Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Tal adopted strategies that include sticking to a super-simple pitch, aiming to surpass his initial funding target, not taking rejection personally, and setting an unusually low investment threshold so friends and family could be a part of his success. Insights Learned From Raising $1.5

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2015

We stayed in touch and reconnected around a blog post that I wrote in 2012 on falling in love with the problem and not getting attached to the solution. I first met Ben on January 29th, 2011 at an SLP mentoring session. He was working on Village Vines, which became Savored.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 1, 2013

Typically, VCs adopt primarily one of three strategies with a fund [1]: Small fund , small ownership positions, many investments in markets that will consistently generate sub-$100M acquisitions. I’m going to use CBInsights’ 2012 Private Technology Company M&A Data data to demonstrate why VCs adopt these three strategies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 2, 2020

Their competitors took advantage—and Kodak went bankrupt in 2012. Fortunately, recent research in cognitive neuroscience has identified strategies help you know when you’re falling into cognitive biases , as well as ways to defeat these dangerous judgment errors in your professional life. It’s not a mystery or an innate gift.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 6, 2023

In 2022, the government announced the “Strategy to Achieve Semiconductor Superpower,” Gyeonggi-do followed suit with plans to create a semiconductor industry cluster. Gyeonggi Governor Kim Dong-yeon pledged to “cultivate future new growth industries,” including semiconductors, future cars, and bio industries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Spiegel’s had success selling technology to lawyers in the past, with his practice management software startup MyCase acquired by AppFolio in 2012 (AppFolio recently sold MyCase to a variety of funds for $193 million).

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2012, by which time Wu was already cooperating with multiple Japanese fashion companies, he founded the Fujin Tree Group. He shared with us three strategies any local restaurant brand should adopt when expanding into an overseas market. “The process was challenging,” he shares.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Companies such as E*TRADE, Rocket Mortgage, and TurboTax began to disrupt the established financial services sector well before 2012, but that year marked the turning point when fintech morphed into a sustained movement that would drastically change how most people manage their money. Here are four steps you can take to remain competitive.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 11, 2023

Changing course A 2012 ski holiday in Canada triggered a remarkable new realization. Every twist and turn of his arduous journey served as a crucial preparation for the defining purpose of his lifetime: Solving educational and employment opportunities for South Africa’s youth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

” Launched in 2012 by Khoury, Alo Sarv and Tony Rindsberg, Soci’s platform is designed for organizations that have hundreds — or even thousands — of people managing their marketing across various channels. ” Khoury has a colorful background. Yelp) and then automatically responds to those reviews.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Srinivasan and Venu Shamapant started the firm in 2012, and its first two funds both raised $105 million. Our results are that we have gotten to validate that strategy is right and works well.”. We are big believers in the market, and now others are starting to recognize what we have known.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Ben Miller founded Fundrise in 2012 to give retail investors access to the private real estate market, and the company has since become one of the top 20 investors by size in that space, Miller, who serves as CEO, told TechCrunch in an interview. Fundrise manages over $2.8

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We are delighted to be the lead investor for this financing transaction as part of our dedicated private credit strategy to support Traveloka’s business growth with flexible credit solutions,” said Celia Yan, head of Asian Private Credit at BlackRock.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 6, 2020

In terms of pandemics, we remember avian flu (1997), SARS (2003) and MERS (2012). But we’ve all dealt with things that felt new and terrible at the time. Some of us remember the 2000 dot-com crash. Others recall the 2008 financial crisis. Think of the challenges you’ve already faced,” Rustand says.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In 2012, Girls Who Code launched, teaching girls computer programming. What would happen if companies offered flexibility to their employees, backed by data and scalable strategies? Boys outnumbered girls by a wide margin. Because of this gap, just 1 in 5 computer science graduates are women, an issue Saujani hopes to solve.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Netskope co-founder and CEO Sanjay Beri told TechCrunch that since its founding in 2012, the company’s mission has been to guide companies through their digital transformation by finding what is most valuable to them — sensitive data — and protecting it. What we had before in the market didn’t work for that world,” he said.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

In 2012, it surpassed Melbourne, Australia; in 2014, it surpassed Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia; in 2016, it overtook Seoul, South Korea; and in 2018, for the first time, it outranked Tokyo, Japan. Each conference boasts a roster of industry luminaries delivering keynote addresses, workshops, and panel discussions.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 23, 2021

2012: Facebook. This has as much to do with novel GTM strategies, better product-market fit, and the consequent greater leverage in businesses, as does the demand side. If we plot the annual growth rates for the 75th percentile Series A, we observe the expansion in valuations occurs in fits and starts. 2014: Alibaba.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

In the very near future, we’re going to continue to evolve our platform away from automating strategies and giving people this easy investment platform into actually offering structured products like risk-adjusted portfolios and giving curated investment advice to individuals based on their risk tolerance,” Birch said.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

Robust Support for Scaling Startups: Local Task Forces in Action Seongnam City initiated a task force in 2012, tailoring support schemes that resonate with Pangyo Techno Valley companies’ requirements.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2018

By 2012, I had moved out to the suburbs, I had twins and a baby daughter, and I was still consulting. What does a future-first talent strategy look like? So, future first talent strategies intentionally focus more leadership attention on cultivating the next generation of talent and leadership.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

During the program, industry “experts” and past founders in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) space will provide participants with “strategic guidance” on product and go-to-market strategy, “while preparing the company for success and future financing from top-tier venture capital firms,” say the organizers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

CEO Mallorie Brodie and COO Lauren Lake founded Bridgit in late 2012 with the mission of helping construction companies maximize profits “by taking a people-first approach. Given the added pressures of the labor shortage that the industry is facing, building a proactive ‘people strategy’ is top of mind for builders across North America.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

” FormSwift was co-founded by David Becker and Sathvik Tantry in 2012 with the goal of reducing the amount of time businesses spend filling out commonly used forms. So far, Dropbox has made 28 such acquisitions, according to Crunchbase data, the largest being the buyout of HelloSign in 2019 at a reported $230 million.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Tal adopted strategies that include sticking to a super-simple pitch, aiming to surpass his initial funding target, not taking rejection personally, and setting an unusually low investment threshold so friends and family could be a part of his success. Insights Learned From Raising $1.5

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“We have been intensifying our efforts to enter Indonesia since mid-2021 and have been actively pursuing several entry strategies in parallel. Following the transaction, edotco will enjoy a truly pan-Indonesian platform with a presence across all the major islands of Java, Sumatra, Bali, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Eastern Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Greg Sands started the firm in 2012 as a sole general partner and told TechCrunch that all the way back to the first fund, it invested in companies, like Intaact, which was acquired by Sage in 2017 , and Datalogix, acquired by Oracle in 2014 , that established a pattern.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Founded in 2012, Ali Niknam has already invested quite a bit of money into his own company. In particular, the company expects to acquire smaller companies to fuel its growth strategy. Bunq founder Ali Niknam is also participating in the round — he’s investing $29.5 He poured $116.6 million (€98.7

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Founded in 2012, Kiddom was able to raise millions without revenue or a clear business model. It’s a common strategy with bottom up sales. The financing came nearly three years after Kiddom’s Series B, a $15 million round led by Owl. The startup didn’t just raise money, it finally learned how to make some.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Beyond co-founding Initialized, which raised a $700 million fund (its sixth) last year and has over $1 billion in known assets under management, Tan was also co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012. Since inception, my goal has always been for Initialized to outlive its founders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Lifeline Ventures’ latest fund represents its fifth to date, with its inaugural €29 million fund closing in 2012, followed by fund two in 2014 which amounted to €17 million; a €57 million fund three in 2016; and a €130 million fund three years later. “We’re still seeing lots of startups being founded, in Finland specifically.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

He’ll detail the way journalists think about news and outline effective strategies to cut through the noise and grab their attention. Tomaeno founded ASTRSK, a NYC-based PR firm, in 2012. In short, he’ll explain why he believes the most important work takes place before you send the first email to a reporter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

So it replaced top-down curriculums with analytics-driven growth strategies, becoming consumed by an ethos that has more recently been dubbed product-led growth. Duolingo Skill Tree UX in 2012. Duolingo didn’t just throw out the old colors though — it wanted to completely rethink language learning from the bottom up for mobile.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

“Our go-to-market strategy is focused on leveraging our digital products to win new customers and provide them with a solution for a faster, more cost-efficient transformation or with a component for incremental value added,” Romero said. billion from 2012 to 2021.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

And Greg has had the most influence on Upfront Ventures’ strategy since he joined. I asked for the responsibility of setting out the firm’s future strategy and our daily operating tasks. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. He’s pushed us to be out in the community more. I tried to be at every event.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

More companies adopt the idea of qualifying buyers through a product embracing the benefits of product-led growth including faster sales cycles, greater ARR per employee, and quicker account expansion make PLG the dominant GTM strategy. The IPO market hasn’t been this hot since at least 2012, but likely since the dot-com era.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. While Melissa Butler was working on Wall Street in 2012, she started making lipstick in her kitchen because she was so sick and tired of the beauty industry “standards”—no diversity, no inclusion and way too many harsh chemicals.

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