American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The technology-driven beauty company also announced the appointment of Jo Lawson as its new Chief Executive Officer and the transition of co-founder Nathan Harding back to the role of CTO. Heublein remained with LUUM until early 2024 and is now the founder and CEO of Sk inSpirit , an award-winning medical aesthetics brand.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

“Every action we take, big or small, can make a difference in our society,” says Damaris Guardado, co-founder of Purpose Driven Tours Nicaragua. “I Read on for more information on the YLAI Professional Fellows program and to read the bios of the participating Fellows from 2017.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. In 2017, Stone publicly announced he was returning to Twitter to lead strategic vision, brand, and culture, where he remained until 2021. million in seed funding (5.1 Chroma did.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

He is the founder of Misión Ecuador , , created to benefit entrepreneurs and owners of small- and medium-sized businesses in the country, starting in the province of Manabí after the earthquake of April 16, 2016. 2017 YLAI Fellow Andrea Puente Salazar has had her share of obstacles on her way to entrepreneurial success.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. With the economic downturn and associated uncertainty, startup founders at every stage have been rushing to shore up their balance sheets and extend runways. Matt Cohen. Contributor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

Contributed by Robert Young, an EO Nashville member, who is the founder and CEO of Covert Results , a private investigation and security firm. He’s also the founder of Operation Rose , a non-profit focused on solutions to prevent and combat human trafficking. That became our main focus: To educate the hospitality industry.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Conductive Ventures raised a $200 million Fund III to continue its focus on investing in founders where other venture capital firms did not see the potential. Carey Lai and Paul Yeh started the firm in 2017 after Lai had been with IVP and Yeh with Kleiner Perkins. In many respects, we are playing a different game.”.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He is the founder of La Escombrera, the founder of Surcos Argentinos and the co-founder of Digital Footprint. Unfortunately, in 2017, Surcos Argentinos shut down due to a change in its business model, management, and mission. 2018 YLAI Fellow Marcos Heyd is a great example of someone with a good entrepreneurial spirit.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

His guidance empowered many of our group members to grow like crazy.” – Zak Nordyke, EO Cincinnati, founder, Evergreen Mentorship “Accountability is a huge motivator: In one accountability group meeting, I said I would implement an employee profit sharing and a long-term incentive plan for my leadership team.

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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. The soundbite: “When given a choice of telling the story of hope or hopelessness, always choose hope.”

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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. Contributed to EO by Justin Breen, a former EO Chicago member and recent guest on the EO Wonder podcast.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Contributed to EO by Natalie Kaminski, an EO New York member and co-founder and CEO of JetRockets. Fast forward two-plus decades, and I’m now the CEO and co-founder of JetRockets, where we develop high-performing web and mobile app solutions that help our clients transform their businesses and grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. Sam & Rahul have worked closely together on “innovate & operate” since the earliest days of MakeSpace. Seriously, this happens.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Owner and founder of the vocational training company Royal Globe Inc., Avena, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, also offers advice for future entrepreneurs. She is working hard to achieve this goal by encouraging community members to master different skills, such as sewing and garment design. . Community issues motivating action.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 8, 2022

Tiera Covington, EO Hawaii, is the founder and president of Integrated Facility Services Hawaii (IFSH). 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.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

According to the founders, properties using the VirtualAPT content have seen over 300 percent increase for new building lease-ups. million seed round in 2017, uses DSLR cameras and computer vision to create 3D experiences. The company, which raised a $1.3

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

2017 feels like a very long time ago. Yet, as I mark five years leading the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) as its CEO, it’s a good time to reflect on five key insights gained from such a remarkable community of business founders. EO’s members are builders, founders, owners and leaders in their own right. A global pandemic.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Dec 20, 2017 at 8:06am PST When you're Ample Hills Creamery , the #1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window. Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. 3) Find a flexible lead.

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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. “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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. It’s no wonder they’ve both performed so well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

If you watch the short video below you’ll have a great sense on what is uniquely LA in 2017 — hearing from Mayor Garcetti, Kobe Bryant, Tyra Banks, Baron Davis and so many great advocates for the uniqueness of our city and some of our key stats. link] There’s no doubt in my mind that “LA is having a moment” and both VCs and LPs realize it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Much hope remains after the crypto winter almost froze the sector: the Luna crash , the bankruptcy of Celsius and the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried for alleged fraud. Bubble had to pop,” People of Crypto co-founder Simone Berry said. “It Pryce Adade-Yebesi , the co-founder of Utopia Labs, agreed. billion and $4.2

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Mat Bowtell , the founder and CEO of Free 3D Hands, was invited to deliver the keynote presentation at EO Ignite. Mat, a former senior engineer at Toyota, was made redundant during the closure of the automotive industry in Australia in 2017.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Google also recently launched Black Founders Fund, a non-dilutive $3 million fund allocated to 50 startups yearly. . If there are founders building interesting products solving real challenges in Africa, that would fall squarely within our investment thesis.”. Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital.

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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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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

Kenna is the founder and chief executive of LinkUp , a company that provides small businesses in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines a digital space to collaborate as well as promote and sell their products and services. LinkUp launched in 2017. 2021 YLAI Fellow Kenna George knows this well. I’m still with the company today.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Late last month, Artifact , a personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, opened to the public. It’s an ecosystem where publishers are failing left and right and misinformation is rampant, as the founders surely saw themselves while working at Facebook.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

I have a portfolio where 50% of the investments have founders that come from diverse backgrounds—and yes, I want them to get money from all of the still-active funds on Uber’s cap table that benefitted from the IPO.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

The responses I got came at a time when I've been having a lot of conversations with female founders as well about their fundraising experiences. At this moment, I'm in the process of backing three companies that have at least one female founder and I just finished a round for a black female founder in December. Ducks head.]

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The 10 or so founders chosen for Converge will receive $1 million each and admission to five weeks of office hours, workshops and events with OpenAI staff, as well as early access to OpenAI models and “programming tailored to AI companies.”

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2017

— Jeff Namnum (@namnum) December 8, 2017. Raising a first round of capital is as good a proxy for "Someone vouched for you and you're a legit founder doing cool stuff with actual resources to give it a shot." I'm trying to bring together every single founder in NYC who raised their first $500k or more of capital in 2017. (If

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

At the forefront of these changes is Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao. The leader, commonly known as “CZ,” has managed to cultivate a celebrity status in the crypto space rivaled only by some of the space’s patron saints, including the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s been incredibly difficult for both professional and personal reasons—and if I hadn’t met my wife Aja in late 2017, this would have all been a pretty dismal time, to be honest. One of my founders texted me, “What are you telling people to do about the Coronavirus?” It’s not the telling my story or that of the founders I’ve backed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

According to rating agency ICRA, insurance products had reached less than 3% of the population as of 2017. ICRA estimated that of those Indians who had purchased an insurance product, they were spending less than $50 on it in 2017. An average Indian makes about $2,100 in a year, according to World Bank.

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