YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

Vancouver executive Christopher Kape is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who founded JAMCO Capital Partners , an early-stage investment and strategic advisory firm that focuses on a number of industries, including gaming, high-tech, food and wellness. The next group I would look to are angel investors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

But the early customers all compared it to MySpace. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

For example, digital startups are more likely to secure funding if someone on their founding team holds a doctoral degree. And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.” ( West, 2004 ). Share It With Your Personal Network. How can you reveal your reputation?

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 15, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. March 8, 2012.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing. To give you some perspective, my salary today is less than what I made at my first job out of college…in 2004. And I enjoy working with founders immensely.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing. To give you some perspective, my salary today is less than what I made at my first job out of college…in 2004. And I enjoy working with founders immensely.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2009

  In typical startup fashion, they launched a product, got a number of users, and then iterated several times to improve the service.    Take a look at this post from April 2004 titled What Aisle, What Shelf.   The post Positioning and pitch decks for startups appeared first on BeyondVC. . 

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to the 2019 Annual European Venture Report by PitchBook , European startups raised €32.4 The definition of “startup” varies as Snap and Slack for example are publicly traded companies. For the purposes of this post, startups are companies started post financial crisis (since 2008), either private or public.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Although these types of notes are relatively easy and cheap to form, many have argued that these types of vehicles are not startup-friendly for a variety of reasons, which we’ll explain below.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make. Are you working on a startup? In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Some startups are destined for failure. Whats This? By Lauren Drell 2013-06-10 14:46:07 UTC.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in early 2017, I worked with ABANA (network of financial professionals with ties to the Middle East/North Africa); Harvard Arab Alumni Association ; and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) to launch an annual Tech Summit in New York focused on the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”). Apply here.

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