A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The David Prize is a philanthropic effort to find NYers who are doing amazing things and support them financially. They are eager to support entrepreneurs of all kinds who are working to make a better NYC. They recently announced five winners, you can see them here. They have an open call for new applicants and you can apply here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support. Fundraising platforms such as Investiere have boosted the angel community support of early funding rounds. It grants up to CHF 130,000 per company.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Despite many small businesses closing their doors in 2020, the pandemic nevertheless brought an increase in entrepreneurial spirit. Between June and September 2020, more businesses were launched than in any other quarter in U.S. SourceLink is here to help you support the entrepreneurs in your community.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 10, 2020

A supporter signs up to support one or more individuals who have recently been laid off and have been nominated by their former employer. The support is standardized at $1k per month for three months. That way they will be able to track the supporters who came via this blog post. I joined here. You can too.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Scratch is a non-profit that the Gotham Gal and I have supported over the years. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Oct 30, 2020 The Coming Fight for Control of the Internet. Anyone can use Scratch, from anywhere, as long as they have a computing device. And between that talk and today, Scratch published their 2019 Annual Report.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

After collectively witnessing many of our main street and small businesses across the country close in 2020, there arose a new sense of appreciation for the value entrepreneurs bring to our communities and our economy. To support the growth of our network, we welcomed two additional team members!

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 18, 2020

Kickstarter is a platform to engage your community, reward them, and encourage them to support your work. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — May 15, 2020 COVID19: Resetting Our Priorities Bethany Crystal — May 14, 2020 7 Ways to Manage Quarantine Life with a Newborn. You can learn more about it here.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The company’s decade-long growth will continue with its recent funding round supporting its innovative approach to healthcare. Members receive support from the first trimester through returning to work. Both symptom management and support for healthy aging is provided to both women and men.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

The initial idea was born in 2013 but was not officially registered as a business until 2020 because she faced hardships launching the STEM Builders Learning Hub and finding tutors. She continued to network to get the support that she needed.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Founded in 2020 by Poddar and Vineet Goel, the startup has provided nearly $1 billion in annual funding for tens of thousands of small businesses in the U.S. Since we launched Parafin, our mission has been to empower small businesses with financial services. and Canada.

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500

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Going into 2020, 500 will be entering it’s tenth year of operation. While we have undoubtedly matured as a company, we continue to strive to make our Seed Accelerator one of the top programs to support founders and help them build companies at-scale. Over the past nine years, the venture capital landscape has dramatically changed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 24, 2020

In early April 2020, larger financial institutions including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup, vowed to hold off on making layoffs. In April 2020, Alex Yastrebenetsky and fellow leaders at his organization, InfoTrust , decided to launch a No Layoff Pledge which will last through 1 July 2020.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

USV TEAM POSTS: Nick Grossman — Feb 3, 2020 The Friendly Wake-up Call Bethany Crystal — Jan 30, 2020 What We Can Learn from Works in Progress Albert Wenger — Jan 29, 2020 Support Andrew Yang Dani Grant — Jan 29, 2020 Consumer Crypto Product Ideas.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In March 2020 when the pandemic hit and the US shut down, the events industry was completely disrupted. During those days, weeks and months of frustration, I was grateful for the support of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and especially for my Forums—I’m a member of both the Go EO Los Angeles and KillingIt Forums. Going from 0 to 130.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I have always believed that supporting the people who build software is a great business and it is. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Feb 11, 2020 Birthday Wish: Contributions to Climate Crisis Collective Nick Grossman — Feb 10, 2020 Proof of Transfer (PoX) Dani Grant — Feb 10, 2020 Crypto, Social?

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

VISA’s Multiple Commitments Supporting Creators These new commitments join Visa’s other initiatives supporting the creator community such as ‘GetP@id’, Visa’s social series where influencers teach mentees how to turn their passions into money, and Visa’s inaugural Creator Summit. 1 Marketplaces Survey (March 2020).

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Segments improved, but gaps of differing degrees remained For instance, from 2015 to 2020 women engineering graduates rose by 55% (from 19,588 to 30,326), accounting for 24% of awarded undergraduate engineering degrees, but significantly lower than the 50.4% of the U.S. population.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 22, 2020

5/ Stay true to the mission of supporting the needs of developers and technical workers and help them succeed in their jobs and develop their careers. 2/ Continue improve and invest in Stack Overflow For Teams which allows organizations to use the same tool for internal knowledge sharing as they use for external knowledge sharing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 5, 2021

When the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in the US in January of 2020, the situation demanded a rapid response. Families and friends had to find on-line means of supporting each other during this crisis. Contributed to EO by B. Jeffrey Madoff. A new, highly contagious virus posed an imminent threat to the world.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

With 85% quarter-on-quarter and 403% year-on-year enrollment growth in Q1 2020, Wellth plans to use this new capital to support rapid scaling to address larger and broader populations of patients. link] — Wellth (@wellthapp) May 6, 2020 ?Market Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016. In the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

GSEA delivers on its vision to empower student entrepreneurs to become the world’s most influential change-makers by supporting them with mentorship, recognition and connections to take their businesses to the next level of success. Joe started the company in November 2020 from his dorm room at Walsh University in Ohio.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Am realistically supposed to send her to a school in a state where she can’t turn to a trusted educator to confide in for guidance and support around her sexual identify? Or a state where loving our child unconditionally and giving them the support they need would count as “abuse” that would lead to being investigated?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

billion, achieved in under five years since its founding in 2020. In a significant milestone for the cybersecurity and enterprise software space, Islandthe company behind the rapidly emerging Enterprise Browserhas announced the successful close of its $250 million Series E funding round.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 10, 2025

Gridware now has the necessary support to expand its innovative continuous power grid monitoring solution that was successfully piloted last year. Barat joined two fellow University of California-Berkeley graduate students Abdulrahman Bin Omar and Hall Chen to launch Gridware in 2020.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2021

We were in a growth year in 2020, with the most trips we had ever sold, excited about the new travelers we would meet. But in early March 2020, they were not yet common. On March 18, 2020 we launched our first virtual, interactive cooking class with my friend, Alain, who lives in Pistoia, Italy. Our revenue stopped.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 5, 2020

Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is proud to support International Women’s Day (IWD), which celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political contributions of women. What specific ways are you supporting gender equality in your business and your community?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

USV TEAM POSTS: Nick Grossman — Jan 31, 2020 Getting Alignment Bethany Crystal — Jan 30, 2020 What We Can Learn from Works in Progress Albert Wenger — Jan 29, 2020 Support Andrew Yang Dani Grant — Jan 29, 2020 Consumer Crypto Product Ideas Matt Cynamon — Jan 24, 2020 Expanding Our Network.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2021

At the beginning of 2020 we decided to finally kick off our GREENAMBER initiative and go public with it. When we heard about the EO’s initiative to support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals , we felt on the right path. How does Amber Media support it? We hope that many other EO members join forces.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

During an online business workshop in December 2020, the presenter asked me whether our venture was a hobby or a business. In 2020, I took a bold step that I had been considering for years. The entrepreneurial mindset requires a willingness to invest in your business to support your vision for the future.

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Revolution

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the following series, I’ll examine the current status of “work” and how it impacts lives — from where people are moving to how they are spending their time — and various business models that support these new habits. While growth had been slowing in urban cores in the years preceding the pandemic, the trend accelerated in 2020 and 2021.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 11, 2021

Consider a survey comparing productivity of in-person vs. remote workers during the first six months of stay-at-home orders, March through August 2020, to the same six-month period in 2019. Average workers spent over 14 hours and US$600 to support work-from home setups. Other research confirms this information.

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Source Link

JULY 30, 2021

To support our affiliates, we’ve recently held three virtual discussions on marketing in March, May and July. In 2020, SourceLink organized monthly virtual conversations to provide support to our affiliates during the COVID-19 pandemic. The basics. Go where you can uniquely reach your audience.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The support of IP Group and DreamIt Ventures is further evidence we’re solving a widely recognized problem that is ubiquitous within the healthcare industry,” Airan-Javia said. For me, this is a mission to ensure clinicians have the best possible tools to support the countless medical decisions they make on a daily basis.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2024

She has championed numerous committees and initiatives, notably spearheading the launch of EO’s new brand in 2020 and leading critical projects, including the EO purpose project. When we support and encourage others, we unlock potential and drive collective success.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If nothing else, the 2020 pandemic has shown everybody—particularly business owners and entrepreneurs—the value of being prepared and ready to pivot. We asked members of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization what they would have done differently knowing what they know now. . Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio.

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UBI Global

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A guest post by Tala Al Ansari, Director of District 2020‘s Innovation Ecosystem and supporting partner to the Triumph of Innovation impact study and report.

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UBI Global

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

3 reasons why startups fuel any innovation ecosystem A guest post by Tala Al Ansari, Director of District 2020’s Innovation Ecosystem and supporting partner to the Triumph of Innovation impact study and report.

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