Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. There were no ground rules other than to specify that ‘people’ could be founders, politicians, LPs, etc and that it would be default attributed but anonymous if they desired.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Andreessen Horowitz’s recent hire of former Jordan Park Group Chief Investment Officer Michel Del Buono suggests the venture capital firm is getting into startup founder wealth management. This is just one of the numerous internal programs that the venture capital giant offers to founders.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 30, 2023

My conversation with 15-year-old founder Eric Zhu Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 19, 2021

Donnel Baird is not your “archetypal” startup founder. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

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. Next, we see two tables showing average founder age by key geographies (top panel) or success outcome (bottom panel).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. Our first big round of venture capital (our A round) was a whopping $16.5 True story.)

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

I’m often asked the question about why there aren’t more women who are entrepreneurs. And many of the best women founders. My inspiration to become an entrepreneur came from my mom, not my dad. She was the dominant figure in my family and was both an entrepreneur and a community leader. Every single one.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 2, 2022

If you don’t understand accounting, you won’t even know if your startup is succeeding or failing Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

The problem is, in my experience, seed-stage founders are rarely thinking of these targets when they define how much money they want to raise, or how they want to spend it. Creating a model that you actually use. At the pre-seed or seed stage, it’s impossible for the model to predict revenue accurately.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ». Are You Cut Out to Leave Corporate Life For an Adventure?

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2021

While some major global companies like Xero, Rocket Lab, LanzaTech and Seequent have shined a spotlight on New Zealand’s startup scene, the country historically hasn’t had access to much venture capital. “Back yourself and know you can win on a global stage,” Paul told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Dear Sophie: Can I transfer my H-1B to a startup I founded? Dear Sophie, I’m the founder of an early-stage, two-year-old fintech startup.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. However, what is often direly needed is how to appeal to investors and raise smart money — knowledge that is essential for fundraising and a master key to building, accelerating and scaling your new venture. Keep it short.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

Exploring Shaun Gold’s Entrepreneurial Journey as Nightlife Ninja, Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author, and VC I had the pleasure of interviewing Shaun Gold. He is a successful entrepreneur, VC, 2x best-selling author, speaker, super connector to startups and standouts, Jeopardy contestant, and screenwriter/executive producer.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL, MN – The Forge North startup coalition announced the first close of the MSP Equity Fund – the first-known venture capital fund of funds in the country designed to invest across race, place, and gender. Lead investors include Allianz Life, Allina Health, Xcel Energy, and Abōva.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

There are 5 good reasons to build a startup and 1 bad one Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 26, 2021

Bradley Davis shares tips on fundraising for startups, including cold outreach tricks & advice on building a network from scratch. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. She hasn’t raised any venture capital. She actually IS the prototypical entrepreneur. But Tracy did what entrepreneurs do. More on that later. That may soon change.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 16, 2022

Experience is critical for building a startup. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ». Here’s the best way to get it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve all heard success stories about schools like Harvard and Stanford churning out startup founders. It also taps into a lot of entrepreneurs-in-residence, who can bring both the knowledge of how to grow a company and the ability to leverage new ideas from faculty, staff and students and turn them into new companies.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

Serving as America’s largest venture firm for individual investors, AV’s dedicated fund will now make investments in companies founded by highly accomplished women entrepreneurs. based startups with “all-women teams” received just 1.9% (or around $4.5 based startups with “all-women teams” received just 1.9% (or around $4.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

We invest in people, and when you can find extremely talented entrepreneurs who have built successful companies and still have the hunger to win, you jump in with a blank check,” he said. “We We love that ethos — it matches with our thinking about backing entrepreneurs who don’t fit into the stereotypical box,” Kim said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

For another, I was nagged by the feeling that our company had fallen short of its true potential, and that the reason was me — specifically, several rookie mistakes I made as a first-time entrepreneur. In fact, I believe my miscues at my first startup will help define my career from here on out.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

I’d suggest PhDs to familiarise themselves with entrepreneurship earlier during their programmes, as the probability of embarking on this journey could be higher; Since more PhDs will join the startup land, finding a co-founder or hiring early employees among Ph.D. To pick the best prospect, entrepreneurs need to hustle more.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 15, 2023

Fundraising is an essential part of the journey when building a startup. Raising capital can provide resources to scale the business… Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 5, 2023

Entrepreneurs have to meet lots of people, but some of them need to learn better ways of asking for meetings. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

As mentioned above, the CEO is eager to help founders not make the same mistakes he did as a young entrepreneur. Founder and CEO Pat Matthews told TechCrunch he has known Latka for over a decade and even invested in his first startup. “There are no other fees and money is wired overnight,” Latka told TechCrunch. .

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StartupNation

APRIL 23, 2021

There are several different ways a startup founder might fund his or her business, including series funding, crowdfunding, loans, venture capital and angel investments. As an entrepreneur, investment advisor and consultant to startup founders, I understand that each startup is different.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Fundraising is stressful and difficult, which is why 90% of successful entrepreneurs do bootstrapping. Do you really understand and aspire to entrepreneur lifestyle? Being a startup founder is not a job, but a lifestyle, like getting married versus staying single. Invested Interests entrepreneur funding startup'

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The things you say in your fundraising pitches are more impactful than you realize Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The amount of capital raised by Black entrepreneurs continues to decrease. The latest Crunchbase numbers show that Black founders raised $187 million in Q3, a staggering decline from the nearly $1.1 Black founders raised just 0.12% of the $150.9 billion deployed in Q3. ” Tiana Tukes, investor, Colorful VC.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts. Today, cities around the country are entering a period not unlike early-stage Detroit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has opinions on bigger batch sizes , a growing standard deal , competition, the power of venture capital and why startup founders should be prioritizing more than just a check after Demo Day.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

A lot of entrepreneurs are incredible idea generators and hackers; they have a knack for seeing something that’s broken or something that could be better and creating a solution around that. Let’s explore the red flags investors will look for to determine which bucket your startup falls into.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Tokio Marine , a Tokyo-headquartered insurance corporation, said Tuesday it has launched its $42 million corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, dubbed Tokio Marine Future Fund, to invest in early-stage startups around the world. . Corporate venture capital follows the same trend as other VC markets: Up.

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