Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller. Community builders. So why Greg and why now? Quantitative & analytical.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Aaron Lee is the CEO and founder of iluma Agency (formerly Illuminati Studios) and joined EO South Florida in 2011. . EO Accelerator is designed to empower entrepreneurs with tools, accountability and community to help them aggressively grow and master their business. We have celebrated being on the Inc.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ACA has continued its efforts to push legislation to help the entire Angel community. ACA continues to foster good lines of communication with the SEC and good relationships at the SBA. House and Senate staff turned to ACA to understand the impact of changing the definition on the angel community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2017

The year 2011 was financially devastating. Time to go back to the drawing board! With purpose, autonomy, mastery and a sense of community, we turned our people into true stakeholders of our business. The post Back to the Drawing Board appeared first on THE BLOG. Setting Our Purpose.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

In some capacity or another, many of us have a desire to give back to our community. Here are some ideas from Darren, so we can get involved in our communities: 1. Serve on a non-profit board: Let your business skills and experience make you an asset to a nonprofit by becoming a board member.

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Y Combinator

MAY 24, 2023

I first met Tom in 2011 when he went through YC with GoCardless , an online payments processor for the Direct Debit system and Tom’s first billion-dollar company. Today, the YC community is made up of more than 90 billion-dollar companies and that number is always growing. Tom is no exception.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

She co-founded the Portland Seed Fund in 2011, but also serves as the Director of Portland State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and manager of the Portland State University Business Accelerator, allowing her to monitor prospective and existing portfolio companies that originate from the university.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did. Another founder … “When I pitched the idea to Adam, he was super on board,” Mr. Sloyan said. I was trying to cheekily suggest that it was the new status symbol. All of my partners at Upfront do.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Current round: $20mm in Series C by Accel Partners (Jim Breyer, board member at Wal-Mart, Dell, and FaceBook), KPCB, and DAG Ventures. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I grant you, it’s not like Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto – but there is a burgeoning tech community much as you’d find in NYC these days. But one common theme I’m hearing from there in 2011 is that it’s impossible to recruit. Communities outside the Valley have matured. million in SF Bay Area ).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). And so it goes with social networking. And then came AOL.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company. If you live in a suburban community, there is little chance you could walk out your door and hail a cab. And if you call one of the phones, it is a very spotty proposition.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Dr. Howard is the founder and president of the board of directors of Zyrobotics, a Georgia Tech spin-off company that develops mobile therapy and educational products for children with special needs. Her career spans higher education, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the private sector.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And I’ve been an employee at YC since 2011. I would like to point out that one of the innovations that Sam probably talked about when you talked about these five innovations was that we think of the folks who go through Y Combinator as our alumni and we’ve created this community of founders. It’s a new world, right?

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