Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. There are of course many Seed VCs who take board seats, don’t over-commit to too many deals and try to help with “company building” activities to help at a company’s vulnerable foundations.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

March 18, 2025) Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved the creation of the Next New Jersey Program – AI and the AI Innovation Challenge Administration Grant Program.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

In October 2018, Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) was honored by Nuway Foundation for the impact EO is making in helping the United Nations achieve its Sustainable Development Goals. EO supports all of these initiatives by supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Together, we can make a greater difference.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Companies can’t sustain their innovation after a founder leaves.” Etsy, where I am Chair of the Board and a large shareholder, is a great example of that. .” I remember about fifteen years ago, a well-known VC said to me “you need to sell a company within a few years of the founder leaving.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It’s hard to grow enough food to meet these needs, not to mention in a sustainable way and in a world where water is increasingly in short supply. Grove is kicking off the next huge step towards more local, sustainable food by launching the Grove Ecosystem nationally in this Kickstarter campaign. ” Enter Grove. Ok, probably not.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

While you may be a strong leader, she asserts, the ability to adapt your strengths to each new organization, or to changes within the organization—new board members, new staff members, new shareholders—is the quality that will help you remain successful. . I call these leadership attributes The Big 4.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 25, 2025

Their candid feedback revealed a stark truth: The angel investment landscape had fundamentally changed, but our model hadn’t.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2024

In her 20-year leadership tenure with the organization, Winnie has held volunteer positions ranging from Communications Chair to Global Board Director, and has been instrumental in EO’s progress. Vision and Commitment Ensure Sustainable Growth “Sustainable growth comes from a clear vision and unwavering commitment.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 21, 2021

And this is when operational leaders are hired and the work starts to find the right long-term sustainable operating model. So this work to find the right pairing is critical and is a lot of the work that board members do with the founders and their leadership team in startups. Most are not.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

In 2021, we saw new programs and funding opportunities from the EDA and SBA to rebuild, sustain and grow entrepreneurship. Jon Krajack came on board to provide project and pioneering entrepreneurship research support, and Johanna Cook started this fall to support enhanced marketing and communications activities.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Within 5 years I was on the board of real businesses with meaningful revenue, strong balance sheets, no debt and on the path to a few interesting exits. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. Hey, we got to raise again next year. Let’s deploy faster!

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Harding remains a board member and an integral executive team member. They viewed the LUUM technology as empowering a sustainable career with benefits never experienced in the industry. Another breakthrough was the embrace of the technology by Lash artists.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It outlines the strategies that will be employed to achieve short-term and long-term goals, providing a roadmap for growth and sustainability. For example, developing a groundbreaking app, researching new sustainable materials, or designing a cutting-edge manufacturing process.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 31, 2024

Over the past 20 years, Aldea Home & Baby has blossomed into a cornerstone for stylish, sustainable furnishings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and online. My EO Forum served as a sounding board to examine my challenges—both personal and professional. Starting a business doesn’t just change your career—it changes you.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

For a few years now the Sustainable Ocean Alliance has been a stalwart advocate for the “blue economy,” and an incubator for ocean-focused early stage startups. “A lot of these entrepreneurs are coming to us and saying, for example, I need a seaweed expert to join our advisory board. Here at the U.N.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Integral to the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s core beliefs is our commitment to making a positive difference in the world—exemplified by our pledge to support the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Their metals, plastics and circuit boards can be separated and reused for other products.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. Being too early is the same as being wrong.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

I’m involved with a few boards where we have taken a position of revenue-centric spending. Primarily, there are three levels of innovation: incremental, sustaining and disruptive. Sustaining innovation means adding a product or a service that complements what you do, but is not part of your offering right now.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. Instead he championed our investment themes into sustainability and food technologies having invested in companies like Apeel Sciences and Ynsect.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. The theory is that it will make investment in sustainable infrastructure a more attractive proposition, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

When we get involved in Seed investments we usually represent 60–80% in one of the first institutional rounds of capital, we almost always take board seats and then we serve these founders over the course of a decade or longer. In fact, I am still active on two boards where I first invested in 2009.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

shared her advice for entrepreneurs who are focused on climate and sustainability: “If your business activities have produced desired results and repeatable cycles — like developing a new product and distributing it through local markets — then you are ready to multiply.” Build a solid deck for your quarterly board meetings.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

Other key investors include Superguts founding investor, Dave Friedberg, through The Production Board, along with Cultivian Sandbox, Strand Equity, Access Capital, Alpha Edison, LivWell Ventures, and Rocana Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Fei-Fei Li, AI pioneer, and Nimble Board Director, describes how Nimble’s technology will transform FedEx’s operations and other companies in the future. “By Their AI robotics will enable the fastest, most efficient, and most sustainable supply chains which has gained FedEx’s commitment.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

after the glory days and earned $300,000 in stead of $3 million and after taxes that $150,000 just sustained life and some amount of future savings. You will learn about running board meetings, setting up the ultimate financial plan, leading a team from the top, dealing with the press, raising capital, etc. She joined Yahoo!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2023

He is a partner at BMW i Ventures, where he has led investments and supported many companies as a board director/observer. Baris Guzel Contributor Share on X Baris Guzel is an engineer with work experience in top-tier investment banking and venture capital. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Hear her takes on fundable companies in the space and what sustainable protein innovators she thinks will come out ahead. What we did: Revolution Growth Partner, Fazeela Rashid , discussed investing in the future of food at October’s Reducetarian Summit. Where we went: New York, New York?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

González: Within our board, managing team, and program participants the majority are women.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

But I would posit that in order to sustainably build great products in an intensely competitive industry with skills shortages – people management is one of the most critical soft skills organizations need. There were cultural challenges across the board.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 9, 2023

The takeaway from that tale isn’t about speed, but rather healthy and sustainable growth. If you’re growing in a financially stable, sustainable manner and are happy with the pace, that’s great. Slow and steady growth isn’t the guaranteed ideal approach for all. Every business is unique.

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Dream It

APRIL 8, 2020

Runway is a crucial indicator of survival that signifies your company’s future financial ability to sustain operations. If you cannot sustain operations for 18 months, cut your burn rate so you can extend your runway. Again, survival is key. How much runway should you have? According to Jason, you’ll need to have 18 months worth.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

What if all of the early investors in Uber had, as part of their criteria, a vetting of how serious the company was at creating a healthy culture and a company that would be an impact trendsetter—either because they believed that was the best way to create sustainable economic benefits, or because that was required of them by their investors?

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HPA

JANUARY 8, 2025

This mutual commitment to innovation and sustainability has been central to the company’s journey toward this milestone achievement. The firm invested in the founder’s vision and shared Smith’s belief that the company could revolutionize the way food is made to positively impact people and the planet. first appeared on HPA.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Printed circuit boards ( PCB ), which perform essential functions in electronic devices, including displays and sensors, need a lot of energy to create. To meet its mission “to create a sustainable world through resource-and energy-efficient manufacturing technologies,” Elephantech has secured 2.15

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014. Companies being created has continued to go up dramatically making managing dealflow nearly impossible.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

milk industry is a $15 billion category with 90% penetration, according to John Talbot, the CEO of the California Milk Advisory Board. However, the industry is not known for sustainability or breakthrough creations. Seeing a need for innovation, the California Milk Advisory Board turned to those who do it best: startups.

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