Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Just take any week of venture financings these last few years and you will find that almost all of the companies funded to be cloud-delivered software businesses. DigitalTown (Burnsville, MN), Developer of a national network of online communities for high school students, alumni and boosters. $10 10 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles. Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

On Wednesdays, I cut my call calendar short so I can pick up my daughter after school and dodge through Seattle traffic to get her to her riding lesson. 21- Networking Photo Credit: Laura Pickup Networking and building relationships with fellow business owners. Thanks to Lucia Zelesco, Zelesco Consulting ! #20-

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market. On top of that, the HackerOne network of over 300,000 hackers (adding 600 more each day) has resolved over 100K confirmed vulnerabilities which resulted in over $46 million in awards to these individuals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. And when you think about the three C’s you begin to realize that the first two of these activities are ones where the economic powerhouse networks are driven in cities outside of Silicon Valley.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

This can lead to lots of hype among investors and very rapid financings where VCs are forced to “act quickly” and provide term sheets in less than 48 hours. But that may be all that’s needed to grab a financing from investors that moved very quickly. They can create temporary growth in vanity metrics like downloads.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. I find it surprising that a finance professor like Damodaran did not consider the impact of price on demand. Different Economics. Rental car alternative. Today I only Uber.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 29, 2017

We led the financing, and I joined the board to work more closely with Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Mike Galgon, and Ben Gilbert to build a long-lasting and enduring startup studio in Seattle. Julie previously was a partner at Madrona Venture Group and is deeply involved in the Seattle startup community.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode or the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the Nudge Podcast, hosted by Phil Agnew and brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. So I started in 2002 and in 2006 we took financing in. It's in Denver, a Chicago, a Seattle, Phoenix, and Dallas. I literally did that. powered by.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

To begin answering this question, I started on a quest to understand startup financing. This book was written to help founders negotiate financing with investors, but it really helped me understand Keen’s financial situation, and I highly recommend it to anyone joining a startup. First, I read Venture Deals by Brad Feld.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything! The networks seem to be emphatic about monetization for the present. The networks must be bewildered by the fact that one of their main competitors is a company that started with a mail-based DVD service.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2012

A networking session at the end of the day also allows you to interact with the presenters. Financial and banking technology conference Finovate comes to Asia for the first time with Finovate Asia 2012.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. He is looking for financing for the show. I like the idea, and recognize the problem.

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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. To avoid signaling issues, we intentionally will not lead the next round of financing.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. You need both. New Yorkers help each other out.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

billion in financing in 2015 (with 395 deals). If you’re not in one of these major metropolises that Graham wrote about (say, Seattle, Toronto, Chicago, Boulder…), what’s your city’s collective drive? Waterloo has another unicorn with Kik. Toronto has become a hub for the blossoming machine intelligence market.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Five years, several iterations and a stint at a Seattle business accelerator later, things are going smoothly and successfully. And this isn’t just for your business, but as many startup founders know, your personal finances can matter just as much (especially if you aren’t profitable yet). Validate your idea.

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Up and Running

JUNE 2, 2010

Still, I was quite concerned the other day to read the fox-in-henhouse problem posted in a very well-written and thoughtful post called 11 Lessons I Learned Raising Venture Capital : “Be wary of angel networks. We presented to two angel networks in Seattle. In my humble opinion, this is complete bullshit.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

Momentum currently has a graduate base of 30,000+ and growing with offices in NYC, DC, Seattle and Los Angeles. At this point, we have tens of thousands of alumni who have gone through our curriculum and continue to stay involved, network, and mentor others within our community. What makes you unique?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. The first was in July of 2014, when we made the unusual move of raising and announcing another round of private financing while on file to go public. Enter Box. They gave me a shot. Working at Box was a revelation.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

Momentum currently has a graduate base of 30,000+ and growing with offices in NYC, DC, Seattle and Los Angeles. At this point, we have tens of thousands of alumni who have gone through our curriculum and continue to stay involved, network, and mentor others within our community. What makes you unique?

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A Crowded Space

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I want to tell the story of their Series A financing. Let’s rewind to 2013 and talk about why we invested and how we saw the early network effects of the business. And they had refined the formula to get lots of items to start selling in their home market of Seattle. In late 2012, OfferUp did not have significant traction.

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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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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Other factors such as your team, the market you are in, your ability to execute, and in fact other terms in your term sheet are much, much more important to your outcome and financial outcome than is the valuation of your company at the time of financing. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. You network! I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

These designers help small to mid-sized brands design/develop quality product by exposing them to big company best practices and a global network of factories, trim suppliers, fabric sources, etc. We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco. 10 – Unique Social Network.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

As a side note, if you’re interested in applying to TechStars Seattle for this fall, the application page just went live a few days ago and can be found here: [link] It was by far the best decision we’ve made, and I’d highly recommend this route for any early-stage entrepreneurs. an iPad 2 Killer?

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Having two well-regarded and well-networked engineers on an advisory project created a stream of terrific VP candidates for Minted and taught me a great deal about the culture and current popular beliefs of the hottest engineering talent in the Valley. Shes going to have a big impact on Minteds future. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. I also run a small firm that provides CTO level help to start-ups in Los Angeles and Seattle.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Home About Contact Make It Happen: How to find a Programmer My weekly post on Seattle 2.0. If you attend networking events, you’ve probably met a lot of entrepreneurs with an idea who need a partner to build it. Click Send – Aaron Franklin's Blog From Microsoft to Startup, and Everything In-Between.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Last Tuesday, while I was enjoying a week off the grid, AvidXchange announced they had raised a $225 million financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. This was an atypical investment for us as we participated in the financing through our Foundry Group Select fund. The post Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Seattle-based sales tech company Outreach was named one of Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars. Personal finance bot Trim announced the close of a $2.2 We still love network effects , and are always looking for awesome founders working on cool ideas that leverage network effects… whether that’s in marketplaces, social platforms, or AI/ML.

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