Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

I read Andy’s post with a knowing smile on my face. After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. But VC is like congress. It’s easy to hate it en masse yet many people love their local congressman.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 11, 2023

Contributed to EO by Marina Byezhanova Justinus Adriaanse is an EO Canada Bridge member who grew up in a middle-class family in South Africa, keenly observing the glaring disparities that were unmistakably present in his surroundings. It was a pivotal moment, and a true litmus test for Adriaanse’s resilience. You solve a problem by taking action.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2017

Over the years, my Forum mates, chapter peers and fellow members have helped me become a stronger person and smarter entrepreneur. For 30 years, EO has been led by countless members who have volunteered their time to help strengthen the organization. WHEN DID YOU SAY TO YOURSELF, “I HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR”?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school. 1) Your school.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

That escalation from $25K back in 2013 took a little over four years. Over the years, that check size grew slowly to $50K, then a few $100Ks, and I followed-on into a few at the $250K level, with two outsized pile-ins at $400K and $600K total exposure, respectively. Fund investing is easy — fund management is not.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Founded by brothers Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin was the first crypto exchange in Brazil. Between January and May 2021, Mercado Bitcoin says that about 700,000 new customers signed up to use its services, bringing its customer base to 2.8 Today, Mercado Bitcoin has about 500 employees.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2019

A last-minute trip to drop my wife off at her internship in October 2013 led to the brightest idea I’ve had so far as an entreprener. A last-minute trip to drop my wife off at her internship in October 2013 led to the brightest idea I’ve had so far as an entreprener. I heard things take time. Here’s how it went.

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013. 2M per firm, funds may want to grow so they can keep co-investing with their peer group. Here, I wanted to step back and consider “why” this has happened from my vantage point.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it turns into a newsletter (soon!), sign up here.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When Homebrew Started Investing Its Own Money, The Reaction From Our Venture Capital Peers Surprised Me [Part One]. Homebrew was born at the beginning of 2013, and grew itself modestly during the bull market that stretched into 2022. a buffet of money, digital art [DALL-E]. a buffet of money, digital art [DALL-E]. Not at all.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. Below is an excerpt from the original article. I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing customers and employees who brought us to this milestone! To celebrate our anniversary, I’m sharing a few pivotal lessons I have learned during each of these wonderful years. I was nervous!

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 22, 2023

In 2013 I discovered the photo Fenton chemistry responsible for hydroxyl radical formation in Manuka honey. Called crazy by my peers I left the science community and started my company. What’s the backstory for your business idea? I discovered something that was responsible for cell death but supported life.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Since its founding in 2013, NS1 has raised more than $100 million to build an engineering team and robust product portfolio that’s expanded to include DDI, which helps companies manage internal networks. Infrastructure doesn’t attract much attention until it fails. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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Feedough

APRIL 16, 2021

In 2013, the Canadian budget airline WestJet surveyed passengers using interactive life-like screens, which depicted Santa dressed in the airline’s colours, to find out what they would like as Christmas presents. Advertisement What Is Grassroots Marketing? Grassroots Marketing Examples. ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Champaign, Ill. September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc., a company dedicated to revolutionizing healthcare by providing physicians with better diagnostic tools, today announced an oversubscribed $5.2 million Series A financing led by i2E Management Company Inc., with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

“ One summer day, probably in the 1870s, friends of a major short-seller got together on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island, where they admired the enormous yachts of New York’s richest brokers. After gazing long and thoughtfully at the beautiful boats, the short seller asked wryly, ‘Where are the customers’ yachts?’ ”.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

In 2013, I moved to San Francisco and was thrown right into the thick of the tech scene. I always want to win, whether that’s out-performing the competition or my peers, or beating a benchmark I’ve set for myself. Thank you so much for joining us! Awesome to be with you guys — thanks for having me! That stuff is important.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ ’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

The report added that this was the highest number it had recorded since it began tracking relocation trends in 2013. Barely a day goes by without news of layoffs emerging from the tech world — from cybersecurity to gaming , no industry is impervious. unicorns and public companies revealing inaugural or upsized offices in the U.K.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

Kathryn Garcia wants to be Mayor of New York City. No, I mean, she actually wants to do the job. It’s not a platform for her to promote any experiments. It’s not something she’s doing because that’s the next logical step in a political ladder. It’s not an interesting career change for someone who made it rich doing something else.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Another vendor in the space is Bonusly , which was launched in 2013 by co-founder and CEO Raphael Crawford-Marks. Crawford-Marks says that Bonusly users receive an average of two recognitions from peers and managers every week. Employee recognition is a key retention tool in a competitive jobs market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Paul reports that Visa has partnered with peer-to-peer payment offerings, including PayPal and Venmo, to make digital payments interoperable so no one has to change providers. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Tuesday Crunch!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

According to Briter Bridges , another publication that tracks VC investments in Africa, only 3% of the total funding raised by startups in Africa since 2013 has gone to all-women co-founded teams. Reports indicate they secured 83% more funding than the previous year, primarily attributed to the record-setting $329 billion U.S.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

David Teten: Who are your peers/competitors, and how do you differ? David Teten: Who are your peers/competitors, and how do you differ? What sets us apart from our peers is our team’s deep operational experience. We’re fortunate to interview Victor Orlovski, Founder and Managing Partner of R136 Ventures.

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