Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

In 2019 Dreamit saw over $600 million in exits of companies that got their start at Dreamit, including LevelUp (acquired by GrubHub), Trendkite (acquired by Cision), and Adaptly (acquired by Accenture). Since 2008, Dreamit has worked with over 350 companies. pic.twitter.com/oNozwB4OF3 — Dreamit Ventures (@dreamit) March 19, 2020.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

in 17 startups since 2019. Angels collaborate with peers, meet interesting founders, and are on the frontlines of exciting new ventures that build businesses, support families and build wealth in communities. Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M It’s inspiring,” says Luckhurst.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Rami Essaid is co-founder and CEO at Finmark , a technology company that provides financial planning and modeling software for startups. He previously was co-founder and CEO at Distil Networks, a bot attack mitigation company acquired by Imperva. June 4, 2019 should have been one of the happiest days of my life.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 29, 2020

Tamara Isch, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and a co-founder and COO of EcX Labs, has been breaking boundaries in her country, in her field of work, and in the world. In Forbes Magazine’s 2019 list of the world’s 100 most innovative leaders, 99 were men and only 1 was a woman (Washington Post). By Elise Kemp.

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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. Renewing Ecuadorian communities after a natural disaster. With the support of the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 23, 2020

President and co-founder at Planit Matt Doud explains more. Planit initiated a deliberate growth push in 2019, acquiring several new clients just prior to the COVID shutdown. Nimble leadership, a strategic push, and solid communications. What factors have driven your agency’s growth?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

The interviews below feature insight from Betty Álvarez, co-founder of C&A Legal Advisors; René Espinoza, founder of the Lazarillo app; and Bibi la Luz González, founder of Eat Better Wa’ik. We consulted with a few YLAI Fellowship alumni to illustrate their best practices for building an inclusive business.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I kicked off the idea to my current LPs that there would be another fund in February of 2019. She wound up pulling through—but yeah, after my wedding, things in 2019 kind of sucked. One of my founders texted me, “What are you telling people to do about the Coronavirus?” Let’s start with my fundraising timeline.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” What is a VC To Do? I can’t speak for every VC, obviously.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Contributed by Jan Bednar , CEO and founder of ShipMonk. A 2019 survey revealed that 26 percent of work is done outside of regular working hours. Jan Bednar is the CEO and founder of ShipMonk , a technology company reimagining third-party shipping logistics. I take a different leadership approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. In a world when LPs benchmark VC performance on a 3-year time horizon from deploying one’s fund (is your 2019 fund in the top quartile!!??) THE VC VALUATION GOD Valuation obsession wasn’t restricted to startups.

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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. After selling La Escombrera to competitors in 2019, the company continues to reform construction in Argentina. 2018 YLAI Fellow Marcos Heyd is a great example of someone with a good entrepreneurial spirit.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

What connects these two brands is that they were both elevated to overseas success by the same person, Fujin Tree Group Founder Jay Wu. It was also what allowed him to achieve success with the restaurant’s Tokyo branch, which opened doors in 2019. Have you seen queues for Taiwanese food in Tokyo?”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. billion and $2.8

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Dream It

DECEMBER 19, 2019

NeuroFlow ( Healthtech - Fall 2019 ) is a platform for getting patients with behavioral health issues better by supporting clinical teams with collaborative and measurement-based tools in all care settings. Chris Molaro, Founder of NeuroFlow. This week, the company announced a $7.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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500

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Alluva at 500 Startups: What it was really like being a part of Batch 25 In March of 2019, Alluva was accepted into Batch 25 of 500 Startups. Under no circumstances should any of the below content be construed as legal, tax or investment advice from 500 Startups or any of its affiliates.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

Chelle Neff, founder of Urban Betty, shares a tour of one of her salon locations in Austin, Texas. I learned the phrase “celebrate all mistakes” in 2019, and I have made that my motto! You joined the Austin chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) in January 2019. We charge a small (optional) Eco Fee of $2.50

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Contributed by Marina Byezhanova , an EO Canada Bridge member in Montreal and the founder of Brand of a Leader , a personal branding agency that builds and scales the personal brands of entrepreneurs who inspire and make an impact. That’s a story we will all be sharing with our kids, isn’t it?

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

From Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who ran a prosperous dressmaking business that eventually led to her designing and sewing dresses for Mary Todd Lincoln, to Anne Wojcicki, founder of genetic testing and analysis firm 23andMe, women have proved they have what it takes to reach the top of the entrepreneurial mountain.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

4-year founder vesting is dead. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. More posts by this contributor. Dana Stalder. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher noticed chatter about Silicon Valley Bank in a YC founder WhatsApp group. Seltz-Axmacher, as well as hundreds of other founders, couldn’t have predicted what would transpire over the next 36 hours.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 1, 2022

However, we were not able to do that in 2020 and 2021 so this was our first Portfolio Summit since 2019. That is 65 founders and leaders that had not been to a USV Summit, and in some cases, we had not met them in person.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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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 2019, 2020 and 2021, IFSH was awarded the IREM Workplace Environment Award for exemplary practices in leadership development, employee engagement, corporate culture and wellness programs.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. What would a founder who built city guide software know about space travel?” What would a couple of adtech founders know about curing cancer?”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 3, 2019

When we asked EO members to share how being a parent and an entrepreneur overlap for them, we heard from Joel Patterson, a member of EO Dallas and founder of The Vested Group. I met Bradley Callow, the founder of Rich Legacy , a few years ago during an EO program for families held at Disney World. So I got frustrated.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In addition to bringing on new investors, the company has decided to appoint co-founder Subha Airan-Javia, MD, as the new Chief Executive Officer. In 2019, the technology, which is a secure, real-time workspace for collaborating across care teams, has been implemented at multiple provider locations, expanding beyond major health systems.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2020

We didn’t realize how much of this we could accomplish before launching,” says Heidi Rasmussen , EO Dallas member and co-founder and COO of freshbenies. “If This article originally appeared in the USA Today Small Business Insert that ran on 31 December 2019. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

. — Hazel Ortega, EO Orange County, co-founder, High Tide Global Securing a hacked website While we were in Accelerator together, Brennen Bliss (EO Austin) helped me out of a bind during our overnight group retreat. But Brennen, founder of Propellic , came to my rescue: He migrated my company’s website to WP Engine over breakfast!

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

It’s also not an accident that, upon stepping back from being Textio’s CEO, I’ve built a sizable exec coaching practice working largely with early stage founders. Textio relied on both of these strategies for a few years before launching our first truly generative AI capabilities back in 2019. Why does this happen?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Embracing vulnerability Dave was listed on the transplant waitlist on February 14, 2019. “In Dave is co-founder and chairman of the Global School of Entre p reneurship , which provides education for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. However, there’s another option for people who need a liver or kidney: Living donors.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

Written by Ruchir Punjabi , the co-founder and chief digital officer of Distributed Energy , a company that matches investors with renewable energy projects across Africa, Middle East and India, and the founder of Langoor, which was sold to Havas Group in 2019.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

Tim Hamilton, an EO member in Austin, is founder and CEO of Praxent , a custom software and web app development firm that has been named for three consecutive years to the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US, most recently as #2,118 on the 2019 list.

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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. In 2018 we had 200 businesses, and in 2019, 400. 2021 YLAI Fellow Kenna George knows this well.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2024

HW: You’ve been a startup founder as well as an executive at larger tech companies. Even more important, the hiring manager and the founder/CEO should ideally be aware of the implications of having an employee base where a large number of people have never been through the experience of being in a startup.

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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. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. Seriously, this happens.

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