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. Last week the Mayor and Invest Newark announced $1.2

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 9, 2023

“Empowering underrepresented communities through education, employability, and entrepreneurship promotes greater economic inclusion. Education research organization Degree Choices ranks CCNY #1 nationally among universities for economic return on investment. of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence.

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Forward Cities

JULY 27, 2020

We add another proposal to the mix: use unemployment insurance to encourage entrepreneurship as well as traditional employment. But that model only partially makes sense, as opportunities for entrepreneurship are often more readily available — with vast amounts of information accessible online to guide aspiring business-starters.

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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

JUNE 8, 2022

million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. The report first highlights the growth of venture capital on the continent over the past six years; within this period, investments in African startups have grown 18x. This is compared to 37%, 70% and 66% in the U.S.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

My biggest realisation being that I needed to invest in myself before I could lead others. I started going regularly in 2014 when I became a Global Shaper. (I WEF-size goals + Entrepreneurship is the perfect match, but we need to bring the two together. In late 2018, I let the whole team go, and started over.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

So we thought we should take a closer look and see what this company’s graph can tell us about the new wave of Chinese D2C entrepreneurship looking to take over the globe. But Tang wasn’t satisfied and eventually sold ELEX Technology to a publicly listed company for about $400 million in 2014. Finding a bigger wave to ride.

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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. On top of the accelerator, the firm also launched a six-month fellowship program to foster climate tech entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The unbundling of professional learning and entrepreneurship education. Not surprisingly, 2021 saw a boom in edtech investment across a spectra of investors. Indeed, edtech investment in 2020 and 2021 equaled the amount raised during the entire 2014-2019 period. Firstly, European edtech VC investments tripled to $2.5

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In 2014 Maven Clinic Founder Kate Ryder had a vision for improving women’s healthcare. Funding was from top healthcare and technology investors including General Catalyst, Sequoia, Dragoneer Investment Group, Oak HC/FT, StepStone Group, Icon Ventures, and Lux Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2014, more than 40% of U.S. VC investment, according to “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a new report co-produced by venture firm Revolution and PitchBook. Since launching the platform in 2014, Case and his teams have invested in 194 companies across 89 cities. But that was a long time ago.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

Entrepreneurship can be lonely, and working with someone who understands those struggles can be invaluable. . In addition to working directly with a counselor, entrepreneurs will get help preparing a detailed five-year business plan, entrepreneurship counseling and training and other valuable assistance. Review financing options.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2024

Charting the Path to Success in Tech Investing: An Exclusive Interview with GoAhead Ventures’ Founding Trio GoAhead Ventures (“GoAhead”) is a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm founded by three Stanford graduates: Takeshi “TK” Mori, Clancey Stahr and Phil Brady (the “Managing Partners”). How did you break into tech investing?

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion. businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007-2014). This restricted-use dataset at the U.S. Permalink.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Speakers will share their honest accounts of entrepreneurship, as well as essential startup advice. Anu Hariharan , Continuity Investing Partner at YC Continuity. Since 2014, the Female Founders Conference has helped women who want to start and run their own startups. Diane Green , Co-founder and former CEO at VMware.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2024

Since 2014, Incyte’s global headquarters has been a former Wanamaker’s department store site just outside the Wilmington city limits in Alapocas. The post Incyte chooses to grow in Delaware with investment in new Wilmington site appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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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. We were already growing however, we all agreed that outside investment could propel the company much faster. I am not against the idea of raising outside investment. Real winners use failure as a learning opportunity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Investors are excited about the opportunities in the space market that are being unlocked by exit events and continued interest and private investment in the biggest and most successful space companies, including SpaceX.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Having learned that over 770 million people around the world suffer from some form of malnutrition, Brandee McHale, President of the Citi Foundation and Head of Citi Community Investing and Development, expresses Citi’s commitment to lessen food insecurity and to positively impact millions of lives. million meals on behalf of U.S.

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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. “We are not only focusing on innovative entrepreneurship. So that’s our job.”

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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. It’s that simple and I think more and more people are really starting to embrace this concept and take action.”.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Being an EO member is the best investment of time and money I’ve ever made?nothing I learned a lot and applied that knowledge to my company and then, in 2014?six Being an EO member is the best investment of time and money I’ve ever made?nothing nothing else even comes close to second place. six years and one business later?I

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Of those who had a QUT supported place: Alex Ghiculescu (2014) founded Tanda, a workforce success company that continues to go from strength to strength with over 120 staff across the globe. Rowena is at every single student entrepreneurship event you could possibly think of. Where are they now? Oh, I go to most things….

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. The economists who conducted the study analyzed administrative government data on the founders of all U.S. hyper-growth, acquisition, or IPO).

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. Homejoy expanded internationally in 2014 in a rush to squash a new German competitor Helpling. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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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. Last year, only $115 million was invested in digital media startups in the U.S. BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013. But not long ago, in the mid-2010s, U.S.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Creating space for in-person connections has long been at the center of our Rise of the Rest place-based philosophy and investment thesis. In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2021

And following the completion of its seed round, the company now has a mutual investor with Flextock in Flexport, the billion-dollar freight and logistics company YC backed in 2014. The unicorn also invested in Nigerian e-commerce fulfilment startup Sendbox this year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Cathay Innovation is hoping to secure the bag in a new investment partnership with a company that secures crypto assets. Ledger itself, which Gauthier said has been profitable for years, has made some recent investments into other startups. Denis Barrier, co-founder of Cathay Innovation Image Credits: Cathay Innovation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This transition creates an opportunity for entrepreneurship open to former sales agents and the general public. Twiga, co-founded by Njonjo and Grant Brooke in 2014, joins the growing list of startups in Africa and across the globe downsizing amid a slowdown in VC funding, which has made capital for operations and growth hard to access.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

When Moran began angel investing, he found the whole process of startup fundraising to be confusing, so he started a venture podcast back in May 2014 called “ The Full Ratchet ,” to interview other VCs and provide funding transparency. TC: The current portfolio is largely enterprise/B2B, with a few notable investments in food tech.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With over 20 years of business experience and a passion for sports, particularly cycling, I was inspired to create something unique when I encountered a wooden bicycle at the Riga Technical University student’s work exhibition in 2014. What is it that excites you about what you’re building? How can our readers follow you on social media?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

Investments in European deep tech grew from €0.7B Gil Dibner, the general partner at Angular Ventures noticed : “… we live in an era where there are tremendous short-term benefits to successful pseudo entrepreneurship. PhDs supply and demand Entrepreneurship is becoming a more viable choice for Ph.D. in 2010 to €9.6B

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The round is being led by Blackstone Growth (the growth equity business of the investment giant), with previous backer Battery Ventures and board member Mike Paulus (who previously ran and sold Assurance IQ to Prudential, and before that was an investor with Andreessen Horowitz). “All these were incredibly complicated.”

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Trade shows + trade fairs + expos + events Get more ROI from your investment at events. Since forming in 2014, were excited to be part of the sales growth story for more than 50 businesses. CRM set up (HubSpot) Sales tech that grows with you. Sales training + coaching Yes, you can increase your sales skills + confidence.

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