Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2021

In the last six months alone, we’ve rewritten our entire Demo Day experience (to connect founders with potential investors), re-created the batch experience with both in-house tools and 3rd party integrations, and written software to help founders connect with one another for advice, intros, deals, networking and so much more.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 26, 2021

According to the Microenterprise Collaborative of Inland Southern California’s 2021 Impact Report , over 90% of all businesses in the area are “microbusinesses (less than five employees). Business owners accessing these statewide networks showed two main areas of need—business planning (42%) and financial assistance (25%).

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

Innovating AI research and advancing entrepreneurship skills in Colombia By Jewelle Saunders “What motivates me in everything that I do is the movement that comes with curiosity,” says Jonathan Puerta Pereira , a 2021 YLAI Fellow. Jonathan’s advice to fellow young leaders and network members is to trust the process and trust the journey.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

With more than 875 million users across more than 200 countries, LinkedIn is a household name in the world of professional networking. Bhadange, a former product and UX designer, founded Peerlist in August 2021 with his wife, Yogini Bende. Now a young startup wants to disrupt that.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

My two favorite patterns are: The right mindset attracts the right network, and creates the right opportunities. For the first pattern, it’s important to realize that mindset creates 100 percent of a network or company’s success. 2021 was No Limits. Let’s unpack those patterns a bit. Not 90, not 50, not 99, but 100 percent.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 20, 2021

Back in the early 2000s, it was exciting to blog and use social networks to create our own media and move away from the traditional media outlets. That was the pull that got me into blogging and got me investing in Twitter. It was a powerful feeling. Nobody controls it other than you with your private keys.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 11, 2021

I’ve always thought the opening would be at the intersection of gaming, online communities, and social networks. But when a party emerges online that anyone is invited to attend and the 500 person group picks up a punk with a party hat and they all change their social network avatar to this, well that got my attention.

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Source Link

AUGUST 9, 2021

SourceLink® was selected to survey and inventory the region’s primarily nonprofit, education and governmental support resources for entrepreneurship and produce finding reports and visual representations of the available resource network. NLC is proud to partner with SourceLink again for the 2021-22 CIE program year, kicking off in November.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

When we penned the intro for this piece last year , little did we know that — in many ways — we’d still be deep in it by the time 2021’s feature rolled around. 2021 also largely lacked the kind of blockbuster crashes we saw last year, courtesy of names like Quibi and Essential. Abundant Robotics (2016-2021).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Business: Identify and access networks and resources that will help create sustainable business value for the organization and our members 4. If you want to learn more about upcoming events in EO’s “Inspire, Learn, Act” series around sustainability—including our 31 March 2021 EO Impact Day event, complete this interest form.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Digital twins — virtual representations of actual systems — have become an important component in how engineers and analysts build, visualize and operate AI projects, network security and other complicated architectures that might have a number of components working (or malfunctioning as the case may be) in tandem.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

2021 YLAI Fellow Kenna George knows this well. I’ve learned so much about finding the right talent, and finding out what’s available in other markets, and networking. The views and opinions expressed here belong to the author or interviewees and do not necessarily reflect those of the YLAI Network or the U.S. government.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“As a strategic investor in Valtix since 2020, Cisco supports Valtix’s commitment to simplify network security, protecting workloads no matter which cloud they are created or consumed in,” Cisco security business group SVP and chief product officer Raj Chopra wrote in a blog post announcing the deal. Valtix launched in 2020.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

GM, Ford, and Chrysler benefitted from the broader network around them as much as members of the network benefitted from being proximate to the nation’s automobile behemoths. Where will they be able to tap into a supportive entrepreneurial network? And the city of Detroit benefited from being home to a major industry cluster.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

Few know this better than Aisha Addo, a 2021 YLAI Fellow in Toronto. The views and opinions expressed here belong to the author or interviewees and do not necessarily reflect those of the YLAI Network or the U.S. government.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 18, 2021

I wrote about NFTs last week and said this in that post: But when a party emerges online that anyone is invited to attend and the 500 person group picks up a punk with a party hat and they all change their social network avatar to this, well that got my attention. It fits well with our thesis about expanding access.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 16, 2021

With these strategic tools in mind, the YLAI Network interviewed 2021 YLAI Fellow Nathalie Cervantes to gain greater insight into how small businesses have made the pivot from in-person to online operations. Through storytelling, entrepreneurs can share their experiences and the impact their organizations have on the community.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Due to their new skills, influencers will be adding more value to the sales funnel in 2021. One of the first websites for business networking, LinkedIn will also help influence purchases in the future. While customers love all forms of content, interactive content will lead the pack in 2021-22. LinkedIn for Customers.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Data captured from the small businesses supported by SourceLink® affiliate organizations provides valuable information for our network to report to their community stakeholders. We welcomed new communities to the SourceLink network including University of Puerto Rico, Startup Hutch (Hutchinson, KS) and the City of Farmington, MN.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2022

Mimi Aboubaker writes more about this in Techcrunch: In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% I’m not saying there’s equal access to networks of capital. to teams with both women and men on their founding teams, according to PitchBook data.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Opendoor alums Justine Palefsky and Tasneem Amina teamed up in 2021 to start a company, Kindred , with the goal of giving people the choice of booking lodging through a unique home-swapping model. Kindred is building a members-only network to allow people to essentially exchange homes.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 10, 2022

I never thought he would be a good shepherd of the Twitter network and maybe now we have the opportunity to find a better ownership/governance model for it. That would be a bad outcome for the shareholders and for the Twitter network. I am relieved that Musk has decided he does not want to own Twitter.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 14, 2021

Camilo Salinas of Colombia, founder of Residia , was awarded the 2021 GSEA third-place prize of US$5,000. I imagine that other competitors discover the competition by a referral, or maybe they are motivated by their mentors or network to join. We asked Camilo about his entrepreneurial journey. Tell us about your GSEA journey.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 7, 2022

Electrified cars were greater than 10% of the US market in 2021 and EVs were about 5%. Telsa can likely get away with its own charging network and charging outlets, but everyone else cannot. EV sales are growing at nearly 100% YOY and could reach 25% of the US market in a few years. But there are still challenges for the EV market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash. Dash’s alternative payment network brings together this mobile money and traditional banks and facilitates transactions for consumers and businesses.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

The high-caliber leadership content and unique experience of networking with other leaders make GLC one of the top entrepreneurial conferences of the year. The 2021 GLC programming and virtual conference experience were top-notch. I learned a lot via the content, met some new people, and also enjoyed being a sponsor of the event.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 3, 2021

The price was approaching $3000 and I thought to myself, “the demand side of this network is exploding.” ” The way crypto-networks work is that the supply side gets built first with incentives to mine, validate, stake, etc. You need ETH to do things on the Ethereum network.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Even after the unprecedented year that we had in 2020, the VC markets picked up in 2021 and founders raised 157% more capital in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year. billion as of July 2021, already passing the total investment amount in 2020. Global VCs have invested $268.7

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest (Part II): Does your City have a Moat? Morningstar outlines these five factors of a company’s moat: the network effect, intangible assets, cost advantage, switching costs, and efficient scale. The “network effects” of Silicon Valley have been lauded for years. may decline.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2021, the total number of podcasts broke the two million mark, and in 2023, there were over five million podcasts (Source: Spotify, 2023). Moreover, podcast guests often share the podcast and website with their own network, expanding the company’s reach and visibility to potential new leads.

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StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

The application deadline for this program is April 16, 2021. Starting in September 2021, Black-owned businesses harmed by the pandemic can apply to receive one of up to 300 grants of $5,000. The program is set to reopen in September 2021, so get a head start and find out if your business qualifies here.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

billion at its IPO in April 2021.The By leveraging its extensive network and resources, i2E is committed to supporting innovation, driving economic development, and nurturing a thriving entrepreneurial community. Alkami , Oklahoma’s first unicorn, was valued at $3.1

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As entrepreneurs, we were able to quickly pivot and adapt to the evolving situation, leveraging our networks and resources to mobilize support on the ground. More than 9 million of them crossed the border into Poland alone.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The company is centered around Filecoin, a decentralized storage network, and wants to help those who mine Filecoin with a more efficient method, among other things. It aims to provide miners the ability to earn 10 times more rewards through its powered-by-Filmine network, Filgram, which is a Filecoin storage provider discovery tool.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Cybersecurity includes processes, practices and tools that protect your network or database from cyberattacks. Ideally, the perfect cybersecurity measure can be broken down into several sections: application, information, network, cloud and operational security. What is cybersecurity, and how does it help your business?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. The company first filed for regulatory approval in December of 2021.

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