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10 Ways To Win In 2014: An Entrepreneurs’ Guide To A Successful Startup

YoungUpstarts

2014 will be a formative year for new business owners and early-stage entrepreneurs. For those would-be entrepreneurs debating the startup leap? In 2013 the funding landscape changed with the JOBS act. More non-professional investors will become angel investors and entrepreneurs will benefit from their domain expertise.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

At ffVC, our primary origination strategy is to provide a high level of services to entrepreneurs, and then let word of mouth spread. They’re the entrepreneurs on the cutting edge of their respective disciplines. We just need to assess each entrepreneur against our decision criteria. Acquirer/ Investor. ff Venture Capital.

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Introducing our latest investment: Mattermark – Big Data Comes to VC

Version One Ventures

start-up databases/networks like CrunchBase and AngelList ) has led to unparalleled access to investment capital as more seed funds, angels, and syndicates emerge on the scene. Mattermark was launched in the Fall 2013 and is led by Danielle Morrill , Kevin Morrill , and Andy Sparks. Today, the boom of information (i.e.

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The Seed Rounds They Are a-Changin': Three Shifts We’ve Made to Homebrew Investment Model

Hunter Walker

17 core investments have been made, I’d say our investment model was, and continues to be, consistent with the type of firm we want to build but if you’re not constantly evaluating how to get better and serve entrepreneurs, you won’t last very long in the early stage venture business. No more, no less.

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Our New Fund – Foundry Group Next 2018

Feld Thoughts

For historical reference, our early-stage funds (FG 2007, FG 2010, FG 2013, and FG 2016) are all $225 million in size. Our first early growth fund raised in 2013, Foundry Group Select, is also $225m in size. We now have seven equal partners. We invest all over the United States and Canada.

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Ending Our FG Angels Experiment

Feld Thoughts

After two years of a dedicated experiment, we’ve decided to stop making new investments via our FG Angels Syndicate. The Monday after AngelList announced their Syndicate product in September 2013 we decided to to jump in with both feet and start FG Angels. Average syndicate investment amount per deal: $316k.

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The 15 Business Trends To Avoid This Year

Mike Michalowicz

Thanks to Kenny Jahng , Big Click Syndicate LLC. Further more, over 9,000 of the 44,000+ projects on Kickstarter raised $0 as of January 2, 2013. The biggest trend that any entrepreneur should avoid is sinking time and budget into producing YouTube videos without having a social media marketing strategy in place.

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