View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. Today Hologram announced their $65M Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global.

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Idea.me, Sauber Energy, and the LAB Miami. From my personal experience, Latin Americans often see Internet and the tech scene as the magical potion that’ll make us more like our idealized image of North Americans. 254 million internet users (18mm ’00). 273 million internet users (108mm ’00).

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. Today Hologram announced their $65M Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global.

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had a chance to discuss a topic that continues to bother me endlessly - the Internet's obsession with FREE. You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. Debra Cortese, from Miami, Florida, discussed Cortese Design Bags , a designer of tote bags with natural designs.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Think partners coming together to tap their own networks for your follow-on rounds of financing. The Clarity of the Terms : how will your company be financed? Every accelerator also finances its cohort companies differently. Complicated agreements with MFN clauses and confusing future financing obligations are opaque at best.

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Programming San Francisco Sacramento Founder 156

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) At the same time, early-stage companies are thinking beyond the high prices of Silicon Valley to put down roots and find financing and growth partners.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Step 3: Get financed. See Also: When Ice.com—a Top 500 Internet Retailer—Uses Mentors, You Should Too. What if, as you’re getting ready to harvest your first batch, you then find out that all the demand for passion fruit is centered in Southern California, and not in Miami like you thought? Step 3: Getting financed.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

645 Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture fund that focuses on Internet and software companies. Over the next year, VCAP Fellows will be named in Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, leveraging an ecosystem of entrepreneurs that will aim to increase access to capital, coaches, mentors, and deal opportunities.

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Venture Capital Los Angeles Cofounder Technical Review 114

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

For nearly 15 years I had analytical, numbers-driven jobs in finance and banking, working for some of the world’s largest banks. After creating many successful start-ups- from internet fashion companies to home market businesses- I spent several years researching a category that intrigued me from a health-standpoint.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

First of all, can we structure all of the resources that Khan Academy already has and other things on the internet so that we can help parents and teachers get their legs under them? But then by my second year, I had a real interest in finance. Obviously, there's internet and device access. So, we said, "What do they need?"

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