TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

based tech founders are welcomed with open arms. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018. Bas Godska , founder, Acrobator Ventures. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? A great team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. A beginner’s guide to diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Partnering with the right co-founder is the biggest determinant of your future success. Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I firmly believe having the right co-founder(s) is the most significant determinant of startup success. A co-founder is someone you’ll practically be married to (time commitment-wise).

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. The benefits of founder x cultural leader partnerships work both ways. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Kikoff is hiring for 10 roles (a mix of hybrid and remote), including senior product manager, associate product manager, senior product designers, engineers and a growth marketing manager. Stay tuned, and please feel free to share with anyone looking for a new opportunity! a way to see what positions are available out there.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 20, 2022

Utilized lesser-used ports, other modes of shipment (air, rail), or a mix—to diversify the risk. We strategically put redundancy in the US in case of China lockdowns. Eric Griffin, EO Philadelphia, Co-founder and CEO, Mobile Outfitters. . In 2020, we paid US$6,500 for a container to be shipped and delivered.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

My sister, who had been working at the United Nations, noticed that ethnic groups in Honduras were particularly disadvantaged, many with limited access to economic opportunities,” Rafael says. Detail of the handbag Rafael designed using Lenca patterns. “It We are a mix of Spanish, Indian, black and Mayan culture.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 31, 2024

This unfortunate mix of personal and professional concerns made me feel alone in my struggles. From practical assistance, like boarding up my store windows in anticipation of a local riot, to the personal growth opportunities that I gained through my role managing our chapter’s learning calendar, EO members stood by me.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? What are some overlooked opportunities right now? Zoomin Software.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

The responses I got came at a time when I've been having a lot of conversations with female founders as well about their fundraising experiences. At this moment, I'm in the process of backing three companies that have at least one female founder and I just finished a round for a black female founder in December. Ducks head.]

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2024

We’re all continuously learning, and the ADC provided a wonderful opportunity to hear multiple perspectives on relevant topics and to see how I could adapt to better my practice to add more value.” Recently, NZ Defence awarded Starboard a contract to improve NZ’s maritime awareness with immediate use across multiple government agencies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Pakistani children are less likely to go to school for each kilometer of distance between school and their home — with girls being four times affected, Maqsad co-founder Aziz said. Struggles of students during the early days of the pandemic motivated us to run a pilot. Maqsad announced today its $2.1

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

Mariery is the Panamanian founder of Mezclao Studio , a Latin American design studio focused on creating visual storytelling through brand identity, illustration, and surface design. Eventually, she came up with the name Mezclao Studio, which means to “mix.” Use the tools at your disposal.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 15, 2025

With major global companies like BNP Paribas, PwC, Deloitte, FIFA, Abercrombie, and Capgemini in its fold, Maki is accelerating the use of its AI agents throughout companies’ human resources. Its conversational AI agents are transforming how organizations recruit and manage talent. With the announcement of its $28.6 “The U.S.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It was clear that there was more opportunity for their research and data products, but they wanted to invest their resources in promising ideas for their target market. The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more. PAD P urpose: Why innovate?

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Suzanne Fletcher, venture partner, Prime Movers Lab.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The quest to define what exactly a web3 use case looks like hasn’t always been easy but has allowed plenty of founders to get creative in building out products designed to tap the ethos of decentralization and the business opportunities of the creator economy. and web3 music platforms. .” and web3 music platforms.

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Gust

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Early co-founders often drop out of the picture due to disagreements, and you forget about them, but they don’t forget about the verbal promises you made. This problem can be avoided by incorporating immediately after early discussions, and issuing shares to all founders. Lastly, make good use of your Board Members.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Traditional seed funds have gotten bigger, many armed with opportunity funds on top. During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g. People again began to question what the ultimate uses cases were. Frankly, the scale of it has snuck up on the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

There are an estimated 100,000 Italians already living in London, attracting the likes of Riccardo Zacconi, co-founder of King.com (maker of Candy Crush) and Simon Beckerman of social shopping app Depop. Gianluca Dettori , partner and founder, Primomiglio. What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. But turn to the enterprise and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction. Image Credits: Varjo.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 25, 2024

Few people love the software they use to get things done. Generative AI offers founders an opportunity to completely reinvent workflows — and will spawn a new cohort of companies that are not just AI-augmented, but fully AI-native. And it’s no surprise why. And where are the highest points of leverage?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The VCs who founders love the most.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

based investors often cited China as validation of the opportunity for direct-to-consumer businesses in the K-12 world. The success of Chinese edtech was used to predict the surge of U.S.-based Edtech investors based in the U.S. When I first started reporting on edtech over a year ago, U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

It’s been a 12-year journey for Purely Elizabeth founder Elizabeth Stein, and based on her plans for the company’s next phase, she is just getting started. It felt like an opportunity in the market for products to help people,” she told TechCrunch. What we put in our mouths is one of the most important things we can do.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A podcast is a marketing channel – and it can be a key part of a strategic marketing mix. While blogs and posts on social media are used to connect with your audience, podcasting has a unique place in the social media landscape. The podcast was me: my voice, my thoughts, the types of guests I felt excited about speaking to.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Finance is a common source of both challenges and opportunities for a growing company. As a vulnerable new business founder, it’s easy to submit to sunk cost thinking. For example, you might’ve chosen the wrong project management tool but continue to use it because you feel guilty about “wasting” money.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 4, 2020

As a reminder, the YC internship program gives current undergrad and grad students the opportunity to find a great YC-backed and vetted startup. As a participant in the program, students also get access to founder talks, partner round-tables, career advising and even a peek into the YC batch dinner. Intern with us this summer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Now, as competition heats up among investors to work with the most promising startups earlier, and the field of the founders hoping to build and launch companies gets wider and wider, the firm is taking a new approach. So many founders that I’ve been privileged enough to work with started in non-typical technology hubs.”

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Keep in mind that any cash you put in will remain in the company as Founders’ Equity, and will only come back to you on a successful exit in which your investors make money. [3a. With #1 – #3 under your belt, you should start preparing the components you will use to support your pitch to outside investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Under normal circumstances, one might expect the founders of Radian6 and Q1 labs to disappear into the suburbs of Cambridge or Marin Country, but that never happened. More posts by this contributor. million USD) through its Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

In the last year, CEO and co-founder Andrew Barnes told me in an interview that Go1’s revenues, customers and learners all doubled, and it now has some 5 million learners taking courses through its platform. ” Another area where it would like to use investment is to bring more technological innovations into the Go1 platform.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

Creative is not a word I typically use to describe myself. I started Kono’s Kitchen, named after my rescue dog Kono, so dog parents could give their dogs healthy freeze-dried raw treats that were easy to use in training or on top of their meals. I found Canva , an easy to use graphic design platform. Creative Beginnings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2017

Cameron Madill is an EO member in Portland, EO’s 2017 Global Citizen of the Year winner, founder of B Local PDX, and founder and CEO of PixelSpoke , a web design and marketing agency. Individual awards provoke mixed emotions, because they’re an attempt to fit the work of so many people into the narrative of a specific person.

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