Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Notable investment successes include: Crescendo Bioscience , an early i2E investment, was acquired for $270 million in 2014. By leveraging its extensive network and resources, i2E is committed to supporting innovation, driving economic development, and nurturing a thriving entrepreneurial community. billion at its IPO in April 2021.The

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. We capped our fund size so that we would stay true to our investment strategy in terms of size, scope and number of partners as we stood in 2014 when we raised the fund.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Nightcrawler (2014). The Social Network (2010). Chef (2014). Wild (2014). The Great Invisible (2014). We’ll post new pictures, stories, videos and memes every day on: Octane blog , Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and Instagram. The post 18 Films Entrepreneurs *Should* See appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

CEO Kamal Shah, writing in a company blog post announcing the acquisition, explained that the company made a bet a couple of years ago on Kubernetes and it has paid off. That includes Palo Alto Networks acquiring competitor TwistLock for $410 million in 2019. Investors included Menlo Ventures, Redpoint and Sequoia Capital.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We were invited to participate by the Global Leaders Initiative, which aims to bring key networks together to find solutions that address the challenges of sustainable development. I started going regularly in 2014 when I became a Global Shaper. (I and more articles from the EO blog. I am now an alumnus).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

During the onset of the pandemic, Aboyeji, via his blog post , said Future Africa Fund was looking to raise institutional investment. 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.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable. It can save time.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

But every once in a while you get a WhatsApp scenario —where a bigger competitor is so scared of your product that they’re willing to offer almost anything to mitigate that risk (like the $19 billion Facebook paid for WhatsApp back in 2014). Here’s the Secret to a Successful Exit appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2019

After selling Tio Networks, his online bill payment company, to PayPal for $304 million , he started a health technology company called WELL—and multiple employees, investors and contractors followed him there. But leaders who can harness the power of their network also fortify companies by nurturing talent and grooming potential successors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2016

Nowhere is this truer than in the IT security industry, especially in the aftermath of 2014’s endless string of high-profile network security breaches at the tech security company, Blue Coat, for example. The post Three Signs Your Start-Up will Catch the Eye of Venture Capitalists appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

The startup, which raised over $400 million according to Crunchbase data , makes networking ethernet switches optimized for the cloud. The company, which was founded in 2014, raised more than $143 million last year on a post-money valuation of $1.3 Marvell announced this morning it has reached an agreement to acquire Innovium for $1.1

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EntreWorks Consulting

MAY 23, 2019

Back in 2014, Congress wisely opted to try a new approach for revitalizing American manufacturing: the Manufacturing USA Network. Manufacturing USA is a public-private network of 14 Manufacturing Institutes that fund and promote research in key disciplines related to manufacturing. EntreWorks Blog.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

It offers academic tutoring, mentoring, networking opportunities and practical learning experience from prestigious companies, ensuring that participants are exposed to different aspects of knowledge necessary to venture into the entrepreneurial process. . Interested in reading more action stories related to the program?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 29, 2017

percent of Americans aged 12 and older battled some type of substance abuse issue in 2014 (the most recent year for which data is available). Learn what it’s like to join the only global network exclusively for entrepreneurs. . The post How Recovery from Addiction Helped Me Find My Professional Purpose appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. Microsoft can seek to better integrate with its new prize and monetize different parts of the network over time (if it chooses to do so). Satya strikes again.

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Feedough

APRIL 16, 2021

Broadly speaking, Bumble is a geolocation-based social application that allows its users to build healthy relationships, friendships, and professional networks. Launched as a women-centric dating app in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe Herd, Bumble aims at building an empowering and inclusive community. Who Are Bumble’s Customers?

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2021

All adapted garments available around 2011-2014 were very poorly designed and not fashionable at all! Over the upcoming period, we’ll be sharing more stories of inclusive entrepreneurship in this blog. How to make the field of entrepreneurship more inclusive to migrants and refugees, people with disability, seniors, women, youth?

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

Tiger 21, a peer membership network for high-net-worth individuals, estimates that the wealthiest individuals direct more than 50% of their portfolios to alternative assets. in 2014 to a target of 23.5% The post 5 REASONS INVESTING IN STARTUPS JUST GOT EASIER: LEARN ABOUT THE NEW SEC GUIDELINES appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way. Berhens Wu is the CEO and co-founder of Shippo , which offers an API to connect eCommerce businesses and marketplaces to a network of different shipping providers.

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Continuations

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This made sense in the age of the printed newspaper and the telephone network of yesteryear. The second trap is misunderstanding network effects. But each of these three separate networks would still be ridiculously powerful in its own right and so would be Twitter and whatever new networks are yet to come.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Advertising has seen its share of both series A and seed dollars fall from 15% to 5% in just five years, and indication of how out-of-favor this category of business has become amongst investors, because of the dominant network effects of Facebook and Google. Analytics remains an important category for both markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

With that in mind, Sesamm enables businesses to track textual data from across the web — including news portals, NGO reports and social networks — and convert this into actionable insights. “Data sources include highly vetted news organizations, expert blogs and social media. billion company.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

By: Kathie Priebe and Cristina Almeida, Managing Directors of Golden Seeds Reposted with permission from Golden Seeds blog. Editor’s note: This is an update to the original blog post, “How did she do it? In September 2014, we received a $3.6M In regard to raising money, be sure to leverage your network.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. The first was in July of 2014, when we made the unusual move of raising and announcing another round of private financing while on file to go public. Any good stories or memories about the process or listing day itself?

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Their impressive and novel brix measurement device allows us to reward the independent growers across our network who provide the ripest and best tasting berries.” OurCrowd was an early investor in BioCatch in 2014 and invested in the recent $168M lead by Bain Capital. Partnering with Consumer Physics was an easy decision.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Read more about how this Nita Maru built a successful “one-stop law firm” based in Dubai in an Octane post from 2014. Enrich your entrepreneurial journey by learning from a global network of peers. . The post Dreams Fulfilled appeared first on THE BLOG. How are you gaining new perspectives and insights? .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 21, 2021

I joined EO in 2014. I knew how critical Forum would be to members who were struggling and how the power of EO’s global network would help with regard to industry-specific content. The post Jamie Pujara: The 2021 EO Mark Lincoln Volunteer of the Year appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) So throughout 2006/07 when I had really young kids Facebook was truly a social network for sharing family moments.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Narrow Networks — Narrow networks are an interesting response to the above market prices that the large hospitals and groups are pushing on the broader market. Also like high deductibles, coinsurance usage in on the rise.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit). Even tech blogs know this. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

Because we are limited by the access to our own network, which is our own social circle. On being deliberate in building your network to create opportunities: “Five years into BCG [Boston Consulting Group], I learned a lot about private equity investing, but I missed tech. This was 2013, 2014. Why is that?

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

Tiger 21, a peer membership network for high-net-worth individuals, estimates that the wealthiest individuals direct more than 50% of their portfolios to alternative assets. in 2014 to a target of 23.5% The post 5 REASONS INVESTING IN STARTUPS JUST GOT EASIER: LEARN ABOUT THE NEW SEC GUIDELINES appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 17, 2018

Instagram is a visual social network and engagement is directly influenced by the type of photos and videos you submit. Location tags are not as commonly used as hashtags, but a 2014 SimplyMeasured report found that Instagram submissions with location tags are likely to have 79% higher engagement than those without these tags.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2017

Since 1987, the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) has been giving leading entrepreneurs the tools, networks and resources they need to learn and grow in business and beyond. In 2014, I realized if I wanted to keep making a mark, I had to change the ‘how.’ My work has always been around improving people’s life. And thanks!”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 2, 2018

As of 2014, “76 percent of US residents were not familiar with bitcoin and 80 percent said they would rather own gold than bitcoin.”. He manages the People HR blog where he tackles topics ranging from building a strong culture to navigating HR tech. Yet, many people don’t know what a bitcoin is.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 12, 2017

I first heard about Good Deeds Day in January 2014, just 45 days before that year’s event. Learn more about the Entrepreneurs’ Organization , the only global network exclusively for entrepreneurs. The post Good Deeds Day Marks 10th Anniversary appeared first on THE BLOG. We asked Marcelo to share his experiences.

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