A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Our interest in web3 which started back in 2011 was also grounded in the idea that new forms of funding are necessary to finance innovation and creative work. Because web3 presents a set of tools, technologies, and economics that can and is being used to bring badly needed innovation, innovators, and funds to the fight.

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JANUARY 9, 2011

With that in mind, I tried to come up with a structure and set of incentives to make it easier for new up and coming faces in the crowd to step up and make a name for themselves by making a positive impact on the innovation community. Here's what they will get: - A $500 stipend for 2011 to be used on leadership development.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

echPetHub’s Clemens is Leading Innovation in the Pet Tech Industry I had the pleasure of interviewing Lorien Clemens, co-founder and CEO at PetHub , Inc., She joined PetHub in June of 2011 as the modern pet ID tag startup was in its beginning stages. the first networked database in the U.S. for pets and pet parents.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

In part 1 of this article, Tim discussed the false assumptions driving B2B innovations that fail. According to Accenture, 80 percent of B2B companies try to innovate around CX , but fail to generate a satisfactory return on investment. What does it take to design innovative digital customer experiences that predictably win?

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Impact Hub

APRIL 16, 2019

Hidden staircases and historic artifacts contrast the colorful furnishing and modern office equipment, providing an inspiring backdrop for social innovation, technology and the realization of ideas. Impact Hub Bergen was an early starter amongst social innovation spaces and joined the global Impact Hub network in 2008.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

Unfortunately, it comes at the expense of destroying the conditions around which internet innovation has thrived. That allowed me the freedom to create and innovate, and to show the rights holder how cool it could be for me to use their stuff. Big media companies don’t want innovation. That was a good business.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

Register beSUCCESS Media Group , a well-known media group in South Korea, participated in the prominent BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) in Macau as a designated media partner. The company operates various platforms and initiatives to foster entrepreneurship and innovation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 13, 2020

When Ryota Saito left his home in Tokyo on 11 March 2011, he expected a typical day as a Microsoft employee. From 2011 to 2013, he worked with Microsoft to distribute PCs to hard-hit areas. Instead, he found himself at the epicenter of an earthquake and tsunami. The disaster left nearly 16,000 people dead and 2,500 missing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Technology innovation often comes in waves, but the restaurant industry saw its surf get bigger and stronger due in part to the pandemic. The company, founded in 2011, went public in late 2021 in an IPO that valued it at around $18 billion.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Founded in 2011 to commemorate the legacy of Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung (Asan), the foundation has been a driving force in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in South Korea. These innovative companies span various industries, offering cutting-edge solutions and services to meet the needs of today’s market.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Pangyo is Korea’s flagship innovation cluster that was established to become a new driving force for the national economy with the goals of technological innovation, human resource training, job creation, and strengthening global competitiveness. We’re here to facilitate valuable partnerships.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

Colmena66 continues to adapt to the needs of entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico, developing new and innovative ways to market their platform and meet small business owners where they are. In 2011, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce had a bold vision: to make Kansas City America’s most entrepreneurial city.

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HPA

MAY 14, 2021

Since the Series A in 2011, HPA has been an investor in Kenna Security. Cisco delivers innovative software-defined networking, cloud, and security solutions to help transform businesses, empowering an inclusive future for all. The acquisition is expected to close in Cisco’s fourth quarter of fiscal 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way.

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MAY 13, 2015

They do this through vertical integration and special packaging--and that's where the technical innovation comes in. I first met Ben on January 29th, 2011 at an SLP mentoring session. So if you don't have any by Friday, no worries. You can have them next week. He was working on Village Vines, which became Savored.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

. “SingleStore helps businesses adapt more quickly, embrace diverse data and accelerate digital innovation by operationalizing all data through one platform,” Verma said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. In his book “Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game , ” Pitts recounts how in March 2011 Salesforce purchased New Brunswick-based social media monitoring company Radian6 for approximately $300 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

An innovative new medical startup in Romania helped doctors from three countries collaborate to treat Ukrainian cancer patients made refugees after Russia’s brutal invasion. The “Tumor Board” project was initiated by doctors from the U.S., Romania and Moldova to provide life-saving treatments for displaced Ukrainians with cancer.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

The Accelerate Oklahoma Fund was created in 2011 by i2E to invest in Oklahoma-based startups and is managed by iMCI. and Dan Clark, Linear Health Sciences is a globally recognized MedTech Innovator company whose innovations address the issue of tension-based dislodgement of medical tubing for patients in most clinical settings.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be!” ” When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2011 I started using Instagram. Sometimes they take off and they reward the early innovators. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. Ironic to be self-centered while you’re trying to offer advice to others.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Editor’s Note – Huge props to Mailchimp for always INNOVATING. Via their Mailchimp Presents production studio, Mailchimp continues to innovate and be creative in how they spotlight and showcase creators, entrepreneurs and small business owners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Meanwhile, Jim Barrett, chief innovation officer at Turner Construction, was facing a similar challenge. Founded in 2011, the firm presently has about $1.6 The space is intriguing to her, but so far, she has not come across a company whose model has been compelling enough to convince her to pull out her checkbook.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In 2011 he founded Legacy Private Client Group, where he built a platform that facilitated holistic solutions. A leading financial advisor in the entertainment and sports industries, Roman focuses his holistic service model on creating and maintaining efficiencies within his clients’ finances.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In 2011, the Apache Software Foundation released Flink, a high-throughput, low-latency engine for streaming various data types. “And of course, we will continue to work with the open source community to drive innovation and evangelism of Apache Flink.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

A recent speech by the chancellor saw him imploring entrepreneurs to move to the UK: “If anyone is thinking of starting or investing in an innovation or technology-centred business, I want them to do it here. In the EU, states like France are actually ramping up support for tech entrepreneurship. Tech Nation has long been embedded in the U.K.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Note: I led First Round's investment in Docracy in 2011, but I do not have any financial ties to the company and will not benefit or suffer, other than emotionally, based on the outcome of that investment. Innovation wasn’t a priority for those who were fat and happy at the top of the pile.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

In 2011, he founded Pota-Toss, a Kickstarter-funded iOS game, released on the App Store on October 2012. In November 2012 Caya was selected as one of 40-Under-40 Costa Rican innovators, and he was a featured speaker on the 2013 TEDx PuraVida Conference. If you can't build the best business you can create.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

The pressure is on businesses to place their bets on the right innovations, then. While founded long before the pandemic, Steve King says that Black Swan Data , the data science and tech company that he helped co-launch in 2011, is well-suited to the current environment. ” It’s true that product development is risky. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

So you have all of this innovation happening in the world, and we make it easier for them to take advantage of it,” he said. Kumolus, which was founded in 2011 and raised $1.7 CEO Jeff Kukowski says that his company helps customers with cloud and DevOps management including cost control, compliance and security.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Are we headed for a long era of innovation in which startups are the new norm? Yes, there is unprecedented innovation. So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. But what does this all mean? As with the late 90′s the answer is “Yes.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

In the world of entrepreneurship and innovation, we're all grossly underqualified for what we're trying to do, so we need the help of others. Do more for others in 2011, and I guarantee it will come back to you in spades. Weekly breakfast at Coffee Shop? A thoughtful comment every time they post a new blog? Some Tumblr reblog love?

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MAY 2, 2011

I wrote this last night as the preamble to my weekly NYC innovation events newsletter: Osama Bin Ladin is dead. I hope one day we can look back at May 1, 2011 as the day the US stopped playing cops and robbers, and finished, on a victorious note, the last nearly 100 years of fighting around the world. I’m not sure what to say.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The strategy here is simple: Continue opening up larger swaths of the internet to open-source innovation outside of the walled-garden platforms developed by Amazon and Facebook. In 2011, the company expanded to build themes for online stores. WooCommerce logo. Image Credits: Wikimedia.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Existential crises of climate change and substantial food shortages have fueled interest in alternative forms of food production, while innovations in technology have created the potential for delivering those ideas at scale. It’s a hopeful thought.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. We aim to increase the pace of innovation, and that will be a big area of investment. Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges. “We

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 16, 2022

i2E first wrote a column about Crossroads LED back in 2011. ’ There is a perfect symmetry in an innovative Oklahoma lighting company inventing industry-leading LED solutions that let individuals and families in cities and towns enjoy the dark as if they were out on the plains. Only in Oklahoma is there innovation like that.

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