Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 7, 2021

But that’s what happened: My daughter was born in April 2013; my first gym opened in June 2013. I am a mom to two charming girls, and I run a content strategy firm. Child development training helped me learn to manage employee emotions. Alice Kao, EO Los Angeles, Co-founder and CEO, Sender One Climbing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

Today, a startup that’s built a marketplace to make it easier for freelance developers, designers and others with technical skills with those job opportunities is announcing a significant round of funding to expand its business. Altogether the company has handled some €300 million in business since being founded in 2013.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A-Frame , a Los Angeles-based developer of personal care brands supported by celebrities, has raised $2 million in a new round of funding led by Initialized Capital. ” So far, the company has worked with CAA, UTA and WME on all of the brands in development, Bloom said. Two new brands should launch in the next couple of weeks.

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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.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Global growth of sustainable investing strategies 2016-2020 (The 2020 GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT REVIEW by Global Sustainable Investment Alliance) This wave of change is sweeping across various stakeholders. Here, environmental stalwart Lee Yu-jin shed light on strategies for carbon neutrality and green growth.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The core idea behind Iterative is to provide data scientists and data engineers with a platform that closely resembles a modern GitOps-driven development stack. After spending time in academia, Iterative co-founder and CEO Dmitry Petrov joined Microsoft as a data scientist on the Bing team in 2013. Image Credits: Iterative.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Evernote, the note-taking and task management app founded over 20 years ago, has been acquired by Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons. This proved to be a winning strategy — at least at first. In 2013, Evernote was reportedly valued at nearly a billion dollars. But then trouble set in.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

What is the risk-benefit calculus for developing and protecting proprietary technologies vs. buying or licensing them (“ build vs. buy ”)? For this reason, among others, tech startups are well served by engaging a good IP lawyer early in the game to help develop overall strategy and call the plays rather than just execute them.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

People can think of us as the technical co-founder, responsible for driving and executing product strategy, design and the development of scalable products,” Dovetail co-founder Nick Frandsen told TechCrunch. Dovetail is currently raising a $10 million AUD (about $7.5

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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. Dave also conceived and developed the ubiquitous VeriSign Secure Site Seal and helped grow several start-ups to successful IPOs and acquisitions. Written by David Louden. Dave can be reached through fathom.net.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 13, 2023

Companies in the 1st Pangyo Techno Valley and the 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley (Image = Besucses) A decade ago, in November 2013, Gyeonggi-do initiated the ‘Industry-Academy Research Center’ (currently known as Pangyo Techno Valley Startup Campus), an R&D center in Pangyo Techno Valley.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Sehwail’s entrepreneurial journey started after college in 2013, when he developed enterprise web software for the likes of BMW, a business that also inspired his Userpilot strategy. As investors focus more on profitability, product-led startups may be sitting pretty.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Some of its exits include 908 Devices, a mass spectrometry company that went public on Nasdaq last year ; Fyusion , a computer vision startup acquired by Cox Automotive ; and Phyzios, which was acquired by Google in 2013. About half of UTEC’s portfolio are university spin-offs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Our product is universal code search, which helps developers search, understand and automate code,” Slack explained. Developers and site reliability engineers may see that there’s a problem, but getting to the specific part of the code where it’s happening requires a specialized tool, he says.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

As CTO, Raj Yavatkar is responsible for charting Juniper Networks ' technology strategy through the execution of the company’s innovations and products for intelligent self-driving networks, security, mobile edge cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration and hybrid cloud. In 2020, the U.S. had nearly 1.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Both believe that while investors have thrown money at virtual events and edtech companies, there is an even bigger opportunity in developing a kind of multiplayer browsing experience that enables people to do much more together online. Hearo has a more narrow strategy in that the company is “all about watching,” says Lerner.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Indeed, the California-based company, founded in 2013 by Philip Ross and Sophia Wang, is among a hot trend of companies working with fungus and other plant-based materials to make fabrics for fashion. Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We had no money, strategy, or office. In our small team, there was a clear division of roles: marketing, sales, and development. It was a standard proposal with a message: “We are a young ambitious company, carrying out web development services, we can help you with projects based on Joomla…” and so on. What about strategy?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

I am a professor in entrepreneurship and educate students to this reflection and contribute to the development of an entrepreneurial culture and mindset. 2019), The Development of Sustainable Entrepreneurial Ecosystems through Social Capital: The Cases of Academic Incubators, TBSearch, p.5. This is some contribution but not enough.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

They began informally with handwritten contracts, but progressed into using technology to scale the solution from 2013 when it rebranded to Tugende. . ” Over the years, Tugende’s demand has come mainly via word of mouth, a strategy Wilkinson says the company has struggled to keep up with. Development Finance Corporation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

To address this foundational gap in market information, we have developed a proprietary data set of 32 RBI investment firms, 57 distinct funds and 134 companies that have secured revenue-based investing. New RBI firms have been founded every year since 2013. Increasing popularity of RBI.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

But improving transportation is another development target — in particular when you consider that companies like Bolt are built like marketplaces that provide income to people and infrastructure to businesses (in the form of delivery), on top of its most obvious service helping consumers get around.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Erik Bakstad, the co-founder and CEO, said in an interview that the plan is to use the funding for more business development to expand that list of users, but also to invest in its product. This is a significant round for Ardoq, which had up to now raised less than $40 million since being founded in 2013.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Before Monk’s Hill Ventures, Lim served as chief executive officer of Infocomm Investments from 2010 to 2013. Infocomm Investments is backed by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore, a government agency that is responsible for promoting the IT industry in Singapore.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute heavily to the economic success of many countries, particularly those in the developing world. Since launching in 2013, South African fintech Yoco has positioned itself as the go-to platform to access offline payments among merchants in the country.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn estimates that Duolingo’s upcoming product developments will get users from zero to a knowledge job in a different language within the next two to three years. The year after its founding, Duolingo launched its Language Incubator in 2013. Instead, it’s in study mode.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013. TC Insights , a data analytics consulting service, works on research, data and industry strategy on different projects. It also plans to further develop Zikoko Memes , a Giphy-like product focused on African memes, gifs and images the company launched in 2020.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The investment in BillionBricks is in line with our strategy of expanding our focus to include impact investing and contribute to reducing environmental impact, while helping communities in need,” said Thakral Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director Inderbethal Singh Thakral. The post BillionBricks scores $2.4m

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Austin-based company has developed an app that it says gives renters a way to tour, apply for and lease a unit “entirely online.” In 2013, Grubhub had successfully put many restaurant menus online, but most of the transactions and delivery process was still offline,” he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Founded in 2013 and based in Redwood City, California, MOLOCO has now raised $200 million in total. Its clients range in size from mobile developers who have less than 100,000 users to more than a billion, Ahn said in an email, with some spending more than $1 million a month through MOLOCO Cloud, its demand-side platform (DSP).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

mPharma was originally founded in 2013 by Rockson , Daniel Shoukimas and James Finucane to manage prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and their suppliers, retail pharmacy operations and provide market intelligence to hospitals, pharmacies and patients. ’s development arm CDC Group, Breyer Capital and Golden Palm Investments.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

What strategies have you utilized to grow EO Atlanta’s Accelerator program? The first major change we implemented was in 2013 when we added an EO co-chair position to support the chair, which established the groundwork for our rapid growth. I served as co-chair and in 2014, took over as chair with Ethan King as co-chair.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

In 2013, he flirted with an idea for a platform that could help people pay for songs on their phones. If Ajebutter22 plans to change his strategy as he makes more angel investments, setting up a formal structure like Zagadat Capital — which Mr Eazi references as a collective — will be essential.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Ultimately, we chose not to pursue this model as part of our corporate strategy. Even though we decided not to pursue this model at InboxDollars, I continued to think about it and eventually decided to start angel investing as a personal hobby in 2013. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” Side note: I rarely play the “What If?”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Wallapop will be leaning on Naver and its technology in its own R&D, and on Naver’s side it will give the company a foothold in the European market at a time when it has been sharpening its strategy in e-commerce. By 2016, Wallapop was merging with a rival, LetGo , as part of a bigger strategy to crack the U.S.

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