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The first-time founder's ultimate guide to pitching a VC
Entrepreneurship can feel like an uphill battle.This guide for first-time company founders pitching venture capitalists will make it a little easier.We asked experts — entrepreneurs and investors — to...
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Check out the pitch deck that Sandbox VR used to get Andreessen Horowitz as...
Andreessen Horowitz partner Andrew Chen shared a video of his meeting with Sandbox VR, a location-based virtual reality startup, to give startups a "director's cut" look at how the firm handles pitch...
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8 startups helping moms get back to work after having kids
More women perform paid labor, yet spend the same amount of time caring for children than they did 50 years ago. Since the US government offers little help to working mothers, some entrepreneurial...
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A small business trying to get on 'Shark Tank' took a man dressed as a banana...
We followed one small business pitching at the "Shark Tank" open casting call in New York City to see what it was like.The business, Banana Loca, employed a mascot named Brandon Vassallo, otherwise...
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Read the application form that got the 'Spotify for meditation' into the...
Yunha Kim, the founder of the meditation app Simple Habit, successfully applied to Y Combinator in 2017.Y Combinator is the famed startup accelerator that's launched the likes of Dropbox, Airbnb, and...
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We asked top VCs to pitch us on up-and-coming fintechs. Here are the 12 they...
We ask some of the top venture investors to recommend up-and-coming US-based fintechs, with one catch: They couldn't suggest companies in their own portfolios.We got a wide range of answers, but one...
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An early investor in Zoom, one of the best performing IPOs of 2019, almost...
Patrick Eggen led the early stage corporate venture fund at Qualcomm when he was introduced to Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom.Eggen and his team were hesitant to back Zoom because the company had...
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Venture-backed health-insurance startup Bright Health is plotting a major...
Bright Health, the Minneapolis-based health-insurance startup that provides health plans for individuals and families and to seniors has big plans for a major expansion. As soon as 2020, the company...
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An influx of jewelry and bedding startups are selling candles now — here's...
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A famous startup investor had a DM fail and accidentally revealed his clever...
In a self-proclaimed Twitter "DM fail" Wednesday, angel investor Jason Calacanis offered a currently unknown startup $500,000 and time on his podcast, "This Week in Startups," in exchange for...
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Rent The Runway CEO throws serious shade at profitless tech behemoths: 'I...
In an interview with CNBC, Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman explained her approach to leading a business, stating, "I haven't been given the permission or privilege to lose a billion every quarter."...
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Cofounders Jen Rubio and Steph Korey built online luggage retailer Away into...
Away, an online luggage seller, announced on Wednesday it raised $100 million at $1.4 billion valuation just three years after it was founded by Jen Rubio and Steph Korey.Away is the most recent...
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5 questions every US tech startup founder needs to ask before taking money...
From Japan's SoftBank to the Australian sovereign wealth fund, foreign money is pouring into Silicon Valley startups.While it may be tempting for founders to take large checks from generous investors,...
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A month after layoffs, Udacity's famous founder says the online school...
Udacity seemed to stumble last month when it restructured and laid off about 20% of its workforce.But founder, executive chairman and interim CEO Sebastian Thrun tells Business Insider that the...
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Auth0, a cybersecurity software company started by a Microsoft veteran,...
On Monday, cybersecurity company Auth0 announced it raised $103 million in Series E financing led by Sapphire Ventures. The round valued the company above $1 billion, double its $500 million valuation...
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Design startup Canva is now a $2.5 billion company, thanks to the first-ever...
Canva, an online visual presentation software company that competes directly with Google's G Suite and Microsoft PowerPoint, raised $70 million at $2.5 billion valuation on Monday.Bond, the venture...
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I tried the buzzy new Billie razor for women — and now I actually look...
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Al Gore's environmental-sustainability fund has raised $1 billion to pump...
Al Gore's Generation Investment Management on Tuesday announced it had closed a $1 billion growth equity fund, the largest in the firm's 15-year history.Generation's growth equity partner Joy Tuffield...
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New Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston explains why he's so excited about...
Silicon Valley startup incubator Y Combinator announced Monday that Geoff Ralston would be named president, replacing former president and chairman Sam Altman.Ralston has been at Y Combinator since...
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Top investors say these 11 buzzy, under-the-radar consumer cannabis startups...
Investors are pouring money into consumer cannabis startups.While it's still early innings, investors are trying to figure out which brands will take off and capture significant market share.We asked...
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