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. We need to make sure all of our people are in place in all functions from customer support to product engineering,” Khusid said. Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

It brings the total funding raised by the startup to $7 million, having previously received support from a number of investors, including the Founders Factory Africa, Mercy Corps and the Mastercard Foundation. We are also investing in building our senior leadership.”.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 15, 2021

Social media can be a great tool for community support, questions and advice. You’ll find case studies about other successful business owners, as well as big-picture discussions about leadership. The Female Entrepreneur Association was founded by Carrie Green in 2011 and has more than 650,000 women involved around the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. We are happy to now support every & all accelerator in town that provides capital and office space and we want to focus on mentorship, coaching, advice, community building, etc. You may enjoy looking at that last link. So what next?

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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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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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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

In my last blog, I talked about the definition and evaluation of two key elements of an entrepreneurial ecosystem – entrepreneurs and entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs). Collaboration between organizations providing various services creates a cohesive network of resources better suited to support innovation.

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EntreWorks Consulting

JULY 1, 2020

An interesting new Harvard Business School report, “Why Japanese Businesses are so Good at Surviving Crises,” looks at how Japanese firms dealt with the impacts of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The report authors discuss the model of “wise leadership ” as driving the business response in 2011 and beyond. EntreWorks Blog.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Gradually, in January 2011, some directors started writing. Netflix’s Writing Processes Netflix’s team understands that writing the blog is to support recruiting. and supporting recruiting?—?into My studio has consulted with teams at Shopify and Flipp to start their blogs, and we could support you as well.

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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. Our work is aimed at building a more just and supportive society in which the universal rights of all men and women are guaranteed. How has the YLAI Network supported you and helped further your mission?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Being a board member is a great leadership opportunity that enables you to put your expertise to good use. Encourage employee volunteerism: Support an organization that has meaning to you, and motivate your employees to do the same. This article was previously published in the March 2011 issue of Octane magazine.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

He left traditional media at the top of his game to be the founding CEO of Next New Networks, one of the first digital video startups, backed by Spark Capital and bought by YouTube in 2011. In fact, for every retired person in the United States, they are supported by 2.9 people supporting retirees (US Census via LDC analysis).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Doing so ascribes all the fundraising success and the leadership work underpinning it to the founders who are men, effectively propagating gender bias. The data supports this, as the numbers for women founders and the overall first-financing growth are 1.6x from 2011 to 2016 and 3.8x from 2006 to 2011, respectively.¹

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

And when communities work best these new advocates form their own support groups to help each other out and work together on initiatives and once they’re a “member of the tribe” there’s a benefit of attracting other members. 92% of consumers trust peer recommendations , while only 22% of brands are trusted. And it would be?—?but

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, as I’ve previously written , “In 2011, only 28% of Europe’s venture-backed tech deals were seed stage… [but] in 2013 and 2014, roughly half of all European tech venture deals were seed stage.” That’s not much firepower to support what’s coming through an increasingly conical funnel.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Image Credits: Saviynt Nayyar founded Saviynt in 2011 and stayed on until 2018 prior to his most recent stint. But with Nayyar back at the helm and the massive new loan, Saviynt’s leadership is evidently intent on righting the ship. billion in venture dollars went into the identity management sector in 2021, up 2.5x

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones. but a majority stake in its India and SAARC business was acquired by Indian company SAR Group in 2011.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

Then there’s obviously a lot of companies like the ZoomInfos of the world that popped up with data to support that sales motion. But the wins that actually happen, they happen due to the work of sales leadership and sales people. That starts with sales leadership and sales management.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee. AOL seems to be doing great things to reinvent itself under the leadership of Tim Armstrong, but monopoly? After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

The kingdoms of the Yen and the Euro are not so lucky, but we are here to support them.” “And And how will you support your allies, Sir Powell?” If I wish to keep my kingdom as one, I must provide near-boundless support for the less fortunate. It is the duty of my kingdom to support her allies,” he replied.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Through ACA’s strong and experienced public policy leadership team, ACA has been able to gain more diverse voices as both investors and entrepreneurs. The busy year started off when leadership met with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to discuss the accredited investor definition, QSBS and how to build a more successful startup ecosystem.

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