Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Sanzhar and a team of highly experienced co-founders with tenure in global management consulting launched a new venture to tackle the foremost issue in the food supply chain. Trade financing desperately needs a new architecture since more than half of food exports and a quarter of all imports belong to countries with volatile currencies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A CPA, CIA, and an experienced auditor and process consultant, Shagun started her career in public accounting. The great surge in entrepreneurship following the pandemic resulted in a significant disruption of most industries, which was mainly reflected in significant and widespread adoption of tech, both old and contemporary.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

A traditional company focuses on disruption or becoming more customer centric. It has become an essential way to pay—whether you’re purchasing a water bottle at the kiosk around the corner or financing your wedding plans. is the founder and CEO of VIVALDI as well as a marketing consultant, author and visiting professor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Promoting Disruption. Suhail is also a member of EO Bahrain.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

It’s a vital question, and it’s why we’ve invited three investors — who we think know their stuff — to share their insight and advice on the TechCrunch+ stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco. As a consultant at Bain and Company, Case worked with clients in technology, private equity and education.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

” I said I learned this 15 years ago because that is when I stopped being a consultant. I enjoyed the first half of my time at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) because I was a computer programmer and had to build stuff that actually worked. Consultants spend all of their time pretending to know these answers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Erik previously worked on Wall Street as a VP for AIG investments and was a co-founder and consultant of other startups. It most recently raised $125 million in January and has raised more than $400 million to date. The last startup he co-founded before Blockstream was Dan’s Plan, a health tech company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Grant Easterbrook is a fintech consultant based in Amsterdam. Share on Twitter. His work has been cited in the media over 150 times. He also co-founded Dream Forward, which was acquired in 2020. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the fintech phenomenon.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 11, 2023

To understand the value of business consulting for startups, we reached out to CEOs, founders, and other business leaders for their insights. From understanding the bigger picture to breaking free from constraints, discover the top 14 benefits of business consulting for startups, as shared by these experienced professionals.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 2, 2022

“The pandemic has brought existential threats and societal challenges to the fore and generated a fresh impetus for change,” Nair added saying the company is committed to solving these challenges through disruptive e-learning, which empowers users with insights and understanding to redesign society.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans. I suppose, more specifically, the bubble ended in the last two weeks of September--right after this financing. The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in philosophy, Tavel was a consultant at The Kerden Group and then vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Recognizing that inflexible company structures and policy negatively affected both employees and organizations—especially women—Auerbach and Dean left careers in consulting and corporate law to build tools and training to make flexibility a competitive advantage for everyone. Written for EO by Michael Neidert, a writer and consultant. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Today, the concept has made its way into the Middle East and Africa as Opontia has closed a financing of $20 million to acquire and scale e-commerce brands across the regions. This seed round, one of the largest in the Middle East and Africa, is a mix of debt and equity financing.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

They will take more accounting, marketing, or finance courses or read up on industry specifics. In 2013, recognizing a need for disruptive distribution and retail changes in the 100-billion-dollar U.S. Many will look to expand their knowledge in the area of their business expertise.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 26, 2018

If fixed expenses, especially payroll, are paid out before cash is received from services or shipments, the company is financing its growth with ever-increasing working capital needs. Many great businesses in their growth periods find themselves stretched for cash.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Maya Moufarek, founder of Marketing Cube , spent more than 15 years working for companies like Google and American Express before launching her own growth consultancy. That’s why I founded MarketingCube.co , a boutique strategic growth consultancy for innovative startups and scaleups.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 19, 2024

Then, start digging into other expenses: startup expenses, consultants, HVAC, utilities, etc. I’ve used this same model on two startups, and when consulting other business owners. Therein lies realistic budgeting—not rigid austerity, but creatively working within our means, aligned by a common purpose more than strict finances.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

However, it wasn’t until two years later that Njeru joined fulltime as he had a six-year engagement with Deloitte South Africa from 2012 as a consultant actuary. Therefore, the new financing will scale up operations in its existing 13 markets across Africa, where it has insured over 4.3 The pair both act as co-CEOs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 8, 2020

Talk to a trusted advisor—a mentor, another business owner or a business consultant. Finally, engage in conversations with suppliers, vendors and landlord, as well as assess any and all financing options, government programs and loans. Ask how disruptions in the supply chain affect your company. Protecting the Business.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Free consulting. Startup contests.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With only three weeks left to the start of the holiday shopping season, Miranda Halpern checked in with several growth marketers to find out how they’re advising their clients to prepare for supply chain disruptions. Dipti Parmar, founder, Dipti Parmar Consulting. This is not the time for doing business as usual.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Both achieved master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Yash in finance, and Puneet in health/healthcare administration. After graduation, both accepted jobs in New York City — Yash in private equity and Puneet in healthcare consulting. Yash speaks five languages; Puneet is fluent in four.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

And the founders of the startup themselves come from consulting backgrounds so they well understand the role these companies play in the process of bringing technology into big businesses.). Partners include the likes of integrators and other global services technicians, such as Microsoft, Deloitte, CapGemini, KPMG and so on.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). Startups are messy and development is seldom linear and up-and-to-the right.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 30, 2021

Jump in without consulting the data, and you risk boarding a sinking ship. Backed by the Small Business Administration, SBDCs offer free or low-cost consulting services to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into viable companies. . Before you meet with a mentor or consultant, get a head start on mapping out your business model. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Ultimately, it is a new internet-native work model that we are starting with legal because it is a $100 billion market that has not been disrupted much in the last 100 years,” Ahmed said. Its technology enables professionals and companies to create profiles and be matched to opportunities, monitor projects and pay through the platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But I did it unilaterally, without consulting the hosts. Remote’ is fundamentally disadvantaged,” said Phil Libin, founder and CEO of startup studio All Turtles and mmhmm at TechCrunch Disrupt. I think it was the right thing to do. They got really pissed off and it broke some trust with some of our host community.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Xero, recently released a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting. Take your finances digital. To manage their finances seamlessly and understand their cash flow position at all times, small businesses should go digital. As the U.S. This can include diversifying products and services to reach a wider audience.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If fixed expenses, especially payroll, are paid out before cash is received from services or shipments, the company is financing its growth with ever-increasing working capital needs. Many great businesses in their growth periods find themselves stretched for cash.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

How might a startup disrupt this market? Financing plan : What are the major buckets of expenditures? Legal diligence : I’m interested in learning how well formed the company is, if there are skeletons in the closet like fired co-founders or large debts or consultants who are owed shares or pending lawsuits.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Meanwhile, l enders like Giggle Finance have long extended credit lines for ridesharing vehicle purchases, maintenance and upkeep. On top of that, we are the only fintech in Latin America that offers major consumer loans and rent-to-own loans without consulting credit bureaus or asking for a credit card or any other guarantees.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

Cobbling together different platforms for these separate functions creates friction for finance users. Each corporate finance process — AP, commercial banking, spend management/cards, treasury management — works better when they work together in a single, connected view.”. Expensify), and banking services (ex.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield startup Cellino Bio raises $80M : This is the leading story from startup-land today, I reckon. And VCs are stepping up to finance it. TechCrunch wants to know which software consultants you’ve worked with for anything from UI/UX to cloud architecture. Startups/VC. TechCrunch Experts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

The circumstances around his departure remain fuzzy, but one source speculated that tension arose between Ackerson and Fin founding partner Logan Allin over some of the goings-on at alternative financing startup Pipe last year. More details here. government. surge in revenue to $285.7 Fintech projected to become a $1.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. Like many other e-commerce aggregators, including Thrasio, Una raised debt financing to buy brands because it is non-dilutive. Tanna said Una usually continues working with sellers on a consulting basis for about three to six months after a sale.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 9, 2021

Through working groups that use innovative and disruptive methodologies, it allows participants to design the 2030 Agenda and seek solutions to the challenges posed by the Sustainable Development Goals. New technologies enable more open, innovative and inclusive financing systems that drive impact investment.

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