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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 13, 2020

I used this title for possibly the most regrettable blog post I have written on AVC back in 2011. Back in 2011, I wrote: He said “every company needs a marketing budget.” My friend Alex’s post on the topic this weekend has made me revisit my thoughts on the subject of marketing. That is certainly no longer true.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

billion won ($ 284.2million) since its inception in 2011 before its IPO. Socar was founded in 2011 by Lee Jae-woong, who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communications; Daum merged into Kakao in 2014. billion won ($150 million) funding at a 1.3 The startup raised a total of 379.7

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 6, 2023

In the first two quarters of 2011, Cornerstone OnDemand waded into the IPO market in 2011, followed by LinkedIn at $4.2b, Homeaway at $2.1b, Fusion.io In Q4 2009, Amazon acquired Zappos for $1b. Then GreenDot’s IPO in Q2 2010 at $1.4b suggested the IPO market wasn’t icy.

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Revolution

MARCH 1, 2023

We looked at the analysis in two parts: the 1997–2010 time period and the 2011–2020 time period. since 2011. VC dollars are at risk, we conducted a historical analysis of top quartile fund managers over the past quarter century (as far back as we could access reliable Cambridge Associates data). those marks above the historical 1.5x

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2020

I woke up to a dream this morning where I was playing a game that was very similar to Turntable.fm , a failed effort to create a social music experience that had a moment back in 2011 and that I had invested in via USV. In the dream, someone had created a new version of the game that was basically identical to the original version.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 20, 2022

I told him the story of how I bumped into Rikki Tahta walking through the garment district in NYC in the spring of 2011 and Rikki told me he was working on a Bitcoin startup. My friend Gordon asked me last night how I got into Bitcoin. I replied, “a what coin startup?” ” And Rikki told me to read the Bitcoin White Paper.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2023

In 2011, Irish SaaS firm Intercom had a churn problem and found the solution by understanding the customer’s job. It uses the perspective gained from understanding the customer’s job to improve a base offering, helping customers make progress better or faster than ever before. It gives your offerings pull.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It was 2011 and I was cratering. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The company has raised a total of about $275 million since its inception in 2011, the company spokesperson confirmed. The 11-year-old firm started the car-sharing service with 100 rental cars in Jeju in 2011 and launched its mobile app in 2012. SOCAR has reached approximately $834 billion (1 trillion won) valuation after raising $50.7

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Howard Marks — the co-chairman of Oaktree — released a book in 2011 called The Most Important Thing. The below analysis outlines an approach to quantify the attractiveness of investing in commercial real estate at a given point. The framework could be further altered for other asset classes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The company, founded in 2011, went public in late 2021 in an IPO that valued it at around $18 billion. Toast, a financial software company focused on restaurants, has remained one of the leaders in the space.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Spenser and Curtis first applied to YC in 2011, but their idea, a new version of Mechanical Turk, did not impress YC’s reviewers at the time, and although they were clearly brilliant hackers, that first application was rejected. Amplitude founders Spenser Skates and Curtis Liu – March 2011.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Natalie Gordon founded Babylist in 2011, and today it’s a leading marketplace for baby gift registries. But it didn’t take off at first. It took several years for Gordon to spin the startup into its current trajectory and several more for users to follow. This is normal! And we’re excited to have Jesse Draper join the conversation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Since 2011, Kaszek has backed more than 120 companies, which the firm says collectively have raised more than $15.5 Image Credits: Kaszek Kaszek founded its first fund in 2011, raising $95 million, an impressive sum at that time. billion in 2021, (up from $2 billion in 2018) according to LAVCA. billion in capital.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 18, 2022

It would be difficult to find a more prophetic blog post in the history of technology commentary than Marc Andreessen’s 2011 “Why Software is Eating the World.” This is an edited and abridged version of a post that originally ran on the Anduril blog. Over the past decade, software companies have driven the lion’s share.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Howard Marks — the co-chairman of Oaktree — released a book in 2011 called The Most Important Thing. The below analysis outlines an approach to quantify the attractiveness of investing in commercial real estate at a given point. The framework could be further altered for other asset classes.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 14, 2019

There was a time around 2010 and 2011 when Tumblr was the most engaging social platform that I was on. Tumblr was both a blogging platform and a social media application and while I always loved the versatility of the platform, native mobile applications benefit from simplicity, not complexity.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2011, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce had a bold vision: to make Kansas City America’s most entrepreneurial city. Identify what you want to change and what success will look like, then determine what steps are needed to reach your community’s specific goals.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

beSUCCESS Media CEO James Jung talking about the company at BEYOND Expo 2023 beSUCCESS Media, founded in 2011, has played a significant role in supporting and fostering the growth of the startup ecosystem in South Korea and beyond. The company operates various platforms and initiatives to foster entrepreneurship and innovation.

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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. The Asan Voyager program is specifically designed to provide comprehensive assistance to early-stage Korean startups with a vision for global expansion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” Per the Verdantix report, since ETF Partners invested around €10 million (roughly $11 million) in EHS vendor Enablon in 2011, private equity firms and strategic investors like Wolters Kluwer and Fortive have spent more than $4 billion to buy into the EHS software market.

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HPA

MAY 14, 2021

Since the Series A in 2011, HPA has been an investor in Kenna Security. Hyde Park Angels is excited to announce that Cisco announced their intent to acquire our portfolio company Kenna Security , risk-based vulnerability management software. 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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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Small Business Administration joined as sponsor in 2011. Small Business Saturday will be held on November 25 th, continuing a tradition that American Express began in 2010 which the U.S. Each year Small Business Saturday is held on the Saturday right after Thanksgiving and between Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

billion and over 10 times 2011’s total of $3.6 But the gender gap in startup fundraising is closing slightly, new PitchBook data shows. Female-founded companies raised $40.4 billion across 2,661 deals through the first three quarters of 2021, almost doubling 2019’s total of $23.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

” SingleStore was founded as MemSQL in 2011 by Eric Frenkiel, Adam Prout and Nikita Shamgunov; Verma became the CEO in 2020 after a year in a co-CEO role. . “Its proprietary, simplified, data-agnostic approach is built so that organizations can act with informed insights to make business-critical decisions fast.”

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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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Gust

JANUARY 25, 2016

Bill Payne did a great post about this in October 2011. Early-stage technology company valuations are generally a crap-shoot. This post builds on top of his work, and attempts to shed additional light on the valuation process.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Medicai founder Mircea Popa’s journey in healthcare started in 2011 when, with a friend of his, he co-founded a company that is now called SkinVision, a skin cancer screening app that detects melanoma (skin cancer) through ML algorithms applied on images taken with smartphones. million), among others.

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Forward Cities

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Vince and Sheba Brown started APlus Test Prep in 2011, and as both teachers at heart and parents of teenagers, enjoy working with high school students to help them see the value of education and high test scores. Congratulations to the November E3 Durham Entrepreneurs of the Month! Read more about APlus Test Prep below!

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Bill Gurley tweeted his blog post from 2011 that “ all revenue is not created equal.” So how you value and how you finance low margin businesses becomes very important. They can’t be valued too highly or you risk a financing crisis. ” That is a great way of saying what I was trying to say.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Founded in 2011, Delhivery is one of India’s largest fully-integrated logistics companies, serving customers in over 18,000 zip codes. It was valued at $3 billion in a round led by Fidelity in May 2021. The firm has raised over $2.3 billion across private rounds and IPO (including secondary sale).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2020

This isn’t the first time Amir Bassan-Eskenazi and Ran Oz have launched a startup together — they also founded video networking company BigBand Networks , which won two technology-related Emmy Awards, went public in 2007 and was acquired by Arris Group in 2011.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

With the new funds, MessageGears now has investments totaling to $80 million since its founding in 2011. In addition to the fresh investment, Angad Singh of Long Ridge also joined MessageGears’ Board of Directors. “At At Long Ridge, we’ve long understood that enterprise brands have immense amounts of data about their customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Before I learned how to do them properly, they were purely factual in nature, “Hey, did Jim work with you from 2011 to 2013? Whether you are signing up a huge supplier, hiring an employee or thinking of making an investment, reference calls are absolutely crucial. What was his job title?” Oh, how wrong I was.

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Access to our 2010 and 2011 surveys can be found at 2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Investor Groups. Of the 22 groups included in both the 2012 and 2011 survey, 18 reported higher valuations while only 4 reported lower valuations. million) and the 2010 survey (average = $1.7 million). million, up over $2.5

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