Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2020

For those who haven’t heard of Morning Brew , we’re a business media startup founded in 2015. Before diving in: a growth strategy is nothing without its product and for Morning Brew, the strength of our product comes from our writers. In August, we hit a major milestone at Morning Brew: 1 million opens.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After 10 years of leading the Impact Hub Network , Gabriela Gandel will move into a new role on our global board of the Impact Hub Association in 2022. We used to meet to discuss our strategy, plans, take stock of new teams coming in and build the basic processes of the network. In 2015 we had already become more than 60 Impact Hubs.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Lighter reports that from 2015 to 2018, the number of VC investments under $5m dropped 23% from 6,709 to 5,139. Village Capital: Alternative Investment Strategies to Drive Inclusive Innovation. The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy. Social Impact. Conferences. Alternative Capital Summit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If your startup is formulating a zero-party data strategy, please read. Cowboy Ventures led a $2 million seed round in 2015 while the founders were just starting their entrepreneurial journey. “[We It was four days of long board meetings and discussions and debates and fights and getting to the decision.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Previously, Razdan was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs as well as a strategy consultant at A.T. He was named one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2015 and a 2018 Rising Star in Healthcare by Becker’s Healthcare Review. Thank you so much for joining us! What motivated you to launch your startup?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders. Hope is not a strategy.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. Prerequisite: Commitment to steward-ownership and clear path or strategy towards profitability”. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs. —– Indie.vc According to Indie.VC

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. Prerequisite: Commitment to steward-ownership and clear path or strategy towards profitability”. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs. —– Indie.vc According to Indie.VC

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Martin Bell, who sits on Arowana’s advisory board, founded 100tasks.com to democratize entrepreneurship and is an expert in launching and hyper-scaling companies. In 2015, Martin managed the hyper-turnaround of a key market for Delivery Hero, the food delivery platform. People and Culture. Operating and Financial Data.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

They were in the Summer 2015 batch of YC and you can check them out at SecondMeasure.com. They were in the Summer 2015 batch of YC, and you can check them out at secondmeasure.com. Mike, Kevin was your group partner when you did YC in the Summer 2015 batch. This is 2015. Kevin Hale is a Partner at YC. Very much not true.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2018

I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. . – Coinvest nearly exclusively, without leading rounds or taking board seats. This requires a real financial sacrifice.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The boards of both companies have approved the proposed merger and the deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, subject to regulatory and stockholder approvals. The Los Angeles-based company initially launched in 2015 and the app has been downloaded more than 250 million times. .

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. For example, we’re now already well into our third growth fund that we started in 2015 (the first returned 2x cash in 3.5 So What Does All This Mean?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With a wealth of experience in traditional finance, as well as fintech, and her vision for bringing digital assets into the mainstream, we feel very lucky to have her on board.” Wattenström created and listed the digital asset ETP on Nasdaq Nordic in 2015.

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HPA

JANUARY 19, 2024

Alphathena introduces a robust AI-driven direct indexing platform empowering RIAs to craft distinctive personalization strategies for their clients. The Alphathena platform enables clients to build and optimize investment strategies truly customized to their individual needs at scale,” said John Crosson, HPA Deal Lead. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

since 2015, and in 2020, women make $0.81 Our board — which is packed with studs from the Bay Area — is expecting that to soar within two years! There are plenty of experienced consultants who can help you work through remediation strategies. Get your board on board: Educate your board as to why this matters.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The strategy here is simple: Continue opening up larger swaths of the internet to open-source innovation outside of the walled-garden platforms developed by Amazon and Facebook. If Automattic’s strategy works out, Woo, Tumblr and WordPress will link to new services that nobody yet associates with Automattic.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

He also sits on the board of 88mph. From the World Bank’s 2015 figures, there are over 350 million unbanked individuals in sub-Saharan Africa. The kicker for us was that we believe in the clear mission, vision and strategy and we are confident that the pawaPay team is the best team to achieve it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It’s been a few years since we dug into what the company was doing , but to bring you up to speed, it was founded in 2015 and offers over 10,000 locally sourced and hard-to-find Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian and Latin offerings for customers. s board of directors. s founder and CEO, told me.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The new round from Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI), labeled a Series B, follows the company reaching profitability in April 2020 and gives Quip more than $160 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2015. The company showcased its service at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley in 2015.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Tan was a YC founder in the summer of 2008 and served as a partner there from December 2010 to November 2015. Gibson, who previously served as general partner focused on crypto, web2, SaaS and devops) will lead the firm’s early-stage investment strategy. Since inception, my goal has always been for Initialized to outlive its founders.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

“OneSignal was founded by Long Vo and I in 2015. ” BAM Elevate’s Jamie McGurk, who’s joining OnSignal’s board of directors, told TechCrunch in a statement: “Today’s users expect hyper-personalized, relevant, and timely communication across every touchpoint. ”

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

In 2015 we closed our third and largest fund to date , allowing us to double-down on our strategy of filling the seed-stage financing gap in the Pacific Northwest. Founders’ Co-op has grown along with Seattle.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

A report from ecommerce analytics platform Glew drives the point home: In 2015, 75% of retailers that spent at least $5,000 on Facebook ads ended up losing money on those ads, with the average return on investment landing around -66.7%. Advertising, particularly online advertising, isn’t a surefire way to bolster business.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

“This strategy sparks interest, attracts more subscribers to your site and improves the purchase potential of their products.” Sarah notes that the company first introduced it back in 2015, but the upgrade signals the platform’s confidence that the worst of the pandemic is behind us.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

First of all, once it got some building owners involved, there was a big word of mouth effect, and that helped get more owners on board. The first was for $1 million in 2015 just after he started the company. It was able to make progress in a few key ways.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” Late 2015 also brought the arrival of “mutual fund markdowns.” 2015 was the exact opposite.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Since Etsy went public in 2015, companies like Poshmark, The RealReal and thredUP followed suit, attracting even more investors to the sector. Price wars : That’s Tesla’s strategy for competing with legacy carmakers , Kirsten writes. Oops, ChatGPT did it again : Devin asks, “ Can AI commit libel?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. The company also said that president Tim Mayopoulos will step down from his role in the first quarter and remain as a board member. ” In other news. .”

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

The number one input to whether or not someone buys that next incremental piece of software or potentially engages that service provider is actually how well it interacts and interoperates with the other technology decisions they’ve already made to drive it some kind of bigger strategy. And that is absolutely transformational and huge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’ve written a few posts about boards recently as part of a series on the subject. I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Some investors may have succeeded with this strategy but at Upfront we decided to stay in our lane. When we get involved in Seed investments we usually represent 60–80% in one of the first institutional rounds of capital, we almost always take board seats and then we serve these founders over the course of a decade or longer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Great leaders have deeply held conviction in their strategy and plans. There are always flavors-of-the-month strategies or markets that are in favor in the tech startup world. This got him more power and with that power he executed on his belief system and had a lousy 2015 season. Conviction. Team Building.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

It’s an outstanding avenue for members to give back, especially if serving on the chapter board is not an option. What strategies have you utilized to grow EO Atlanta’s Accelerator program? From 2014 to 2015, we are proud to have grown the program from 14 to more than 40 companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Job seekers can then browse job offers and learn more about companies on Welcome to the Jungle’s job board. That’s an impressive revenue metric and it probably explains why the company has managed to raise €79 million since its inception in 2015. There are already more than 300 people working for Welcome to the Jungle. “It’s

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Founder and CEO Jeff Zheng said that when he started the company in 2015, the goal was to differentiate itself from other news aggregation apps by focusing on local news, and to “help or empower these local content creators.” The new round was led by Francisco Partners, which is taking a seat on the News Break board.

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