Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Right now people seem to be angling more around November 2012. Creative destruction will continue to create opportunities for people who understand the deflationary economics of the Internet. Why is that?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

They wanted opportunity. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. They are Chinese immigrants and as he said directly, “They gave me every opportunity to succeed. Grown men, prisoners, with huge muscles and tattoos everywhere cried and told me stories.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. FourSquare obviously brings up a lot of interesting commercial opportunities. It isn’t new stuff.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 6, 2022

OSSM’s Virtual Regional Center brings added educational opportunities and challenges to rural high school students. The first step, as with college-bound seniors everywhere, is that OSSM students have to figure out how to pay for books and tuition, room and board. By Scott Meacham. That’s where OSSM’s Virtual Regional Center comes in.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Word travels at light speed amongst this small network of people who all know each other and even though they’re rivals they also sit on boards together and many probably went to business school together. The Invoca board and Mark gathered and discussed how our process was going.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Choo Heng Tong, the Executive Vice President for New Ventures and Innovation, EDB, said delivering sustainability goals is now more pressing as it also presents an opportunity for collaboration across the ecosystem to build and scale climate tech ventures.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

Philippe Gluntz, President of France Angels , was honoured as the 2012 EBAN Angel of the Year, while the Finnish Business Angel Network ( FiBAN ) was recognized as Business Angel Network of 2012. After formal presentations, I had an opportunity to meet many of the fine teams there at a casual BBQ.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

A fintech and music collaboration might not seem that obvious, but the music economy remains one of the most under-tapped (and under-innovated) opportunities that remains out there. Square buys majority of Tidal, adds Jay-Z to its board in bid to shake up the artist economy. Decentralized insect farming, anyone?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The round comes less than six months after the company raised $35 million in a round led by Sorenson Ventures, and brings the New York-based company’s total raised to $196 million since its 2012 inception. Accel partner Amit Jhawar will join Socure’s board as part of the funding round. Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The processes I used to hire our first COO in 2012 and the second one in 2018 were basically the same and are strongly inspired by Topgrading as well as the Who Method. We used the following methods to generate applications: We spread the job description on all the relevant job boards as well as social networks like LinkedIn and XING.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 16, 2017

“Much of the growth and success of CoinX was reinforced by a combination of my EO forum, the EO network, and the opportunity to serve other EO members through leadership. When she joined in 2012, her company, CoinX, was in high growth mode, which made support from her EO community an invaluable asset.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

. “One of the unique things about the hotel and hospitality industry is that generally tech providers focus a lot of their energy on the larger chains, because that’s where they believe the opportunity is,” he said. Part of the Series B will be used to continue investing in OTA Insight’s technology stack. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Headquartered in Mountain View, OSRF — which predates Open Robotics — was founded in 2012 with the mission of supporting “the development, distribution and adoption of open source software for use in robotics research, education and product development.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Beyond co-founding Initialized, which raised a $700 million fund (its sixth) last year and has over $1 billion in known assets under management, Tan was also co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012. Initialized and YC are very much aligned — YC made me, but I made Initialized,” Tan continued. .

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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 ). Chou O’Keefe has been investing in healthcare her entire VC career, and sat on the board of Livongo for four years.

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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. When asked what motivated her, Ms. .”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

During that process, she was battling Stage 3 breast cancer — doing drafts of the S-1 from a chemo chair and sending it to the board the morning of her double mastectomy. GV Partner Frederique Dame , who has also invested in the likes of Pill Club and Kindbody, has joined Found’s board as part of the Series A.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

He also logged two years with Andreessen Horowitz beginning in 2012.) However, it wasn’t until recently that the market’s needs provided us with the opportunity to successfully create the type of firm we originally wanted to build that led us to [do this]. Patron has been in the works conceptually for many years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Innovium is selling for around the price that Facebook paid for Instagram in 2012, a deal that at the time was so large that it dominated technology headlines around the world. Perhaps Innovium found itself with more cash than opportunities to spend it; perhaps it simply needed a large partner to help it better sell into its market.

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Hunter Walk

JULY 11, 2022

Looking back I wrote something in 2012 about generally getting beyond the interview. Once done, the exec team and board will take a look and make a decision. In similarly titled, Try Before You Buy: Why Smart People & Smart Companies Are Ditching the Interview : Once is a coincidence, twice is a trend?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

A 2012 study of company performance showed that more than 150 listed German firms excelled when they had at least 30% women representation on their executive boards. Even more interesting, another study argues that women make better board directors than men.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This by far the biggest investment Sendcloud has ever had: the Eindhoven, Netherlands-based startup has been around since 2012 and before now had raised just over $23 million ($23 million, 23,000 customers has a nice ring to it).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

“The most important thing is the future opportunity and where we could take the company with additional funding… this will help us hyper scale up.” ” Brasoveanu is joining the startup’s board with this round. We’re excited to partner with Genesis and support them in delivering this across the world.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Ajua, formerly mSurvey , was founded in 2012 by Kenfield Griffith. However , the company chose an acquisition and Griffith gave two reasons why — building a similar product would have taken a long time and Ogallo seemed to know Janja’s business and operations so well, it just made sense to get him on board. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The financings bring the San Francisco-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $530 million. Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Hippo’s Assaf Wand discuss proptech’s biggest opportunities. In June of 2021, HomeLight appointed Lyft chairman and former Trulia CFO Sean Aggarwal to its board.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

percent employment growth for software developers between 2012 and 2022, and it’s clear wage inflation in the industry will continue to rise if more qualified software developers don’t enter the field. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national unemployment rate among software developers and engineers was just 2.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

It also draws on Golden Gate Ventures’ proprietary database, which dates back to 2012 and tracks information like the time between funding rounds and fundraising success rates, as well as public databases, reports and expert commentary from the New York Stock Exchange. SPAC opportunities. Series B and C deals.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Committing to enabling startups When Kickstart was established in 2012, the Philippine startup ecosystem was at its nascent stage. This inspired its founders Minette Navarrete, Dan Siazon, and Christian Besler to pitch for a pioneering evergreen fund to the Globe board, starting with $2.5M on its first year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Founder Kai Kloepfer said he began looking into the idea after the Aurora mass shooting in 2012. We’ve really gone back to the drawing board,” as he put it. Though the only one joining the board is Lt. “I started to think, what could I possibly do to have an impact on this? General Guy C. Swan (ret.),

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Sometimes, you’ll have to turn down a seemingly great opportunity in order to stick to your company’s core goals, make sure the lights stay on and keep customers coming down the line. Ari was named among the Top 20 Most Influential People in VoIP 2012 and currently serves on several boards, including the New Jersey Tech Council.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

The opportunity is often worth the investment, but without close contract governance, businesses stand to lose up to 40% of a contract’s value, a KPMG survey found. “In 2012, myself and Claude Marais, the ex-global head of outsourcing in General Motors, began to brainstorm and envision SirionLabs.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Among those testifying were ACA Board Member and the Founder & Managing Partner, Investors of Color Network Eli Velasquez as well as David Olivencia , CEO & Co-Founder, Angeles Investors. 4 This gap highlights the investment opportunities primarily accessible to wealthy accredited investors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 29, 2013

I lept at the opportunity to work with Peter. In parallel, the Redpoint deal team researched the market opportunity heavily. Peter negotiated terms aggressively and we shook hands on a partnership between AxialMarket and Redpoint in April 2012. Sometimes those conversations occur in the board room instead of Cafe Habana.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

But where there is a gap, there is an opportunity. Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. Gusto saw an opportunity to upend the way payroll was done. When a new hire joins, employees can post welcome messages on Gusto’s internal message board. Act 3: New Ways to Empower Teams.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Greater governance role for limited partner Boards of Advisors. For 2023, we can expect longer deal cycles due to more extensive diligence, deals with more balanced founder/investor terms and more protective provisions, including higher liquidation preferences and stronger Board governance.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

These people who never had the opportunity to start a store came onto our platform and became entrepreneurs for the first time, because we do not need them to invest any money in working capital or setting up an offline shop. You will see in societies, people will just put a board outside of their house and start selling products.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 4, 2021

Ralph was co-founder and CTO of PlanGrid, which was funded by YC in 2012, Series A led by Sequoia and acquired by Autodesk in 2018 for $900M. Surbhi founded nVision Medical in 2012 after her own healthcare scare. He is still very involved in the success of Algolia as Board Director. Ralph Gootee. Surbhi Sarna.

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