Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Demonstrate your team’s unique unfair competitive advantage, whether it is technology, stellar management team, or key partnerships. Be prepared for due diligence. It’s critical that the data you present is verifiable, since any serious investor will conduct extensive due diligence. Detail the uses of funds.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We didn’t approach a single VC until we knew the technology could play in the big leagues. They’re pitching the same investors that you are (and the same tech journalists for that matter!). She was working as an investment banker at Bank Leumi before putting Syte into the limelight. Thankfully, it worked out.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). There is one source I never liked and no early-stage VC should – investment bankers. This is no criticism of the investment banking industry (although I’m sure some will read it this way) for which there are very useful purposes.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We didn’t approach a single VC until we knew the technology could play in the big leagues. They’re pitching the same investors that you are (and the same tech journalists for that matter!). She was working as an investment banker at Bank Leumi before putting Syte into the limelight. Thankfully, it worked out.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

I recommend building a strong internal tech stack, to handle the deluge of requests for help you’ll get from companies as you scale. For technology vendors and models, see Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments. .

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I gave a presentation at a legal technology conference last week. When I got back to the office, I reviewed some of the other accounts that we were currently working with, and I noticed some patterns emerge. by Ryan Gerhardy, CEO of Pitchly. Afterward, I met the CIO from one of our law firm clients who was in the audience.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

At the time, LA and Santa Clara were both the epicenter of the technology industry due to the significant overlap between the aerospace/military industry (Los Angeles) and the computing business (Silicon Valley). Given our backgrounds, we often get asked about what makes the tech scene in Los Angeles different from that in the Valley.

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Spencer Fry

AUGUST 20, 2018

It's like walking up to the investment banker or a lawyer at a party who’s wearing a light blue button up, dark slacks, and brown loafers -- just like every other investment banker I've ever met. Yes, we do review "mission critical" code, but for the most part, we don't. 6: Do your own thing.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Some, such as Chinese mobile company Xiaomi, were founded less than five years ago while others such as Good Technology have been around for more than a decade. One key difference between the late ‘90s tech scene and now are macroeconomic factors. Technology ubiquity. Cross-border supply of capital. Which leads to….

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! RJMetrics ); technology (e.g., I’ve listed a few ideas below.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 12, 2014

If I was optimizing for cash, I would have been an investment banker a long time ago. I send out my own term sheets and review docs myself--especially since I''m in sydicated rounds. Venture Capital & Technology' I don''t have any kids. I live in the hinterlands of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and so my overhead isn''t that high.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Hello Alice is a free, data-driven, and multichannel platform helping small business owners on their entrepreneurial journey by providing access to relevant funding networks and technical assistance tools while increasing owner success rates. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! 9:19] Is there an equity emphasis? [11:06]

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Hearpreneur

MAY 26, 2017

The story of why I started an education business is mostly due to growing up in a household of educators. A constantly changing curriculum: in the world of tech, things change VERY quickly. Basically, how can we use the latest technologies to deliver a world-class, in-person educational experience at the lowest cost.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since 2015, her company, Barney, has guided over 150 media, marketing & tech companies through acquisitions. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Not necessarily marketing services, a tech platform that, that sold and the process, this was seven years ago. Amanda’s Website. Like this show?

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 30, 2011

Entrepreneurs often make the common mistake of retaining unregistered finders (commonly referred to consultants, financial advisors or investment bankers) to raise capital for their companies. Tips #3: Diligence the Investors. Issues to consider include: Has the investor done investments like this before?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. He said, literally, I sh*t you not, “well, my report was due and I didn’t have much time. Every investment banker I know is “number 1″ in something.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 18, 2012

Nick Beim (Gilt, The Ladders, JBoss) was a consultant and investment banker. They may have more conviction around product or technical decisions, hiring, or even organizational structure. A few examples from our portfolio: Boundless Learning: John Katzman (Founder of Princeton Review and 2Tor).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

I’m not getting paid like an investment banker. I delivered newspapers at night … for the Las Vegas Review Journal. … We tried apps, we tried different technologies, we tried different formats, and nothing really worked. You need to do XYZ more.” ” I said, “Look. Then I had two other ….

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2014

” Tariq Fancy, of the international tech nonprofit Rumie, points out that creating a business plan is step one to making sure you’ll have enough money to keep your doors open. Expert Tip: “Passion alone isn’t enough—I wouldn’t have done this had I not been convinced that the numbers make sense.”

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

6 – Investment Banker. I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker. I even have 100,000 FB followers and over 200,000 active traders and subscribers. Thanks to Jason Bond, Jason Bond Picks ! #6 Image Credit: Janet Wu.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

Entrepreneurs and executives will do all sorts of things to improve themselves, from taking a class on a particular technology, to reading a book about venture deals, to practicing intermittent fasting. As you review your numbers and reach conclusions, you need to be thinking about not just: “How true are these conclusions now?”

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2019

The stock market has historically been a long-term source of wealth creation, but due to a widening wealth gap, has become largely inaccessible to young people. Investment club models allow you to leverage the wisdom of a crowd and grow through achievements and learnings in the market. Actually Learn How to Invest Your Money.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." Money man and pundit Paul Kedrosky also spoke at the International Startup Festival and offered humorous, blunt advice about how to get what you want from investors and investment bankers.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 23, 2012

This review was first posted on technology Techgoondu. ]. Aaron Tan had been a technology journalist for the last four years, specializing in enterprise technology at ZDNet Asia and The Straits Times Digital Life. He is currently involved in R&D in the information services industry.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. The value of mutual fund investments in private tech companies was estimated at just north of $7 billion in 2016, or about.05% 05% of total US mutual fund assets.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

These products encourage all individuals to participate in and have a point of view on investing, rather than operating under the assumption that it’s strictly for the wealthy. The biggest challenge is that most banks are reliant on third-party technology vendors, such as FIS, FiServ, and Jack Henry.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Technology Poverty – Every revolution has its downsides – those who miss out. Technology is bringing about a new form of poverty to those who don’t have equal access to it. The technology minimums are changing quickly. The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Brian is the CEO of Coinbase, a successful tech company, and one of 2021's most successful IPOs. I don't see any big tech companies that have great cultures that are doing fully remote. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And with technology as a really important lever to improve the world. BA : Yeah.

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