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VC Tables Turn on Food Startups
Food startups are struggling in the current economic environment. As the Bloomberg article below reports, the packaged food industry...
startup
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Otter Child Care: Pandemic Success Story
In the midst of the pandemic, Helen Mayer had a brilliant idea. What if stay-at-home parents watched the children of parents who had...
entrepreneur
venture capital
Peak VC - $500B From Outside VC Funds
More money than ever is pouring into VC. At the end of 06/22, VC funds had a record $290B of dry powder, which represents a $100B in...
VC
venture capital
Residential Brokerage Compass' "Technology Promise"
The Vision Fund's $370 million investment in Compass valued the residential brokerage firm at $6.4 billion in the summer of 2019. Th...
real estate
venture capital
Airbnb Gets Investors Attention with Cereal Boxes
Airbnb Inc. has one of the most unusual startup marketing strategies that separated it from the 600,000 small businesses established...
marketing
startup strategy
venture capital
Dead Deal Expense Can be Costly to Companies
An article in the WSJ cited several anecdotes where startups had funding offers pulled after a Letter of Intent (LOI) had been negot...
coronavirus
letter of intent
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Startups Respond to Lack of Funding during Crisis
In 2019 investors poured $136 billion into U.S. startups. Many of which were chasing revenue with little regard for profit. The ment...
coronavirus
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