Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 24, 2023

In 2014, Frissia started the First Leadership Center at a university in Mexico. Frissia has been doing incredible work since her YLAI Fellowship, and the YLAI Network is excited to interview her about why transforming gender equality is important and how emerging entrepreneurs should take the leap.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The following PR tips I picked up from the project are applicable to businesses, PR people and entrepreneurs alike. Project Background In October 2014, a sinkhole was discovered in the parking lot of the dam’s control building. I used to say their weekly strategy sessions were the only times I saw the “sausage being made.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Except… Betzig and Hell figured out how to break this law, for which they won the Nobel prize in 2014. This limitation is a hard, fixed law of physics, not a matter of how good the microscope is. It’s just a law of nature, proven mathematically by Ernst Abbe in 1873.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

It was with this belief that Wu launched Fujin Tree – Taiwanese Cuisine & Champagne in late 2014 in Taipei, aiming to debunk the stereotype that Taiwanese food is limited to braised pork rice and bubble tea. He shared with us three strategies any local restaurant brand should adopt when expanding into an overseas market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. “I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs. ” So it’s now March 2014 – 5 years since I started investing. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. Since then? None have exited.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

Greg Crabtree is a speaker, author, entrepreneur and financial expert. Greg founded his own firm, Crabtree, Rowe and Berger, to focus on helping entrepreneurs build their economic engine. In 2014, Greg contributed a chapter to Verne Harnish’s book, Scaling Up on how to improve profits though labor efficiency.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

He is also a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) UAE chapter. A version of the following article originally appeared on Entrepreneur Middle East. But as every entrepreneur knows, every crisis offers opportunities, and this one is no different. For entrepreneurs, cash is everything right now.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We need to shi f t our economic development strategies to startup community building, (also referred to as entrepreneurial ecosystem building), as the primary approach to rebuilding our cities’ economies. Startups and entrepreneurs need ecosystems and communities of support to be successful. This focus needs to stop.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 29, 2020

Entrepreneurs and investors used to rely on strictly qualitative/gut methods of assessing progress and deciding what their next steps should be. In 2014 the great Steve Blank gave the startup world its first widely-respected quantitative assessment system: the Investment Readiness Level (IRL). She just dodged a company-killing mistake.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Great networking skills, which are critical when you want to be about to reference entrepreneurs & concepts and bounce your ideas off of other people in the industry. He was also an undergraduate of the one place that I think is cranking out some of the best young entrepreneurs and investors these days – Wharton.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We don’t lay claim to being the only VC to change or think about the future or to having the only or best strategy. Give direct feedback to entrepreneurs on their businesses or if we’re not investing why it’s not a fit for us. Hamet is a 3x entrepreneur and also former EIR with True Ventures.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

While a few iconic brands including Uber, Airbnb, and Square emerged successfully from the last downturn, most venture-backed companies struggled during this period, and many ended up pursuing M&A strategies. Do these include detailed organizational design and hiring strategies? The last category is most actionable.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Working With A Chinese Factory, Hardware Entrepreneur Edition. It was just a matter of time until an intrepid Chinese entrepreneur with a tech background decided to take on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. So it was just a matter of time until an intrepid Chinese entrepreneur with a tech background decided to take on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2018

At Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) , our vision is to build the world’s most influential community of entrepreneurs. My motivation for becoming an entrepreneur was the ability to do anything, anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Great things happen when like-minded entrepreneurs get together! Where are you now?

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Since founding the company in 2014, Collin has raised more than $138 million in venture capital funding, including a $65 million Series D round last month. Collin mentors aspiring entrepreneurs through All Raise’s Female Founders Office Hours and the Pioneer Fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Adopt a “hire slow, fire fast” mentality for your expansion strategy. Our team at Heartcore Capital use the following framework and learnings to guide internationalization strategies for our portfolio companies. He adds that experienced entrepreneurs can usually feel if they’ve reached this point.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . We also promoted Jordan Hudson to principal in 2014 and have encouraged him to begin looking at deals. Our investment strategy has always been to do predominantly Series Seed & A round deals, which makes up > 85% of our first investments. But that’s it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

How they built trust, maintain honesty, and talk strategy are also on the table as part of the discussion. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

In part I of our interview , we asked Brad about his journey as an entrepreneur. Accelerator is EO’s targeted program for first-stage entrepreneurs. What has surprised you most about working with entrepreneurs and the Accelerator program? What strategies have you utilized to grow EO Atlanta’s Accelerator program?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The opportunity lies in decoding customer sentiments Fortunately for Nelson, entrepreneurship was in his blood – both his parents are entrepreneurs who had founded a software company in Taiwan. Founded in 2014, they are an early-stage venture capital firm that’s active in both the US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Founded in 2014, Dovetail’s success stories include Afterpay , the Melbourne-headquartered unicorn that is one of the highest-profile players in the buy now, play later space, along with Klarna and Affirm. that require hard-earned industry experience and can’t easily be replicated by teams of young aspiring entrepreneurs.”.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Day one is all about getting “unstuck” learning strategies to get out of your own way and stop limiting your success. Day two is all about the marketing strategies you need to get and keep your customers. Dave Kerpen is a serial entrepreneur, New York Times best selling author, and global keynote speaker.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

Manny Padda is an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award. As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. In this article, Manny shares his strategy for a smooth business exit plan.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Founded in 2014, ACV’s portfolio now has over 120 investments in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia. Our fund plays on a successful strategy we’ve continued to refine to be early-stage focused,” said Li. Fund V has already made five investments, including SkorLife , IDEAL and Atma. Funds can no longer just be a source of capital.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

When Revolution first started the Rise of the Rest Road Trip in 2014, our goal was simply to provide greater visibility for entrepreneurs?—?and Indeed, our tour is a key part of our investment strategy, as it provides us with the opportunity to really understand the dynamics of a particular startup ecosystem. A: Tell us more!).”

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Funds II and III closed in 2014 and 2017, raising $135 million and $200 million, respectively. Both funds, according to Kaszek, were “several times oversubscribed” with demand coming globally from university endowments, global foundations, technology funds and several tech entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Carcoforo, who with Varia’s appointment becomes the chief data and growth officer, co-founded the agtech with Nicole Galletta (head of innovation), Patrick Wanjohi (chief technical officer) and Bernard Maingi (chief commercial officer) in 2014. There has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur or investor in Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

How they built trust, maintain honesty and talk strategy are also on the table as part of the discussion. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Coderhouse , founded in 2014 by Christian Patiño, is a platform for LatAm professionals to take live, online cohort-based courses in topics such as data, coding, design and marketing. Crehana’s hands-on content strategy makes sense, but is hard to scale; and content isn’t competitive forever. The two companies differ in strategy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Socar was founded in 2011 by Lee Jae-woong, who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communications; Daum merged into Kakao in 2014. Jaeuk Park, a serial entrepreneur, who founded VCNC, an operator messaging app for couples called Between, in 2011, sold VCNC to Socar in 2018.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

This forced retailers to accelerate their online strategies, finding new ways to capture shoppers’ attention without in-store samples. will also be part of the investment firm’s Launch with GS , a $500 million investment initiative to support a diverse, international cohort of entrepreneurs. ” Perfect Corp.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But unlike the others, Juven is not a venture capital fund; the evergreen investment company is a spinoff from Goldman Sachs’ Africa principal team responsible for making several high-growth investments in the tech scene since 2014. Juven founder Jules Frebault led the Africa team, the Special Situations Group.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As evidence of that, the firm led Credit Karma’s Series A in 2009; led Remitly’s Series A in 2014 and participated in Nubank’s Series A in 2014. In terms of strategy, Rotman notes that QED has continued to lead deals that it feels “passionate about being involved in.”. It’s not enough to simply solve one problem.

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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. As an entrepreneur, I’m drawn to the concept of Shark Tank. It’s like the Super Bowl for entrepreneurs!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “What we do is that work of coordination with all the ministries.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It would be fair to say Anthony Baxter has learnt a thing or two about entrepreneurship, since starting his digital marketing agency “ Firefly ” from an Auckland bedroom in 2014. Firefly Digital provides advice to brands such as iconic Kiwi entrepreneur story, AJ Hackett Bungy. NZ Entrepreneur. NZ Sales Manager.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The San Francisco company was founded in 2020 by entrepreneur Raad Mobrem, who previously founded Lettuce, an operating system for small businesses that was acquired by Intuit in 2014. In 15 minutes, I learned more about being an entrepreneur than I could have elsewhere,” Mobrem told TechCrunch. “In Image Credits: Intro.

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