Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

On October 1st, 2014, after more than two years of partnership and development, Gust proudly joined the Mayor of the City of New York and IBM in announcing the launch of Digital.NYC , NYC’s new official hub for tech and startups. For IBM, Digital.NYC provides exclusive community-building in the fastest growing tech ecosystem in the world.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). I continued moving through the room, asking what services, time or expertise each member could offer, and by the time I was done, I’d gathered US$100,000 worth of services within our chapter alone.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). I continued moving through the room, asking what services, time or expertise each member could offer, and by the time I was done, I’d gathered US$100,000 worth of services within our chapter alone.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Notable investment successes include: Crescendo Bioscience , an early i2E investment, was acquired for $270 million in 2014. With a focus on strategic investment, advisory services, and facilitating access to capital, i2E specializes in supporting and advancing the growth of Oklahoma startups and entrepreneurs. About i2E, Inc.

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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 6, 2021

For example, Bigfoot Capital open-sourced its RBI model, outlining it in a blog post and sharing their RBI financial model and anonymized term sheet , but a thorough, quantitative, industry-wide analysis has not been conducted until now. Thankfully, there have been some notable efforts to drive transparency in the RBI market.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

M-Pesa launched a simple mobile phone payment and money transfer service for people in Kenya living on less than $2 per day. Rather than starting as a fully fledged mobile bank, M-Pesa began with basic services compatible with flip phones and the market exploded. Share and prosper. Read the rest of the article!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While in some ways good for consumers, this could spell bad news for truckers, cab drivers and other service providers at all levels of the transportation industry. But in 2014, the average job tenure was a mere 4.6 The post Why Young Entrepreneurs Are Crucial to Growing the Economy appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? You’re a small fish. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

” Kumesh Aroomoogan, a former research analyst for Wall Street firms including Citigroup, cofounded Accern with Anshul Vikram Pandey in 2014. The service can scan public sources including news publications, blogs, and SEC filings to gauge consumer sentiment, for example, or predict how supply chain disruptions might impact a business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Services could connect with need. Free Childline service soon spread to over 50 Indian cities. More recently Jeroo has focused on helping all young people understand and have access to financial services. The post The Story of Jeroo Billimoria, a Social Entrepreneur appeared first on THE BLOG. Image source.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Iguazio, whose customers included Payoneer, was co-founded in 2014 by Asaf Somekh, Orit Nissan-Messing, Yaron Haviv and Yaron Segev. SCM Connections, another recent addition to the consultancy’s portfolio, offers services for digital transformation, including building tech stack infrastructure.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

We paired her with an older Millennial executive and together they worked on one of the most important initiatives at our firm, a new client-facing hybrid technology and human service model. Susan Michel is an EO New Jersey member, and the founder and CEO of Glen Eagle, an award-winning financial services firm based in Princeton, New Jersey.

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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 customer base is the ultimate indicator for how viable your products or services are; the marketplace is radically democratic.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Founder Sara Blakely, an EO member , received a White House invitation in 2014, was named the youngest self-made female billionaire in 2012 and continues to sell Spanx in 50 countries around the globe, serving the company’s core mission: To help women feel great about themselves and their potential. Lauren Bush Lauren / FEED.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2016

When I had to close my B2B marketing and branding agency in September of 2014, that feeling of optimism shifted toward scarcity and desperation. Russ Perry (pictured) is an EO Arizona member and founder of Design Pickle, an unlimited and flat-rate graphic design service. Contact Russ at russ@designpickle.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Meanwhile, Silicon Hills News (operated by the very talented Laura Lorek) reported that Austin-based insurtech Decent is “shutting down all of its operations to just a core team,” which was confirmed in a blog post published by Nick Soman, the company’s founder and CEO. ” TechCrunch first reported about the initiative last June.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” The company’s web-crawling tech ingested blogs, photo-sharing sites and other sources of information about locales and tagged them to a geolocation in a massive place database. Hopper differentiates itself from rival travel services (e.g. billion this year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Writing in a company blog post announcing the deal, executive vice president and chief product officer Manoj Leelanivas sees 128 Technology adding great flexibility to the portfolio as it tries to transition from legacy networking approaches to modern ones driven by AI, especially in conjunction with the Mist purchase.

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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). The National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year service provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The startup operates in a space that has attracted the attention of several major giants, such as Microsoft, Amazon, Twilio, Salesforce and Zoom in recent years as organizations scramble to build or acquire tools to create one-store service centers. The bank balance dipped to 14 lacs at a point in 2014-15.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Mitch Allen, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Fort Worth, is founder and Head Elf of Hire Santa , a service that brings the season to life with thousands of professionally trained Santas worldwide. It started as a hobby, but by 2014, with the support of my EO Fort Worth “Tamarindo” Forum, it became a real business.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Tiffany Chu, SVP of Via and co-founder and former CEO of Remix, had been working in user experience design at ZipCar when, in 2014, she decided to take a year off for a fellowship at Code for America. An urban planning blog featured the project and it went as viral as a mapping and routing tool for public transit could.

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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. However, Fred Wilson blogs and Jackson Palmer smartly tweets that Git is already a decentralized system with GitHub built on top of it. Satya strikes again.

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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! I understood early on that people wanted to buy clothes from traditional brands, so, I changed my initial idea and began to sell a service and provide knowledge on inclusive fashion for designers and brands. It did not work very well.

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Feedough

APRIL 16, 2021

Instead of reaching out to a larger segment of the consumer population, marketers try persuading that niche audience to spread the word and advocate their products or services amongst their peers. It is akin to viral promotion of products and services by inspiring the audience to share it with others.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Cloud computing, which encompasses the infrastructure products used by developers to build services, has remained flat at 4% over the past five years despite some recent declines in 2013 and 2014. Amongst investors, Digital Media is witnessing a renaissance growing from 2% share to 4% share in three years.

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Feedough

APRIL 16, 2021

Launched as a women-centric dating app in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe Herd, Bumble aims at building an empowering and inclusive community. Network effect claims that the value of some goods and services increase when more people use them. It also develops blog content and conducts sessions on building and maintaining healthy relationships.

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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 Congratulations to Rita and her team!

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Continuations

OCTOBER 18, 2019

We all need to be able to programmatically interact with these services. I have spoken and written extensively about this going back to a post on labor rights (2014) and my TEDxNY talk (2015), several subsequent blog posts , and my book World After Capital. that will alway be way too much power in one place.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

healthcare market is the least customer centric of any customer service industry. The combination of new technologies, data availability, information transparency, shifts in insurance coverage, regulatory reform, and consumer frustration has set the stage for a new era of healthcare service in the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In turn, a 2014 study of IT projects found that only 16.2 A financial services firm whose CEO I coached wanted to move its headquarters after it outgrew its current building. appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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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.”. Payroll services using bitcoin wages, however, has not quite matured yet. He manages the People HR blog where he tackles topics ranging from building a strong culture to navigating HR tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

A week before Christmas 2014, in one heartbreaking phone call after another, I let go of my team of freelancers. Unless you have information to the contrary, a good rule of thumb would be to start with your blog and/or email list. . Sharing your story is not selfish - it is an act of service!

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Hugo : I moved to a static site generator in 2014. Cloudinary : Cloudinary is an image serving service that optimizes the image size, quality and format for the device and network connection. All these together should make it much easier to browse this blog and search previous posts. I’ve been focused on it ever since.

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OurCrowd

MAY 4, 2022

CMS Distribution has signed an exclusive partnership with Morphisec to distribute its cybersecurity products and services in Europe. Established in 2014, Morphisec provides prevention-first endpoint security technology – in contrast to the reactive approach of NGAV and EDR. Read more here.

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