Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. So after exploring our options, Stacey and I formed SPARK Schools, a series of private schools for underserved communities. You’re strengthening communities through an innovative approach to education.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be!” ” When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). When Mucker launched back in 2011, our founding partners, who had left Silicon Valley for LA, set out to prove that high-growth companies can be built anywhere. and Canada.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Released in 2011, “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” was a book that laid claim to the idea that Israel was an unusual type of country. From age 13 Israel’s students are exposed to advanced computing studies, and the cultural push to go into tech is strong. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Vitruvian is a new backer for MPB; the rest were already invested in the startup, which has raised around $91 million since 2011. Second, it touches on the bigger trend we’ve seen around the growth of communities focused on specific rather than general interests. Third, there is the focus of MPB in particular.

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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. For example, infrastructure needed for community-scale flood mitigation or sea walls, but also much smaller and more modular infrastructure such as temporary protected bike lanes or mobile housing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Some of their initial investments went into companies like Goalsetter , a children and family finance tool, MoCaFi, a mobile-first banking platform for financially underserved communities and rare sneaker collectible startup Rares. Since its founding in 2011, the Israeli firm has invested in dozens of companies and had 12 exits.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

She joined PetHub in June of 2011 as the modern pet ID tag startup was in its beginning stages. Our team works with local animal services organizations and municipalities to build a custom identification tag program tailored to meet the needs of the community. the first networked database in the U.S. for pets and pet parents.

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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

The essence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem is its people and the culture of trust and collaboration that allows them to interact successfully. Reflections on measurement and definitions for evaluation – Part 2. By Stacey Williams , PhD, MPH – Director of Evaluation, Forward Cities. Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 16, 2022

Built on the results of the 2011 Social Business Initiative and the 2016 Start-up and Scale-up Initiative , and preceded by extensive dialogue with stakeholders and civil society, the Action Plan proposes 38 concrete measures to be implemented in a nine-years horizon, between 2021-2030. What’s next?

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

Metrics matter most in Series B, or as the venture community likes to say: “There’s nothing like numbers to screw up a good story,” and render a promising startup unfinanceable. Moreover, seed funding was scarcer in 2009, so startups that obtained seed funding at that time had passed a tougher screen to do so.

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Revolution

APRIL 4, 2019

By Ted Leonsis, Founder and Partner, Revolution Growth I joined the Revolution team as a cofounder of the Revolution Growth fund in 2011 and our goal was, and still is, to make investments in great businesses that give customers more choice, convenience and control in their lives.

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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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Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Those opponents have a sense of what comes with the “big tech” bundle — changes to the neighborhood, changes to rent, changes to the culture they have today. I used to live right by Stanford University, starting in 2011. A good number of folks do not want that change. I can empathize a bit here. I lived down there for a while.

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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. It certainly wasn’t just this feeling; I loved the team and the community, too, but in hindsight, there was definitely an insecurity that kept me from stepping away.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

My two friends and I started Tejiendo Sonrisas, a Peruvian nonprofit organization, on March 1, 2011. We saw very clearly that there are problems in our community and we saw it was important that somebody act on them. The biggest problem in my community and in my country is indifference to cases of violence and trafficking.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2017

The year 2011 was financially devastating. In order to truly move the needle, we needed to become fanatical about our purpose and embed it deeply throughout our culture. With purpose, autonomy, mastery and a sense of community, we turned our people into true stakeholders of our business. Setting Our Purpose.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 9, 2018

Staffing, culture and ego. The challenge is how to build a team that has the skills you need, the culture you’re trying to build and an understanding of the vision you want to create. It was the EO community that helped Peter find his way from the business he no longer loved to a tour through Europe with his family.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Whether it’s your first time or you’ve earned seniority, the Growth Conference is a super welcoming community. Deepti is the CEO and Founder of FoodtoEat , a community-minded catering concierge service. FoodtoEat helps businesses feed employees great food and build stronger & more diverse work cultures.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

That’s really important to look for, because each person you add to the team changes the dynamic — for example, if you hire somebody more introverted, it changes the team’s communication style. I joined in 2011, and when we got acquired by Google three years later, we were still only 22 people. That meant a lot to me.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Borches joined the company in 2003 and has been leading CMA since 2011. Borches states that CMA’s mission is to move the lives of its associates forward, followed by those of its customers, and finally the community. This interview is focused around culture fit questions. Needless to say, the company is quite successful.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). If you live in a suburban community, there is little chance you could walk out your door and hail a cab. The Atlantic (3/25/12).

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