Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Contact peers you have met through networking, both ones who have used this investor, and ones who haven’t. Ask the investor for “references,” meaning contacts at companies where previous investments were made. Taking on an investor is like getting married – the relationship has to work at all levels. Talk to other investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Smart farming refers to managing farms using technologies like internet of things, robotics and artificial intelligence. It also plans to penetrate to other overseas countries this year by forming strategic partnerships with local agtech and foodtech players, which play similar strategies to Greenlabs, Shin said. Series B round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

While most of the company’s peers focus on product companies, Al-Ansari saw how underserved the service side was: their needs are different, and unlike retail, aren’t looking to sell online. Refer a friend, get a reward. Paystone provides the marketing through content, help with reviews and with loyalty and rewards programs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

One thing that recruited me was this brilliance that we can kill two birds with one stone,” she said, referring to Duolingo’s original translation-service business model we talked about in part one of this EC-1. “One As its meandering route to monetization will demonstrate, Duolingo isn’t mission-oriented, it’s mission-obsessed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I was referred to EO Accelerator by a former EO member and applied to the program in 2015. In EO Accelerator, we learned basic principles about the critical aspects of running a business and put strategies into place that enabled us to grow at a rapid but sustainable pace?which How did you hear about EO Accelerator?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

From there, you’ll have better insight into whether the product you’ve built fits into the overarching strategy the CIO has put into place. CIOs want solutions for the longer term, so think about how you position your product as a long-term solution rather than a reference-point solution. Yousuf Khan is a partner at Ridge Ventures.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It can be alluring to raise more capital in each consecutive fund, but doing so often requires the fund to deploy larger checks, shifting their position as a collaborative investor to competitive player among peers. Here are the first batch of responses (with some of my reactions). More to come in batches of five answers each post.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 13, 2021

We applied the same strategy that had worked well for us in the past for team members that we had elevated internally. The strategy was simple: Throw them into the deep end and see if they sink or swim. While we always strive to promote people from within, we also need to look outside our organization for senior talent as we scale.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. Alpha Partners , Proof VC ) which share the carry earned in their coinvest to the referring party. Alpha Partners , Proof VC ) which share the carry earned in their coinvest to the referring party. But how do you do that? . How to find a job as a VC scout.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Clients stuck around and referred new clients to us! Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. Below is an excerpt from the original article. I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing customers and employees who brought us to this milestone! 2004 / Cash and financial management is a matter of survival.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 8, 2022

You can use multiple strategies. An ever-growing number of family offices want to invest into private tech companies. They’re usually motivated by a combination of financial returns, a search for strategic benefits with their core operating business, and passion about tech. But how should they go about it? But don’t do it half-heartedly.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

An ecosystem builder is a champion for others…” Whether they’re referred to as cheerleaders or champions, many of the Unsung Heroes we interviewed believe that singing the praises of others and amplifying the voices of others in the system is central to being an ecosystem builder. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 30, 2023

After we closed the round, our lead investor revealed how capital efficient we had been compared to our peers. Welcome to the fourth edition of Learnings of a CEO. You can read previous editions here. Snapdocs is the leading digital closing platform for the mortgage industry. Even after YC, we didn’t raise much immediately.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. Aimed at managers, this post offers several testable strategies that will help you boost productivity and say goodbye to poorly run, lazily planned meetings. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The business is pivoting its product strategy to grow beyond recorded meditations. Her risky pregnancy caused her placenta to burst during childbirth, almost killing her and her son last year. The stress of her pregnancy led Walton to download Expectful, a meditation and sleep app for new mothers. Even if it was just for a few months.

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Red Rocket

APRIL 15, 2021

If you are investing material dollars in marketing campaigns, more often than not, you have considered engaging, or have engaged, an advertising agency to assist you with those efforts. Those decisions whether or not to manage your marketing campaigns with in-house teams vs. third party agencies are typically not easy decisions.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s referred to as “The Struggle,” and there are endless reasons why founders face The Struggle : Limited control, 100% responsible  — Founders want control. But it’s pretty damn hard not to compare when the realities of personal finance punches you in the face every day, and you see your former & current peers crushing it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

2 strategies for creating top-of-funnel marketing content. If you’re one of these marketers, I have some strategies you can use to improve your brand’s authority this year. It can’t happen overnight, but you can start implementing these strategies now to see results over time. Strategy #1: Get media coverage.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

You’ll also get a chance to explore common mistakes and strategies for troubleshooting so you can build off of Tom’s Dream Team experience instead of starting from square one. Table of Contents What makes a “Dream Team” a dream team? Early success drives innovation, excitement, momentum, and more success. What is a “Dream Team”?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) That is why inflation, at least from a goods perspective, will remain sticky. I discussed this at length in “Energy Cancelled”.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

When people refer to setting up a board, what they usually mean is the process of adding outside directors, after the company raises money. One thing you can do is check references with founders that those investors have worked with – just as with recruiting any talent. It is natural to feel this way. option grants).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Raising money is hard. And when you’re relatively new to the process it’s easy to be confused by the process. There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. Of course much of it is conflicting. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. Partners make investment decisions. Why buy me?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The good news is you can quickly learn which growth marketing strategies work by studying other companies’ success and adapting it to your own business. Its philosophy was simple: reward customers with free storage space for referring other customers. In 2008, it was an absolute revelation. Doing SEO right: Flo.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community. Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. I’m Travis Bryant. Excited to be back emceeing. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. And now onto our guest.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

The IRS advises companies to use a fairly determined reference valuation to assess a strike price for the restricted stock units (RSU) and options they grant to employees, Swan said. That’s where third-party 409A providers come in, Phil Haslett, founder and chief strategy officer of EquityZen, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

The latter refers to companies that are working on the infrastructure the sector will rely on once in full bloom, and the consensus among specialized investors is that they make for very worthy bets. Bearish markets and high interest rates often cause private investors to turn away from anything resembling a risky investment.

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Reforge

AUGUST 8, 2022

Or maybe for my elder millennial peers out there, it’s Melanie Griffith typing away on a real-life 80’s typewriter in Working Girl ? as a secret weapon to help me: Clarify my idea or argument, Engage my audience (peers, leaders, or execs), and Lead the group to a clear outcome (usually an approval). They’re alive and well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. The Importance of Twitter.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Investing in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Decentralized finance, commonly known as DeFi, is transforming the landscape of financial transactions by harnessing the potential of smart contracts within a peer-to-peer framework. It’s a leap from the early days of Web 1.0’s The Decentralized Web: Building Blocks for Web3 Web 3.0

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

More money for the edtech boom: Munich-based StudySmarter , which makes digital tools to help learners of all ages swot up — styling itself as a “lifelong learning platform” — has closed a $15 million Series A. The round is led by sector-focused VC fund Owl Ventures.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Interestingly, many years later, Square would use other innovative “cash giveaway” strategies to steal market share from Paypal (in addition to copying the give $5, get $5 model ). “As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Warren Buffet, 1997. Billions of dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

We did what many VC funds did – we presented our annual results, we stood up and talked about our portfolio companies, we invited a few to also present and then we had dinner & drinks at some posh restaurant. So I decided to change up our format a bit. So I decided to change up our format a bit. I had a few objectives in mind.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain. The reality is that cryptocurrencies can be both and can be liberating and corrupting at the same time.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Candou Ventures is an early stage fund in Silicon Valley with $150m AUM focusing on deep tech, AI and enterprise software. David Teten: Who are Candou’s peers/competitors, and how do you differ? We’re happy to share the latest in PEVCtech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha.

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