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. In June 2015, Duolingo raised a $45 million Series D round led by Laela Sturdy of Google Capital ( later rebranded CapitalG ), valuing the company at $470 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

The executive has a background in strategy and management consulting that progressed into a career in product development for top tech companies like Google and Amazon. Lewis and Grant Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015 , and since then, have brought on a series of high-profile investors. At least, not at first.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Clients also add job openings and more information about benefits, corporate culture and the existing team. 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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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 14, 2021

from YC’s Winter 2015 batch, is YC’s first open-source company to go public, the first alum of the YC Growth Program to go public, and one of the earliest investments made by the YC Continuity Fund. s approach to remote and open-core seem prescient today, very few examples existed when they joined the winter 2015 batch. GitLab Inc.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“The cybersecurity skills crisis continues on a downward, multi-year trend of bad to worse and has impacted more than half (57%) of organizations,” said a recent report by the Information Systems Security Association and analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group. In today’s more collaborative culture, that no longer flies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Those shared objectives, combined with the natural cultural fit between our two companies, means we are incredibly excited to bring our teams together. It has also attracted a large amount of external investment (totalling just under $300M) over its shorter run (founded in 2015). Today’s news is a major part of that plan. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

The platform has been used to interview customers about product ideas and strategy, find product-market fit, conduct usability studies on UX designs and see how well marketing landing pages perform. Before founding Great Question, PJ Murray and Ned Dwyer sold their last startup , web developer marketplace Elto, to GoDaddy in 2015.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

BHAGs serve as a rallying cry for the company culture, an ambitious target for the future, and a focusing tool for corporate decision-making. As we turn the page to 2015, Uber has a new BHAG, and it’s name is UberPool. Of course, Uber is not the first company to choose a corporate strategy of price leadership. A Quick Look Back.

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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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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

For me, as a seed investor, I started to feel this struggle back in 2015. You will see we made a lot of seed investments — yes, that was a part of the strategy. Until then, the overwhelming majority of Haystack investments were in the Bay Area.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

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. First Unlikely Allies Event, Cluj-Napoca 2015. In the early years, there were only four people in the global team and most of us worked part-time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 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 , co-founder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders. Hope is not a strategy.

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OurCrowd

JULY 31, 2019

The number of Israeli companies raising between $10M and $20M has more than doubled since 2015, which is a testament to the country’s buzzing venture capital activity. However, breaking down the numbers even further shows just how much the Israeli innovation ecosystem has matured over the past few years. Multinationals Should Pay Attention.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

According to data gathered by Rob Olson, partner and head of data strategy at venture engine M13, startups that have two or more experienced founders tend to exit 33% faster and raise 34% less capital. When a company chooses supervised learning, it needs to have a strategy that allows it to label data as quickly as it acquires it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is particularly important with remote work becoming the norm , and Pulse was looking to find its niche at a time when workplace culture is rapidly changing. But on top of that, Singh had previously founded a smart calendar app called Tempo AI which he sold to Salesforce for an undisclosed sum in 2015.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times. Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud).

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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 On Wednesday, November 17 at 3 p.m. EST, I’ll interview Ben Parr on Twitter Spaces about zero-party marketing best practices.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 30, 2024

In 2015, I spearheaded the development of ‘Vantage Fit,’ a platform designed to promote holistic employee wellness on a global scale. I saw a significant gap in how many companies were approaching employee wellness, particularly in terms of integrating physical health and overall well-being into their corporate culture.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

8 Surprising Strategies for Unstoppable Focus. But then Ravichandran’s identity was stolen in 2015. Never have an exit strategy. Shchegolev and Melnikov began experimenting with different SEO strategies in 2006. They stayed motivated, bootstrapped their growth and proved their critics wrong. .

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2017

In order to truly move the needle, we needed to become fanatical about our purpose and embed it deeply throughout our culture. Establishing this new model allowed us to replicate the Southwest Airlines strategy, which was to provide the best service at the best price, in a commoditized industry. Discovering Our Passion.

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Red Rocket

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Jim Harbaugh agreed to take the reins of Michigan football starting in the 2015 season to "save" his beloved alma mater and return Michigan to greatness. That wasn't a popular strategy, with slow style of play resulting in "three yards and a cloud of dust", but it was a strategy Harbaugh knew well and succeeded with in the past.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. By 2015 it had come to signify by the market a new era where business fundamentals had changed, companies could easily and quickly be worth $10 billion or MORE so why worry about the “entry price!” It was nobody’s fault.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We doubled revenue every year since 2015. And that, I believe, is still in the culture today. It was a strategy of hope. And we just couldn’t keep the high quality that we wanted to keep and then be able to build the business at the same time. And we were doing great in revenue. And we thought we were doing really well.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

People and Culture. In 2015, Martin managed the hyper-turnaround of a key market for Delivery Hero, the food delivery platform. The root cause was not having the right people and culture. Similarly, Kevin led the award-winning hyper-turnaround of VivoPower in 2021 with a playbook that involved “defibrillating” the culture.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In 2015, Dorsey returned to the role after Dick Costolo’s stint, even though he was simultaneously serving as CEO of fintech platform Square. Personally, I’m hoping it starts a trend where mature tech companies do a better job of recognizing and rewarding employees who innately understand their culture, products and services.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 14, 2016

In the workplace, insensitive interactions can and do occur, even in organizations that value a positive culture. Talya Meyerowitz (pictured) has spoken at multiple EO events, including the 2015 Global Leadership Conference. Talya Meyerowitz (pictured) has spoken at multiple EO events, including the 2015 Global Leadership Conference.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, while many startups exist in cities like Turin, Bologna, Naples and Rome, Milan is generally seen as a bigger ecosystem because of its mercantile culture and a significant share of VC funds. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy?

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Two of the main reasons this deck “sings” is the line it draws to the Justworks culture and that the deck isn’t “artificially simple.” ” In 2015, Justworks closed its $13 million Series B, led by Bain Capital Ventures. “The word that really comes to mind is ‘structured.’

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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. It achieved unicorn status in August 2021 and at the time was eyeing an IPO. Lee (a very nice guy, incidentally) moved on years ago, recently founding another startup, Comprehensive.io

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A Smart Bear

AUGUST 29, 2017

TT (@akannett) June 1, 2015. Strategy is ineffective if it’s constantly in flux, but a strategy that remains unchanged in the presence of new information is incorrect. Constant change can feel like management has no plan and no strategy. Team members want consistency but don’t want policies.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Israel, and the UAE, bringing our global network and experience to shape your vision, strategy, execution, and team. We have over $400 million of capital under management, our current portfolio is around 20 companies, but so far we have invested in over 40 companies since 2015. We work with companies across the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Los Angeles-based company initially launched in 2015 and the app has been downloaded more than 250 million times. “We believe TrillerVerz is becoming the voice of youth culture, a brand that sits at the nexus of content, creator, commerce, and culture in the digital world,” said de Silva, in a statement.

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