American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 22, 2024

The latest cohort joins 270 alumni of the program that began in 2011. The Fellowship gives each participant $100,000 and access to a valuable support network of tech founders, investors, scientists, and former fellows.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 16, 2022

Founders ‘bootstrap’ Crossroads LED into an industry leader. i2E first wrote a column about Crossroads LED back in 2011. Founders ‘bootstrap’ Crossroads LED into an industry leader. The post Founders ‘bootstrap’ Crossroads LED into industry leader appeared first on i2E. By Scott Meacham.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

If I went to Stanford and worked with some YC-backed startups, chances are that I’ll find it relatively easy to find one or two co-founders, get millions in funding and build a billion-dollar company. But it then decided to level the playing field a bit by taking the program online so founders from other parts of the world could participate.

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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. This was a really good sign.

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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. Alex starts off his post with this assertion: 2019 was the year when VCs and startup founders soured on paid acquisition. Back in 2011, I wrote: He said “every company needs a marketing budget.”

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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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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

At 500, I had the opportunity to work with early-stage founders from around the world and quickly realized that this was where I wanted to spend my time. HW: Your blog , which I love, tries to bridge a knowledge gap between founders and investors, often explaining ‘why investors do/care about X’ and so on. Maybe they can’t sell.

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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. I met the founders and was happy for them. It was as fun to play it as it was to play Turntable back in the day.

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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. Contributed to EO by Zac Stucki, the founder of Homeric Consulting. It gives your offerings pull. They attract clients because they’re just so dang good. You can make your operations more efficient and profitable than ever.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. She made the right decisions not joining back then because that founder empathy is the “++” that makes a difference in this business. So why now? Wait, What About Yves?

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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. for Fund I to 2.6 for Fund IV.

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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 The firm’s most notable exit is digital bank Nubank, which it first invested in during the pre-seed round “when the company was merely a PowerPoint presentation,” said co-founder and managing partner Nicolas Szekasy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

Gunter first started following the crypto space in 2011, when she was working in the traditional finance world as a derivatives trader at Goldman Sachs and when Bitcoin was the only major layer-one blockchain. These different blockchains are increasingly having to compete to attract developers to their ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

He is also the founder and managing partner of HartBeat Ventures, an early-stage VC firm with a focus on lifestyle, media and technology. These are just some of the reasons why we’re thrilled that Kevin Hart; his venture firm’s president and co-founder, Robert Roman; and Michael Elanjian, J.P.

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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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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. David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, always focused on making Tumblr a “positive” experience. I followed and met quite a few interesting people there and it was a lot of fun to be on it.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

But 2012 me, a first-time half-Latino half-African-American founder from Costa Rica, coming from a university these guys had never heard of, nope. We foreign/minority founders come with increased risk, and that's the hard truth. In 2011, he founded Pota-Toss, a Kickstarter-funded iOS game, released on the App Store on October 2012.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

James Jung, the CEO and founder of beSUCCESS Media, took the opportunity to introduce the company and its initiatives to the participants, which included startups, corporates, media representatives, and organizers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 11, 2023

An EO member-leader since 2011, Adriaanse is today a member of EO Canada Bridge alongside some of Canada’s finest entrepreneurs and changemakers. Justinus Adriaanse is the co-founder of WeThinkCode , the first tuition-free, peer-to-peer, industry-led, technology-based programming academy in Africa.

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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. SkinVision reached 1.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Peer groups.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Some have built reputations for adding phenomenal value, being staunch allies of founders as startups scale and helping them source expertise or resources through their networks. from the 124,900 active angels reported in 2011. As a founder, identifying these other motivators can help you better resonate with a prospective investor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

On October 21, 2011 at 10:20 a.m. Many first-time founders think they know where to look first to save money or how to pivot, but as the saying goes, no plan ever survives first contact with the enemy. Investors still expect “healthy growth” Why founders need to secure 24+ months of runway. I joined more than 8.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2020

CommonGround , a startup developing technology for what its founders describe as “4D collaboration,” is announcing that it has raised $19 million in funding. ” CommonGround founders Amir Bassan-Eskenazi and Ran Oz.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Founders like to create companies around what they know, and Frank Westermann and Anton Kittelberger know diabetes. They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ).

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Gust

JANUARY 25, 2016

Bill Payne did a great post about this in October 2011. New founders may think that startup valuations work like this: I figure out what the value of my existing company is I figure. Early-stage technology company valuations are generally a crap-shoot. Read more >.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011. Tan, however, will continue to serve as founder and partner at Initialized – a $3.2 Tan wears many hats.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Founded in 2011, the firm presently has about $1.6 An Entrepreneur-in-Residence program that would serve as an incubator for founders to prepare them to launch their new software companies. . We are simply a learning lab for the founders,” he told TechCrunch. Founded in 1902, it notched a reported $14.4 Barrett said. The result?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The way that engineering teams are led, managed and tied to the business is still the same as it was 20 years ago,” Andrew Lau, co-founder and CEO of Jellyfish, told TechCrunch. “It’s billion in 2011. Jellyfish believes this can be done by giving software engineering leaders the data and insights they need to do that.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Founded in 2011 by 3D designer Marius Kalytis (now COO), CGTrader has become a significant 3D content provider — it even claims to be the world’s largest. 3D model provider CGTrader has raised $9.5 million in a Series B funding led by Finnish VC fund Evli Growth Partners, alongside previous investors Karma Ventures and LVV Group.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

LivingSocial took in $583 million in capital in 2010 and 2011 with little left in time to show for the investment and tremendous dilution to the founders. There are only a few Uber or AirBnB investments to point to – where the street value of the company may ultimately validate that amount of investment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Written by Aaron Lee, founder & CEO at iluma Agency. 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. So ask yourself: What’s your Positano?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. What the company does have now is $2.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Neal has seen this industry from just about every angle — as a teacher, advisor, investor and repeat co-founder. In 2011 he co-founded what is often referred to as the “first coding bootcamp,” with The Starter League, acquired by New York’s Fullstack Academy in 2016.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

Tim Hamilton, an EO member in Austin, is founder and CEO of Praxent , a custom software and web app development firm that has been named for three consecutive years to the Inc. Tim Hamilton is the founder and CEO of Praxent , a custom software and web app development firm. Tim has been an EO member since 2011.

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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. Andrey Khusid, co-founder and CEO of Miro. Individual investors involved include Airtable co-founders Howie Liu and Andrew Ofstad, Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman and DocuSign CEO Dan Springer.

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