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. My role has always been to educate people on these issues, to demonstrate with clear examples that if we do things right, we can reintegrate women into a beautiful life. Can you expand on why you launched Tejiendo Sonrisas?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Just ask Stacey Brewer and Ryan Harrison , EO Johannesburg members who are redefining the educational ecosystem in South Africa. Historically, South Africa is ranked among the worst-performing education systems in the world. SB: “The state of education in South Africa is stark at the moment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

Just ask Stacey Brewer and Ryan Harrison , EO Johannesburg members who are redefining the educational ecosystem in South Africa. Historically, South Africa ranks among the worst-performing education systems in the world. SB/ “The state of education in South Africa is stark at the moment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

We spoke with Greg Crabtree , chair of EO@Wharton Executive Education program, to gain insights on how to plan during these uncertain times. In 2011, Greg’s first book, Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits shares his core principles of how to turn your business into a wealth-building engine. After being named to the Inc.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2011, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce had a bold vision: to make Kansas City America’s most entrepreneurial city. Colmena66 captures data on entrepreneurial activity across the network in SourceLink’s CRM solution and the team shares these insights in their annual impact reports.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 30, 2019

Media Literacy Educator / Sacred Heart University. Media literacy education addresses the question of how civil society can be a part of the larger dialogue of exposing new thinking and misinformation while also promoting an open dialogue. Media literacy education is a global and international focus. By Belinha De Abreu, Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did. I simply want founders to be educated on the topic to be helpful. ” I found myself nodding through all of it with quotes like, “Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley,” said Sam Altman.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Luis von Ahn, an entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to scaling free education, has probably annoyed you more than once. His mother spent most of her income sending him to “fancy private school” as he puts it, and he estimates she spent over $1 million on his education over his lifetime. Duolingo’s first words.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2016

Just ask Stacey Brewer and Ryan Harrison , EO Johannesburg members who are redefining the educational ecosystem in South Africa. Historically, South Africa ranks among the worst-performing education systems in the world. SB/ “The state of education in South Africa is stark at the moment.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Moreover, that figure doesn’t reflect millions more who have either left the labor force or remain underemployed, working part-time or in unskilled positions that don’t utilize their education and work experience. As The Economist put it, comparing U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

2011 was the first year I went to SxSW. We hung out a lot together a dinners and educational events. And why I still made it to breakfast at 8.30am with Christina Cacioppo the next morning (although I’m not sure she found me too Haimish of a conversationalist that day ). Examples in My Life & Work.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Competes with HauteLook , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , Billion Dollar Babes , ideeli , Glam List. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , SF Business Times.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Kumolus, which was founded in 2011 and raised $1.7 “One is just pure education. So we as a company regularly meet and educate on issues around inclusion, social justice and diversity. million, according to Crunchbase, really helps Cloudbolt extend its vision from managing on premises to the public cloud.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But founder Zach Sims , who began the company in 2011 as a Columbia student, says that Codecademy’s growth, and hunger for new capital, isn’t due to a pandemic bump. “A A lot of that edtech bump came in K-12 and college solutions, or in leisure educational things like MasterClass,” Sims said. Ours was less pandemic-induced.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. .” Aspiration can now tell you the ‘social impact’ of your monthly spending.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Spenser and Curtis first applied to YC in 2011, but their idea, a new version of Mechanical Turk, did not impress YC’s reviewers at the time, and although they were clearly brilliant hackers, that first application was rejected. Amplitude founders Spenser Skates and Curtis Liu – March 2011.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

It should include education on style preferences and confidentiality. According to the “Small Business Marketing Forecast 2011” from Ad-ology, social media will be the biggest budget gainer among small businesses in 2011, with 39.4% Not having a social media policy. Failing to tailor the plan to your target audience. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

Leymah Roberta Gbowee , 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate and Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. She is co-founder and CEO of Kidogo, and Shabana Basij-Rasikh, dedicated her life to ensuring Afghan girls’ access to education. She is an advocate for climate action and a fierce champion for women.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. That was happening when I first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011. Before our conversation on Extra Crunch Live, Marlon Nichols dropped a bomb on me. Fast forward to 2016.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

. “Accomplished roboticist, entrepreneur and educator Ayanna Howard, PhD, became dean of The Ohio State University College of Engineering on March 1, 2021. Her career spans higher education, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the private sector. Zyrobotics products are based on Dr. Howard’s research.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2011, Ammar used to work for a company called Be Sport. Over time, The Family diversified its activities with an education business and a digital transformation business. Since 2020, we have been trying to find an amicable solution. But we haven’t reached an agreement despite long hours of negotiation,” Ammar wrote.

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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. The company reports it has now raised $332 million since inception. Kramer is a serial entrepreneur. He helped launch Cato in 2015.

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Revolution

JANUARY 9, 2019

Jewelry Designer at Shinola Location: Detroit, MI Shinola was founded in 2011 with the goal to make quality products and to build them right here in America. The Indianapolis-based company is looking for a strong backend-focused Senior Software Engineer to help continue to build out Zylo’s application as the company scales.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

The previous outbound sales tech disruption happened in 2011 when Outreach and Salesloft were founded. Develop a buyer’s guide to educate your startup’s sales team and customers. Outreach nabs $50M at a $1.33B valuation for software that helps with sales engagement.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The move comes a month after GoStudent raised €300 million in a Series D funding and follows GoStudent’s 2021 acquisition of Fox Education, an Austrian all-in-one school communication solution. and take our product international to give more children access to an amazing free education.”. with 7 million students on it. 1 global school.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ). Four years later, Westermann moved to the U.S. 9am.health’s clinic was launched in August.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

The round follows $25 million in financing from CIBC Innovation Banking last September, and brings Vena’s total raised since its 2011 inception to over $363 million. Its customers hail from a variety of industries, including banking, SaaS, manufacturing, healthcare, insurance and higher education.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Founder and chief executive officer Ivy Huq Russell, who grew up in Chittagong and Dhaka before moving to the United Kingdom for university, started Maya as a blog with healthcare information in 2011. “Growing up in Bangladesh, we got minimum sexual education. At the time, Russell worked in finance.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Since 2011, the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship has supported the work of 36 innovators—representing the United States as well as 18 other countries on five continents—who address pressing global issues, from healthcare delivery to college persistence and sustainable construction in developing nations. Skoll Foundation.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 16, 2019

The coworking space opened its doors in September 2011, as the first of its kind in Norway. Some of the veteran members include: Folkelig , who work to provide nationwide educational programs on nutrition and physical health. Today, Impact Hub Bergen has grown into a community of more than 50 entrepreneurs and changemakers.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2021

All adapted garments available around 2011-2014 were very poorly designed and not fashionable at all! And we are focused on research, product development, consulting and education. . Beyond your desire to design better fair trade products in the fashion industry, were there any insights that led to starting Moving Mood?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Released in 2011, “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” was a book that laid claim to the idea that Israel was an unusual type of country. It had produced, and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2

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Red Rocket

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

When I wrote my first blog post back in February 2011, who would have ever imagined it would have grown to over 335 how-to lessons for entrepreneurs , three published books and over 2,000,000 online reads.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Founded in 2011, Symbolab is an advanced calculator and question solver that is on track to answer 1 billion questions this year, Grauer says. If you look back 15 years, there just weren’t that many education technology businesses,” Grauer said. The 9-person Symbolab team, based in Tel Aviv, will join Course Hero.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 4, 2012

million in 2011, creating a slow leak in job creation that has proved difficult to plug. We should be doing everything we can to cultivate it: relaxing H1B visa laws, providing better access to capital through banks and the SBA, and fostering the communities to support and educate new entrepreneurs.

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