StartupNation

DECEMBER 26, 2021

These overachievers and members of The Oracles share their strategies to sharpen your focus, prolong your concentration and beat distractions once and for all. Finally, when I started criminal defense full time in 2014, it became difficult to not focus on my cases. Create a five-step customized strategy. . Lewis Howes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

At some point the music will stop and we’ll find out which strategies were prudent. Mark didn’t get a chance to talk about that topic but since he’s writing about himself in third person here he can confirm that is 100% the strategy of Upfront Ventures. And we ended. Startup Lessons'

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you look at the blue line below in what we are calling “private-market IPOs” you’ll see the discernible trend that began in 2014 and has continued through 2018 and you’ll see the impact this has potentially had on public IPOs in green. But there are clear pro’s and con’s. Still reading? The second half of this analysis coming soon!

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HPA

JANUARY 8, 2025

With market-leading positions in several natural snacking segments and abundant white space for future growth, Simple Mills perfectly aligns with Flowers strategy of adding compelling brands that complement and diversify its existing portfolio.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. Hedge funds, other public investors, corporates, etc. Price matters.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

We capped our fund size so that we would stay true to our investment strategy in terms of size, scope and number of partners as we stood in 2014 when we raised the fund. We were in the very fortunate position of having more than $425 million in commitments for our last fund, which only raised $280 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Adopt a “hire slow, fire fast” mentality for your expansion strategy. Our team at Heartcore Capital use the following framework and learnings to guide internationalization strategies for our portfolio companies. Homejoy expanded internationally in 2014 in a rush to squash a new German competitor Helpling.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

Ruchir Punjabi has been an EO member since 2014. If you already have stability, then this is an amazing opportunity to transform what you do, and thrive for what is certainly going to be a changed world after this crisis. For more tips on surviving the global crisis, visit the #EOTogether platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I used to do is pencil out my plans for the board deck and strategy topics and my CFO would then pull together the slides and analysis. It is one of the primary reasons Sam was able to accomplish so much in 2014 because he could focus his time on what really mattered. Sam thanks me for pushing him to do this on a regular basis.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2014, Greg contributed a chapter to Verne Harnish’s book, Scaling Up on how to improve profits though labor efficiency. Greg is currently the organization’s partner-in-charge of their Huntsville, Alabama office. In 2020, Greg will release his newest book, Simple Numbers 2.0: Rules for Smart Scaling.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Erika Norwood, the Executive Director of Gray Matters Charitable Foundation (GMCF), which funded MPOWER’s social impact strategy, lauded the report and noted its connection to the foundation’s own mission to support education leading to a more purposeful life for 100 million women by 2036.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

The startup has been around since about 2014, originally as a spinout from Oxford University co-founded by academics Paul Newman and Ingmar Posner — Newman remains at the startup as its CTO, while Posner remains an AI professor at Oxford. .” . “We see a huge transformation happening in the industrial domain.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

He says that more details will be provided on the new entity’s strategy and branding once the deal has formally closed. In 2014, it was wholly acquired by Wirecard Issuing & Acquiring Gmbh, which is a subsidiary of Wirecard AG.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

It was with this belief that Wu launched Fujin Tree – Taiwanese Cuisine & Champagne in late 2014 in Taipei, aiming to debunk the stereotype that Taiwanese food is limited to braised pork rice and bubble tea. He shared with us three strategies any local restaurant brand should adopt when expanding into an overseas market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

IBM purchased the company in 2018 for a hefty $34 billion and has been leveraging that acquisition as part of a shift to a hybrid cloud strategy under CEO Arvind Krishna. This approach is consistent with IBM’s strategy of supporting multicloud, hybrid environments. Investors included Menlo Ventures, Redpoint and Sequoia Capital.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Who: Magnify Consulting What: Sales strategy, CRM, outsourced, tradeshows NZ HQ: Wellington Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? Sales strategy + sales process Get set up for sales success. Since forming in 2014, were excited to be part of the sales growth story for more than 50 businesses.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 23, 2021

2014: Alibaba. This has as much to do with novel GTM strategies, better product-market fit, and the consequent greater leverage in businesses, as does the demand side. If we plot the annual growth rates for the 75th percentile Series A, we observe the expansion in valuations occurs in fits and starts. 2012: Facebook.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

If 2024 Kieran could whisper something into the ear of 2014 Kieran, what would you have told her about the difference between leading a team vs leading a company? But when your team is the larger organization, you can’t use this strategy. But that’s not really how we saw ourselves when we started. This work is my zone of excellence.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. But if you don’t think through your long-term strategy you can open yourself up to a host of problems that kill companies: Spending money too quickly and running into cashflow traps.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Founded in 2014, Dovetail’s success stories include Afterpay , the Melbourne-headquartered unicorn that is one of the highest-profile players in the buy now, play later space, along with Klarna and Affirm. Dovetail helps them build companies from the ground up, preparing them for growth and more funding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

What strategies have you utilized to grow EO Atlanta’s Accelerator program? From 2014 to 2015, we are proud to have grown the program from 14 to more than 40 companies. I served as co-chair and in 2014, took over as chair with Ethan King as co-chair.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

Is email a core part of your marketing strategy? While some business owners still see email as a supplementary or "add-on" tactic, email should be as foundational to your marketing strategy as social media or SEO. Are you approaching email as a core aspect of your marketing strategy? What Is Your Truth?

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

But Tang wasn’t satisfied and eventually sold ELEX Technology to a publicly listed company for about $400 million in 2014. 2014 might have been the last year it was economically feasible to start such a business due to the soaring cost of acquiring customers and the strength of incumbents,” he said. Other investors noticed as well.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

recorded in 2014, according to research by the Beginning analytics firm. More from Asia Tech Daily: Japan’s EdgeCortix Closes $20 Million Funding Round, Collaborates with Renesas Electronics Breaking Barriers: Japan’s Startups Embrace Cryptocurrency Capital Japan’s Five-Year Development Strategy unveils KANSAI Startup Night Vol.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

To help you set your business up to thrive during economic turbulence and beyond, I’d like to share some of the strategies that proved successful when building Hotjar, the company I lead. Since our founding in 2014, we’ve reached $40 million in ARR through bootstrapping. From there, it was off to the races.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Coderhouse , founded in 2014 by Christian Patiño, is a platform for LatAm professionals to take live, online cohort-based courses in topics such as data, coding, design and marketing. Crehana’s hands-on content strategy makes sense, but is hard to scale; and content isn’t competitive forever. The two companies differ in strategy.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Horners insights into startup dynamics and scalable business strategies have earned her a seat on Forbes thought leadership councils and established her as a leading voice in the business community. We started Lemonlight in 2014 at a time when the industry was inefficient and outdated, and I knew there was a better way.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This acquisition is the first step in an inorganic strategy to ultimately apply Riiid’s AI technology to the global market and help more learners around the world.” . Founded in 2014, it has approximately 210 employees globally, including South Korea, the U.S, Canada, Brazil, and Vietnam. .

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

While a few iconic brands including Uber, Airbnb, and Square emerged successfully from the last downturn, most venture-backed companies struggled during this period, and many ended up pursuing M&A strategies. Do these include detailed organizational design and hiring strategies? Is your IP fully scheduled and in digital form?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

Lamey Wellehan is pursuing abundance by weaving sustainability and business strategy together, simultaneously producing outstanding results for the enterprise, planet and community. By 2014, mobile banking offered a full range of services and processed over $16.3 His first microloan was the $27 he had in his wallet.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2018

My strategy was to hire technicians with well-rounded personalities, which helped differentiate us from typical computer geeks who couldn’t speak in layman’s terms to people who wanted to understand what was being done to fix their computers. I learned a lot and applied that knowledge to my company and then, in 2014?six

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

How they built trust, maintain honesty, and talk strategy are also on the table as part of the discussion. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “What we do is that work of coordination with all the ministries.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Founded in 2014, Shippit’s technology automates tasks related to order fulfillment, including finding the best carrier for an order, tracking packages and handling returns. Shippit , a Sydney, Australia-based e-commerce logistics platform, will expand in Southeast Asia after closing a $30 million AUD (about $22.2 trillion in 2019 to $2.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

With the latest round, New York-based Octane has now raised more than $192 million in total equity funding since its 2014 inception. Andrew Quigg, chief strategy officer at Progressive Insurance, believes that technology and consumers’ needs continue to evolve. Progressive Investment Company Inc.,

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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. In terms of privacy, chief strategy officer Louis Chen told TechCrunch that no user data, including photos or biometrics, is saved, and all computing is done within the user’s phone.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

While Duolingo never wanted to look like other edtech companies, as we saw with its product strategy in part two, it turns out that evolving from college pizza vibes meant that it would have to take a page from its peers. Duocon, Duolingo’s new conference to celebrate education and language.

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