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Top Startup Winner: Balodana

The Startup Magazine

The event presenter, FUND, is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. We curate and aggregate a collection of talented made-to-measure designer brands who showcase their garments in our integrated marketplace platform.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

That means they spend a lot less time actively seeking out new deals than they do responding to inbound deal flow. VCs therefore use whatever heuristics they can in order to triage the deal flow. One of the primary ones is the referral source.

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May Your Help Be Wanted

Austin Startup

My suggestion to you as a prospective mentor is to align yourself with a program where there is some thoughtful curation of the matchmaking process that adds needed bias in favor of the best possible pairings. If you are a real estate tycoon and have the urge to mentor, the odds are that Dreamit will have deal flow of interest to you.

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The case for investing in innovative online retail businesses

The Equity Kicker

I’m also a fan of focused investment strategies – they allow you to build expertise resulting in better investment decisions and better deal flows as entrepreneurs seek out your expertise. Proprietary product or uniquely curated experiences. Operational excellence. I couldn’t agree more.

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Insights from the Most Active Investor in Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

The Deal Flow Session. The model that’s worked consistently is the deal flow session. Deal flow is a specifically targeted, curated, matchmaking session between a problem area for a large, Fortune 100 company and the startup ecosystem. That’s all great in theory,” I told Will.

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TECHSTARS AUSTIN KICKS OFF 2020 MENTORSHIP-DRIVEN ACCELERATOR CLASS, REVEALS 10 SELECTED STARTUPS

Austin Startup

This will be followed by an Investor Week starting March 9, where Techstars Austin will curate meetings with investors from all over the United States. EarBuds (Austin, TX) Jason Fox, CEO EarBuds allows people to listen along LIVE with their favorite music curators in key moments.

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How to Build a Successful and Diverse Venture Capital Portfolio Without Really Trying

This is going to be BIG.

We should be willing to go through the firehose of crappy deals in their inbox for the money we make. Warm intro or not, no VC has the magical stream of only quality deal flow with nothing stupid added. Heck, most of the worst deals I see are from intros to perfectly nice people with perfectly awful startups.