Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. While pursuing an MBA at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, we saw an opportunity to leverage our business acumen to drive growth in South Africa’s educational sector. RH/ “And really, that’s where SPARK Schools comes in.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

My two friends and I started Tejiendo Sonrisas, a Peruvian nonprofit organization, on March 1, 2011. YLAI provides a lot of useful help ranging from training to living experiences, cultural and work exchange, so take advantage of it. Can you expand on why you launched Tejiendo Sonrisas?

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Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

When I moved back to the Bay Area in early 2011, the technology and startup sector didn’t feel as big or expansive as it does today. Now, contrast 2011 with 2019, and we have an entirely different situation. More money in the ecosystem is searching for these opportunities, or funding competitors.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

My client handled the whole thing with aplomb, fortified by a decade of immersion in the distinctive culture and language of Egypt and the Arab world. Viewed through the entrepreneur’s lens, developing countries are rife with opportunity because there’s no shortage of pain points, to put it mildly, begging to be addressed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. While pursuing an MBA at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, we saw an opportunity to leverage our business acumen to drive growth in South Africa’s educational sector. RH/ “And really, that’s where SPARK Schools comes in.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( Recode ).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. It’s a great opportunity to better explain ideas, problems and design solutions.”. He is also looking at M&A opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Many readers know that at Upfront Ventures that’s precisely what happened at our own firm in 2011 when our founding partner and my co-Managing Partner, Yves Sisteron, asked me to lead the daily management of our firm. It’s what creates opportunities for the entrepreneurs and it’s what helps them produce great returns for the LPs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

He co-founded Check Point Software, which went public in 1996 and Imperva, which went public in 2011, and was later acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2018. “There’s a huge opportunity and we want to move as fast as possible. The company reports it has now raised $332 million since inception.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

That was happening when I first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011. At my first fund, Cross Culture [Ventures], we were interested in investing in early childhood care. According to Bennet, Nichols reached out about the opportunity on Facebook Messenger. We started to build a casual relationship then.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Their culture is flexible and collaborative, making it a top Detroit startup to work at, and they’re constantly innovating and helping small businesses find the banking tools they need. Tens of millions of workers don’t earn a living wage, and it’s not for a lack of job opportunities. FinTech companies. Detroit Labs. Petram Data.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

She launched Silicon Hills News in 2011. Really, it’s finally fulfilled the vision we’ve all had of it becoming a leading city around innovation, tech, and culture,” Whurley said. The whole ‘90s were the early days of the Internet and I saw a lot of opportunity,” Whurley said. Whurley’s success has tracked with Austin’s success.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Partnership with Microsoft: In 2011, to cope up with declining market share Nokia partnered with Microsoft to make Windows phone, abandoning old OSs like Symbian and MeeGo. It did not focus on the smartphone market and missed the opportunity. Many opportunities were lost due to this. Failed to Reposition Itself. Overconfident.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be!” ” When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

.” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

“Not only are these groups coming back to market faster, they are often raising bigger funds or additional vehicles, like opportunity funds.” We’ll note here that Khosla Ventures , SoftBank and Better Tomorrow Ventures all raised an opportunity fund this year.). Image Credits: Emmeline Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Today, MPB — a popular marketplace that specializes in used cameras and photographic equipment — is announcing significant funding to double down on the opportunity after seeing its platform “recirculate” some 300,000 items of kit globally each year and pass £100 million ($139 million) in revenues this year.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

She joined PetHub in June of 2011 as the modern pet ID tag startup was in its beginning stages. We’re focused on growing our company and building strategic partnerships that will fuel future growth and investment opportunities. The growth opportunities available through the Leap program are invaluable. for pets and pet parents.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 25, 2018

In terms of available hours, I am already in a finite territory, and that feels good — to leave those hours open for meeting new founders, and having the best opportunities compete for those limited slots. I am going to preserve energy in the summer for the fall, which is always crazier I anticipate it to be.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 27, 2023

High performers and culture carriers for years — terminated via email and without the opportunity to celebrate their time with their teams. Don’t let success at a company prevent you from pursuing scary and wonderful new opportunities to build. You are not your org chart, your department budget, or your title.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The pandemic and a new work-from-home culture have fundamentally changed how founders think about location when choosing a co-founder. An article by Harvard Business Review in 2011 says, “a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop.”.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 16, 2022

Built on the results of the 2011 Social Business Initiative and the 2016 Start-up and Scale-up Initiative , and preceded by extensive dialogue with stakeholders and civil society, the Action Plan proposes 38 concrete measures to be implemented in a nine-years horizon, between 2021-2030. What’s next?

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

While the term “Pre-Seed” may have been what grabbed the event headline, today’s conference was really about how seed continues to change and presents both opportunities and challenges for investors, founders, and LPs. Below are my brief notes & high-level takeaways from the sessions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2017

The year 2011 was financially devastating. If I wanted even the opportunity for a strong exit, I knew I had to build Source back up after that year. In order to truly move the needle, we needed to become fanatical about our purpose and embed it deeply throughout our culture. Setting Our Purpose.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Cause I remember when we signed the program manager agreement with Discover, this was early 2011, and then we closed our Series A on June 2nd of 2011. And that, I believe, is still in the culture today. Our opportunity to work with Square was amazing. Jason: It took us about 15 months. We had raised, I believe, 5.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 9, 2018

Staffing, culture and ego. As with all new businesses, Citrus weathered challenges and opportunities. “We The challenge is how to build a team that has the skills you need, the culture you’re trying to build and an understanding of the vision you want to create. So, it worked obviously, which was good.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 12, 2017

The event went global in 2011 and began uniting people from Vietnam to Costa Rica, from Australia to Italy, from the U.S. We always talk about how we can do something different and this simple but powerful idea unites people of all cultures and backgrounds on one day to do good together. million participants. And that is powerful!

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

She started FoodtoEat in 2011 in an effort to connect immigrants, women, and minority-owned food vendors to opportunities for growth — helping them strengthen their own business skills. FoodtoEat helps businesses feed employees great food and build stronger & more diverse work cultures.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 23, 2018

On the work front, I had the opportunity to join Lightspeed as a venture partner; and with Haystack, the seed fund I launched in 2013, Haystack finally recruited incredible help to come onboard, Haystack became slightly more institutional in nature (including fund infrastructure, leading deals selectively, etc.)

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Y Combinator

JUNE 12, 2024

When a sales rep hits save on an opportunity, it overrides the history. To get inserted into a 40+ year old public company… there’s a cultural difference. We worked together [on PlanGrid] starting in 2011; we got married in 2013. There’s no version control. But that history is interesting!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

He left traditional media at the top of his game to be the founding CEO of Next New Networks, one of the first digital video startups, backed by Spark Capital and bought by YouTube in 2011. After a stint as the President of North America at BBC Worldwide, Herb is returning to his roots in both digital and Latino.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). Some interesting demographic trends are also underway that favor Uber’s opportunity in this market. The Atlantic (3/25/12). Undiscovered Clues.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

By drawing on multiplayer gaming culture, the startups are using spatial technology, animations and productivity tools to create a metaverse dedicated to work. Is that truly the culture you want to build for the company? Culture is living and breathing, it’s not a static thing that you set and is done.”. Zengerle said.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

At 500, I had the opportunity to work with early-stage founders from around the world and quickly realized that this was where I wanted to spend my time. When we founded DataHero back in 2011, there was a trend going on where people were obsessively trying to “design” their company cultures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Prior to Replicant, Abraham — who joined eBay in 2011 via the company’s acquisition of Milo.com — did stints as a software engineer at Atomic and smart device company Leeo. He also helped to launch Magneto, a calendaring system, and was COO at Talkdesk for nearly four years.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

In my defence, I informed them I did not possess the latest technology and was thus incapable of accessing the font of all culture and knowledge, TikTok. Seizing on this window of opportunity, Kuroda-dono and Lady Lagarde chimed in: “Well, Sir Powell, we’d like to see you prove it! In Japanese, foreigners are called “gaijin”.

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