And for the first six years, we had no venture money.
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You've got venture money, which brings a whole nother level of pressure.
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Plated, Sun Basket who have lots of venture money to operate unprofitably.
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Not having taken on that venture money was extremely important to me.
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The amount of venture money available in Europe has also risen steadily.
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Hundreds of millions of dollars of venture money only went so far.
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And then at some point you take on some venture money as well?
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The biggest companies are chasing it and venture money is flowing toward it.
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We espouse that more venture money needs to flow to more businesses — full stop.
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And then decided to expand with venture money into areas that made it unprofitable.
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"There is more venture money, but it is chasing fewer, more mature deals," said Dawara.
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Laurance Rockefeller, a grandson of John D., began putting "venture" money into untested aviation companies.
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HubPages was able to raise venture money in 2007 and 2008, and then never again.
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And that's venture money and the first time that it's really been applied to fast food.
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Now startups are pitching in using venture money to come up with new and novel ideas.
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"You save that for the end," he says of the amount of venture money raised already.
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So you started the company, you didn't take venture money, 11 years later you sold it.
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Venture money keeps flowing into start-ups, to the point where $100 million fundraising rounds seem unremarkable.
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Meanwhile, CBD-infused beverage brands like Sweet Reason, Cann and Recess are trendy and raising venture money.
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But… you're cash-flow positive and you've built a solid community of avid users, why take venture money?
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You can avoid those problems by pairing passion with preparation and by thinking carefully about raising venture money.
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The first was that it had taken venture money, which put it at the mercy of unrealistic financial goals.
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So having known all that, why not try to figure out how to do this without taking venture money?
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Tarsadia Investments has put up the bulk of the $17 million in venture money the company has to date.
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Another early-into-the-sector bitcoin start-up was BitPay, which recently raised another $40 million in venture money.
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Venture money in the sector more than doubled to $720 million in 2015, according to the National Venture Capital Association.
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The company was co-purchased by Verizon and Hearst for around $250-$300 million in 2016 after raising venture money.
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Powered not just by electricity, but by volleys of venture money, e-scooters are the latest craze coming out of California.
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That represents 3 percent of all the venture money put into NYC companies in 2015, but 24 percent of all deals.
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Here we'll see how much venture money is being invested, by whom and where these venture-backed crypto companies call home.
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None of this has stopped nearly $2.5 billion of venture money from pouring in from Andreessen Horowitz, and Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
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And in 2016, with venture money flooding into young tech start-ups, everyone has an app and harbors Uber-style ambitions.
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Outsize proclamations are made, lavish events are held and millions of dollars in venture money are funneled into young, unproven companies.
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Hiring the right talent was a particular challenge because venture money was flowing into hot consumer companies like Foursquare, McKinnon recalled.
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Jessica Rovello and Kenny Rosenblatt, the entrepreneurs behind Arkadium, a gaming start-up founded in 2001, initially avoided raising venture money.
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One big piece that we've seen over the past five years and a lot of venture money going into it is wearable tech.
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GS: Isn't it also true that the fintech names that suck up a lot of the venture money aren't always the best underlying businesses?
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Jefferies also noted that Express Scripts and other companies have far more facilities than PillPack, which until the Amazon acquisition was backed by venture money.
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It's not a business that has attracted venture money because of that, because it's not something that's, I guess "scalable" would be the right word.
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Venture money will not only allow us to do even cooler productions, but it'll also allow this whole other world and more people to participate.
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Health technology is a booming sector, with more than $3.5 billion in venture money flowing into the space in the first half of the year alone.
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Venture money has been pouring into iBuyers that make automated cash offers on homes, and startups looking to put a new twist on old brokerage models.
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If you're thinking about raising venture money for your startup, you should start by asking yourself one question: Is this business appropriate for a venture capitalist's investment?
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But the biggest impact of the JOBS Act was to incentivize startups to stay private, in the comfortable, protective nest of venture money, for far too long.
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What are your thoughts on Juicero, the $400 Silicon Valley system for squeezing juice that raised bucketloads of venture money but has faced questions over its effectiveness?
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Most of these startups are not generating any revenue of significance, instead banking heavily on venture money to advertise their way to the top of app store rankings.
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In Europe, for example, research by tech investment firm Atomico shows that 93 percent of venture money went to start-ups with all-male founding teams last year.
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In the Silicon Slopes, bigger companies operate for years, pulling in customers and revenues, before taking a dime of funding — or being recognized as a good candidate for venture money.
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As the venture money flows in and the scooters continue to pop up in the physical world, there's a desire to make sense of the craze and render a verdict.
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The mountain of venture money available, including from mutual funds, enabled his firm to stay private for nine years, almost three times longer than the average tech startup in 2001.
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The San Francisco-based company was recently valued at $9.2 billion and has pulled in $478 million of venture money from American Express, Visa, CapitalG (Google's venture arm) and General Catalyst.
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With plenty of venture money feeding the momentum and the markets running full tilt, Europe should remain a fertile market for start-ups, IPOs and the not-so-rare unicorn sightings.
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When venture money slows and companies are forced to cut costs and/or prove they can make money, they tend to look at ways in which to get their burn down.
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The San Francisco-based company was recently valued at $9.2 billion and has pulled in $450 million of venture money from American Express, Visa, CapitalG (Google's venture arm) and General Catalyst.
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Part of its focus on profitability is a culture born out of its Chico, California, headquarters, a town isolated from the piles of venture money in San Francisco and New York.
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According to the National Venture Capital Association, 75% of venture money — the capital that jumpstarted Facebook, Google and scores of others — goes to just three states: California, New York and Massachusetts.
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However, the $55.5 billion of venture money spent in the first three quarters of the year fell short of the $61.2 billion invested in the same period last year, according to PitchBook.
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Second, from the founder standpoint, would it be better to take venture money or run the business from cash flows and keep the profits — the typical approach for Wall Street finance firms.
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However, most striking in the analysis of funding sources was the small numbers of Latino owners, less than 10 percent, who received angel or venture money at either of the two stages.
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And last year, female founders received only 240 percent of the $226 billion in venture money invested in the United States, according to the analytics firm PitchBook and the advocacy organization All Raise.
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While the number of institutional seed investors has proliferated, the share of venture money that goes to seed has remained much steadier at an average of 3.9 percent quarterly over the last five years.
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"You're signing up for a certain level of ambition focused on growth when you take venture money," said Kirsten Green, whose Forerunner Ventures is the largest investor in Ando's first round of venture financing.
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The influx of venture money is fueling the trendUnlike founders in earlier eras, but like a growing number today, Neumann holds a controlling stake in this company despite not owning a majority of its shares.
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A former product engineer at Apple, he has a head start in raising capital and is now weighing his best options for sourcing venture money when he might have accepted China VC in the past.
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Entrepreneurs had the wind at their backs, thanks to a flood of venture money and access to technical infrastructure — Amazon Web Services — meaning they could spin up and scale up their startups like never before.
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AWS had the luxury of growing up inside a big public company that was already beloved on Wall Street, while Benioff started Salesforce with seed capital, then funded it with venture money before turning to the public markets.
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"If I would have taken venture money or angel money I could have pointed the company in one of 64 different directions and pulling the trigger betting that it was going to be the right bet," he says.
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Even in the absence of SoftBank there is still a whole lot of venture money sloshing around out there … although it seems possible that its investors are beginning to find it a little harder to spend it responsibly.
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U.S. "ICT unicorns", or VC-backed companies in the information and communication technology sector worth $1 billion or more, have historically been valued at roughly 5.5 times the amount of venture money invested by the time they reached that milestone.
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But these days, with huge data-driven players like Amazon and Google making incursions into the health space, and venture money flooding into Silicon Valley start-ups aiming to bring machine learning to health care, the cadence is far more frequent.
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From the beginning, its ability to know, before anyone else, what sort of content would go viral delivered it a large audience and helped the company attract half a billion dollars in venture money and a steady stream of mostly positive media attention.
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To do this, it, along with a select few others like Didi in China and Lyft in the US, have raised billions of dollars in outside funding, effectively sucking up a large part of venture money and interest in the transportation-on-demand sector.
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Pichai might wonder why he shouldn't spin them off with a load of venture money and a promise to send back the loot after an IPO, instead of having to pay attention to them when Google and YouTube have huge internal and external challenges.
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Given just how much money is invested — an increasing figure each year as more venture money appears from new participants — we should be concerned that just 9% of U.S. VCs are women despite comprising 50.8% of the U.S. population and driving 1003-80% of all consumer purchasing.
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With the race to next-generation silicon in full swing, the waterfall of venture money flowing into custom silicon startups is already showing an enormous amount of potential for some more flexible hardware for an increasingly changing technology landscape — and Naveed Sherwani hopes to tap that for everyone else.
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