TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Kumolus, which was founded in 2011 and raised $1.7 Kukowski says that going remote because of COVID has allowed the company to hire from anywhere, but he still looks forward to a time when he can meet face-to-face with his employees and customers, and sees that as alway being part of his company’s culture.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

That was happening when I first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011. At my first fund, Cross Culture [Ventures], we were interested in investing in early childhood care. “He was a part of an organization that was helping to bring more diverse founders in touch with investors,” says Nichols. Fast forward to 2016.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. In our view, Miro’s culture of customer centricity makes it well-positioned to address a myriad of use cases across hybrid work for more than a billion knowledge workers globally.

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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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Their high-end products and storefront come from a hand-cultivated culture, state of the art facilities and a sustainable growing practice. They’ve been in business since 2011 (founded by entrepreneur coach Ryan Vaughn ) and are growing fast. This year, the company raised $2.8 million in funding. HealthBridge.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

His co-founder Jon Williams was previously a co-founder at Culture Amp, an employee experience management platform he helped launch in 2011 (and which raised more than $150 million), so the two of them have been immersed in this idea. In a nutshell, we radically personalize employee communications,” Luijke explained.

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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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StartupNation

JUNE 22, 2021

A brand should be rooted in a company’s heritage and culture, connected to a set of core values that are the company’s very reason for being. A reality-grounded CEO manages, protects and leads the brand by managing, protecting and leading the culture and values behind it. This can diminish its authenticity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before launching Goodwater, co-founder Eric Kim was managing director at Maverick, an early investor in Coupang, and served on the company’s board from 2011 to 2017. This makes it especially attractive to shoppers in a country where “the work culture rivals that of the 996 work culture in China,” the report says.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Aaron graduated from EO Accelerator and went on to become an EO member in 2011. It was a cool morning in April of 2011 when I found myself wandering around this cliff side town of Positano, Italy. Aaron Lee graduated from EO Accelerator and went on to become an EO member in 2011. So ask yourself: What’s your Positano?

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 1, 2014

So, if you''re going to argue that the process of venture capital is inherently unfair to women, here''s the logic that you *should not* use: "Less than 3 percent of the 6,793 companies that received venture capital from 2011-2013 were headed by a woman, according to a study from Babson College released Tuesday.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

I have always had a strong affinity for Japanese culture, perhaps because I grew up in Northern California. I love these little cultural idiosyncrasies. And cultural gaffes. So that’s what’s on my mind this Independence Day 2011. That was the year I spent July 4th in Tokyo, where I was living for 6 months.

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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. 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. the first networked database in the U.S. for pets and pet parents.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Partnership with Microsoft: In 2011, to cope up with declining market share Nokia partnered with Microsoft to make Windows phone, abandoning old OSs like Symbian and MeeGo. But because of the corporate culture that was prevailing, it never saw the light of the day. In 2011, Nokia announced a partnership with Microsoft.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

In August of 2011, he and his team had built JOBY gto be the #1 Camera Tripod (stability) brand in the world and successfully sold JOBY to the Daymen Group in Petaluma, CA; who were the owners of the world’s largest camera bag brand by revenue and volume, LowePro. global revenue. Our business is built on our brands’ success.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Many readers know that at Upfront Ventures that’s precisely what happened at our own firm in 2011 when our founding partner and my co-Managing Partner, Yves Sisteron, asked me to lead the daily management of our firm. The great firms transition day-to-day leadership and often those who don’t fail to protect their “franchise value.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

That is, in no small part, due to its salaries, its culture, and its brand. But of course, Netflix also has a not-so-secret asset where it shows its culture to the world: the Netflix TechBlog. This cultural change starts with the leaders actually doing what they want other people to do. into the culture.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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. In a post-COVID world, customers have never demanded more transparency into supply chains, workplace culture and equity ownership.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Prior to Replicant, Abraham — who joined eBay in 2011 via the company’s acquisition of Milo.com — did stints as a software engineer at Atomic and smart device company Leeo. He also helped to launch Magneto, a calendaring system, and was COO at Talkdesk for nearly four years.

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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. Even though I’ve been gone for a decade now and don’t know the majority of now Xooglers impacted, there were a number of 15–20 year vets included in the separation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

And it seems to be creeping back into startup culture of late in a worrying way. Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. Yet it tempts us all.

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Derek Sivers

JUNE 7, 2013

Starting five years ago, I got deeply curious about the differences between countries and cultures, fascinated with understanding the different perspectives. I set up a Singapore corporation for it from my Yogyakarta hotel room that night in August 2011, and began the next day. I talked about a few fun ones in this 2-minute TED talk.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Last week, Emmeline Ventures , a multi-cultural, multi-generational, all-female early-stage investment fund, launched with its first investment in Clutch Wallet, a web and mobile-based digital wallet enabling women to invest in crypto and web3. Since its founding in 2011, the Israeli firm has invested in dozens of companies and had 12 exits.

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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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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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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. The Series D is being led by Vitruvian Partners, with significant participation from Acton Capital; Mobeus Equity Partners, Beringea and FJ Labs also participating.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The pandemic and a new work-from-home culture have fundamentally changed how founders think about location when choosing a co-founder. An article by Harvard Business Review in 2011 says, “a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop.”.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

The meteoric rise of Bitcoin from nothing to a $1 trillion dollar plus asset in the span of a decade created the HODL culture. Bitcoin therefore must move, and movement between parties is the antithesis of HODL culture. HODL culture taken to its f(x): maxima would result in the complete destruction of Bitcoin.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If being acquired means losing the brand and identity you have worked so hard to build — or perhaps worse, losing your cultural identity — it probably will suck. His startup was a member of the YC Winter 2011 cohort, and was sold to Rackspace a year later. The last company, a 72-year-old operation, was the exception.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 25, 2018

My kids are slowly growing up (and taking up more time), and the portfolio from earlier funds are maturing, and I’ve only known an incredible bull market driven by technology since I moved back to California in 2011. Now, looking ahead, I have to expect some cyclicality to be factored into the equation.

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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. YLAI provides a lot of useful help ranging from training to living experiences, cultural and work exchange, so take advantage of it. Can you expand on why you launched Tejiendo Sonrisas?

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

My client handled the whole thing with aplomb, fortified by a decade of immersion in the distinctive culture and language of Egypt and the Arab world. . ”Yes, but… ” Those who have spent much time in the developing world are likely accustomed to dealing with this sort of frustration on a daily basis.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 30, 2019

As media technologies continue to expand in scope and reach, with little regard for physical or cultural borders, how we educate students about the role of media in their daily lives increasingly incorporates more global perspectives. Media literacy education is a global and international focus. References: Pariser, E. NY: Penguin Books.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

For 15 consecutive quarters (nearly 4 years), the venture money going into seed has been consistently over $1.5B; the Afore blog notes “data from PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association shows that fundings of $1 million or less are at their lowest point since 2011,” which are what folks call “pre-seed” rounds; (..)

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

If we rewind the clock back to 2011/2012, the announcement of the iPad was largely viewed through the lens of consumer apps — a notable example being Flipboard. Notable seed funds like SV Angel and Initialized backed the company early, and of course Sequoia led a large Series A in PlanGrid a few years after YC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

In a fireside chat at TechCrunch Early Stage, we discussed her experience validating product ideas, gathering actionable customer data, creating user-centric work cultures, and handling some of the unique challenges that come with scaling teams from a few dozen people to several thousand employees.

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