Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Here’s a list of top sources for funding minority entrepreneurs. The NASE has been around since 1981, providing entrepreneurs and micro-businesses, including those by minority owners with access to grants and educational resources. It is a great resource for minority entrepreneurs with a more specific funding need.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support. More than 1,000 companies have cycled through its accelerator, and it was named 2022’s VC firm of the year by The International Trade Council.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Ashoka is a partner of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. But in 2014, the average job tenure was a mere 4.6 years , and the average lifespan of Fortune 500 companies is falling at an accelerating pace. Enter the entrepreneurs. This article was originally published in Ashoka’s column on Forbes.com.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2018

At Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) , our vision is to build the world’s most influential community of entrepreneurs. Many GSEA participants go on to grow their businesses through EO Accelerator and eventually graduate from the program and become EO members. Tyler Olson is one such GSEA alumni. Where are you now?

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. It’s the heroin-hit that hooks the entrepreneur. (The We have never been in a stronger position.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

On October 1st, 2014, after more than two years of partnership and development, Gust proudly joined the Mayor of the City of New York and IBM in announcing the launch of Digital.NYC , NYC’s new official hub for tech and startups. Our vision has always been to facilitate the connections between entrepreneurs and early stage investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea. Jamie Siminoff is not only one of the single best true entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, he’s amongst the best we’ve worked with in the country.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

As smart speaker platforms have matured, more entrepreneurs are leveraging the technology to benefit healthcare. That’s why in this article, you’ll get a comprehensive look at the startups using voice technology to make healthcare better, along with some of the VC’s and accelerators that are backing them.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one. We also scoured newsfeeds.

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Revolution

JULY 26, 2021

Sila CEO and co-founder Shamir Karkal is one of the original fintech entrepreneurs. The pandemic has only accelerated demand for contactless payments–cashless methods are now considered an essential service for a business to survive. We often invest in the founder as much as the idea.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Many of these LPs also participated in AppWorks’ $50 million second fund in 2014. Founded in 2009, AppWorks started its accelerator program before launching a $11 million debut fund in 2012. A lot of our accelerator alumni startups are by first-time founders, so they need help all the way from seed stage. for the other funds.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Working With A Chinese Factory, Hardware Entrepreneur Edition. It was just a matter of time until an intrepid Chinese entrepreneur with a tech background decided to take on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. So it was just a matter of time until an intrepid Chinese entrepreneur with a tech background decided to take on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans. Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2016

’s annual GrowCo conference on Wednesday, the entrepreneur, investor, and Internet advocate divulged the most valuable lessons he’s learned since he launched the hugely popular website in 2005. Ohanian returned in November 2014 as chairman, and Huffman eight months later as CEO. In remarks at Inc.’s

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

Manny Padda is an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award. As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. In this article, Manny shares his strategy for a smooth business exit plan.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2014. This is something I think entrepreneurs don’t totally understand and it’s worthwhile they do. Entrepreneurs started demanding that VCs call their first-round financings “seed” rounds even if they were $3 million. Why the latter? and there''s always a but].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

It’s a similar model employed by AngelList , the company founded by Indian-American entrepreneur Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi as a fundraising platform for startups to raise money from angel investors. Tijani is the co-founder and CEO of Co-Creation Hub (CcHub), a pan-African innovation hub with offices in Lagos and Nairobi.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels The year was 2014. All of that changed on December 1st, 2014. Money is not the Key to Happiness or Success Back in 2015, when we were beginning to see early signs of success, we desperately wanted to raise outside capital to accelerate the company’s growth.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

Are you an entrepreneur with a great story to share? It’s 2022 and already local VCs, angel investors, startup founders, incubators and accelerators, and more are pushing hard to make their startups go. Now this company raised over $40 million in funding since they launched in 2014. for the WJR Business Beat. 2, Guardhat.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. Angel and venture capital investments are made into women entrepreneur-led companies.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Success of Oklahoma ventures has given me renewed admiration for the entrepreneurs who built those companies. Each time one of these events occurs, I feel renewed admiration for the entrepreneurs who founded and built these companies. The post A renewed admiration for the entrepreneurs appeared first on i2E. By Scott Meacham.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. based entrepreneur and investor. The idea was to invest $25,000 and take the startups through a three-month accelerator program culminating in a Demo Day.

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HPA

JUNE 29, 2021

Founded in 2014 out of Chicago, ShipBob was launched through Y Combinator by co-founders Dhruv Saxena and Divey Gulati , two entrepreneurs who saw a need for more efficient shipping for ecommerce businesses. “We We started ShipBob to solve the pain we felt in our own ecommerce business.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

When Revolution first started the Rise of the Rest Road Trip in 2014, our goal was simply to provide greater visibility for entrepreneurs?—?and and the individuals and organizations that support them?—?in in cities like Detroit, Indianapolis, Denver, New Orleans, Chattanooga, and Phoenix. But our team didn’t stop there.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Per Crunchbase data , QED put capital into Nubank’s 2014 Series A, 2015 Series B, 2016 Series D and 2018 Series E, though there may be more dollars in play that we cannot see. It has of course been accelerated by COVID-19, but we had seen the early tailwinds of this step function to digital even prior to the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Additional investors also joined, including Saga VC, as well as leading artists, art collectors, museums, gallerists and trustees at institutions such as MOMA and Guggenheim as well as Shalom McKenzie, an online gambling entrepreneur and investor who also invests in NFTs. The NFT market is just getting started, but where is it headed?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

This forced retailers to accelerate their online strategies, finding new ways to capture shoppers’ attention without in-store samples. will also be part of the investment firm’s Launch with GS , a $500 million investment initiative to support a diverse, international cohort of entrepreneurs. ” Perfect Corp.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Funds II and III closed in 2014 and 2017, raising $135 million and $200 million, respectively. Both funds, according to Kaszek, were “several times oversubscribed” with demand coming globally from university endowments, global foundations, technology funds and several tech entrepreneurs.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 4, 2023

By leveraging the expertise and networks of the Tech Angel Syndicate, First Move plans to offer startups financial support and access to a network of experienced entrepreneurs and industry leaders. Neoh’s involvement with Prenetics dates back to 2014, when he became its initial angel investor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Bootstrapp developed this extensive analysis on revenue-based investing for the purpose of accelerating the shift toward greater transparency and standardization within the industry. In 2010, five firms were founded and in 2015 four additional firms were founded, then from 2014-2019, two or more firms were founded each year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Founded in 2014, Rohlik’s funding comes at an interesting and key moment in the online grocery business, in Europe and beyond. That is to say, whatever growing trends there were before a year ago, that adoption has accelerated and stuck. We understand from sources it is around $600 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report, which included analysis from McKinsey & Company, says its assertions are backed by an acceleration in strong market fundamentals and the impact of the pandemic. Image Credits: Bill Gates Foundation Gallup report (2014)/Endeavor. The firm also has a fund, Endeavor Catalyst, which has backed many unicorns outside the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The skyrocketing global human population — expected to hit 10 billion sometime this century — coupled with the accelerating effects of the climate crisis are leading to a decisive crossroads: How can the world continually increase food production while also mitigating its overall environmental impact?

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The options for financing are seemingly endless: syndicates, public crowdfunding, VC firms, accelerators, debt financing, rolling funds, and, for the profitable few, bootstrapping. Notably, the company has not fundraised since 2014, a year in which it attracted just under $82 million at a valuation of $355 million, per PitchBook data.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Wider issues seem more cultural; startups not thinking big enough, investors lacking the necessary appetite for risk, and even — among wider society — some latent suspicion of entrepreneurs. We accelerate also that path — into innovative entrepreneurship system.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

The stock market is expected to be tough for the time being, but the mobility industry will grow rapidly that we can’t miss this critical time; we will focus on accelerating mergers and acquisitions and investments in new businesses and technology.”.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

Looking to accelerate inclusiveness in Europe’s entrepreneurial and incubation environment , Impact Hub teamed up with partners to enhance Business Support Organisations’ skills, methods and approaches towards different under-represented groups.

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