Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Invest in Yourself. We all invest our time and money in people and things. The best investment for entrepreneurs is always going to be in themselves. Invest in yourself in both small and big ways. Giving yourself set times to think and focus is a valuable investment. Invest in Your Business.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 14, 2021

It may be silly and crazy, but it has also been a good investment for my friend and anyone who bought it in the early years. The combination of memes and investing is a powerful cocktail that I have been ignoring for a long time, probably incorrectly. It is easy to dismiss meme investing. That may change. Or it may not.

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Source Link

JULY 26, 2021

Last week, EDA announced six programs to equitably invest $3 billion allocated under President Biden’s American Rescue Plan. To learn more about EDA and these funding opportunities, please register for one of the informational webinars: EDA 101 and American Rescue Plan Overview 3 p.m. Click here to read the press release).

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Source Link

JUNE 8, 2021

Small Business Administration first released the Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Community Navigator Pilot Program. With the July 12 application deadline fast approaching, we wanted to address a few frequently asked questions about the program and funding opportunity.

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MARCH 29, 2021

While it appears the SBA will be applying this approach to the existing SBA-funded national network such as SBDCs, SCORE and Women Business Centers, the announcement indicates a new funding opportunity will soon open for states, tribes, units of local governments and other nonprofit organizations.

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The Seraf Compass

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

These best practices apply equally to both traditional early stage investing and impact-oriented investment opportunities. However, impact investing brings additional considerations to the diligence process. .

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The Seraf Compass

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The first approach we recommend for selecting investable companies is to screen each company by examining the Team, Market Opportunity and Product. But for serious angels with more solid prospects than they can possibly invest in, a second filter is needed.

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The Seraf Compass

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

How many times have you sat through an entrepreneur’s pitch and learned practically every detail about the product, but almost nothing about the business opportunity. It’s no surprise… their product is their idea and as they nurture it, it becomes like a child to them, and who doesn’t love their child!?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. That used to be called A-round investing. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. of the fund.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 26, 2024

As one customer put it, “We are salivating at the opportunities for what this means for our business.” We were hearing soundbites reflecting the true potential of process automation that actually works: business owners changing assumptions on their business models. We’re excited to partner with the entire Tennr team on their journey.

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The Seraf Compass

JUNE 2, 2021

Market Opportunity is an important metric for estimating the long-term potential for an early stage company. Typically, we invest in companies that are going after market sizes of at least $100M. At that size, a market is large enough to support a $25M+ company.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

These are people that didn’t make their money through a tech startup or startup investing. Before you figure out whether the person is going to be helpful or distracting, make sure you’ve papered the arrangement in such a way that the only thing you promise them is an opportunity to invest and your best efforts to make them a return.

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

Berman comes from a real estate background, and he co-founded Camber Creek after realizing an opportunity to “create a double alpha situation,” both investing in high-growth startups and using those startups to improve the operations of his own real estate portfolio. The opportunities in real estate tech are massive. “If

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 19, 2016

It means a lot to me to find financial opportunities investing in companies that I can be really proud of--education companies like Tinybop and Tinkergarten , or companies at the forefront of fair labor practices like Homer Logistics. I'm thrilled to be an investor in The Wing --a Home Base for Women on Their Way.

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MARCH 18, 2019

Accelerators can be great, but they’re not giving companies enough money to achieve the kind of escape velocity needed to get on the radar of national Series A firms that will invest anywhere. This is exactly the wrong way to think about the economic opportunity presented by innovation.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The firm’s latest investment into family-owned Mama Lycha, the leading provider of branded Latin American foods, was announced this week. The post Rotunda Capital Partners Strategically Invests in Family-owned Mama Lycha appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Join Seraf for an engaging and informative webinar on VC investing in BRICS countries, with an emphasis on the exciting opportunities in Brazil. This event is tailored for venture capitalists, startup founders, and investors eager to delve into the high-growth potential within Brazil's dynamic market.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust, which today has announced a $9 million financing (Upfront is an investor), is a platform designed to help make the most of marketing investment by providing both analytics and a community of likeminded executives to share what’s working, and what’s not, across platforms. Why Did I Invest in Trust?

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 22, 2024

A ni.VC , a recently announced pet venture fund, sees great investment opportunities, investing $35 million in U.S. For the past four years Liu invested at the intersection of software, science, and healthcare. The Miami and New York City-based fund’s first investment was made into DOG PPL, a canine social club.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Those companies would have not only returned any fund that invested in them, but would likely return an entire career''s worth of investing over the course of several funds. Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public. A few months later, we funded Airbnb.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 6, 2024

Identify and access management company Okta will award up to $500K as an investment to the winner of its inaugural SaaS startup competition. This is an incredible opportunity for startups to showcase their creativity while building for the future.” The submission period for the Competition ends August 31, 2024.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. Each person gets 90 seconds to share the details of the investment opportunity or the “deal need” they’re presenting or seeking.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 11, 2022

Investing in founder-led businesses is comforting to me. Microsoft had spent more than a decade competing and winning the desktop software market and then Netscape came along and presented an entirely new market opportunity that had both major upside and major downside for Microsoft.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

What Cham rarely tells people – he’s both private and humble – is that he started making some small co-investments with me in tech firms starting with Maker Studios where he was one of the earliest investors. We started hanging out a bit and discussing technology and entrepreneurship. They make a great pair.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For those of us who’ve invested in early-stage companies, especially technology startups, we have confronted a universal problem. There are many ways to project the value of a company for purposes of pricing an investment, but all rely upon the revenue and profit projections of the entrepreneur as a starting point.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In any job you either find leadership opportunities for your best people BEFORE they ask or other people start asking them to become leaders somewhere else. The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested.

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APRIL 1, 2015

I''ve had the good fortune of investing in standout companies like Canary, Tinybop, Floored, Orchard, and Ringly, just to name a few. The fund is performing really well and we''ve had lots of inbound offers to invest in the second fund, which was being rounded up until recently. That''s when I got an offer I couldn''t refuse.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Fund investing, like adulting, is boring. That’s the first thing anyone trying to raise a fund needs to understand, as well as anyone thinking about investing in one. Fund investing can be additive to your angel investing and there are two main arguments for it: Getting indirect benefits from being invested in one or more funds.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. Executing on opportunities at the intersection of utility and disruption allows for exponential innovation. There are untold impacts of climate change many of us don’t see.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

As cloud adoption continues its incredible march from a $350B+ market today toward $1T in the next five years, and $3T over the next decade, 1 the opportunity to build the next iconic cybersecurity platform has arrived: Wiz , one of the global leaders in Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 19, 2021

.” Unlike public markets, private market investments are held for many years, often a decade or more. There are a few opportunities to address this issue. There are a few opportunities to address this issue. If an investor and an entrepreneur find each other difficult to work with, there is no easy solution.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As a deal lead, once you conclude that there is enough of an opportunity to merit potential investment, and around the time you start drafting the final report, you can push through the temporary euphoria and begin negotiating the termsheet.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 10, 2024

A track record of successful investments positions the global firm to partner with top entrepreneurs across industries and geographies. Index touts its three decades of investment success, noting that most of its partnerships are with founders that began early in a company’s life, at Seed and Series A.

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