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This article was originally published in October 2014, written by Matt Guay with previous contributions by Anna Burgess Yang. You can use all types of data, such as follow-up meetings, shipping information, or a signed contract, to keep your CRM in sync with activities from other tools within your organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Long before that, the company engaged in anti-competitive practices and antagonized critics, especially female journalists like Sarah Lacy, who called out years of the company’s toxic issues as early 2014. She was threatened by the company, yet her call for change and her callout of top investors went largely ignored.

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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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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

I put my ambitions of becoming an entrepreneur on pause for a couple of years until finally walking away from the corporate world in March 2014. I had no guidance at the time, so I didn’t know my ideas weren’t feasible and it was a very expensive lesson learned.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

million in DeepMind, and recouped over 80 times that amount when Google bought the company in 2014. It was enough to secure a formal meeting with Thiel, who went on to invest US$1.85 The post How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’ appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. The doubters will question you. The trolls will swipe at you. Competitors will undermine you. These are the signs of innovation.

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Revolution

JULY 26, 2021

Shamir sold Simple to BBVA in 2014 and continued to work for the company, further aggravating his frustrations with traditional banking’s slow adoption of technology and ineffective home-grown solutions, which place heavy implementation burdens on innovators in the space?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Zeitview was founded in 2014 with the goal of bringing a new resource to businesses: the sky. After serving in the military, Burton did a short stint at Goldman Sachs and made the leap in 2014 to launch Zeitview. He claims to have personally flown the company’s first 100 or so drone missions.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

million adults in the United States experienced a voice problem in 2014. Research from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey indicated that about one in twelve children between the ages of three and seventeen had dealt with a communication disorder in the previous year. Another study estimated that approximately 17.9

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels The year was 2014. All of that changed on December 1st, 2014. Real winners use failure as a learning opportunity. I was a wandering college student who could move from idealistic optimism to sturdy cynicism in the blink of an eye.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

But Tang wasn’t satisfied and eventually sold ELEX Technology to a publicly listed company for about $400 million in 2014. 2014 might have been the last year it was economically feasible to start such a business due to the soaring cost of acquiring customers and the strength of incumbents,” he said. Other investors noticed as well.

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

And we have since we started our efforts in 2014. Today, we are excited to announce that Airbnb Co-founder & CEO, Brian Chesky, will join Revolution Chairman & CEO, Steve Case, to headline the virtual mainstage at our first-ever Tech Talent Tour and Virtual Career Fair.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

Now this company raised over $40 million in funding since they launched in 2014. And they’re on their way. Really cool app, now with growing coverage across the U.S. 2, Guardhat. They’ve got revenues tripling year over year.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Generic cam’s could never match the security use case as well as Ring could and when consumers went online or to a store to find our product the offering was very clear. Where you see cameras on Amazon and think “cool, but what would I really use it for?”

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

billion from 10,000 individual investors since its founding in 2014, the firm has funded to date over 350 companies founded or led by women of its 1300+ current portfolio companies. Women-founded startups show measurable positive results compared to those of men Alumni Ventures (AV), the most active venture firm in the U.S. Having raised $1.3

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Founded in 2014 by industry veterans Chi-Hua Chien and Eric Kim, Goodwater is the largest venture capital fund focused on consumer tech investments. Register Venture capital firm Goodwater has concluded its latest funding round, raising $1 billion in capital commitments for its fifth early-stage and third opportunity-style funds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Before now, Appzone closed a $2 million round from South African Business Connexion (BCX) in 2014. New York-based but Africa-focused firm Lateral Investment Partners also participated. Four years later, it raised $2.5 million in convertible debt and bought back shares from BCX in the process.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity. 90% of their funded startups are led by women or people of color.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Yuriy Gankin, co-founder and chief science officer at Quantori, says the founders back up these claims with decades of experience in this market, including helping launch and build a company called GGA Software Services, which also focused on the life sciences market, and was acquired by EPAM in 2014.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Homejoy expanded internationally in 2014 in a rush to squash a new German competitor Helpling. Helpling focused carefully on product, automation and making their unit economics work. A rush to crush an international competitor caused the demise of a would-be unicorn. Their websites in 2020 show starkly different outcomes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

I started going regularly in 2014 when I became a Global Shaper. (I Overall Takeaways from the WEF meeting in Davos John Metcalf, co-founder and CEO of Upgraded , shared his experience at Davos 2023: This year was my fifth time to visit Davos during the WEF annual meeting. I am now an alumnus).

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 27, 2024

The Retail Reactivation Initiative was established to stimulate the local economy Since Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was elected in 2014, he has been committed to revitalizing the City of Newark, stimulating business in the downtown area, and strengthening neighborhoods. For its business development program, he took two key steps.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

million round back in 2014 , when the company said it would be able to get net power generation of fusion up and running within three years. ” TechCrunch was surprised to learn of the company’s $1.5

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In 2014 Maven Clinic Founder Kate Ryder had a vision for improving women’s healthcare. The company’s decade-long growth will continue with its recent funding round supporting its innovative approach to healthcare.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

ThreatX was co-founded in 2014 by Bret Settle and Andrius Useckas. Companies that defend APIs from outside attack have been particularly fruitful, lately, with startups such as Ghost Security and Corsha raising tens of millions of dollars in capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

This sector has been on an upward trajectory since 2014. Amid these strides, the 2022 White Paper on Korean Games by the Korea Creative Content Agency highlighted an 11.2% YoY growth in the domestic game industry sales in 2021, touching KRW 20.9913 trillion won.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). The economists who conducted the study analyzed administrative government data on the founders of all U.S. The authors calculated the average founder age at the time of founding, along with key startup characteristics (i.e. hyper-growth, acquisition, or IPO).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Department of Education data from 2014 showed that 62% of correctional educational programs in the country didn’t allow prisoners access to the internet. Inmates can go well over a decade without access to technologies like smartphones and only limited familiarity with the internet. For example, U.S.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

In 2014, Coolidge had been in business for herself for 10 years as a public relations consultant and communications services provider. . “I’d Sometimes it makes sense to hire a business coach or consultant to help you solve a particular challenge or to provide an outside perspective on how to make progress toward your goals. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

But before CcHub launched its $500,000 accelerator programme and Aboyeji founded Andela in 2014, Jason Njoku of iROKO had already begun to invest in startups. Bosun Tijani talks strategy as CEO of Africa’s new largest tech hub.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

In 2014, the Nigerian tech scene was coming of age as more local and global venture capital flushed into startups building the next big thing. MaC Venture Capital led the round while VC firms Luminate, Unicorn Group, Future Africa, and several angel investors participated. BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Founder and CEO Thomas Pays started Ozow in 2014 to drive financial inclusion through open banking. Coming off a year of exponential growth, it has raised a $48 million Series B to provide more alternative payment solutions to its millions of merchants and consumers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Founded in 2014, Rohlik’s funding comes at an interesting and key moment in the online grocery business, in Europe and beyond. The valuation is not being disclosed, but Forbes’ Czech edition , when reporting on the round being in the works in January, said it was over €600 million ($723 million).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

This frustrated Anderson, a former litigator, whose own struggles with legal tech tools led him to co-found Filevine in 2014 alongside Jim Blake and Nathan Morris. .” But some corners of the legal field remain reluctant to adopt new technologies due to strict standards for confidentiality and security and a lack of domain expertise.

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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. Now, Shanghai is poised to become one of the top global financial centers in the world, like New York, London, and Tokyo.

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