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Team, timing, and execution — the trilogy of success

What makes startups more likely to succeed is the quality of the team, their ability to execute, and their sense of timing.

Any growth is good, but sustainable growth is the key to success

What worked for PayPal is a good example of how your startup can start looking for its best routes to market, too.

Ask Sophie: As an immigrant, how can I work in space tech?

As we dive in to the work of commercial space technology and startups, it’s important to start with an overview of some of the basics.

How to plan for general partner succession

The succession process requires an open and genuine dialogue between the senior retiring and incoming management teams.

1RoundTable bets on ‘long-term, less volatile’ strategy with new growth-stage crypto fund

The past couple of years have been challenging, and sometimes deadly, for many crypto and web3 startups, but Dan Tapiero, CEO, CIO and managing partner of 10T Holdings and 1RoundTable Partners, is not

It’s a good time to invest in early-stage edtech, investors say

It would be shortsighted to overlook edtech amid the present downturn, especially now that AI is disrupting nearly every industry out there.

Can crypto’s recent wins resurrect venture interest?

Like a tenacious balloon, no matter how hard crypto gets knocked down, it tends to float back up again. But the current crypto bust looks a bit different.

Turn headwinds into opportunity in 2024

Entrepreneurship is all about taking risks. It means innovating without fear of failure, stepping into the unknown, and pursuing ambitious ideas.

Private equity could be the last resort for startups struggling to exit

Startups are in a difficult spot. But the good news is that some untraveled and overgrown exit paths have a chance of opening up this year.

Consumer tech is bound for a comeback among unicorns, but maybe not just yet

Cowboy Ventures predicts that "given the hard shift to enterprise," we can "hope and expect more exciting consumer unicorns will be born in coming years."

Will startup valuations start to recover in 2024? Investors aren’t so sure

Most VCs think valuations are close to the bottom, if not already there, but few think there will be any relief in 2024.

How to mobilize generalist VCs for a moonshot idea

Moonshot startups are inherently about venturing into uncharted territory, giving us new superpowers and creating new markets.

Countdown Capital winding down is not a bad omen for micro funds

As long as micro funds can be nimble enough to gain meaningful ownership, they shouldn't be too concerned about Countdown's fate.

Nasdaq CEO’s comments about IPOs portend sunny skies ahead for the tech industry

More than 100 companies are getting ready to go public on Nasdaq after filing confidentially with the SEC, Barron's quoted Nasdaq's CEO Adena Friedman as saying.

The United States’ $1 trillion startup liquidity gap needs to be filled soon

There's an absolute mountain of money frozen in startups today, and with the pressure ticking higher every day for it to melt and become liquid cash, something is bound to break.

Funding for female founders remained consistent in 2023

This is the lowest percentage of venture capital allocated to such teams since 2016, when they picked up 1.6% of all venture funds.

Explained in 5 charts: Venture capital in 2023

Venture capital had a lot of ups and downs in 2023, so we charted out the numbers to make it clear just how much things actually improved.

The IPO window is reopening — here’s what startups need to know

Get the correct elements in place for growth before your IPO, and your startup can make steady progress as a public company.

Carta’s growth story is being overshadowed by its stock trading snafu

Is Carta a bad business without a secondary-market trading arm? Can it scale on its other revenue sources to the size it needs to take its large private-market valuation live?

How to partner with a venture investor who values technology innovators

Venture capital often finds nonconsensus and nonobvious deals, but the process may take hundreds of meetings before the first yes.
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