StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sometimes when you’re in the zone as a founder, a case of the twisties can utterly derail progress. As a consultant to many of the world’s most innovative global brands as well as motivated founders looking for a jump-start, it’s important to be able to know what steps along the way are absolutely necessary and which ones are nice to have.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

At some point the music will stop and we’ll find out which strategies were prudent. Video 2 is here : In part two of the group discussion Dave asked us about the trend of founders and early investors being able to liquidation some of their position in later-stage venture rounds. And we ended. Startup Lessons'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. Co-founder discontent. What would this founder do if he got an offer to be acquihired quickly by Facebook?

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HPA

JANUARY 8, 2025

With market-leading positions in several natural snacking segments and abundant white space for future growth, Simple Mills perfectly aligns with Flowers strategy of adding compelling brands that complement and diversify its existing portfolio. The organization appreciates the tremendous contributions made by her and her team.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

What connects these two brands is that they were both elevated to overseas success by the same person, Fujin Tree Group Founder Jay Wu. He shared with us three strategies any local restaurant brand should adopt when expanding into an overseas market. But just because no one has done it doesn’t mean there’s no market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks. I watched Ophir Tanz achieve much in his early days at the Founder & CEO at GumGum, which has now become quite a large business. I have written about the next phases many times.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Register According to iLife * founder Nelson Lee, roughly $200 billion in premiums are signed annually in the U.S. 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. This article is part of a partnership with Cherubic Ventures.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

If 2024 Kieran could whisper something into the ear of 2014 Kieran, what would you have told her about the difference between leading a team vs leading a company? But when your team is the larger organization, you can’t use this strategy. But that’s not really how we saw ourselves when we started. This work is my zone of excellence.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 21, 2025

[While I’m going to focus on investor secondary here, I support common share sales as well – for example, back in 2014 writing “ Getting Some Founders Early Liquidity Can Benefit VCs ” during a period where many founders were being shamed for even asking about taking some money off the table.]

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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. As a founder, it’s your job to manage financial and operational risks. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

Written by Ruchir Punjabi , the co-founder and chief digital officer of Distributed Energy , a company that matches investors with renewable energy projects across Africa, Middle East and India, and the founder of Langoor, which was sold to Havas Group in 2019. Ruchir Punjabi has been an EO member since 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Dovetail co-founders Ash Fogelberg and Nick Frandsen. Based in Sydney and Auckland, Dovetail is a full-service venture studio that works closely with founders who have a great idea, but may lack technical backgrounds. This means we’re essentially investing with the informational edge of a co-founder,” said Frandsen.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Diversity, gender equity, and financial inclusion have been central to our business model from the start,” said Manu Smadja, MPOWER’s CEO and co-founder. “We Since 2014, it has received close to $1B in loan application volume on its platform. It is the only student lender in the world that leverages both overseas and U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 23, 2021

2014: Alibaba. Founders' sophistication has increased in the US - and also globally. Rather than burn dictating when to raise capital, founders elect to raise when inbound interest arrives, or immediately before launching to sell the dream rather than the metrics, or at other strategic inflection points. 2012: Facebook.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Who: Magnify Consulting What: Sales strategy, CRM, outsourced, tradeshows NZ HQ: Wellington Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? At Magnify, we help founders of SMEs to grow a healthy sales pipeline without the risk of hiring. Sales strategy + sales process Get set up for sales success.

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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. Now, with formal backing, the founders are focused on growing that total by offering more services in Latin America. Diego Olcese, founder of Crehana.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Top Female Founders in 2023 and 2024. Horners insights into startup dynamics and scalable business strategies have earned her a seat on Forbes thought leadership councils and established her as a leading voice in the business community. She has earned acclaim in Entrepreneurs 11 Marketing Experts That Could Change Your Business, Inc.s

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

MercadoLibre co-founder Hernán Kazah and the company’s ex-CFO, Nicolas Szekasy, founded Kaszek a decade ago after leaving LatAm’s answer to Amazon. Funds II and III closed in 2014 and 2017, raising $135 million and $200 million, respectively. With backers like Tiger Global, LatAm crypto exchange Bitso raises $250M at a $2.2B

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

What would happen if companies offered flexibility to their employees, backed by data and scalable strategies? Sparked by a pair of scissors, some pantyhose and a party where founder, Sara Blakely , wanted to look her best, Spanx officially began production in 2000 and changed women’s fashion and fit forever. Sara Blakely / Spanx.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

“The exceptional capacity of Langoo in its local business with Riiid Tutor was the main reason for this acquisition,” said co-founder and CEO of Riiid YJ Jang. This acquisition is the first step in an inorganic strategy to ultimately apply Riiid’s AI technology to the global market and help more learners around the world.” .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

Brad Stevens is an EO Atlanta member, Chair of that chapter’s Accelerator program, and founder and CEO of Outsource Access , which helps companies grow by providing highly skilled virtual assistants. What strategies have you utilized to grow EO Atlanta’s Accelerator program?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

In this article, Manny shares his strategy for a smooth business exit plan. Or maybe it was because the founder left to go start a second company before the sale was complete. Founder Jayesh Parmar always looked at his options for exiting while building his business. A version of this article appeared in Fast Company.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

The bottled beverage industry wasn’t what Genki Forest’s founder, Binsen Tang, initially set out to tackle. 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. Tang would walk away with a few important lessons.

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Startup Catalyst

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Female Founders cohort (2017). …to Startup Catalyst has helped open up new possibilities for innovators and startups and is an important part of our strategy for Advance Queensland. —?Paul Our annual future founders missions (formerly youth missions) first started in 2014 so the very real effects of those trips are showing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

That’s why we’re excited to announce that Mathilde Collin, co-founder and CEO at Front, Deidre Paknad, co-founder and CEO at WorkBoard and Adriana Roche, chief people officer at Mural, will tackle this topic onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco.

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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. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011. Make a friend!

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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. Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave.

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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. So it will be something of a milestone. Basically we have a set of internal objectives.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Founded in 2014, Shippit’s technology automates tasks related to order fulfillment, including finding the best carrier for an order, tracking packages and handling returns. ” co-founder and co-chief executive officer William On told TechCrunch. million USD) Series B led by Tiger Global, with participation from Jason Lenga.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

It has been doubling revenue annually, and CEO and co-founder Jason Guss projects that the company will see “over $100 million in revenue” this year. With the latest round, New York-based Octane has now raised more than $192 million in total equity funding since its 2014 inception. Progressive Investment Company Inc.,

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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

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. “Taking in some smart equity or convertible debt and balancing that money with other financing can be a good strategy for a startup,” she said. Thomas Rush. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Increasing popularity of RBI.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker never wanted to charge consumers for access to Duolingo content, a purpose imbued throughout the company’s culture. As its meandering route to monetization will demonstrate, Duolingo isn’t mission-oriented, it’s mission-obsessed.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Explaining why the company adopted this strategy, the CEO said, “ I think that’s from my core focus — one of the things I got from Google, which is to make a core group of people love you first. In 2014, she founded Fashpa, a now-defunct Nigerian fashion e-commerce website. This isn’t the CEO’s first spell at running a startup.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

The company was founded in 2014 as a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry. In a statement, Workrise spokesperson Dan Bank told TechCrunch: In recent months, Workrise has engaged on a go-forward strategy supporting skilled workers in the energy industry. billion valuation.

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