Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Stegmaier recommends that you start by writing a regular blog, joining a few related campaigns, building a high-quality video, and completing up to a hundred additional lessons before you even launch your own project. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2015

Anybody who reads the blog regularly will know that I’m long video. I’ve made 5 investments in the sector and I hope to make 5 more. Here’s a short video we did of our 2015 Upfront Summit : We also shot this one last year to highlight some of our portfolio companies.

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JANUARY 12, 2018

The investment in the Ann Arbor, MI-based company was co-led by Germany’s Statkraft Ventures , the Capital Midwest Fund , and UL Ventures , and also included contributions from returning investors such as Huron River Ventures and Venture Investors.

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MAY 8, 2017

Austin —Dell Technologies is publicly unveiling a venture capital investment arm that has been quietly investing in startups since the operation was run by EMC, the data storage giant that Dell agreed to acquire for $67 billion in 2015.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

VC firms invested $14.99 billion that was invested in 2,559 deals (2,545 companies) in the third quarter of 2015. billion that venture firms invested in 2015, according to PitchBook records that began in 2000. billion that venture firms invested in 2015, according to PitchBook records that began in 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. I always wanted to work with Brad for this reason so I started blogging because I figured if transparency worked for Brad I would try the same approach. We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments.

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2019

CureMatch was founded in 2015 to commercialize technology developed at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. million in outside investment, says its software can help guide customized care by using a patient’s genetic information to score and rank treatment options. The company, which CEO Bob Manning says has raised about $2.5

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The latest salvo in the increasingly competitive sector is a $50 million investment in Alto Pharmacy, a San Francisco-based “digital pharmacy” startup that has offices in Denver. In conjunction with a $23 million venture investment it. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

For the first 50 years of its existence, Bose Corporation invested primarily in in-house research and development to produce its lineup of high-end headphones, speakers, and other audio technologies. The privately held company made its first investment in a startup in late 2015, and last year it officially launched a corporate venture.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

TuSimple, founded in 2015 in San Diego and Beijing, raised its Series C round of $55 million in late 2017. Composite Capital , a Hong Kong-based investment fund started in 2016, led that round. That was the year TuSimple became the first company in San. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Austin —Mike Smerklo, co-founder of Next Coast Ventures in Austin, says his venture firm brings a key ingredient to investing: entrepreneurial experience. “We Ball was also part of Austin Ventures for a decade before the firm shuttered in 2015. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Specialists today can justify their cost based on more direct return on investment calculations at all operational levels. There are expert blogs and curation sites, like this one, covering every aspect of business and leadership. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/10/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Here are some of the key new rules I have learned by starting my own company, investing as an angel in other startups and mentoring many more new entrepreneurs over the last few years: Do incorporate a company, but keep it simple. Site marketing is easily extended through blogs, Twitter, Facebook and social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

As a serious entrepreneur, you have more invested than any outsider, so you should be looking for the same evidence and not believing your own hype. It’s never too early to build relationships with industry analysts, influential blogs and the media. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/04/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Stegmaier recommends that you start by writing a regular blog, joining a few related campaigns, building a high-quality video, and completing up to a hundred additional lessons before you even launch your own project. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The final numbers on 2016 fintech funding deals are in from New York-based research firm and investment database CB Insights, and venture capitalists seem to be cooling on the industry. billion in venture capital across 836 investments last year. That is down 13 percent from a peak in 2015, when global fintech investment soared to $14.6

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Prices for agricultural commodities such as corn, soy, and wheat are at their lowest levels in years, but investment in agricultural technology has never been better. Just 10 percent of corporate investments were made to build new technological capabilities, the report says.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Still, the amount invested marked a 12 percent drop from the $17.4 billion that venture firms invested during the same quarter last year, and there was a 22 percent decline in deals, according to MoneyTree data released today. billion invested in Venice, CA-based Snapchat. billion investments in 251 companies.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2018

The company was co-founded in 2015 by Michael Marks, the former CEO of contract electronics manufacturer Flextronics. The Vision Fund was initiated by Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank Group to make major global investments in “the. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 billion, 2,034 deals) and the third quarter of 2015 ($21.1 What is most interesting is the activity beneath the headline data.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

billion invested in 198 deals in 2015, according to EdSurge. Those stats track with the overall trend in VC funding nationally: the industry saw a “correction” or “normalization” downward after hitting a peak in 2015. A recent study by EdSurge , an edtech information firm, shows venture funding for U.S.

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Xconomy

MARCH 19, 2017

After the adhesive products maker Avery Dennison (NYSE: AVY ) recently made a $3 million investment in San Diego-based Wrapify , we tracked down Wrapify CEO James Heller, and stuck him with a few questions about the deal.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Station F is the brainchild of Xavier Neil, a tech billionaire and serial entrepreneur, who invested millions in acquiring and refitting the building. With a fresh investment of €1M, Simon Schaeffer is now taking the Factory brand to Lisbon with a new mega campus. Highlights of the space: 34,000 square meters/ 366,000 sqft.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Venture Capital investments in San Diego startups fell by roughly a third during the three months that ended September 30, according to data released recently by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. VC firms invested $280.6 That was 32 percent lower than the $414.4 million into 61 local companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In reality, crowdfunding has become a major startup funding vehicle, with an estimated contribution of $30 billion in 2015, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have. Don’t expect to run a crowdfunding campaign in your free time. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Gomez said he was inspired to start Canopy San Diego after spending time at CanopyBoulder , the cannabis industry fund and accelerator founded in 2015, less than three years after Colorado voters approved a similar marijuana legalization initiative. billion in 2015—a number estimated to grow by 25 percent this year to $6.7

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality. We’re aligned, but not overlapping, is the way I like to look at it.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Despite the benefits of developing an app, there are valid reasons why retailers choose not to invest in one. Fifty-six percent of retailers surveyed in a 2015 Shop.org/Forrester Research repor t say apps aren’t a key component of their mobile marketing strategy, even as 58 percent placed mobile at the top of their priority lists.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing. Happy #TBT from our fearless Founder & CEO @fordblakely !

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2016

For the three months that ended June 30, the regional data showed that venture capital firms had invested $350.5 million invested in 23 San Diego companies. When the first-quarter MoneyTree Report came out in Apri l, it showed that venture firms had invested only $253.2 million in 19 companies in San Diego. So the $350.5

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7 million Series D round in early 2015, re-upped in the latest round, which included all existing investors and some debt, Tealium CEO Jeff Lunsford said last week.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Problems at one industry leader, San Francisco-based LendingClub (NYSE: LC ), have added to waning enthusiasm among some investors for the peer-to-peer model, which matches online users who want a loan with Wall Street investors or wealthy individuals looking for a higher rate of return than many traditional, fixed-income investments.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Problems at one industry leader, San Francisco-based LendingClub (NYSE: LC ), has added to waning enthusiasm among some investors for the peer-to-peer model, which matches online users who want a loan with Wall Street investors or wealthy individuals looking for a higher rate of return than many traditional, fixed-income investments.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell. Four of the companies here were founded in 2014, another three were started in 2015, and two—CureMatch and Lymber—debuted earlier this year.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter. The idea of a “retweet” as an endorsement and as a way to “share” someone else’s content within your feed and with your followers, was relatively new (outside of blogging). montanatriplett nice, which Pinot Grigio.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

The news was a relief for Redwood City, CA-based Heron, which has been waiting for word on the status of its drug since September 2015. . —Heron Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HRTX ) won FDA approval of granisetron (Sustol) , a drug it developed for the nausea and vomiting associated with certain chemotherapy regimens. In the U.S.,

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

In January 2015, Biogen shares were at over $400 apiece as the company was gaining steam on early positive signals for aducanumab. Shares have since eroded significantly, but Biogen has restructured and cut a number of jobs to support its risk-heavy investments, halting preclinical work in immunology and fibrosis.

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