments.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Follow Entrepreneur on Facebook Follow Entrepreneur on Twitter Follow Entrepreneur on LinkedIn Subscribe | Mobile. Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now. Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 26, 2017

Urbanization is one of the most important global trends of the 21st century. Urbanization provides opportunities for social inclusion, equitable access to services and livelihoods, and engaging and mobilizing previously excluded populations. wheelchairs), as well as transit where possible.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

To put things in context, global venture funding in Q2 2023 reached $65 billion, an 18% decline quarter over quarter, and a 49% drop compared to the second quarter of 2022, when startup investors spent $127 billion, according to Crunchbase. That includes the $10 billion round into OpenAI, the $1.3

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

learning and travel”) Eisenhower Fellowship, each person discusses their effort to create greater access to prosperity in a global economy and sustain diverse enterprises in education, economy, and civics. Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?, March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM 4:30PM Hilton?—?Salon March 10, 2018 11:00AM?—?12:00PM

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

As an investor in early stage startups in gaming and metaverse/web3 at Remagine Ventures , I naturally consume a lot of content on this topic, and this post also helps me digest and separate signal from noise. Now the mobile networks are good enough that it’s starting to be a lot more video. You can download a copy here.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e. link] dazhi chen.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

air events global is a shared economy platform for the events industry, connecting both sides of the marketplace, clients looking to outsource event work with event freelancers, looking for casual and contract employment in the events industry. 11 – Mobility. I started I needed mobility. Image Credit: Jeanette Muscat.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The rise of CVC volume is well documented (see post on VC Cafe), but what’s less discussed is funds started by mature startups or “new corporates” These are funds launched by venture backed companies to deploy capital into early stage startups innovating in their space. “Mature” startup funds.

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