Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

1) Build an Engaging Culture. With the workplace re-opening, it’s important for businesses to recommit to providing an engaging workplace culture, where coming back into the office has its own sets of rewards. How to Attract Employees (And Retain Them). Right now, employees want two things.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded in 2007, Taboola powers content recommendation widgets (and advertising on those widgets) across 9,000 websites for publishers including CNBC, NBC News, Business Insider, The Independent and El Mundo. Taboola’s founder and CEO Adam Singolda (pictured above) told me that this didn’t lead directly the SPAC deal.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Co-founded in 2007 by Yasser Bashir, Arbisoft falls on the larger end of the spectrum of software development partners that our readers have recommended in our ongoing survey. What started with three people in 2007 is now one of the most successful software companies in our region. Arbisoft is a manifestation of many of those ideas.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

2007 / KPIs and company dashboards help ensure your customers, employees and financial stakeholders are all being considered. At the start of 2007, KPIs and dashboards were foreign to us. What would our culture look like? The organization serve as an informal business advisory board. Our offering? What would our jobs look like?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. City Spotlight: Boston Register for the free event here!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Since M-Pesa’s mobile money infrastructure came into play in 2007, there has been a proliferation of fintech services ranging from wallets to savings and loans. came to East Africa in 2007 to work on philanthropic biofield projects. Founded by Brendan Playford and Cate Rung , Pngme started primarily as a lending platform in 2018.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 1, 2020

At its peak, in 2007, Nokia’s worldwide market share stood at 49.4% , the highest in the world. The collapse of Nokia had already begun, way before 2007. The Arrival of New Companies: In 2007, Apple stepped into the smartphone game and launched the iconic iPhone. Still, the streak of success was far from over.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When Troy and Lady Gaga were introduced the market had been in a free fall from the financial crisis of 2007-09 and Troy had had some setbacks professionally while Lady Gaga was sleeping on her grandmother’s couch in West Virginia, having just been dropped by Def Jam Records. Same with Gaga. “It was a series of inflection points.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

An experienced investor, his journey in venture capital began in 2007, a tumultuous period with a global financial crisis. This choice showed an organizational culture that empowers all employees to participate in critical moments, giving them the confidence to represent the company. ” – Kim.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It is imperative that they find tech-based solutions that will broaden the talent pipeline, help foster an inclusive culture, and create on-going upskilling programs as well as opportunities for the digital future of manufacturing. Many manufacturers are currently struggling to fill critical positions in their plants.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

The industry did that in 2007. Your culture suffers. 10 is the new 3. And yes, I mean $10 million. My friend in the Valley said to me, “$10 on $50 is the new Silicon Valley A round.” ” Well. Until it didn’t. “Well, do you guys do that?” You hire too quickly. You grow from 8 to 45 people over night.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 6, 2019

We wanted to teach them lessons about independence, breaking out of your comfort zone, seeing other cultures. Russell Benaroya joined EO in 2007. We have done that but not without struggle as a family. We have all learned a tremendous amount about ourselves and our family unit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As noted above, office culture has proved to be no small part of Sweetgreen’s growth. It was founded in 2007, per Crunchbase data, making it nearly old enough to secure a learner’s permit to drive in the United States. Sweetgreen operates its 140 food spots in 13 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., with some 1.35

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

He started working on it in 2007 and developed the business plan in 2009. We ask ourselves if the person is a good fit with our company values, and if they’ll add to our company culture in a positive and exciting way. My co-founder and partner, Tom Arnold, wanted to address this challenge of lost pets never making it home.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerland’s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics. Zurich tends to take the lion’s share, as the city’s embrace of startups has jump-started development, although Geneva and Lausanne are also hotspots.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

make sure you have a strong company culture for them to enter into. . What we want to do is we want to build a team around the culture. Jaime joined the product development team at ComplyRight in 2007. All you need to do now is . fill out the right business forms, . draft role descriptions, . create a job application, .

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 27, 2023

High performers and culture carriers for years — terminated via email and without the opportunity to celebrate their time with their teams. When I started at YouTube (along with an even hipper hunter@youtube addy) in 2007, the attention continued (it just shifted younger and to more aspiring rappers than webmasters).

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). Although it’s a fascinating story, a 2019 influential academic study by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University shows just how misguided this popular narrative is. industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Aim to be specific—instead of “Thank you for calling,” up the ante with “Thank you for being a devoted customer since 2007!” When it comes to your customers or clients, keep your antenna up and look for an opportunity to express gratitude in every interaction. or “Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback about our new platform!”.

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Red Rocket

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But, when head coach Lloyd Carr retired after the 2007 season, nobody expected it would be followed by the lackluster coaching tenures of Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke between 2008 and 2014. So, make sure your hires fit your desired culture, as you can't afford to have any "bad apples" in the bushel. You need to do the same.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

They launched SEMrush at the height of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Oleg Shchegolev and Dmitriy Melnikov are the cofounders of SEMrush , an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform. . Shchegolev and Melnikov began experimenting with different SEO strategies in 2006.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

Um… wow. OK, so microVC funds and smaller pre-seed financings could really be a thing. Back to today’s summit, here are my high-level takeaways: 1/ Like it or not, enough people are curious about “pre-seed” that lots of people showed up to this event.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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Derek Sivers

JANUARY 25, 2022

book I have a collection of my notes from the 320+ books I’ve read since 2007. So I would give a little lower rating to a book I loved about an obscure subject, like the culture of Switzerland, because I wouldn’t recommend it to most people. This page is just to answer some questions about it. My notes are not a summary of the book!

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StartupNation

JUNE 29, 2021

John Antioco, Blockbuster’s chairman and CEO from 1997 to 2007, led the company in its most transitional years. Overwhelming success in its early years created unwarranted contentment that became permanently embedded in its culture. During his 10-year reign, DVD replaced the old VHS video cassette as the format of choice.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. Buildings are the same, however often historically and culturally significant and therefore protected. As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

The company was founded in 2007 and acquired by TechCrunch parent company Yahoo for $1 billion in 2013. But, the users it does have are extremely protective of the site’s culture, so modifications, even somewhat small ones, can be seen as unwelcome changes. This isn’t too surprising, given Tumblr’s history.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Since 2007, every quarter, I stand in front of all of my employees gathered in one room and give a “State of the Firm.” We have grown about 25% a year since 2007. To encourage them to speak up and to help me decide which way to go if I faced a tough decision. And it has worked. At our firm, we’ve always hit our goals.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We sold that at the end of 2007 and I stayed on with MoneyGram International who acquired the company until the end of 2009. And that, I believe, is still in the culture today. Jason Gardner: Yeah, an interesting path over 13 years. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 12, 2017

That’s why in 2007, she initiated the first Good Deeds Day , which has since developed into a global movement for doing good. We always talk about how we can do something different and this simple but powerful idea unites people of all cultures and backgrounds on one day to do good together. million participants.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

There was kind of a culture of glorifying that a little bit, where everybody’s wearing company swag, and then it becomes a thing that everybody wants. Jarvis Johnson [00:54:57] – Yeah, that was like, 2006, 2007. It kind of felt a bit like a game to me, where that was what people cared about you’re supposed to do.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos. By 2007, Beevers had completed his Ph.D. for 10 months.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 31, 2020

As the founder of a translation company back in 2007, I am an entrepreneur. It also takes into account cultural preferences and cultural no-nos. Translate and adapt your valuable content into additional languages and set up multilingual marketing, sales and support infrastructure. Translation is a subset of localization.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The firm was founded in 2007 by Goldman Sachs professionals and manages $400 million across multiple funds. New York-based “culture-tech” venture investment firm. Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the defining technology companies of tomorrow. Elevation Capital. Evolution VC Partners.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

So incensed was he by government machinations around the judiciary, that veteran entrepreneur Yanki Margalit decided the changes were having a chilling effect on the country’s usually entrepreneurial culture. Given the atmosphere now, it’s almost irresponsible to start a company,” he told The New York Times in February.

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