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Overcoming obstacles and transforming STEM education in Jamaica

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

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. Kavelle credits the YLAI experience with helping provide new tools and an opportunity to build on her business strategy to help her succeed.

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Splendid Spoon stirs its strategy to get you to love plant-based foods

TechCrunch

Nicole Centeno founded the company in 2013. In addition to focusing on its team, next up for the company is to look at its strategy development and go-to-market strategy for trial opportunities for supplements, other foods and different channels beyond direct-to-consumer. “We

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Pangyo Techno Valley: Leading the Charge in ESG Management and Building a Sustainable Industry Ecosystem

AsiaTechDaily

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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Finding North In a New World

Entrepreneurs' Organization

He joined the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) in 2013. I went from having a solid strategy, a decent pipeline and a great team to execute on it to being forced to stay in my house with my wife and son, my team working remotely (with our new shiny office sitting empty), and every project we were working on being cancelled or postponed.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” How little we all knew how ironic that term would become but has nonetheless endured. Ten years on much has changed.

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Share the mindset of success in EO Accelerator

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2013, Allen went into business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Accelerator programme’s culture is based on three key components: Strict confidentiality: EOA participants share sensitive information such as financials , strategies and weaknesses.

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Dataiku gets $400M at a $4.6B valuation, led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013, Dataiku is used by data scientists, but also designed for business analysts and other people with less technical backgrounds. New investors included Insight Partners, Eurazeo, Lightrock and Olivier Pomel, the chief executive of Datadog. Dataiku’s last round of funding was a $100 million Series D in 2020.