Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 19, 2020

Rosario Diaz Garavito, the founder of The Millennials Movement , didn’t look to be labeled as an entrepreneur and a leader in her community when she began her small social media movement promoting youth volunteerism in 2013. When she returned to Peru in 2013, she launched The Millennials Movement and began offering resources on volunteerism.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

The initial idea was born in 2013 but was not officially registered as a business until 2020 because she faced hardships launching the STEM Builders Learning Hub and finding tutors.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 31, 2021

TEALS came to NYC in 2013 and has been helping kids learn computer science in NYC schools ever since. TEALS is a longstanding program supported by Microsoft where software engineers assist in computer science instruction in K12 schools. I have been blogging about and advocating TEALS for over eight years now.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Hunter Walk: You started at Instacart in 2013, just a year after it was founded, which obviously turned out to be an epic decision. Nilam Ganenthiran : The story of me joining Instacart in 2013, is actually rooted in an epic bad decision. Rafa runs Background Capital, and is one of the best partners for early company builders I know.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

One measure of CincyTech’s overall impact is that in 2013, its portfolio companies represent 80% of total seed and early stage capital invested in Southwest Ohio. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

I backed that company in 2013 when it was basically a table top science project, but the key was a series of connections that could have only been possible as a full time investor. Angels will often sit on the sidelines until someone comes in to set the terms and write a bigger check.

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500

MARCH 18, 2020

I first met Flavio in 2013, when he co-invested alongside 500 Startups in Olist, one of Brazil’s largest online marketplaces–which recently raised a Series C round. Olist’s founder was in our San Francisco accelerator program, and in his next round of funding turned to Flavio, who was then president of Walmart.com in Brazil.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In 2013, she sold her business and decided to get “more involved in governance”. Alongside that, she provided strategic advisory and founder coaching whilst serving on the executive committee of the NZ Audiological Society and the NZ Kindergartens Board.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 17, 2014

— Charlie O''Donnell (@ceonyc) March 9, 2013. @danielaperdomo That is serious! Putting together a little dinner of folks Sun night. Would love to meet a Bklyn maker/Resistor. We agreed to meet up and she told me what she was working on. I had no idea she was a founder with a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. It made me realize that we’ve never properly introduced our associates: Graham Gelwicks. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. So what is an EIR and why Sam?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 19, 2020

million in commissions, at current Bitcoin exchange rates…”, according to the September 2013 complaint, and involved 146,946 buyers and 3,877 vendors [link]. These figures are equivalent to roughly $1.2 billion in revenue and $79.8

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

My kids are growing up in Los Angeles in 2013. We actually didn’t plan to – she sort of adopted us and we her. She is Filipina and my younger son grew up with Tagalog words and Chicken Adobo as his favorite dish.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 9, 2013

It’s 2013 and I’m supposed to believe in the “wisdom of the crowds.” She far too opinionated. Tempestuous.” ” F**k ‘em. Don’t feed the trolls. Know that you signed up for this and it is why you are a leader. I know, I know. ” We’re supposed to all allow side projects.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2020

Crypto was helpful for me back in 2013 and 2014 when I was going through one of those periods. And the more the investment is of yourself, your time, your enthusiasm, the worse it is. I’ve gotten out of these periods of burnout by turning my attention to something else.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013. I was at the Lobby Conference a few weeks ago in Mexico. My wife and I went down 3 days early and had some chill out time. I don’t want to be on autopilot.

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UBI Global

MARCH 19, 2021

What you need to know about the next World Benchmark Study Since 2013, UBI Global has conducted the World Benchmark Study, an analysis of the impact and performance of hundreds of business incubators and accelerators from around the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

In 2013 we launched many firsts to reinvent our firm. After a year I asked Jordan to work alongside me as the head of our internal “strategy & operations” team as we worked to define the kind of firm we wanted to build for the future. We relaunched our brand name. That involved a lot more work than you might think.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

In November 2012 Caya was selected as one of 40-Under-40 Costa Rican innovators, and he was a featured speaker on the 2013 TEDx PuraVida Conference. The company then evolved into Saborstudio, a digital marketing consulting agency. In mid-2014, Caya started Slidebean.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 12, 2023

But that’s what happened: My daughter was born in April 2013; my first gym opened in June 2013. You’re more adaptable than you think As a born planner, I never planned to have a baby and start a business at the same time.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 14, 2021

Dogecoin was initially introduced in late 2013 and 7 1/2 years later it has amassed a market cap of $43bn and is one of the most popular crypto assets in the world. I remember when a friend of mine told me five or six years ago that he had bought some Dogecoin. I thought “what is he doing?”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Shouldn’t all your storage be inventoried with photos in 2013? Or was it in that fracking storage facility off of the 52 freeway? She drove out and looked for it. What a hassle. Turns out it wasn’t even at the storage facility. Shouldn’t you be able to scroll through your storage facility online? I’ll admit it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime.

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UBI Global

JANUARY 9, 2020

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – UBI Global, an intelligence company and community founded in 2013 and located in Stockholm, Sweden, announced today that Fredrik Grufvisare has been appointed to the role of CEO. Ali Amin, Co-founder and former CEO of UBI Global, will remain with the organization as the Chief Commercial Officer.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

— Brian Alvey (@brianalvey) November 10, 2013. "The venture capital game has become about branding yourself so you can get into a handful of hot deals." -- @Naval on stage with @Jason. This feels like a West Coast mentality, because deals seem to feel "hot" more often out there--I believe because of founder pedigree.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

However, prior to the termination, I was in negotiations with another facility to house two brown pelicans from an oil spill that occurred off the west coast of Trinidad in December 2013. Due to permit negotiation, I needed to decide whether to take these birds or let them be euthanized.

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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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500

MARCH 25, 2019

In 2013, I became an entrepreneur-in-residence and helped run the accelerator batches when 500 expanded to San Francisco. I was excited to join the ride. Over the next eight years, I grew with 500 as we scaled from a small group of passionate investors to the array of global-minded investors we are today.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 11, 2022

In 2013, Allen went into business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After experiencing insurance and financial services businesses take advantage of people she cared for, State Farm agent owner Emma Allen knew she would go into that industry to support her community.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

I know that some people will point out that widely read presentation on YouTube on Sept 2013 criticizes YouTube for its revenue split. YouTube as a platform in which to build your entire business is naive. Plan your business wisely. *. post-script. I think that is one of the most misunderstood points I’ve ever made.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 7, 2021

But that’s what happened: My daughter was born in April 2013; my first gym opened in June 2013. “As a born planner, I never planned to have a baby and start a business at the same time. After a two-week maternity leave, I started running staff meetings at my house while breastfeeding and figuring out the new baby routine.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Distribution costs have, too. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2019

When USV invested in Coinbase in early 2013, our rationale was that digital currencies and digital assets (like Bitcoin and beyond) were a breakthrough technology, similar to TCP/IP, HTTP and SMTP. We believe Libra has the potential to be the catalyst that brings the entire cryptocurrency and cryptoasset market into the mainstream.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2013, Indianapolis-based ExactTarget was acquired by Salesforce for $2.5 Often times, wealth creation occurs directly from jobs, revenue sharing, and returns for local investors, but the collective effect of more financial freedom and spending power can reverberate throughout an entire region.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 14, 2019

The news hit yesterday that WordPress has purchased Tumblr from Verizon (which owns it by virtue of its acquisition of Yahoo! USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively involved in the development of the company until its sale to Yahoo! There was no moment when I decided to stop posting there.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2020

I first met and interviewed the DoorDash founders on Friday, April 26, 2013. Here’s one of my notes from June 24, 2013: “So far, nothing is working that well. But they kept trying new ideas, and finally on July 16, 2013 I noted: “Growing fast (up to about 35 orders/day from 19 two weeks ago).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2019

He didn’t win the global competition that year, but Carlos went on to participate in GSEA in a variety of roles—first as a special guest in the 2013 finals, then as a jury member in the 2015 semi-finals in Thailand and, most recently, as a jury member in the 2017 semifinals in Germany.

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