Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We had no money, strategy, or office. What about strategy? At the very beginning, I mentioned that we had no strategy. Image by Pixabay.com This allowed us to focus not on survival, but on creativity. We kept a third of them and successfully sold these modules until 2013. But we lacked legal support and knowledge.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Sam has had a subscription podcast since 2013, while Ben has had a subscription newsletter since 2014. Over the last 6 years, people have come to love their creative work and are willing to pay top dollar for it. Ben Thompson built strategic products for companies like Apple and Microsoft before he started writing about tech strategy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

It has a popular and meme-ified mascot in the form of the owl Duo, a creative and engaging product, and ambitious plans for expansion.There’s just one key question in the midst of all those milestones: Does anyone actually learn a language using Duolingo? The year after its founding, Duolingo launched its Language Incubator in 2013.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2018

Dave is a co-founder and partner at Fathom , a strategy and creative consultancy based in Connecticut. “While monetary investment is also important, the research found it had a more positive impact when recognition was core to the organization’s talent strategy.” Written by David Louden.

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Feedough

APRIL 16, 2021

In 2013, the Canadian budget airline WestJet surveyed passengers using interactive life-like screens, which depicted Santa dressed in the airline’s colours, to find out what they would like as Christmas presents. Grassroots marketing uses this referral marketing strategy to gain consumer trust. Grassroots Marketing Examples.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

When Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn” in 2013, startups valued at $1 billion were rare creatures: there were just 39 of them at the time. The age of the centaur: $100M ARR is the new cloud valuation milestone. Image Credits: itsabreeze photography (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Knowing everything I’ve gained, I think that the main enemies of any business are: A wrong strategy: Sometimes, entrepreneurs pay too much attention to competitors’ strategies and try to create “something different” instead of focusing on their own vision. At other times, they just copy someone else’s strategy and try to implement it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Eléonore Crespo, co-founder and co-CEO of Pigment, said in a statement: “We’re a bit like Minecraft for business strategy – with that kind of creative, organic potential for the user. Standard planning solutions are basically mechanical, treating a business like a machine with levers that you just push and pull.”. .”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV. But what about tech talent?

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Since its founding in 2013, NS1 has raised more than $100 million to build an engineering team and robust product portfolio that’s expanded to include DDI, which helps companies manage internal networks. Image Credits: Paper Boat Creative (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. 5 fundraising imperatives for robotics startups.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Founded in 2013 in Detroit , LaunchGood is a crowdfunding platform that’s built to empower Muslims and raise money for their campaigns around the world. Both internally and externally, LaunchGood taps into the creative power of Muslims worldwide. Amany Killawi, Co-Founder and COO. LaunchGood (Detroit).

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We used to meet to discuss our strategy, plans, take stock of new teams coming in and build the basic processes of the network. Impact Hub Global Gathering, Oaxaca 2013. In the early years, there were only four people in the global team and most of us worked part-time. Across London, Vienna, Zurich and Brussels.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

I was fortunate enough to have Amy Smith, the Chief Strategy & Impact Officer, share her perspective on this topic: “The start of the pandemic was a challenging time that provided many with the opportunity to pause, reflect and gain perspective, and this was no different for TOMS. That’s my modus operandi. Find the open space.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Ajebutter22 , a Nigerian-based music artist and rapper whose real name is Akitoye Balogun, agrees with Mr Eazi’s philosophy of investing in creatives. According to him, powering artists and people in the creative space should be done in a startup/VC manner.

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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. Here Cincinnati was really creative to its approach to attracting more venture capital to the region – including this author. I was instantly intrigued.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

There is an unmet need of $260 billion to $320 billion for women-owned company funding, according to a 2013 study conducted by the International Finance Corporation. The findings revealed that women are more effective at accounting for multiple competing interests, solving problems creatively and building consensus.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Hitpoint Studios Whether a client is looking to launch a new product or solve a technical challenge, HitPoint will deliver projects on time and on budget – through creative design, excellent engineering, and thoughtful use of new technologies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013. Cabal Creative , for instance, is an in-house content studio that has produced content for global brands such as Google, Uber and Coca-Cola. TC Insights , a data analytics consulting service, works on research, data and industry strategy on different projects.

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