Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

I know that “mission driven” sounds nebulous or some convenient definition of anything we want to fund. When a founder is “opportunity driven” it’s too easy to quit at the first bump in the road. We need leaders who know how to accomplish feats through teamwork and collaboration. But really it’s something I look for.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 24, 2020

This problem set is an opportunity for Mayor Bill de Blasio, normally New York City’s easiest man to find in a crowd, to show up as a leader. Months ago, de Blasio outsourced this opportunity to something called the “Fair Recovery Task Force”. Unfortunately, he has become the Big Apple’s biggest missing person—literally.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The real super power of ecosystem mapping is how the mapping process and the actual map are used by the community as a catalyst to collaboratively strengthen the ecosystem. Finally, ecosystem mapping can be a catalyst for collaborations. Make it Collaborative. There are many benefits to ecosystem mapping.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

It's a lot more lucrative to convert a warehouse into a condo building--especially if it's anywhere near the city--but it's those areas where innovators are creating economic opportunity as well, and where they need commercial space to thrive. 33 Flatbush. 33 Flatbush. Picture: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times. 10 Jay Street.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

It is in regard to our roles as mentors and investors that I believe has the most opportunity for impact and therefore needs our most urgent attention. But my hope is that they may be able to lay some groundwork for a collaborative approach by the startup ecosystem to do what we can to make entrepreneurship a safer path for all.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

One of the challenges in turning ecosystem building into a recognized profession is the lack of a recognized definition for what it is and what an ecosystem builder is. Clearly, if we’re going to come up with a professional definition of what ecosystem building is, it needs to include this connector/connecting aspect.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In some ways it feels like a company that has gone partially remote—where you still get certain types of interaction on “office days” that you can’t get at home, but it’s definitely not what it was. Sometimes, just an offer to collaborate is helpful. Here’s to the next 20 years of posting!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. While they currently allow international funding opportunities, the bar is set at a different level. I argue the opposite.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

Ongoing, Continual Collaboration When your team members need to check in every so often with questions about assignments or how to pieces of a product will interact, working online with chats and video calls is perfect. But for many businesses, there’s comes a point where continuing, ongoing collaboration is key to success.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

So, as we shift in the nature of warfare, there’s more and more opportunity for non-traditionals and service providers to be a part of that procurement story. Kathleen: I don’t think there’s a pre-definition of number of primes. That is definitely a different model than authoritarian states.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Different apps and software tools quickly took charge of the opportunity. Since then, many startups have found that collaborative tools don’t solely make sure their team stays connected; they also have great potential to help their businesses thrive. Promote transparent and effective communication. And fear not! Interact… efficiently!

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

And the tech just wasn’t there; they were missing that interaction piece,” she explained, and certainly any player will recognize that the, say, iPad version of a game definitely lacks physicality. If you can be part of that new trend at the very beginning, it gives you a big opportunity,” he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

There we just talked about all the opportunities at Google that were not engineering. Mobile consumer and consumer in general is definitely what my background is in, and so I’ll always have a natural inclination. By chance, I happened to apply to this program called Google BOLD. in consumer.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They just don’t like making solitary, definitive statements without making sure you know all the variables and caveats—so you can be as informed as possible and not surprised at all when things don’t go exactly according to plan as typically happens in a startup. that same founder will give the most unequivocal, most confident “Yes!”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

You do NOT have to have funding to start a business but you can definitely bootstrap it. It is also a competition that provides the opportunity for start-ups to grow and has been doing so since 2017. The SoGoal funding source is a result of the collaboration between Winky Lux, Bluemercury, and the SoGoal Foundation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

Until children reach a certain age, enrichment programs are somewhat limited to school, sports, and camps, while money-making opportunities are largely non-existent. million in seed funding led by Animo Ventures, with participation from Maveron, Humbition, Sesame Workshop, Collaborative Fund and NaHCO3, a family office. ”

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 6, 2020

Kumi Solutions is a software company dedicated to giving startups, small businesses, and owners ways to use their data to make strategic decisions, manage their businesses, and find opportunities to grow and optimize their processes. Assume people are willing to help, and ask for help and support when you need it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

W e believe the opportunity here is huge. “Well, we are excited about that, and it simply means brilliant young people in Nigeria and Africa can definitely go ahead to build stuff and get funded too just like founders from the U.S.,” However , unlike others, the founders dropped out of the university to start Flux. .

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2021

Over the past three years, my definition of an entrepreneur has changed dramatically. Importance of teamwork and collaboration. Every single one of us on this planet has something special to offer, and by collaborating with others, we can utilize our unique talents to find solutions and grow as individuals.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. I will miss my daily interactions with Sam.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

How do you build this complex collaboration from scratch? She also shared a few thoughts on market opportunities after the pandemic in the full interview below. Many startup teams have already been working with collaboration tools even while they sat in the same office, but growth is about more than just using tools.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s a largely uncontested, growing, future-proof market that will have unprecedented opportunities driven by AI,” he said, adding, “We have two big mega-trends, AI and the demographics of aging and it’s irrefutable that there is a large, growing, massive, future-proof market that they should focus on.”. Image Credits: a2 Collective. “In

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Forward Cities

JANUARY 13, 2020

So many similar organizations are making great things happen at small scales, and with collaborations, we are creating opportunities to make bigger impacts. Some great organizations to note: the Porter House KC , Forward Cities , Prospect Business Association , Troost Market Collective , Eastside Collaborative , CHES Inc. ,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hibob, which sells its platform as “Bob”, says that the last year has seen triple-digit growth in revenues, and its opportunity has been to present its product — which also offers collaboration and other tools — as a modern take on what HR can mean to a company. We believe it should be different.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

However, the investor community also recognizes that there’s still a long way to go and a slew of opportunities left to tap. “We We definitely noticed deals were happening slower,” said Karima El Hakim, country director of Plug and Play Egypt. “A These are all indications of a growing ecosystem,” he added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

We are enthusiastic about this collaboration with Climeworks. But] this is the range where our journey together with Northern Lights definitely could go. The company already has a collaboration with an Icelandic company called Carbfix, where the Climeworks technology is used to capture carbon dioxide and store it in mineralized basalt.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The rise of “Zoom University” was only possible because edtech wasn’t ready to address the biggest opportunity of the past year: remote learning at scale. Within those pods, students can chat, trade notes, screenshot the lecture and collaborate, all while hearing a professor lecture simultaneously.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Working with collaborators, including Daniela Rus, the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and post-doc researcher Javier Alonso Mora, Wallar developed a platform that could apply real-time optimization to public transit. This is where there’s really an opportunity to help them.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? What are the opportunities startups may be able to tap into during these unprecedented times? What are some overlooked opportunities right now? are at risk.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Now, it is moving into a newly acquired , freshly refurbished space in a Chicago opportunity zone to help it incubate, accelerate and support more startups that can have a positive impact on humanity. It’s been quite a journey over the last six years; we’ve definitely evolved beyond just the incubator,” said Allen.

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

As with any policy that lacks clear controls and definitions, a WFH policy that's hazily defined will often be twisted and exploited. Jobs with clear throughputs and metrics might offer more opportunity for WFH. Simpler is better, recommends Antoinette Forth, the CEO of Walkabout Collaborative, a management consultancy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This investment builds on our collaboration with PrimaryBid and is part of London Stock Exchange Group’s commitment to broadening retail investor access to public equity markets,” said Charlie Walker, Head of Equity and Fixed Income, Primary Markets at London Stock Exchange plc, in a statement.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 2, 2023

There is so much change happening across the rental space, and with that comes the opportunity for new players to join the real estate investing world. There are many exogenous factors that influence success that by definition we can’t control, but for all the ones we can control, they all come down to quality of people.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

So there’s this incredible pent-up demand to find opportunities for those SPACs to convert into companies. There are several companies in the portfolio that will probably be public companies in the next year or two, so it’s definitely an alternative to consider. JG: We just started having those conversations now.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Rattle is building a real-time and collaborative “connectivity tissue” to address the siloed nature of modern record-keeping and intelligence platforms, said Sahil Aggarwal, co-founder and chief executive of the eponymous startup, in an interview with TechCrunch. Rattle’s use case extends to even more services.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

. “We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. Jeetu Patel, EVP and GM, Security and Collaboration.

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2021

Professional development opportunities and social responsibility benefits also make the top 10. This is far different from the traditional appeal of 401(k) match, health care and growth opportunities, though those are still valid. If you’re recruiting and hiring remotely, this presents an opportunity and a challenge.

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