Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But, still, every startup, especially those seeking angel and venture capital funding, are conditioned to project this growth curve – because investors love it. To capitalize on this excellent growth opportunity, some entrepreneurs tend to make significant changes in a model that has been working reasonably well for them.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The benefits of building a diverse startup team are overwhelming; from increased creativity and faster problem solving, to a greater diversity of thought opening up new market opportunities and more revenue streams, to better understanding the customer base and building better products… the list goes on.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Jennifer Queen is the founder of Pina , a PR firm focused on startups and venture capital firms. Latin American venture capital and growth investments through 2018 had averaged less than $2 billion per year. With quality growth companies starved for capital, the few investors active in the region were making a killing.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Including a substantial number of investments with smaller opportunities only reduces the possible return on the entire portfolio. Size of the Opportunity 0-25%. The subjective ranking of factors (above) is typical for investor appraisal of startup ventures. TARGETCOMPANY.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Despite this, investors have dreamed for years of the huge opportunities in unlocking Pakistan’s potential as a digital economy. As a frontline state and coalition partner in the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, Pakistan saw fatalities from terrorist violence soar from 295 in 2001 to a peak of over 11,000 in 2009.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Here’s more: Now north of $200 million in revenue, [ Nextiva ] is a quiet giant and, notably, has not taken venture capital funding along its path to scale. We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Sharing economy marketplaces allow owners to “unlock” earning opportunities from these underutilized assets. annual GMV. Airbnb was founded by Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky in 2008.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The benefits of building a diverse startup team are overwhelming; from increased creativity and faster problem solving, to a greater diversity of thought opening up new market opportunities and more revenue streams, to better understanding the customer base and building better products… the list goes on.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2013

After I graduated in 2001, I remember it seeming impossible to feel the same way about living in New York City. It''s been a great opportunity to get to know people better, and connect people locally who, in most cases, live just blocks from each other and had never met. It''s My Life Venture Capital & Technology'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. So how did I come to work in the world of venture capital?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Now, if you were to tell me VCs were starting to return capital to LPs, I could see some parallels. VCs would return capital to LPs because they don’t see attractive investment opportunities that are good fits with their mandate, fund size, [and so forth].

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

No, we are not going back to the future As we ride the 2021 market roller coaster through wreckage and recovery, accompanied by a raging bull market in tech stocks, some people are wondering whether we might be re-living the dreadful dot-com boom and bust of 2000-2001. Is venture investing too risky in the current climate?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. So why would raising venture capital be any different. And PR also has a way of generating inbound funding opportunities. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

2001, a Starbucks Odyssey : In August, Starbucks got things percolating with plans for a blockchain-based loyalty program and NFT community. “The payments landscape in Latin America seems hopelessly fragmented and riddled with fraud,” says Rocio Wu, a principal at F-Prime Capital. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. Joel felt that MySpace completely missed the opportunity to build a platform, and were clueless about the decision they made. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

We’re not just investors – we’ve been in your shoes as CEOs, CTOs, and execs, and have built many great companies and products in the tech world, so we understand the challenges and opportunities firsthand. We work with companies across the U.S., David Teten: What’s your background? How and why are you in your role today?

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