Zack Miller (Contributor) 30 December 2013 (Forbes) Thanks for being in touch with our venture capital firm. We’ve thoroughly read your business plan, fully examined your forecasts and prognostications, and done full due diligence on you and the rest of your team. Unfortunately, after reviewing your 47 page powerpoint, we’ve decided to pass[…]
By Seth Fiegerman, Mashable 16 December 2013 If you only focus on the multi-billion dollar valuations of young companies like Pinterest, Uber and Snapchat, you might assume 2013 has been a very good year for tech startups. In reality, it has been more of a bittersweet year. Many early-stage companies struggled to raise[…]
Liz Gannes December 17, 2013 (c) 2013 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. A motivational startup called Pact Inc. has raised $1.55 million, led by Khosla Ventures and Max Levchin, for its mobile apps, which help people set monetary stakes for meeting their goals. Pact, currently known as GymPact, had initially focused on workouts.[…]
Siimon Reynolds, Forbes Contributor 11/07/2013 @ 7:41PM The future of your business depends on just two abilities. Firstly, being able to come up with excellent ideas to expand your business. Secondly to be good at implementing those ideas. There are thousands of books and articles about the implementation part, but comparatively[…]
Lora Kolodny December 16, A startup that wants to empower people to run crowdfunding campaigns wherever and however they want to online, Crowdtilt Inc., raised $23 million in Series B venture funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, and joined by SV Angel and Sean Parker, said founder and Chief Executive James Beshara. Crowdtilt, a[…]