Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

At the time, no one was investing in early stage consumer companies — it wasn’t a “thing” yet. Every aspect of our lives are being disrupted with technology (specifically the mobile phone) and not one category will go untouched. So when Kirsten described her vision for Forerunner, I was hooked. EK: It’s a great question.

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Naming Technical Review Early Stage Green 48

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

An entrepreneur should pick this one up ASAP. Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, after two short years and $3 million raised in startup funds, recruitment AI company Ansaro shut down due to bad market fit. ConvertKit and Drip both technically do the same thing. clearly states what they do (“build web apps”), their benefits (“without code”), and who it’s for (“entrepreneurs”).

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected.

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Silicon Valley Startup Technical Review Early Stage 114

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Hear from venture investors and successful entrepreneurs to find out what factors they considered and how you can make your pitch stand out from the rest. Salon DE Third Coast: Can Austin Be The Next Big Tech City? Does the city adequately support growing tech businesses? tech, film, music, publishing, etc.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Before I do, however, I want to talk about a thumb rule that I'd like to propose to entrepreneurs about raising money. Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. Trendy Loot.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

During this week's roundtable we had a group of entrepreneurs from the Pune Open Coffee Club gather at the offices of Persistent Systems to participate in the roundtable together. Vin proposes to build a restaurant search, reviews and ratings site for the Malaysian market catering both to tourists and locals.

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Silicon Valley Malaysia India China 117

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Intuit 2020 Research Report. The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs. The Connected World of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. New Communications Review. Follow us on Twitter.

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Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. Good news: Indrajit is a solo entrepreneur, so he doesn't have a large overhead to support.

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India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

During this week's roundtable we discussed an area that deserves a serious look from entrepreneurs: Rural BPO. Today, I invited entrepreneurs to come up with ideas, apply the 1M/1M methodology to it, and come discuss with me at these roundtables. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 137

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

According to current Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity now exceeds 86%, more than 12 percentage points higher than ten years ago at the height of the last recession. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever.

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North America Incubator Initial Public Offering Valuation 320

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Silicon Valley gets significant attention for its role in producing tech startups that often go on to see massive, international success. In the past decade, hundreds of interesting, innovative tech companies have emerged in and around Israel—and they’re worth learning from. Israeli Startups to Watch in 2020.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley 179

VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

In this posts I review the potential risks for the Israeli tech ecosystem and the mitigating factors that counter some of them. According to the 2021 Tech Review report by IVC , Israeli tech startups attracted a record of $25.6 billion raised in 2020. Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ).

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Technical Review Lock-up Period South Korea 158

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

For many CEOs, competition with the tech giants an existential concern. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech. Gradient Ventures – an early stage fund backed by Alphabet, investing exclusively in AI first companies.

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Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital 78

VC Adventure

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We’ve kept ourselves intentionally small as a firm so can keep our close connection with our portfolio founders from due diligence, to investment, and throughout the lifecycle of our investments. Foundry Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies and venture fund managers.

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Networking Technical Review Hiring North America 99

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . “Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. Technical” Companies (i.e. any mention of a focus on tech companies). Technical founders .

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

With the benefit of increasing IPOs in the last few years, we are starting to see better growth: In 2020, there were close to 500 IPOs in the U.S., billion, more than was raised in the entirety of 2020, an admittedly banner year for SPACs. double the rate of the prior year, 103 of those being venture-backed companies.

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Girls in Tech. Eventbrite.

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