Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 19, 2020

It was a culture shock,” she states. By the end of 2015, the movement had over 200 volunteers focused on engaging citizens in the local development processes of their communities. “In What motivates me most is how I can inspire others and support them to find ways to better their opportunities,” says Rosario. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

mitú has been able to amass more than $40 million from Universal/Comcast, WPP, The Chernin Group, Advanceit Capital and of course Upfront Ventures to take on this opportunity we see in front of us. 30% of all real income growth in 2005–2015 was from Latinos (U.S. home ownership in 2015 (NAHREP). billion to finance US startups.)

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. Your culture suffers. It’s kind of a truism for life and certainly our industry. I see it in many young pups. Same as I felt. Your CAC stinks.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

One of the cool things about being a fund that works with so many early stage companies is that bringing the whole portfolio together in one place results in a lot of collaborative learning opportunities. This can cause you to miss opportunities on both sides. One of the topics that was discussed in a breakout session was recruiting.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

Real winners use failure as a learning opportunity. Most of the time the world around me appalled me, especially with regards to climate change, and yet, there would always be times when the optimistic would reign in and believe that these problems were an opportunity for my generation to solve.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., A commitment to culture: Ike, Ted, Dimitri, and Brett grew up in the restaurant industry. Those convictions evolved into a culture at CAVA in which quality of life and growth are priorities.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Photo by Ali Yahya on Unsplash Despite its shine in pop culture, there’s nothing glamorous about being an entrepreneur. This means that many great ideas were unable to sustain their execution, resulting in crushed dreams and missed opportunities. Improving the founder’s mental health influences the startup’s culture.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. As much as he had benefited from the rise of the mobile internet, he thought there was a far bigger opportunity building a consumer brand and applying the lessons he learned from programming to the manufacture of tangible products.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Broadening participation in engineering is not just about numbers; it’s about fostering innovation, enriching our perspectives, and building a future in which everyone has an equal opportunity to shine.” produced approximately 97,000 engineers per year at the bachelor’s degree level in 2015, roughly 34% were minorities and women.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The influx of Millennials into the workplace is providing today’s entrepreneur with a number of new challenges and opportunities. As a group, the 75 million people between the ages of 19-35 [i] , are digital natives and yearn for opportunities to learn and grow on the job. CMO, 15 Mind-Blowing Stats About Generation Z, June 12, 2015.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2016

With a 98% client-retention rate since our founding and the successful resolution of more than 20,000 IT support requests in 2015 alone, we’ve discovered the core to building a winning customer-service promise is to start with your team, particularly through employee recognition and staff-training programs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. This presents out-of-towners with opportunities to connect with fellow startup leaders and potential investors. Boulder, Colorado. Nashville, Tennessee.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

He helped launch Cato in 2015. He says that Cato is a global company with headquarters in Israel where diversity involves religion, but he is trying to build a diverse and inclusive culture regardless of the location. “There’s a huge opportunity and we want to move as fast as possible.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Patch will take empty local high street shops and turn them into “collaborative cultural spaces” with its “Work Near Home” proposition aimed at traditional commuters. The head of product will be Paloma Strelitz , formerly co-founder of Assemble, a design studio that won the 2015 Turner Prize. Now, a new U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. This is a $5 trillion market opportunity that is hugely overlooked,” she told TechCrunch. The fact is that an opportunity lies in this overlooked market. Chang is an angel investor who moved to the U.S. Claire Chang, general partner at igniteXL Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

“I saw a massive opportunity and few people going after it,” Lewis told TechCrunch. Lewis and Grant Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015 , and since then, have brought on a series of high-profile investors. Billions of dollars were going into trucking each year but fewer than 30 startups showed an interest in the field.

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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. When I became president, the culture of the EO New York chapter was not great. There were no smiles or excitement. Create a network.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Bird noted that “thanks to our high retention, we’re able to build a company culture that makes up for any of the disadvantages of a smaller labor market.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

California has long been ground zero for the new: new technologies, new frontiers, new arts and culture. From a cultural perspective, I grew up on a diet of Hollywood culture and movies and TV shows. And so, to me, America was this place of idealism and opportunity, and California was this deeply optimistic place.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

At the time Quest built DockerSlim in 2015, he was working with Docker containers and he wanted a way to automate some of the lower level tasks involved in dealing with them. “One of the first two or three people we brought into the company was our head of culture.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Round-leader Altman has been involved in the company as an investor and chairman since 2015. “With a tiny fraction of the money spent on other fusion efforts, and the culture of a startup, this team has a clear path to net electricity. The funding includes commitments of an additional $1.7 Animation courtesy of Helion Energy.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The company was part of a Y Combinator cohort in 2015.). Companies are embracing the opportunity to programmatically upskill, reskill and empower their workforces, and Go1 has emerged as the go-to provider of learning content to make that opportunity a reality,” said Craig Blair, founder at AirTree Ventures, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Instrumental was launched by two former Apple mechanical engineers in 2015. “We do a couple of things to ensure that we have a fair hiring process that leads people to join the team who are mission-driven and culturally additive,” she said.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

The SEC seems quite okay with postponing finalization until October 2015. It significantly broadens investment opportunities and a startup’s potential to raise capital through only a few legislative provisions. Better late than never: an October implementation would be over 600 days since Congress's initial deadline.

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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. s approach to remote and open-core seem prescient today, very few examples existed when they joined the winter 2015 batch. GitLab Inc.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

based and internationally recognized entrepreneurs — Alexandria, Virginia, USA (17 November 2015) – The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week ( GEW ) by presenting EO24 , a virtual and interactive learning event to debut on Wednesday, 18 November, at 8 p.m.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Clients also add job openings and more information about benefits, corporate culture and the existing team. As Welcome to the Jungle originally started with tech startups, there are still a lot of highly-skilled job opportunities on the platform. There are already more than 300 people working for Welcome to the Jungle. “It’s

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

After selling the food at markets in Brooklyn, she hooked up with wholesale to supply Fresh Direct with her products, and that rolled out nationally in 2015. Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time? We think we’re just scratching the surface,” Centeno said. There’s a lot of creation to happen over the next 12 months.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

To fill the gap, he started Laiye in 2015. Wang also saw a strong “cultural alignment” between his business and the French startup led by a team of young founders. Acquiring Mindsay naturally allows Laiye to leapfrog the development challenges of training algorithms for a new language. Laiye CEO Guanchun Wang.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, while many startups exist in cities like Turin, Bologna, Naples and Rome, Milan is generally seen as a bigger ecosystem because of its mercantile culture and a significant share of VC funds. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015. What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In my first week at Sumo, in 2015, I attended an introductory meeting with several fellow executives who had graduated from schools like Stanford, UC-Berkeley and MIT. And along the way, you’re developing a higher-level understanding of the software pipeline and helping drive a security-baked-in culture.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Angel investors like Warren Hogarth, co-founder of Empower Finance; Jon Williams, co-founder of Culture Amp and Pyn; Jason Smale, senior vice president of engineering at Zendesk; and Robbie Allan, former group product manager at Intercom also participated. In email, Dwyer told TechCrunch that they did very little formal research at Elto.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The last major transition was the shift to NFC-based mobile payments, which I wrote about in 2015. Beyond the clear product and network complementarity, what’s most exciting to me and my partners is the alignment of values and culture. and consumers by way of the mobile devices in their pockets. Even more so than eBay + PayPal.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

They, along with Sophia Baik, started CodeSignal in 2015 to act as a self-driving interview platform that directly measures skills regardless of a person’s background. “Hiring talent is the No. 1 problem companies say they have, but here was the best engineer, and no one would bring him in.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

However, a fter his experience using N26 while visiting a friend in Berlin in 2015, his eyes opened to the possibilities of digital banking in Egypt. And for me, I was kind of like waiting for this to happen in Egypt, or if not, I thought I’ll tap into the opportunity someday,” he told TechCrunch.

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