Not exact matches
Vancouver native Brian Wong is one
of the youngest entrepreneurs to
ever get
venture capital
funding — he received $ 200,000 from True Ventures partner Phil Black when he was 19 to help
fund Kiip, his mobile rewards platform.
Owen Brainard, the managing director
of Brainard Capital, responded: «First step to raising a
venture fund is saying «if I
ever raise a
venture fund...»»
Venture capitalist Mark Suster explains that the cost
of starting a company has fallen by 90 % in the past decade, one reason investors — who also have heard
of Zuckerberg and Mason — are more willing to
fund more companies, with younger founders,
ever earlier in their life cycle.
And rarely, if
ever, should the goal be the fast kind
of «hockey stick» growth that is associated with the tiny slice
of startups who receive the majority
of coverage by tech - focused digital media covering startups: the extraordinarily rare company that obtains backing from a
venture fund.
percentage
of new businesses will
ever receive
funding from a
venture capital
fund.
In some ways, these changes strengthened NASDC's claim
of being a bold new
venture in education reform, since few privately
funded initiatives had
ever committed to so ambitious a program.