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What I Learned In 2015: Richard Wolpert

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Richard Wolpert: You can�t spend too much time worrying about the broader markets. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? Put your head down and do a great job and the rest should work itself out. Richard Wolpert: Late stage private company funding events.

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What I Learned In 2015: Richard Wolpert, HelloTech

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Richard Wolpert: You can�t spend too much time worrying about the broader markets. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? Put your head down and do a great job and the rest should work itself out. Richard Wolpert: Late stage private company funding events.

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What I Learned In 2015: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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London and SF have become Impact Tech hubs, with 280% increase in VC in 5 years

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Tech solutions for such pressing issues as the climate crisis and social inequality have seen a 280% increase in global VC investment from 2015 to 2020, while investment in this space more than doubled in both cities over the past five years. times) since 2015, compared to 3.1 times) from 2015 to 2020. billion into U.S.

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Business 2015 - Optimism, But Upgrade Your Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

Add New Revenue Streams and More Aggressive Marketing: At the same time, most small businesses plan to spend more on digital marketing in the year ahead, and pursuing new revenue streams is seen as a top priority for transforming bottom line profits. 2015 business optimism entrepreneur strategy' Marty Zwilling.

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Lightpost Digital Lands New Funding For Online Marketing Services

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San Diego-based Lightpost Digital , a digital agency which provides online marketing services to local businesses, has raised a round of funding, the company disclosed this week. The company is a spinout of Deal Current, and was founded in 2015. The funding came from Canal Partners and DWP Investments.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened? People were building.