Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially. One area I’ve had much discussion with the companies in which I’ve invested in is bringing on board an operationally focused CFO. And board confidence matters in growing companies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In a 2021 survey from The Conference Board focused specifically on the service industry, 80% of respondents said they were having a hard time finding qualified workers. ” WizeHire was founded in 2014 by Upadhyay and Jay Niblick. Image Credits: WizeHire.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and co-founder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Make a friend!

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It would be fair to say Anthony Baxter has learnt a thing or two about entrepreneurship, since starting his digital marketing agency “ Firefly ” from an Auckland bedroom in 2014. Firefly Digital provides advice to brands such as iconic Kiwi entrepreneur story, AJ Hackett Bungy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

While there’s lots of advice out there on how investors can exit successfully, there’s less for entrepreneurs in the trenches. Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team. One of the best ways to punch above your weight when it does come time to exit?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Ryder was then a Maven “customer” for her following three pregnancies, using the platform for after-hours advice, virtual access to specialists or, more recently, guidance on how to prepare for a breech birth. The company was founded in 2014 to help working women plan and start families.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one. Brian said, “Absolutely!”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

What’s mostly been keeping her busy in the last few months is onboarding our new CFO – Audrey Lee – and handling the 10-month buildout of our new Santa Monica offices, which are expected to come online in Feb or March of 2014. Startup Advice' So I put the blog on the back burner to stay focused on those busy times.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one. Brian said, “Absolutely!”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

billion by 2014. Companies need to evolve and so do boards. I wrote a post recently about how we’ve evolved the board at Invoca by adding experience industry veterans and tried to offer some advice on how to think about this for your company. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

The demand for a platform to make the art of advice more accessible is thus easy for entrepreneurs to identify then pitch, but the serendipity — or the chasm between what makes someone an effective mentor versus just a speed dial for questions — is harder for them to scale. It also works with corporations such as Wells Fargo.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. My advice to people early in their career is pretty simple: your mission isn’t to pursue a career, it’s to discover it. Put yourself in interesting situations. It was also one of the hardest.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. But if you’re a concentrated investor who takes board seats then you know the hard bit starts the day after.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Jenny is an entrepreneur, operator, board member, advisor, and investor in tech for over 25 years. Since 2014, I’ve been a seed-stage investor at Freestyle and had the opportunity to fine-tune this skill by working closely with founders in our portfolio on raising Series A rounds. Jenny Lefcourt. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

In September 2014, we received a $3.6M As a transportation fuel, it’s the cleanest alternative fuel available today, according to the California Air Resources Board. KP and CA: What advice do you have for early-stage founders? the three of us worked together on our commercialization plan. We’re really excited about this project.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

These companies have recently posted roles to YC’s job board , are motivated to hire, and want to hear from you. Typically, the earlier the batch, the later the company stage - e.g. w2014 = winter 2014 batch, which is much older than s2022 = summer 2022). If you’re actively looking for a job in tech, we want to help you.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I knew it sounded like a good crowd but I was on the road constantly with fund raising and board meetings so I politely declined. Plus I had already committed to 2 European trips (one fund raising, one a DataSift board meeting) and neither coincided with his event. Startup Advice' Paddy never stopped. But it’s a long way.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2019

In 2014, my co-founder and I decided to hire our first employees. We didn’t have a board, a business coach or even the right books to guide us. We had to figure out hiring, on-boarding and training. I now had a mini “board” that I could go to for guidance. I couldn’t have joined EO Accelerator at a better time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Dame was founded in 2014 by CEO Alexandra Fine, who initially wanted to be a sex therapist. Next up, Fine is focused on investing in customer retention, educational content via Dame’s Clinical Board and furthering the company’s retail presence. Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up. Tourism Board where she led branding, growth marketing, communications, and capital raising. NextCapital was a fintech company before fintech became cool.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

Prospective contributors regularly ask us about which topics Extra Crunch subscribers would like to hear more about, and the answer is always the same: Actionable advice that is backed up by data and/or experience. The company, which has raised over $455 million since it launched in 2014, was most recently valued at just over $4.5

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Traditional investors are so focused on “quantitative marketing” that he got a lot of advice that this money was better spent on online customer acquisition. Generic cam’s could never match the security use case as well as Ring could and when consumers went online or to a store to find our product the offering was very clear.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Now that it’s 2014 and prices have gone down it doesn’t feel so good. They often don’t have board seats attached to them. I want that 20% discount you promised me! Seriously, dude? That was part of our deal. Convertible Notes felt good when prices only went up, didn’t they?

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. You will see in societies, people will just put a board outside of their house and start selling products. You have to go back to the drawing board and understand, why are people calling me, right? Vidit Aatrey [27:50] – Over time they also came on board.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Ironically, 2014 was a record year for IPOs, so the suggestion that these “extra” companies were supposed to be public does not really make sense – the companies that were supposed to go public went public. This is why companies and their board of directors agonize over whether or not they are “ready” to go public.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. ” That’s reported to the board.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

Ramon Ray, Smart Hustle: But I bet on your white board, even though you don’t fund startups, on the white board, I’m guessing, my words, not yours. So, we have customers who, right when we launched the product back in 2014, 2015, we have customers right from then, and we’ve grown with them.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In 2014, then-House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) began to pursue updates to the tax code that would streamline the code and better reflect the majority’s priorities. In May, ACA Board Chair Marcia Dawood was named to the Small Businesses Capital Formation Advisory Committee.

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