VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

by Thomas Smale, founder of FE International. What if there was somewhere you could go where you can be surrounded by founders just like you? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Here are the top 10: 1.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

As Ethereum took off in 2017, we began taking Ethereum profits and investing in more speculative crypto protocols. We held our first close on August 1, 2017. Our investment thesis is simple: Blockchains will impact trillions of dollars of economic activity across many industries globally. The fund returned ~8x in 24 months.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Lee Thompson and Radha Vyas, the co-founders of Flash Pack , a lifestyle travel company specialising in adventure trips for solo travelers in their 30’s – 40’s. . Flash Pack’s co-founders and husband and wife team, Radha Vyas & Lee Thompson.

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View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2022

Founders: Anita Broellochs & Alex Shirazi. AB: The global meat market could be worth as much as $2.7T By creating animal meat protein through fermentation, we can get one step closer to solving the global food challenge and provide nutritious and sustainable high-protein foods to the masses. Get to know the founders.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2017

Gordon Moore was an Intel cofounder, and, in 1965 predicted that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double each year. The speed of change in the global business environment might eventually reach a point where it also doubles every year. Now is the time to brace and prepare for future global shockwaves.

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

According to a 2017 study , research is the most efficient type of content for earning backlinks. Word count Backlinks Referring domains Date of publication 483 3,100 815 (39% of all RDs) 2017. This article looked at video viewing habits of people globally, from teenagers to seniors. What could they have done better?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group. Funding 101 Panel at 3DS Global Roundup w/ myself, Bart Bohn and May Samali.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2017

PWC’s 2017 Global HR Technology Survey found that the areas HR finds technology most valuable include recruiting, learning management and performance management. For companies, this means a minimized induction effort and a faster, cost-effective onboarding process,” says Elena Carstoiu, Hubgets COO and Co-founder of Hubgets.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

. “part of the uniqueness of Linktree is its deceptively simple design” According to one of the co-founders, Alex Zaccaria, Linktree’s site was developed in 6 hours but was bootstrapped and cash flow positive from the very beginning. ” Bootstrapped and Global from Day One: The Story of Linktree.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2018

by April Zimmerman Katz, president of the Zimmerman Companies and co-founder of Versa LLC. The shared office space concept has risen steadily in popularity over the past decade, and by 2020 more than 26,000 co-working spaces will be in use globally, according to Small Business Labs, which tracks trends in small businesses.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

by Samuel Worsley and Nathan Moore, co-founders of Live Tech Games. The pandemic and lockdown this year have had a visual effect on the business world globally. Co-founders of Live Tech Games Samuel Worsley and Nathan Moore met at Microsoft in 2017, where they bonded over their natural drive to create and innovate.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

The global beauty market is predicted to grow from $432.7 According to Glossier co-founder Emily Weiss , “one of the things that we really rely on is our customers as co-creators and sort of co-conspirators of our company.” So we see our community as co-conspirators, co-builders, co-storytellers.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Intro to the Austin EdTech Startup Scene Come meet Sean Duffy , founder of EdTech Austin and let him tell about everything going on in EdTech in Austin! Join us at this interview and hear how WWE co-founder Linda McMahon fought back from bankruptcy to build her company into a publicly traded entertainment and media powerhouse.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

The United States provides a phenomenal environment for promoting startup ecosystems, ranking 1st out of 138 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index. For a nearby global perspective, Canada has rated the 7th best country in the world to start a business by Business Insider. At the end of 2017, nearly 1.2

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

The sudden arrival of the global pandemic has shifted the playbook for founders and venture capitalists. As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. I can have a wider reach and a higher volume of 30 minute meetings with founders.”.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Japan officially allowed bitcoin as a means of payment when it passed the Digital Currency Act in March 2017 (which began the price rise of bitcoin last year). Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, famously chose Zug as Ethereum Foundation’s HQ based on Switzerland’s favorable regulatory environment at the time.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. By 2017, the fund was worth $250 million. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

In under 3 years we have been able to scale our business to 7+ figures, we started our food truck manufacturing company Dec of 2017, Trailer King Builders, and were on a mission to help entrepreneurs become financially independent with their foodtruck. 18- Desire to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Global social media analytics and optimization company Socialbakers has announced the opening of its new Asia-Pacific headquarters based in Singapore. ”By 2017, Asia-Pacific will have the largest social network population worldwide.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The Dash wearable sensor turns field performance into FIFA-like stats to participate at competitions, challenges and paves the way to global recognition. Answering questions on behalf of the Dashtag is Dirk van den Berg , the CMO and co-founder of this startup. He is pictured above on left (in blue shirt). We’ve got students!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Our Chairman and co-founder Alex Allegue pitched Pawame in the global finals of last year’s Harvard Business School New Venture Competition, Pawame having already won the Africa category. Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January. The founders?—?Alex

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

He has served as a teacher for the Stanford ME310 Global New Product Design Innovation Program and has also been recognized as one of the top 30 Designers Under 30 in 2015 by Forbes magazine. The mission of Ling Technology’s founders was to create a “Ling” world with man and robot symbiosis. At CES 2017, we exhibited five products.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2018

Bloomberg’s “ Startup Barometer ” found that by the end of 2017, startups were up by nearly %30 over the past 12 months. Everything begins with the founder and the founder’s vision. The founder is head coach, star player, and creator of the business story. It’s not enough to keep the enterprise from going under.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2018

by Florine Eppe Beauloye, Co-Founder and CEO of mOOnshot digital. More importantly, Millennials and Generation Z consumers generated 85 percent of the global luxury growth in 2017. Florine Eppe Beauloye is the Co-Founder and CEO of mOOnshot digital , a marketing agency for lifestyle and luxury brands.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

My co founder Jonathan Hill realised how important good food was due to his father passing away from eating poorly. 9- Desire to go global. I wanted to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global. Consequently, in 2017, Riku was born. 20- Add value to the global human community.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

this year in comparison to the previous one, the third-highest decline seen in recent times behind the global financial crisis’ 7.8% In terms of TVPI, the total value to paid-in ratio used by fund managers to evaluate a fund’s performance, the median dropped 3.5% drop and dot-com crash’s 15.7% Pitchbook.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

The United States provides a phenomenal environment for promoting startup ecosystems, ranking 1st out of 138 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index. For a nearby global perspective, Canada has rated the 7th best country in the world to start a business by Business Insider. At the end of 2017, nearly 1.2

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

by Anne-Fleur Andrle, co-founder and CEO of Jack and Ferdi. From 2015 to 2017, I flew 80,000 miles. According to the Global Business Travel Alliance , 67% of business travelers value adding leisure time to their business trips. I did too before I started traveling for business. That’s three times around the globe.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Feeling motivated by this realization, I connected with my brilliant Co-Founder Amy Yuan, who then built a massive database consisting of reviews, assessments, and scientific research related to skincare. In January of 2017, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor during an ER visit and was promptly taken in for surgery.

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