Sentences with phrase «talk of venture capital»

Despite all the talk of venture capital, angel investors, business loans and the like, the fact is about one - third of startup funding comes from credit cards.

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In the spirit of the series, rather than harping on the shrinking funding, I talked to a number of startup companies — Toronto - based Clickfree and SecureKey and Edmonton - based Empire Avenue — that have been successful in attracting venture capital money to find out how they did it.

At venture capital firm First Round Capital's recent CEO Summit, Scott talked about how to make sure you're providing the right type of guidance to your team and being a goocapital firm First Round Capital's recent CEO Summit, Scott talked about how to make sure you're providing the right type of guidance to your team and being a gooCapital's recent CEO Summit, Scott talked about how to make sure you're providing the right type of guidance to your team and being a good boss.

Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a New York City - based venture capital firm, wrote a blog post on what it takes to be a great CEO, and he talks about the core three things you have to do well:

I've been talking to a number of venture capital firms this week, and they seem to be cautiously optimistic.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

Canadian Business» Western Editor Michael McCullough sat down with Rubinoff, Summerhill's Boston - based managing director, at the Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association annual conference in Vancouver on May 27 to talk about the state of Canada's venture capital inVenture Capital and Private Equity Association annual conference in Vancouver on May 27 to talk about the state of Canada's venture capital inCapital and Private Equity Association annual conference in Vancouver on May 27 to talk about the state of Canada's venture capital inventure capital incapital industry.

Venture - capital investor Guy Kawasaki talks about the best way to hook the interest of financial backers.

I'm not talking about the.1 percent of big - name startups that raise millions of dollars in venture capital and build up a user base of millions before they need to make any money.

Along with other female venture capital partners, Lee is launching Female Founder Office Hours — a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sessions.

According to David Hartnett, serial entrepreneur and vice president of the Metro Economic Chamber, «While access to capital is essential to a startup, venture money is much more accessible to companies that can say they are already talking to and working with the UPS, Home Depot, Coca - Cola and AT&T s of the world.

Of all the people I've talked to who have raised venture capital, every single one has told me to avoid it as long as possible.

Of course, McClure works in the venture capital business, so it's no surprise that he's trying to talk down the idea that he might be contributing to an unsustainable bubble.

The platform is currently self - funded with three partners, but it is in the middle of its seed round, gaining some private investors and talking to some venture capital firms, Edery revealed.

Uber, which has collected billions of dollars in venture capital and is in talks to raise more money at a $ 50 billion valuation, is now operating in more than 300 cities across six continents.

Lerer Hippeau, the New York - based early - stage venture firm, is taking over the $ 125 million debut fund created by Binary Capital, a young San Francisco - based venture firm whose cofounder's misdeeds became the talk of Silicon Valley last summer.

In Part I of our series, we talked about the value of women investing in women - run VCs as a first step towards fixing the gender imbalance of the 99 % male «true VCs» in venture capital — and thereby unlocking the higher financial returns of women - led companies.

«When you are talking about capital and opportunity, there have been many qualified African - American candidates then and now,» Lanier, an NFL Hall of Fame linebacker and wealth management / venture capitalist expert, said.

I'm not a coder, but I am surrounded by women who can talk all day about enterprise cloud adoption trends, DDoS attacks and network security, the rise of the app economy, and serve as a go - to resource for some of the top Silicon Valley venture capital firms and technology companies.

In this case, I think our value - oriented venture capitalist can take comfort in the fact that the startup has already engaged with one customer, and is in talks with others.12 Moreover, in addition to the capital that it will raise, the startup has significant revenues coming in that will help ensure it has enough cash to complete the most important tasks that lie ahead — growing its base of customers, growing its base of users, growing its revenues, finding its product & market fit, and settling on its business model.

JR: I think there was a lot of talk about economic and venture capital at the time — San Francisco being low on its cultural capital and all that.

In his 2009 talk, «A Really Inconvenient Truth,» Dan Miller, Managing Director of The Roda Group, a venture capital group focused on clean technology, had this quote about the urgency of climate change:

Lerer Hippeau, the New York - based early - stage venture firm, is taking over the $ 125 million debut fund created by Binary Capital, a young San Francisco - based venture firm whose cofounder's misdeeds became the talk of Silicon Valley last summer.

Other backers in the ride - hailing startup's latest financing round included a venture capital fund jointly run by Indian industrialist Ratan Tata and the University of California's investment arm, as well as several U.S. institutional investors, people familiar with the deal said, asking not to be identified talking about a private deal.

On this episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Benchmark partner Sarah Tavel talks with Kara and Recode's Teddy Schleifer about her career in tech companies and venture capital.

Don't miss the discussion with three of Berlin's top venture capital investors — Tanja Kufner, Christian Nagel and Ciarán O'Leary — as they talk about the current state of Berlin's startup scene.

The line - up of speakers includes keynotes by John McAfee (cybersecurity legend, co-founder of McAfee Associates), Tim Draper (world - famous venture capitalist, founder of Draper Associates), Michael Arrington (founder of TechCrunch and XRP Capital) and features other leaders from the blockchain ecosystem who will talk about best investment strategies and tactics; ICO legal aspects, Internet Of Things and many more topicof speakers includes keynotes by John McAfee (cybersecurity legend, co-founder of McAfee Associates), Tim Draper (world - famous venture capitalist, founder of Draper Associates), Michael Arrington (founder of TechCrunch and XRP Capital) and features other leaders from the blockchain ecosystem who will talk about best investment strategies and tactics; ICO legal aspects, Internet Of Things and many more topicof McAfee Associates), Tim Draper (world - famous venture capitalist, founder of Draper Associates), Michael Arrington (founder of TechCrunch and XRP Capital) and features other leaders from the blockchain ecosystem who will talk about best investment strategies and tactics; ICO legal aspects, Internet Of Things and many more topicof Draper Associates), Michael Arrington (founder of TechCrunch and XRP Capital) and features other leaders from the blockchain ecosystem who will talk about best investment strategies and tactics; ICO legal aspects, Internet Of Things and many more topicof TechCrunch and XRP Capital) and features other leaders from the blockchain ecosystem who will talk about best investment strategies and tactics; ICO legal aspects, Internet Of Things and many more topicOf Things and many more topics.

There's a lot of technical lingo and geek - talk that I'll spare you, but the long and short of it is that a major hack took place, abusing the Decentralized Autonomous Organization — a venture capital fund of sorts that operated within Ethereum and allowed investors to choose which decentralized apps would or wouldn't be allowed to run within the system.

Bill Maris from Google Ventures, the venture capital arm of Google, talking to Bloomberg in an interview earlier this year said: