Sentences with phrase «venture capitalists start»

As more and more venture capitalists start funding Ripple, the Ripple demand is bound to shoot up.

(Read on Network World) Two veteran female venture capitalists start their own tech - focused firm — that's not an everyday occurrence.

Two veteran female venture capitalists start their own tech - focused firm — that's not an everyday occurrence.

Not exact matches

But venture capitalist Nir Liberboim questioned the start - up's ability to scale an untested product.

Investing in start - ups is not just for venture capitalists anymore.

You're going to need some sort of funding to start off, whether from your savings, credit cards, loans, grants or venture capitalists.

Eventually, after getting some positive local press, the brewery started getting courted by advertising and PR firms as well as venture capitalists hoping to get involved.

Together they can pool their capital and invest smaller sums in the start - ups that are flying below the venture capitalists» radar.

Panelists like Netscape founder and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh had some salient advice for start - ups in search of VC - backing this week at the TechCrunch50 conference, reports GigaOm.

Brunner, who left Lunar in 1989 to become Apple's chief designer, recalls having conversations with Smith about how they spent a fair amount of their time giving counsel and strategic advice to start - up clients, almost as if they were venture capitalists.

Lunar has become a de facto venture capitalists and is about to start developing its own products to entice others.

Explaining the industry and what's going on takes the form of several audiences; one being the overly - optimistic entrepreneur who still has aspirations of raising capital to get their company to a liquidity event, another being the up and coming venture capitalist in training (think decades long training cycles) who recently finds themselves a free agent as the asset class shrinks and wants to start their own fund, and the final being ambitious MBA's switching careers and see venture capital as the preferred destination.

Fast forward 10 years, and Los Angeles has become one of the leaders in the digital media industry, says Mark Suster, a Los Angeles entrepreneur, venture capitalist at GRP Partners, and organizer of Launchpad L.A., a program to mentor start - up CEOs.

«The bitcoin world is this new ecosystem where it doesn't cost that much to start a new bitcoin company, it doesn't cost much to start owning bitcoin either, and it is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world,» says Tim Draper, venture capitalist.

The cybersecurity industry is steadily, if slowly, growing and venture capitalists and average investors are starting to get interested.

Fishbein says that while corporations have been underinvesting in their security infrastructure in recent years, venture capitalists have been overinvesting in start - ups.

Since December, venture capitalists have invested more than $ 90 million in start - ups that mix marketing and social media, writes the Wall Street Journal, but questions remain about how much social media marketing is really worth.

So I went to some venture capitalists and told them that I'd like to start a company.

And venture capitalists say they are starting to ask questions.

The ecosystem of entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, the start - up community, national and regional incubators and industry organizations is vital to support the continued growth of the technology sector.

Before he flew out to Silicon Valley to fundraise, the NYC - based CEO started sending emails to venture capitalists and made sure to ask if they were interested in investing in the company, not just asking to meet up.

He then started planning his second act, which would embrace three subplots: relaunching his hedge fund, becoming a venture capitalist, and founding a new billion - dollar company.

Mark Peter Davis» journey from venture capitalist back to entrepreneur has given him a unique perspective on the new challenges of start - up fundraising.

Thanks to half a dozen colleges minting tech - savvy graduates, several incubators protecting fledgling companies until they're ready to go out on their own and an impressive roster of angel investors and venture capitalists, the city is officially a start - up hub.

Venture capitalists can be a fabulous resource to get you on your feet when you're starting your business, not only because they can offer financial help, but because they're often genuinely interested in your industry and want to be influencers.

Flounder and you might lose a venture capitalist's attention from the start.

The huge jump in security incidents has also spurred venture capitalists, especially corporate venture arms, to pour money into the cybersecurity start - ups.

That was partly because many of the people who formed some of the earliest tech companies then became venture capitalists, but it's also because people tend to hire people like themselves, or when they're starting a partnership, to bring in people who they know and like.

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When he started approaching LPs, the people who fund venture capitalists, after graduation, many people thought his intro email was just a way to get a job interview at their firms.

Earlier this year, top venture capitalist Bill Gurley sounded the alarmon the «unique circumstances» start - up CEOs find themselves in caused by «the pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A».

Investing in «unicorns» — or start - ups valued over $ 1 billion — has become a «substantially more dangerous and complicated practice», top venture capitalist Bill Gurley warned on Thursday, highlighting emerging trends including the rise of «sharks» or opportunistic investors offering «dirty» conditions to entrepreneurs.

The venture capitalists I interviewed for my book Hungry Start - up Strategy: Creating New Ventures With Limited Resources and Unlimited Vision (Berrett - Koehler, 2012) made it clear that they talk to about 1,000 ventures a year and invest in one or two.

And for the venture capitalists, the accelerators serve a valuable function — by forcing the start - up to demonstrate that it can get a customer before they write a check.

DreamIt, a start - up incubator founded in Philadelphia hosted a demo day in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday for about 250 attendees, many of them venture capitalists and angel investors looking for the next Dropbox or Scvngr.

When you're starting out in your career, you're not going to understand the role of venture capitalists unless you're in a VC - backed business or want to be, or are trying to raise capital.

As venture capitalist David Lee once said, «It's never been easier to start a company and never harder to build one.»

Hoke's personal stake in the company comes from her own rise and fall: She had been a successful venture capitalist but several years ago, she lost her job and had to start over.

Hillhouse Capital's Zhang Lei runs a $ 35 billion dollar fund and is considered one of China's shrewdest venture capitalists, but he didn't start out wanting to be in finance.

And she skillfully rebutted venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, when he argued all important innovations happen in start - ups.

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.

Venture capitalist Nir Liberboim asked what stops other companies from mimicking the start - up's concept.

Though the start - up has declined to offer information about its financing, its team of scientists, venture capitalists, and politicians is impressive.

After all, this was a room full of hungry tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and others, and LeBrun had in March successfully sold his start - up Radian6 to cloud computing colossus Salesforce.com for US$ 326 million.

Labs may comprise workshops of several days with relevant stakeholders, including venture capitalists, corporations, start - ups, diverse levels of governments, universities, and research institutes.

Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley and his CEO coach, former venture capitalist Jerry Colonna, had a frank conversation about the challenges of running a start - up at Friday's Northside Festival.

SAN FRANCISCO — In a start - up's initial public offering, a lot of people can get fabulously rich: the founders, early employees and the venture capitalists who staked the company.

Armchair venture capitalists will soon have a new place to hunt for intriguing start - ups: Indiegogo, the popular crowdfunding site for developers of creative ventures like movies, games and gadgets.

That wasn't a surprise to longtime venture capitalist Aileen Lee, who spent nearly 13 years with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers before leaving in 2012 to start her own seed - stage venture firm, Cowboy Ventures.

Venture capitalists (and other investors in startups) are neither greedy nor shortsighted, as some disappointed entrepreneurs believe; they are simply inappropriate for most start - ups.