TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. At the time, Flipkart and Snapdeal were the only two e-commerce startups in India that had shown a semblance of scale. Image credits: Accel).

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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. As Latin America attracts record-breaking venture capital totals, education technology startups in the region are given new opportunities to grow.

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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). This article was written by EO Vancouver member Calvin Johnson. I’d say, “Be careful what you wish for,” but this turned out to be an experience unlike anything else I’ve done in my career.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

The number of accelerators has more than doubled since 2014 , while the number of accelerator-backed startups in the U.S. Unparalleled contrasts have marked the last decade and a half — from the devastating plunge of a major housing crash to the soaring heights of the longest bull market and the unforeseen havoc of a global pandemic.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Surrounding yourself with successful peers from different industries and walks of life provides some of the best learning opportunities and provided a significant competitive advantage.” Hao Lam is an EO Seattle member who joined the organization in 2014. The Entrepreneurial Masters Program class of 2016. to win when I compete.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

While Duolingo never wanted to look like other edtech companies, as we saw with its product strategy in part two, it turns out that evolving from college pizza vibes meant that it would have to take a page from its peers. As its meandering route to monetization will demonstrate, Duolingo isn’t mission-oriented, it’s mission-obsessed.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2019

This has more to do with the trend that current IPOs tend to be around $200M and New Relic went public in 2014, when the median revenue at IPO was closer to $100M. And as for the comparison to AppD… DataDog is effectively profitable compared to its peers, who were at about -65% net income margin. DataDog is no exception.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Zingtree was founded in 2014 to make business information actionable for teams so that agents could quickly make decisions during complex service calls. Contact center agents now working at home could no longer rely on in-person subject matter experts, managers or experienced peers.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Every year I try to answer the question of “what has changed in the Venture Capital industry” and this year my colleague Chang Xu and I took a deep dive through the data and called many of our peers for confirmation. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. More on that later.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. So he started researching markets with large populations of Muslim people. Indonesia emerged as the best choice.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

This financing brings the total investment in Scene to over $25 million since its founding in 2014. The investment is the latest validation of Scene Health’s unique video-based platform, which empowers people to take medication properly through person-to-person connections, every day. Last week’s announcement of a $1.67

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 27, 2017

This article was originally published in the March 2014 issue of Octane magazine. Introducing your children to fellow entrepreneurs and letting your peers explain what they do for a living may inspire your children to think outside the box when it comes to their future. I’m a lucky guy. Money is neither good nor evil— it’s a tool.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Insilico Medicine is a Hong Kong-based company founded in 2014 around one central premise: that AI-assisted systems can identify novel drug targets for untreated diseases, assist in the development of new treatments and eventually predict how well those treatments may perform in clinical trials. Previously, the company had raised $51.3

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Why is this?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

But by 2014 much had started to change. I have been involved with a high profile one in Los Angeles – Launchpad LA – and we’ve decided to make a shift so I thought this was a good time for reflection. My good friend Adam Lilling and I started Launchpad more than 5 years ago . We had a specific goal in mind. And Jamie hers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 25, 2024

In 2014, I remember joining a panel at the Gainsight annual conference Pulse, then in its second year. Instead, the speakers & the content equipped customer success leaders with the statistics & stories to convince their peers & managers that customer success needed to exist at their companies.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

incubators and accelerators, connecting them with a global peer network in 100+ cities across 60+. incubators and accelerators, connecting them with a global peer network in 100+ cities across 60+. The ISS is a first-of-its-kind program for India, which will offer training and support to. programs, across 60 countries to India.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

Injectsense, a startup founded in 2014, has developed an ocular implant smaller than a grain of rice. A study reviewed by TechCrunch suggested that the devices performed well, though the data hasn’t been peer reviewed. If you were to accidentally drop the eye sensor developed by Injectsense you’d have little chance of finding it.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

However, do note that even BEYOND FUNDING – what’s MOST important is that you build a business that has the right team, solves the right problem, for the right customer base. You do NOT have to have funding to start a business but you can definitely bootstrap it. If you have a suggestion to add to the list, just let me know. per month.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

In this challenging fundraising environment, more startups than ever are turning to alternative financial solutions such as debt. Despite the negative connotation associated with debt, a startup should not view it as an act of desperation during downturns, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers and Alex Wilhelm have recently noted. So, how does it work?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 23, 2016

By Georges Levesque. You read that right. I am the son of a nun. To be precise: an ex-nun. My mom was a member of the Roman Catholic Sisters of Wisdom in Edmundston, Canada, from the age of 18 to 26. After she left, my mom continued to teach, met my dad, had three kids, moved 11 times and welcomed the ultimate gift of seven grandchildren.

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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. . How are you gaining new perspectives and insights? How are you gaining new perspectives and insights? .

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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. Let us unravel the various aspects of grassroots marketing and how it can be fruitful and look at some innovative examples of the same.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 12, 2016

In 2014, investors paid a median enterprise value to forward revenue multiple of 7.7x At 15x, the ratio is still 2x of the top quartile their public peers. Over this three year period, 32 of 50 companies are worth more today than they were either at IPO or at their trading price three years ago. for SaaS companies. the public median.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2021

There was a 72% increase in people who camp more than three times a year between 2014 and 2019, mostly spurred by young millennials, young families with kids and nonwhite participants. Outdoorsy , the peer-to-peer camper van rental marketplace, said it saw 44% of all bookings in the company’s history in 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Shortly after, Braintree acquired peer-to-peer payment app Venmo. Jhawar believes that peer-to-peer payments represent the beginning of a long-term consumer relationship. Back in 2014, when I first covered Lydia , I called it the Venmo for France — they had only raised €600,000 back then.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2019

In 2014, the median touched 7.7x The most attractive companies have become much, much, much more expensive relative to their peers. The red line shows the median across the stocks in that particular month. forward before falling by about 60% to 3.3x two years later. A correction followed to 7.1x at the end of 2018.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. New Relic is San Francisco based, 534 person company providing tools for engineers to understand how well their code is performing.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

All of Upcycle Hawaii’s items are made from post-consumer waste diverted from local landfills. While her business has been built with blood, sweat and tears, she also shares another secret to her success: her business mentor. Her local small business development center (SBDC) has been invaluable. How to find a business mentor. SBA resource partners.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ ’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Moerner developed techniques allowing us to “peer into the nanorealm” inside living cells — a feat that earned the team a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2014. It was such a simple statement, but it was kind of eye opening to me,” Goulburn tells TechCrunch. Hell and William E. The movement of proteins within live cells.

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Feedough

APRIL 21, 2021

Since it is open-source and peer-reviewed, individual experts can check on its privacy and security. The messaging service has been around since 2014. At a time when more than half the world’s population finds itself on the internet, companies have turned the privacy of individuals into commodities. What is Signal? Let’s find out!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Barely a day goes by without news of layoffs emerging from the tech world — from cybersecurity to gaming , no industry is impervious. On top of that, there is no geographical factor at play, with companies spanning North America , Europe , Asia , Africa and beyond all impacted. capital in recent months. capital in recent months.

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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. We’ve all experienced a positive mental boost from doing a good deed, whether it’s opening a door for someone with their hands full, donating time, giving blood, or organizing volunteers to make a bigger impact?it million participants.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Boom and bust. Are LPs to blame? None of these.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

Vidit Aatrey is cofounder and CEO of Meesho. Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. They were in the Summer 2016 batch of YC and you can check them out at Meesho.com. Adora Cheung is a Partner at YC. Before working at YC she cofounded Homejoy. 00:00 – Intro.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community. Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. I’m Travis Bryant. Excited to be back emceeing. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. And now onto our guest.

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