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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

based startups with “all-women teams” received just 1.9% (or around $4.5 billion of total venture capital. List of 60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms The following includes venture funds founded by women or those that have a focus on funding women-founded or gender-mixed startups and early-stage companies.

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5 Mistakes Derailing Startup Founders

StartupNation

Way back in 2014, an aspiring entrepreneur came to us with an idea for SMS customer support as a service. That prototype (and his incredible energy) got him in the door for demos with some pretty incredible companies for a newborn startup. The post 5 Mistakes Derailing Startup Founders appeared first on StartupNation.

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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. businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007-2014). This restricted-use dataset at the U.S.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. On the other hand, exits at lower prices are easier with these providers of capital.

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Alumni Ventures launches Women’s Fund 1

American Entrepreneurship

Women-founded startups show measurable positive results compared to those of men Alumni Ventures (AV), the most active venture firm in the U.S. billion from 10,000 individual investors since its founding in 2014, the firm has funded to date over 350 companies founded or led by women of its 1300+ current portfolio companies.

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

StartupNation

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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Founderpath secures $145M in debt and equity to help B2B SaaS startup founders avoid dilution

TechCrunch

million post-money valuation in 2014. “I Founder and CEO Pat Matthews told TechCrunch he has known Latka for over a decade and even invested in his first startup. Plus, Matthews himself spent the first half of his career as a bootstrapped SaaS founder. (He “I bootstrapped it to like a million bucks in ARR,” he recalls.

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