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These 8 Disciplines Define A Fundable Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing. A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. A strong team has more credibility with investors than does a great idea by itself.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. We built out our CXO advisory board and further cemented our Fortune 500 relationships to help our portfolio cos scale from founder-market fit to product market fit in an accelerated timeframe ( meet our advisors ).

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga. Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. 6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

just months after it came out of stealth. With an average deal size of $17.5m, Israeli cloud financing rounds were 46% larger than their European counterparts (average of $12m in 2020). And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

View from Seed

And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. There are legitimate reasons for a startup to be in stealth mode.

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Why it’s Critical That you Reference Check Your VC

Both Sides of the Table

They made great introductions, they helped you get financed, the put in more money themselves, they helped you strategically and they helped you with your exit. Make sure to call the companies in that VCs portfolio that didn’t succeed. It’s a two-way love fest.&#. But what was the VC like when the chips were down?