Our Favorite Books for Investors
We’ve given you our favorite books for startup founders, but we didn’t want to leave out the investors! Here are seven of our favorite reads for…
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For Investors
NVBOTS Secures Series A Financing
Now that we’ve had a chance to notify our NVBOTS investors, we are excited to announce that NVBOTS has secured a Series A financing round led…
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How the MicroVentures Investment Committee Selects Startups
We are often asked, by founders and investors alike, how we go about selecting the companies we list on the MicroVentures platform. It’s a question that…
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Evaluating a Startup? These 7 Metrics Can Help
It can be difficult sometimes to know what to make of an early-stage startup. You won’t necessarily read about the company in the news or in…
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Counteracting the Risks of Private Equity
Private equity investments are risky – says so right there in the disclosure. You could put $100,000 into a promising young startup only to see that…
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The Continuing Rise of the Sharing Economy
It’s been interesting to watch the sharing economy evolve, especially as we’ve added companies like Lyft, Misterbnb, and VaycayHero to the MicroVentures portfolio. We’ve watched old-fashioned…
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Brick and Mortar Makes a Comeback
The beauty of online commerce is that new businesses can launch with very little capital, then use online marketing tools to expose their brands to potential…
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High Caps, Low Caps, and No Caps
Early-stage investing is always about striking a balance between risk and reward for both the founders and the investors. When it comes to early-stage convertible notes,…
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What Do These 9 Companies Have in Common?
Dropbox, Snapchat, Lyft, Pinterest, Bloom Energy, Instacart, Cloudera, Palantir, and Spotify. All nine of these companies are on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list for 2016, and all…
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