American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

All of this has been achieved over the past seven years through the company’s leadership team comprised of co-founders Alexander Israel, Courtney Fukuda , P eter Fisher , T ravis Kell. He also co-founded ParkMe in 2009 achieving the world’s most comprehensive parking database.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

of the funding raised since 2009, while Latinx female founders saw only 0.4% If you feel like you need some extra training in this area, seek out workshops or mentorship opportunities to make sure you have these skills down before you pitch for funding. Having more women in leadership positions is ultimately a better bet for business.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

I met and presented formally with Intuit leadership. Six months after the presentation, Intuit’s leadership came to me to suggest I present the options for divestiture. I believed in the company, its customers, the employee, and wanted nothing more than to receive the opportunity to grow and manage the business. I said “Yes!”

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. As the YC example shows, Techstars had the opportunity to build one of the world’s top investing platforms for technical founders in every major tech hub outside the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When it comes to filling executive, presidential and other leadership-oriented roles within an organization, companies are more likely to conduct what is called an “executive search” than they are to hire internally or conduct a standard recruitment process. These benefits exist for any job. Planning a Smart Hiring Process.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

billion valuation from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. Dewey Awad, managing director at Bain Capital Tech Opportunities, said that he was impressed with how Movafaghi dealt with the challenges of taking over a company in transition. Now, the company can take advantage of that with the new investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This is an exciting opportunity for women entrepreneurs. There is also some documentation that applications will need to provide, including: Personal statement and resume that details leadership, professional experience, passion, and commitment to the business. Therefore, this foundation is more important than ever before. .

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s a misconception that the most successful business leaders are born with their leadership credentials imprinted in their DNA. Before founding db5 in 2009, Chris served as Chief Executive Officer at Hall & Partners USA. SBOs are constantly thinking about their business (85% say “always/often”).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014. Wakanow underwent financial struggles and was in a midlife crisis before new leadership came to turn the tides. That is why they saw an opportunity in the likes of Flutterwave, and they came in at the best time.”.

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Jason Malki

JULY 10, 2023

With over two decades of experience in product development and technology, Libby embarked on her career journey at GE in 2001 through their prestigious technology graduate program, IMLP (Information Management Leadership Program). In 2009, I made the decision to join forces with my co-founder, Dev Jhala.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. Once you reach a decent level of professional success, lack of opportunity won’t kill you. Once you’ve learned to identify and execute on the right opportunities, how do you achieve work-life balance?

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Through ACA’s strong and experienced public policy leadership team, ACA has been able to gain more diverse voices as both investors and entrepreneurs. The busy year started off when leadership met with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to discuss the accredited investor definition, QSBS and how to build a more successful startup ecosystem.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Grand Circus continues to be one of the central players in the Detroit startup ecosystem, empowering people to enter the field of tech who might not otherwise have the opportunity. This is a unique opportunity. They are committed to diversity and invest in the education of their employees. Apply now to Grand Circus. Pocketnest.

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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. Box had just 50 employees and was hitting an inflection point when I joined in 2009, so there was far more work to do than people to do it. Every milestone was an opportunity to tell the biggest possible story.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

We now have 150 people across three offices, tens of millions in recurring revenue, inbound demand from investors, opportunities to acquire related startups and demands on Jason’s time to speak at conference, do press interviews and so on and so on.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The agency was founded in 2009 after Thomson created an early way to customize online profile images called Twibbon, which took off rapidly. “We felt there was an opportunity to look at a product that did all that for you.” Support for vertical video is now on the product roadmap, Thomson says.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. My entire partnership took their leadership team to dinner. But I never gave up. More on that later. I have to love both – but it’s in that proportion. I can do that.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Occasionally you get really wealthy people running accelerators who view it either as a fun use of time or more often as “an option” to find interesting personal investment opportunities. We had a specific goal in mind.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Stripe’s launch in 2009 made it possible for startups to easily collect payments online via developer-friendly APIs. To address this massive underappreciated market opportunity (not to mention a personal pain point), Henrique and Pedro pivoted and built Brex. Over time, Stripe has expanded to support more business models (e.g.,

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2023

Aside from his history in tech sales, Mike leans on his expertise to build sales teams, identify market opportunities, develop partnerships, and strategically increase ARR through multi-product sales and cross-selling efforts. In 2012, the economy was starting to bounce back from the financial collapse of 2008 and 2009. I was right.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 24, 2020

We sat down as a leadership team to discuss what we had in unused or dead assets, and what opportunities we could seize with fewer employees. In the last US economic downturn in 2008-2009, my Forum and EO taught me that the keys to surviving are being the first to respond, taking quick decisive action and being agile.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I thought if I could live and work in Spain I could become bilingual, but I never got the opportunity. Later, I got the opportunity to live in Barcelona, but they speak, ironically, Catalan there. Be an intern” And by the way, this is 2009. You remember what 2009 was like, right? Maybe you misheard me.

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