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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors.

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The Myth of the Young Startup Founder

Ian Hathaway

Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion. By that summer, Zuckerberg moved himself and the company to Silicon Valley and never looked back.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian. How’s that for an ex painter?

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. June 19th, 2012. Money to build the business is the number one challenge for most startups. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. June 17th, 2012. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. June 13th, 2012. June 10th, 2012.

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Coral Capital closes third fund with $128M for startups in Japan

TechCrunch

The Japanese startup ecosystem is striking its stride now compared to 9 years ago, Riney said. As Riney and Sawayama started investing in seed and early-stage startup companies back in 2012, the startup world was a black box in the country, according to Riney.

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history.

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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait on how AI is changing human resources and weaning his company off venture funding via private equity

Hunter Walk

Hunter Walk: Before we dive into your company Greenhouse , give me one story from your childhood that foretold you were going to end up a startup founder. HW: Greenhouse, which powers the hiring process from sourcing to onboarding for thousands of companies, will soon be a teenager, having been founded in 2012.