Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

For example, 2017 YLAI Fellow Marie Flore Morett uses her baked goods company Délices by Marie Flore Florett to promote women’s empowerment in Haiti. Janese Henderson, also a 2017 Fellow, encourages confidence and mentorship with Jan’s Empowerment Institute in Antigua and Barbuda.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Nayleen, a 2017 YLAI fellow, is from a small rural village in the province of Los Santos, Panama. Before she began this project, she felt as if she had exhausted all her options, and when she participated as a 2017 fellow, YLAI showed her to never stop trying. By Elise Kemp.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

When Katherine, the co-founder of Stereomatic Estudios , discovered the profound impact of music as an instrument to achieve a brighter future for impoverished Colombian youth in Medellín, she began to utilize digital marketing and branding strategies to guide emerging artists in their musical careers.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

H erbert Dwyer , a United States Marine Corps Veteran, co-founded EMPEQ in 2017, leveraging his prior experience in the energy field. With one click of a smartphone’s camera, building owners and service providers gain much-needed insight in 50 to 80% less time and cash invested.

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Revolution

JULY 18, 2024

JD Vance worked at Revolution for about a year and a half, starting in 2017, following the publication of his best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy. The book’s focus aligned well with Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, an initiative started and championed by Steve Case to shine a spotlight on emerging startup ecosystems between the coasts.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. In 2017, Medscape surveyed more than 14,000 physicians and found that 51% of them reported burnout, up from the 40% in 2013.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

LU UM was co-founded by Kurt Amundson, Lynn Heublein, and Nathan Harding in 2017 collectively leveraging their backgrounds in technology, robotics, and marketing. She raised the company’s largest round of funding to date and received accolades from customers and awards such as TIME Best Inventions and BeautyMatter NEXT.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 30, 2021

Dapper Labs came out of an incubator called Axiom Zen back in 2017. But I am writing again as there is likely to be a bunch of chatter about Dapper, Flow, and NBA Top Shot as the news of a financing round comes out today. Financings don’t really interest me but companies do. And this is a fascinating company.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

2017 YLAI Fellow Victor Rujano Bautista is the co-founder of Culturas Indígenas y Medio Ambiente Sustentable (CIMAS), an organization committed to promoting and defending the human rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of the environment in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. By Bryce Kelly.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2022

5/ As I predicted back in the spring of 2017 [ 8:30 into this video ], only five years too soon, Ethereum’s market cap will surpass Bitcoin’s in 2022. 4/ Twitter opens up its APIs and allows anyone to operate Twitter clients that compete with its own. Now I am going out on a limb. But why not?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

After my job salary was cut on February 10, 2017, I had to quickly figure out a solution for success. Despite having zero business background, I started my first company on April 16, 2017.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

2017 YLAI Fellow Andrea Puente Salazar has had her share of obstacles on her way to entrepreneurial success. Doing this is a sort of mental exercise that prevents her from panicking and instead allows her to think of potential solutions. “If If I can keep moving, I can maintain control.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 5, 2021

According to a 2017 survey by the FDIC, 25 percent of U.S. The issue is “unhosted wallets” and how regulated exchanges and other “hosted wallets” interact with them. Let’s start with why this is important. Our current financial systems are old, creaky, expensive, and do not serve enough people.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 8, 2022

In 2017, I started my own facilities maintenance company, Integrated Facility Services Hawaii (IFSH). I’ve grown IFSH from US$54,000 in 2017 to US$4.9 They gave me the confidence to start fresh and continue to do what I love. million in 2021. IFSH ranked No.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 5, 2021

This study was based on a large sample of VC fund level returns from 2009 to 2017 and does not include the last few years which have been particularly strong for the VC sector. Manager selection remains an important part of VC investing because the lower half of VC funds do not outperform the stock market.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

We named it Operation Rose because my father, who lost his battle to cancer in January 2017, used to pass out roses in church—simply because it made people happy. We knew from experience that a real problem exists in local motels and hotels. That became our main focus: To educate the hospitality industry.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 14, 2022

In a section called Kitty Down , Packy describes the challenges that the Dapper Labs team went through between late 2017, when CryptoKitties launched, and the summer of 2020, when Top Shot launched. Well buried deep in a 66 page blog post on the Flow blockchain by Packy McCormick lies the answer.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 18, 2020

2017 YLAI Fellow Neish’s hard work of creating a sustainable trans rights movement has blossomed far beyond his expectations. By Jewelle Saunders. The fuller you are, the more you have to give back,” says activist Neish McLean. Invest in yourself, and your hard work will blossom.”.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

million seed round in 2017, uses DSLR cameras and computer vision to create 3D experiences. RealVision is a Minneapolis-based real estate marketing platform that offers 3D virtual tours as part of a package of marketing tools for people or agents selling homes. The company, which raised a $1.3

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

Trying to reach everyone is “impossible and hard to do,” says 2017 YLAI Fellow Mariery Young, who recommends that “it is vital to work with a specific target audience in mind.”

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

marking its highest level since 2017. However, by 2022 (with most pandemic restrictions in the rear view mirror and financial markets facing challenges), investors began gravitating towards perceived safe havens, as reflected in the data.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Mat, a former senior engineer at Toyota, was made redundant during the closure of the automotive industry in Australia in 2017. Mat Bowtell was honoured to deliver the first keynote presentation of the EO Ignite event and received an absolutely overwhelming response from EO members after his talk.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Unfortunately, in 2017, Surcos Argentinos shut down due to a change in its business model, management, and mission. Impoverished villages in Argentina do not have the appropriate resources or knowledge to have nutrient-rich diets.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017. According to a new report from Risk Based Security, 6,500 publicly known data breaches from 2018 exposed more than 5 billion user records, a decrease from the 7.9 CI Security, a seven-year-old, Seattle, Wa.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

LinkUp launched in 2017. I completed that program at the top of my class and I did what’s called an “attachment,” where I was posted with a company to learn. I’m still with the company today. I graduated from college in 2012.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2017, we shared 3 ways to empower your entrepreneurial community. While those tips are still relevant, the pandemic and heightened awareness about the importance of building equitable and inclusive ecosystems has surfaced new challenges. Here are some additional recommendations for empowering your network in 2022.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 31, 2021

When crypto went crazy in 2017 and then blew up, it was mostly a blip in our portfolio values. It has been easier for USV to get into new sectors, like crypto and climate for example, knowing that we also have large positions in other parts of the early stage tech sector. This is not an argument against crypto only funds.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

The company’s misogynist culture was well documented before Susan Fowler tipped the scales in 2017 and I don’t recall a single investor saying anything about it up to that point.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

After the correction earlier this year, public valuation multiples had reset to those of 2017. Before this announcement, US venture-backed software M&A was tracking to its worst year since 2017, at about $7b, down from $71b last year. Congratulations to team Figma on building their impressive business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

I was able to grow our monthly revenue by more than 30X in under two years without venture capital or angel investors.” – Michael Tindall “In 2017, two freelancer friends and I founded BigOrange, a firm supporting flexible work for women balancing motherhood, marathons, or other pursuits.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 30, 2019

She is the author/editor of severalpapers/books including: Teaching Media Literacy (ALA: Neal Schumann, 2019), Mobile Learning through Digital Media Literacy (Peter Lang, 2017), The International Handbook for Media Literacy Education (Routledge, 2017), and Global Media Literacy in a Digital Age (Peter Lang, 2016).

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

We launched Startup School as an online program in 2017 to support founders actively working on building their companies. On November 9th, we’re also opening Startup School to potential founders who are interested in starting a company in the future. You can register for the new course today.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2019

He didn’t win the global competition that year, but Carlos went on to participate in GSEA in a variety of roles—first as a special guest in the 2013 finals, then as a jury member in the 2015 semi-finals in Thailand and, most recently, as a jury member in the 2017 semifinals in Germany. He also hopes to make an impact on the world.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

2017 feels like a very long time ago. By Dr. Carrie Santos, CEO of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. The world has changed significantly. A global pandemic. A brutal war. A stressful squeeze on global supply chains. A surge in extreme weather disasters. The rise of ‘fake news’. It is a time that has tested many of us.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 2, 2020

He’s an EO speaker , a recent EO 360° podcast guest and author of Never Go With Your Gut (2019) , The Blindspots Between Us (2020) and The Truth Seeker’s Handbook (2017). The post 8 Steps to Making Better Business Decisions appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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