Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

Imagine if your friends could all contribute the Burning Man 2015 album and create a group story. We thought we’d try to get some feedback from product-oriented user community at Product Hunt (and then we also announced on TechCrunch of course). Mark Suster (@msuster) April 23, 2015. L1I6RUWYJu. The results were fantastic.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 25, 2020

In 2015, she was able to merge these two passions together to create her company, Beleaf. This revealed a much larger problem in Cinthya’s community and country: “clothing is the second-most environmentally-harmful industry, right after oil,” says Cinthya. Identify the needs facing your community, what do they need help with the most?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

Anyway, 2015 marks a couple of big career anniversaries for me. You could literally get to know everyone in the local tech community at the time. Now, the community is orders of magnitude larger and the number of investors who invest here has grown significantly. Twenty years ago, I got my first job.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk) January 24, 2015. It’s an online relationship and I actually believe that as of 2015 I’ve met more of my close connections in the past 5-7 years online before offline. years before… — Shafqat Islam (@shafqatislam) January 24, 2015. Theory: it’s really that simple.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 18, 2020

As the Co-Founder and Executive Director of TransWave Jamaica , Neish is succeeding in his mission to increase the visibility of transgender Jamaicans, provide resources to change the narrative towards a positive reflection of the community, and emphasize the need for improved healthcare and safe spaces that meet the needs of the community.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Tex Andersen (2015) became CTO of Talentvine , a Brisbane tech startup that makes outsourced recruitment affordable, transparent and simple. Matthew Brown (2015) left a role at one of the big 4 consulting firms to join Maxwell Plus , a medical tech startup rethinking the way we detect and diagnose disease (and are doing pretty well ).

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

On top of his demanding work of technology repairs, Janeel has made the time to discover new ways to help others as a radio personality and program director at Dominion Radio since 2015 with his program IT Talks. Why do you think it is important to educate the community about technology? . IT is everything. government.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. We have some announcements set for 2015. Accelerators have been great for our respective communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

That was a question I had been asked by LPs in 2015 when we began our Early Growth program. Thank you to everybody in the community who has supported us all these years. In our best-performing companies we often write follow-on checks totaling up to $10–15 million out of our early-stage fund. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

They'll usually speak for free if it means helping out their local developer community with best practices. You can do the same with tips on selling from your VP of Sales, or a bold statement on a blog post like "All sales will be virtual by 2015" in order to bring the community out of the woodwork.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Docquity was founded in 2015 so doctors and other healthcare professionals have an easier way of working with one another. It says it is the largest community of healthcare professionals in Southeast Asia, with more than 350,000 doctors on board. The new capital brings Docquity’s total raised to $57.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2017

Finding people who view themselves as servant leaders of their community—whether it is a business, organization or segment of humanity—instead of focusing on their own narrow self-interests, lifts me up. I’ve applied a lot of the techniques I’ve learned from these experiences to both our B Corp community and our refugee work.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 3, 2020

This is just the latest example from many years the Karma Foundation has been making a difference in the community. Karma Foundation is primarily focused on community development across the entire socio-economic spectrum. Since October 2015, we’ve fed approximately 50,000 people. Tell us more about Karma Foundation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Although women make up 47% of the US workforce, in 2015, they held only 25% of computing jobs — in a time when tech is booming and has been for decades. As a woman in a STEM career and leadership role, I strongly encourage you to promote STEM learning and exploration among the young women in your community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 12, 2016

This year’s competition will be held at Rice University from 26-27 February and includes a day of learning seminars taught by EO Houston members and community partners. Marine and owner of INVICTA Challenge, was one of the finalists in 2015 to receive funding from the group of EO-Houston investors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 11, 2023

In 2015, WeThinkCode , a software development training academy with a purpose, was born. The company slowly spread its message about the power of code to unemployed youth from underserved communities. The two joined forces with Arlene Mulder and Camille Agon. “The potential is almost limitless,” said Adriaanse.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 21, 2023

In 2015, Bob and Mike came to him seeking to create meaningful change within their company, with a single question on their minds: What could BIGGBY do that would change the world? By 2017, the majority of employees reported significant improvements in how they were treated, a stark contrast from their response in 2015.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Wattenström created and listed the digital asset ETP on Nasdaq Nordic in 2015. She is on the Board of the World Economic Forum’s Digital Leaders of Europe community and is a member of the Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

produced approximately 97,000 engineers per year at the bachelor’s degree level in 2015, roughly 34% were minorities and women. Concern was also expressed about the impact of these changes on students, such as raising the barriers to STEM degree attainment, specifically for underrepresented students from low-income communities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Founded in 2015, the Boston-based startup started making waves a few years back as a spinout of MIT mechanical engineering students. By joining forces with their best-in-class team, we will be able to elevate our team member experience, provide a more consistent customer experience and bring real food to more communities.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 Danggeun Market, which is short for “the market in your neighborhood,” was founded by Gary Kim and Paul Kim in 2015. Canada and Japan. “We

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

According to Diana Schwartz, Executive Director at River District Association, economic and societal shifts were having an enormous impact on the community’s economy, “For over 100 years, Danville, Virginia , has been a textile and tobacco powerhouse, and that is what the local economy depended on heavily for the majority of that time.

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Startup Catalyst

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startup Community cohort (2017). 2015 Youth Mission. Youth Cohort 2015. Rowena is a vital part of the community and does a lot of unseen work to support the ecosystem. This post is a reflection on those 4 years and that evening. 4 years by the numbers. We have 219 alumni …. London cohort (2018). Israel cohort (2017).

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 14, 2021

from YC’s Winter 2015 batch, is YC’s first open-source company to go public, the first alum of the YC Growth Program to go public, and one of the earliest investments made by the YC Continuity Fund. Open-source communities are distributed, with contributions coming from developers all over the world. team on today’s IPO! GitLab Inc.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

We wanted to try [to] create something in Boulder as an experiment to see if we could knit together the startup community, get more people in the community, and get more startups launched that had the engagement of the local community, ” said Feld.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

And I wanted it to be great – something cool that celebrates entrepreneurship and provides a unique perspective not only to the EO members, but to the community, as well. Luckily, Vancouver is home to HootSuite, and not only did this company provide us an amazing space for our 2015 finals; they covered all the costs! Create Incentive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The company was launched in 2015 by Oluwatomi Ayorinde and Damilola Ayorinde as MobileForms, a data collection agent network. The company said it will use part of the capital to expand its team, geographical operations and marketing to increase its 7,000-strong active agent network three-fold this year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In 2015, the Slaters sold the legacy to explore other endeavors. In Their Community. Heavily involved in their community, the Slaters partner closely with charities and community organizations to give back to the city that has supported them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

But this is just a reflection midway in June 2015 of the some of the products I love, enjoy or use frequently, and am not an investor in. So I thought now would be a sensible time – with six months on either side of the holidays. ” Twitter is the most fundamentally profound application I have used over the past decade.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Since 2015, HAX started investing in more industrial & health startups and today make up 90% of our new investments,” HAX partner Garrett Winther told TechCrunch. SOSV says the Newark location will effectively operate as a U.S. equivalent to its offices in Shenzhen, China, which afford easy access to the global supply chain.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

Sabrina Habib , works to improve access to quality, affordable early childhood care in East Africa’s low-income communities. Later this year she is allocating $250 million to fill an open call for proposals from organizations working to improve the mental and physical health of women and girls worldwide at the community level.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Since 2015, Black and Latinx founders — who have fewer funding routes available to them to begin with — have raised just 2.4% Participants will also get introductions to Amazon leaders and teams, networking opportunities with potential investors and ongoing advisory support, plus access to a virtual community of AWS experts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

The fund will invest in businesses in sustainable agriculture, energy, clean mobility, logistics, and waste management sectors, which produce basic goods and services that represent a huge proportion of household spending for lower-income communities. Pepea’s long-term plan is to improve the quality and affordability of these necessities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2021

Founded in 2015, ELSA, which stands for English Language Speech Assistant, now claims more than 13 million users. “This motivation drives a lot of demand for our English learner community in Vietnam, India and Brazil, especially during COVID-19 when we’ve seen enormous interest from the LatAm region as well,” Van added.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2018

In 2015, inspired by Elon Musk and the story of Tesla, Steve was searching for a way to shore up his personal and professional commitment to being the change he wanted to see in the world. You’ll need support from members of the community, other entrepreneurs as well as clients and customers. Create a network.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Since 2015, StockX has been a major tech player , not just in Detroit but in the Midwest and beyond. Since 2015, the company has been growing its team and getting some major investments. Explore the Community : Purpose Jobs is the Midwest’s largest startup and tech community. StockX, Detroit. Tempus, Chicago.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 24, 2022

In 2015, Dremio started in our offices. The result of all this effort is a community of people passionate about data who congregate at Subsurface , our biannual conference, which draws thousands of attendees and hundreds of talks. Today, the company announced its Series E at $2 billion valuation.

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