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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Personal Finance Cross-account visibility and management – Today’s AI products can analyze and move money between accounts – as agents improve, they will make trades across accounts. New interfaces that break the “edtech” mold – the rise of more casual, experiential learning at scale.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. But the “monetization heart of the Internet” doesn’t stop at Overture, Applied Semantics and MySpace.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

In fact, in the 70’s and 80’s, the distinction was almost entirely semantic, as the military and aerospace industry invested ungodly amounts of capital to create technology breakthroughs that eventually saw wide commercial adoption in the personal computing industry. Oftentimes they see a market need and simply want to serve those customers.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

So Google launched Google AdWord and AdSense based in part on technology it acquired when it bought an LA-based company called Applied Semantics. Finance and a host of other wonderful services brought to you by their sponsors. But it turns out that consumers didn’t think it sucked. Then came blogs.

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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

VC Cafe

While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. What’s the difference between an angel round and pre-seed round and why do I believe we’ll see more pre-seed rounds taking place in 2024? Seed is about showing initial product market fit.

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The Living Company

Growthink Blog

As de Geus’ so eloquently writes: The idea of a living company isn''t just a semantic or academic issue. Business Planning Entrepreneurship Financing Investing Jay Turo Management Venture Capital' It has enormous practical, day-to-day implications for managers. In growth and profits, absolutely.

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Big Opportunities for Startups Providing Big Data, Data-as-a-Service

ReadWriteStart

The open database service Factual announced yesterday that it has secured $25 million in financing, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, whose last company Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in 2003, becoming one of the core components of AdSense.

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