Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 21, 2021

2016 YLAI Fellow Liziane Dranka Silva has realized the necessity of marketing and rebranding to expand and specify the target clientele of her company. . Turn challenges into opportunities and know when to rebrand and redirect.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 22, 2025

Why Florida is the Top State for Entrepreneurs Florida stands out as the top state for starting a business in 2025 because of the combination of favorable tax policies, a growing economy, and a vibrant entrepreneurial culture. Other top states as well like Georgia, Texas, and Utah, offer entrepreneurs the best opportunities for success.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Since 2016, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda has been a driving force in addressing 17 sustainable development goals, tackling challenging issues ranging from energy to climate change to hunger. Educational opportunities. How local entrepreneurship addresses the UN SDGs.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

It significantly broadens investment opportunities and a startup’s potential to raise capital through only a few legislative provisions. Holdback until 2016 at the Earliest While startups wait, the SEC deliberates. So why the hold up? Even the more realistic projection, $300 billion , is 10 times the current VC investment market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

The seed round follows a $620,000 angel and pre-seed round BCM raised between 2016 and 2020, bringing its total funding to over $2.9 The publication, launched in 2016, creates and curates content around African youth culture for Gen Zs and millennials within and outside Africa.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2017

Tom Charman is a “studentrepreneur,” an EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) finalist in 2016 and co-founder and CEO of KOMPAS , a city exploration application helping people discover amazing but little-known adventures hidden in the world’s urban jungles. You were an EO GSEA Global Finalist in 2016.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that. The next wave of products will be able to straddle the line of comfort to successfully get adoption, and cultural shift to successfully deliver a truly collaborative cash experience. What should banking look like for modern couples?

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Their culture is flexible and collaborative, making it a top Detroit startup to work at, and they’re constantly innovating and helping small businesses find the banking tools they need. Tens of millions of workers don’t earn a living wage, and it’s not for a lack of job opportunities. FinTech companies. Flow Video. Bloomscape.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

percent increase in testimonies in 2016 of which 76 percent of testimonies concerned transgender people. Unfortunately, business owners may believe their company culture is welcoming and safe, and miss signs of trouble. Offer Hiring Opportunities to the LGBTQ Community. Punish Signs of LGBTQ+ Harrassment.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

One of the fastest-growing private companies links its’ success to furthering social causes In 2016 when David Berkal, CEO of Banyan Software, founded his company he envisioned it to be an alternative for fellow entrepreneurs when deciding upon their companies’ futures. based Merit America. says Berkal.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Software is eating the world, but it hasn’t eaten the whole world yet, so there are still a lot of opportunities,” he says. LaRon and Salvant have found a pocket of opportunity to elevate the archaic barbershop space. This is why he’s insistent that building the right team and the right culture is critical to Squire’s success.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

In 2016, we set out to develop a rigorous methodology for tracking progress on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in venture capital, and to measure and benchmark those data through our biennial VC Human Capital Survey. Once talent has come on board, inclusive culture and retention become key metrics of DEI progress.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White and Shawn Mendes are the new backers, who came in through a strategic round of funding alongside PLUS Capital to bring the Seattle-based company’s total funding to $60 million since the company’s inception in 2016. This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The quality of investors joining us is a clear signal that the market recognizes that there is incredible opportunity in e-commerce for current culture products and StockX is best positioned to meet consumer demand for those products,” said StockX CEO Scott Cutler in a released statement. Sneaker culture staple GOAT hits $1.75

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

By drawing on multiplayer gaming culture, the startups are using spatial technology, animations and productivity tools to create a metaverse dedicated to work. Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad, got rid of Gumroad’s office in 2016, and says that they’re never going back. Is that truly the culture you want to build for the company?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Fast forward to 2016. At my first fund, Cross Culture [Ventures], we were interested in investing in early childhood care. According to Bennet, Nichols reached out about the opportunity on Facebook Messenger. “He was a part of an organization that was helping to bring more diverse founders in touch with investors,” says Nichols.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

The argument threaded through Fred’s posts above is that significant venture-scale opportunities for VCs existed outside the Bay Area. Just like Sequoia with their franchise model, or Accel, or the other larger funs, the top-tier venture capital firms have scaled up and out to grab these opportunities. The Future and Future Posts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

That firm, founded in 2016, announced on March 29, 2022 that it closed $310 million in capital across three funds. Mike Smerklo moved to Austin from Silicon Valley in 2016 to start Next Coast Ventures with Tom Ball. “I Having said that, there are also many commonalities between the two — culturally and aesthetically.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. “In a highly divided global cultural environment, differences could become sources of conflict.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 29, 2017

Since welcoming our first client in March 2016, we’ve treated more than 800 people. Hiring and retaining recovering addicts just entails creating a culture that is friendly to sobriety and puts clients first. More than a year following treatment, our very first client remains successfully sober. Lead by example.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 12, 2016

Although I loved the school environments, which involved both hard work and fun, the work environments were cutthroat and competitive “up or out” business cultures. This gave me the opportunity to craft the role I really wanted in my own company. Maintain a business culture that benefits you. Not so much.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The company, founded by Olubisi, Dimeji Sofowora and Tito Ovia in 2016, is well-known for its core electronic medical records (EMR) and hospital management solutions in Africa. According to both founders, the Helium Health and Meddy teams are identical in operations, technology execution, culture and market price points.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

That is to say, I DMed her on Twitter in 2016, impressed by the work she was doing but without a preexisting relationship. As a leader of teams within larger organizations, I was able to build phenomenal teams in terms of both delivery and culture. My teams always had a recognizable identity and subculture.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Afterpay went somewhat unnoticed outside Australia in 2016 and 2017, but once it came to the U.S. Beyond the clear product and network complementarity, what’s most exciting to me and my partners is the alignment of values and culture. It was a win-win proposition and, with lots of execution, a new payment network was born.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

In an attempt to tackle this problem head on, Lincoln Ando and Raphael Melo started idwall in mid-2016. We still have a lot to achieve in Brazil, but we see a big opportunity for us to take our mission even further.”. “Their culture, tech level and agility as a company also are very remarkable in the Brazilian market.”

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

is further closing the opportunity gap that exists for Black and Latinx social entrepreneurs by elevating, co-creating with and funding entrepreneurs creating change in their communities. Annya Santana , Hood Health: Hood Health’s the first media platform and lifestyle brand at the intersection of health, wellness and culture.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Duo has a culture centered around inclusion and belonging. Because they’re quickly growing, working at Blumira offers the opportunity for high growth and a fast-paced work environment. They play an important role in helping Atomic Object live out its values and foster a great company culture. million in 2020. Dynamo Metrics.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

That’s how I found the VC FinTech Accelerator in 2016, where one-third of founders were from minority backgrounds. And you’ll find those cultural dynamics are radically different in other countries that don’t have the same history of discrimination, especially when looking at a team or assessing founders. Tap into foreign markets.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

K-Startup Grand Challenge launched in 2016 In April 2016, the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) was started. KSGC selects 60 promising startup teams from across the world every year and gives an all-expenses-paid mentorship/networking opportunity in South Korea. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016): “There is a statistically significant positive correlation between female leadership (C-Suite and board) and net margin and gross margin company profitability”, among a global dataset of 22,000 publicly traded companies. 100x investment opportunities only come along in VC occasionally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Pray.com, for example, an LA-based app for daily prayer and bedtime Bible stories that was founded in 2016, has raised at least $34 million from investors, including Kleiner Perkins. With Glorify, did you see an opportunity or are you a religious person or is it a combination of both things? How did that come together?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

With the virtual work and collaboration platform, theDesk and its members can also host events of different types for business networking and opportunities without borders to unlock the full potential of every business through establishing connections and fostering collaborations.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

As 2019 rolls around, at some point (perhaps the fall), it will be too close to the next 2020 presidential election, such that Congress would likely prefer to have the voters express their will in 2020 than trying to interfere with the will of 2016 voters. When will the music stop? Everyone thinks we are headed for a downturn.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016): “The correlation between women at the C-suite level and firm profitability is demonstrated repeatedly, and the magnitude of the estimated effects is not small. In VC, 100x investment opportunities only come along once every few years. Hope is not a strategy. in 2019.”.

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