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Six tips for SaaS founders who don’t want VC money

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Aytekin Tank is the founder of JotForm , an online form builder. Established in 2006, JotForm allows customizable data collection for enhanced lead generation, survey distribution, payment collections and more. Over the past decade, venture capital has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. Share on Twitter.

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Searchlight puts new capital to work with expanded talent intelligence tools

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The latest round of funding was led by Founders Fund with participation from Accel, Shasta, Kapor Capital, Operator Collective and a group of angel investors including executives at companies like Coda, Confluent and Plaid. Searchlight collection of behavioral data. million seed round in 2019.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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How Chicago is changing who raises early-stage venture capital

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For those of us who cover the venture capital industry, two narratives are ubiquitous: There’s the story of how much capital has been invested of late; you’ve seen the data — 2020 and 2021 set nearly every record around the world for private-market investment. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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Evabot secures fresh capital to inject AI into corporate gifting

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But according to Rabi Gupta, the co-founder of Evabot , there’s “a lot of clutter” in the corporate gifting space. “[Gifts are] picked by our AI based on the data collected and attributes like past gift ratings, weather in a location, gift budget, and more,” Rabi Gupta said.

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I’ve worked with hundreds of unicorns: Here’s what founders and executives need to focus on

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Having helped build a startup and gone under the hood with many unicorns over the past few decades, I’ve seen how some of the best founders and executives position their companies in times of stress to flourish on the other side, whether through a successful IPO, SPAC exit or just stable growth.

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Miami-based Ironhack raises $20 million for its coding bootcamps as demand for coders continues

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according to Ironhack co-founder Ariel Quiñones. Since its launch in 2013, the company has graduated more than 8,000 students, with a job placement rate of 89%, according to data collected as of July 2020. Over the next five years, 13 million jobs will be added to the tech industry in the U.S.,

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