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Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding

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million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. With the mobile app launched in 2014, Tapiture continues to refine its technology to reach its users. The post Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding appeared first on TechZulu. I am drawn to it.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. ” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners?”

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

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In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all.

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What Future for Accelerators?

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With this fund we also wanted to broaden our partnership ranks and added the talented Jamie Kantrowitz. But by 2014 much had started to change. And then of course our friends at TechStars launched an accelerator in collaboration with our friends at Disney so now there was six. Ok, we raised two more funds, but more on that soon.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

The company plans to give creators and influencers more independence from existing platforms by allowing them access to funding from a team well-versed in their unique capital needs. Naturally, these were also the first business to get funded. million followers , on Tinder. CGI influencers like Lil Miquela , a digital avatar with 1.7

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Let Me Count The Ways Entrepreneurs Fund Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Of course a lot of this also comes down to investor trust. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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