TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We’re going on Day 5 with no power, heat or internet. The Wall Street Journal reported that SoFi Technologies was cutting around 65 jobs, or about 5% of its 1,300-person workforce. The New York–based firm, started by Joshua Kushner, also led the company’s $70 million Series C in 2014 when it was valued at $3.5

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Growth vs. Profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

They allow my to drive traffic to my blog, to websites or anywhere I want as long as the audience will click. But it is just the top end of my user funnel and I need to convince audiences who visit my blog to sign up for my newsletter to have a “direct” relationship with them. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 7, 2014.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 27, 2017

This article was originally published in the March 2014 issue of Octane magazine. The post Flashback Friday: How to Raise Financially Intelligent Children appeared first on THE BLOG. By Clint Greenleaf. I’m a lucky guy. They can customize each one with what matters to them and spread their money accordingly.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 26, 2016

Top 5 Finalist: Ruben Miessen , Founder of Remedia BVBA (Belgium). Top 5 Finalist: Buddhika Jayawardhana , Founder of Siplo (Sri Lanka). The post 2016 EO GSEA Global Finals Recap appeared first on THE BLOG. Winner: Gladys Martinez , Founder of Vaiza (El Salvador). 2 nd Runner Up: Daniel Dubois , Founder of Share Shed (Canada).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

billion by 2014. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. You can’t act like a seed-round company when after you raise your $5 million A round. There are 2.9

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Advertising has seen its share of both series A and seed dollars fall from 15% to 5% in just five years, and indication of how out-of-favor this category of business has become amongst investors, because of the dominant network effects of Facebook and Google. Seed investment is marked blue, and series A investment is marked red.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

This is especially true in a booming market (like 2014) where PR firms can charge premiums and be super selective about whom they work with. So you can spend $5-10k / month for a small external agency or $50-75k for an internal resource who is full time. It’s OK to push out extra ones on your website or blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

But every once in a while you get a WhatsApp scenario —where a bigger competitor is so scared of your product that they’re willing to offer almost anything to mitigate that risk (like the $19 billion Facebook paid for WhatsApp back in 2014). Here’s the Secret to a Successful Exit appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Because of this gap, just 1 in 5 computer science graduates are women, an issue Saujani hopes to solve. The post 20 Women Entrepreneurs Changing Their Industries (and the World) appeared first on THE BLOG. Boys outnumbered girls by a wide margin. In 2012, Girls Who Code launched, teaching girls computer programming.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2021

All adapted garments available around 2011-2014 were very poorly designed and not fashionable at all! Over the upcoming period, we’ll be sharing more stories of inclusive entrepreneurship in this blog. A: The initial idea was to develop a clothing line for people with reduced mobility. It did not work very well. Stay tuned!

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?” However, Fred Wilson blogs and Jackson Palmer smartly tweets that Git is already a decentralized system with GitHub built on top of it.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

We’ve already begun to see the effects of the 2014-2015 bubble in growth investing, and it’s comforting to know we are moving in the other direction, however slowly. This narrative was laced through the event, especially with the founder of Thumbtack, Marco Zappacosta, recounting his company’s financing story.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

” Juxtapose this: Larry Page telling us we need more ambitious projects and one person with a blog writing a very negative take-down piece on a company that is truly innovative and trying to change an industry and free us from having to crouch in airport corners to get 18% more juice on our phones before catching out flights.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. As we have invested millions in building out our sales organization efficiency really matters.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 9, 2020

This is the third “iteration” of this blog. That lasted from September 2003 to February 2014. 3/ I wanted to improve search so that we can all find those old blog posts that we know exist but are no longer on the front page. 3/ We continue to show full blog posts on the front page in reverse chronological order.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Source : Canva Wearables At least 1 in 5 U.S. Oculus was acquired by Meta (formerly Facebook) in 2014. This blog post contains links to third-party websites. 5 noteworthy startup-led trends of the 21st century that transformed industries | Propel(x) was originally published in Investing in Deep Technology?—?Dissected

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 17, 2018

Others swear by 5 or 6. Location tags are not as commonly used as hashtags, but a 2014 SimplyMeasured report found that Instagram submissions with location tags are likely to have 79% higher engagement than those without these tags. Step 5: Ask questions. And still others suggest using all 30!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 24, 2015

537 % growth in viewership from 2014. Click here to see all our speaker previews and Octane blog coverage from 2015. We’ll post new pictures, stories, videos and memes every day on: Octane blog , Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and Instagram. The post 2015 EO24 Recap: A Record-Breaking Year appeared first on THE BLOG.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2021

A 2014 study published in the “Journal of Business Venturing” found that serial entrepreneurs are addicted to the rush of starting a new company. Related: How These 5 Entrepreneurs Bounced Back From Failure. Addiction is another common problem among entrepreneurs. Face your fears. Ask for help.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

For example, "six, four, seven, triple five, eleven, twenty-one" (instead of "6-4-7-5-5-5-1-1-2-1"). In a 2014 study , researchers Pam A. Related reading: 5 tools that improved my note-taking and changed how I learn What does "thinking big" really mean? This is chunking. Everything else?

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The net result from that effort is a 90% reduction in page load time from 5 seconds to about 500 milliseconds. Hugo : I moved to a static site generator in 2014. All these together should make it much easier to browse this blog and search previous posts. I’ve been focused on it ever since. This is how I did it.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

A week before Christmas 2014, in one heartbreaking phone call after another, I let go of my team of freelancers. Here are 5 Tips for telling your 2020 story of resilience. Unless you have information to the contrary, a good rule of thumb would be to start with your blog and/or email list. . Absolutely not! .

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Since its 2014 inception, Bolt has raised more than $1 billion in funding and was valued at $11 billion at the time of its $355 million Series E raise in January. In an early May blog post , Kuruvilla revealed the following figures around the company’s performance, writing that Bolt has a total of 13.8

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

I have a blog post on that, fundraising advice for founders raising for the first time. And this is recorded forever so we'll see what happens in like 5 or 10 years. There's a lot of blogs out there now on Medium and elsewhere where you can just learn. And then when it comes to the business itself, I did mention money.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. Even tech blogs know this.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

Unexpectedly, YC had reached out when they launched their Continuity Fund about 5 years ago. This was 2013, 2014. Instead, I messaged Jeff Jordan and said, ‘You know, I read your blog post about retail, and the transition of retail to online.’ Now, I’m not a founder, but I was very happy in my role at Andresseen Horowitz.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ).

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. I usually send short marketing-related blog post links or eBooks that look like a one-time personal email rather than a salesy blast (though you could create those too if you wanted). The most recent update was in March 2023.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 21, 2017

After the success of the first two MyEO Go Beyond events—the 25-kilometer Kolkata Marathon in 2014 and the Trek to Everest Base Camp in 2015—it was time for something faster, higher and stronger. That evening at 5:30 pm, we gathered for dinner and I saw only solemn faces. The evening before the summit was particularly difficult.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

Certain specified organizations with more than $5 million in assets. A legal entity with investments in excess of $5 million that was not formed for the specific purpose of investing in the securities offered, including governmental entities, rural business investment companies, limited liability companies. Investment Advisers Act.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

Certain specified organizations with more than $5 million in assets. A legal entity with investments in excess of $5 million that was not formed for the specific purpose of investing in the securities offered, including governmental entities, rural business investment companies, limited liability companies. Investment Advisers Act.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

While $1 million of that total is reserved for AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant and Basecamp founder Jason Fried, the remaining $5 million is being raised with a twist: anyone willing to fork over at least $100 bucks can invest in the round. Now, investors and founders can raise up to $5 million per year from crowdfunding, up from $1.07

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

During the onset of the pandemic, Aboyeji, via his blog post , said Future Africa Fund was looking to raise institutional investment. But before CcHub launched its $500,000 accelerator programme and Aboyeji founded Andela in 2014, Jason Njoku of iROKO had already begun to invest in startups.

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