Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. In 2017 there were 200 attendees. All of the costs of the event were covered by our sponsors, the main ones being TAMKEEN (The Bahrain Labour Fund) and the Bahrain Economic Development Board. Promoting Disruption.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. Costanoa Ventures and Norrsken22 back Smile Identity in $20M Series B round Here’s also how it fits into Smile Identity’s current growth strategy from a product but geographic-led standpoint.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Since the firm’s first fund launched in 2017, MAGIC has invested in 70 companies at pre-seed and seed stages across these emerging markets. In 2017, Olubusi’s current startup Helium Health got accepted into Y Combinator. Some of these companies include Retool , Novo , Payfazz , and Mono. ” MAGIC Fund 1 was $1.5

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Goal board: create a board where you have goals or strategies that your company is striving for and each week you can focus on one goal or problem to solve or work on. You could even go a step further and have a board to acknowledge and encourage creative thinking. Originally published March 9, 2017.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

Venture capitalists and founders across all fundraising stages spoke to current investment strategies when it comes to investing in this cohort of startups. These structures were popular in the 2017-2018 [Initial Coin Offering] days and have become less prevalent today.”. Yet, things are accelerating across the board in crypto.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. In this article, Manny shares his strategy for a smooth business exit plan. Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team. A version of this article appeared in Fast Company.

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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? The other major change that fueled the program was installing a full Accelerator board composed of Accelerator participants.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The startup will use the proceeds to invest in product development and continue its vertical and geographical expansion, CEO and founder of Verbit Tom Livne said, adding that it will also double down its acquisition strategy. . Verbit was founded in 2017 by Livne, who previously had a career in law. raises $50M.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017). The very first fleet of Bird e-scooters was launched in Santa Monica, California in September of 2017. It’s a proven strategy to improve the safety of all road users that depends heavily on one critical input: reliable, standardized data. IP67 or IP68 waterproofing on batteries.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. Startup SG Tech Grant Startup SG Tech, a key initiative for technological firms in Singapore, underwent enhancements in 2017 to facilitate better cash flow for successful applicants.

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Feedough

APRIL 9, 2021

These advertisements are a component of above the line advertising strategy that is largely non-targeted and has a wide reach. These generally consist of large print ads displayed on high elevated boards. Hoarding graphics: A hoarding is defined as a temporary boarded fence in a public place. These are: Billboard Advertising.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Oana Olteanu from SignalFire will be joining the board under the terms of the deal, which includes warrants of $12 million in additional investment at the same price. In 2017, they added Prodigy , a commercial product for generating data for the machine learning model. “We didn’t raise any investment money [until now].

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

So in 2017, we launched the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund , a $150M fund backed by an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs, investors, and executives that are publicly standing behind the idea that great companies can start and scale anywhere. Relatedly, we typically field a series of similar questions: “Is Steve Case really on the bus? (A:

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Our WOMENtrepreneurs have personal strategies for managing that particular challenge. The guys at EO Austin are like a personal board of directors to me. Similarly, Mary views her EO chapter as a sounding board and lifeline in times of hardship. I love the way they challenge and push me.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

million in a Series A round led by General Catalyst, and brings the startup’s total raised since its 2017 inception to $75 million. The startup, which describes itself as “ a new-guard active investment manager, “ launched its first investment strategy in February of 2018 and today has 30,000 users.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

He earned an MBA by cramming on the weekends, then just had to start something entirely new, the strategy consulting firm Outglocal. In 2017, a furniture retailer he’d been advising for a few years grew rapidly, and rewarded him for his dedication. Sandro Pinto, image courtesy of Ivan Pavas). The network effect.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and cofounder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin led Ironclad’s Series A deal back in 2017, making it one of his first Series A deals after returning to Accel.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Andrew Peterson and Spencer Dent saw an opportunity to digitize — and implicitly streamline — win/loss analyses with Clozd , the startup they helped to co-found in 2017. “CEOs and executive teams routinely get asked by their boards why they win and lose deals against key competitors. ” Image Credits: Clozd.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Joining Initialized in the round is the serial entrepreneur Moise Emquies, whose previous clothing lines, Ella Moss and Splendid, were acquired by the fashion holding company VFC in 2017. As part of the round, actor, activist, and author Hill Harper has joined the company as a co-founder and as the company’s chief strategy officer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Based in Australia, Deputy is focused on expanding in the United States and other countries, and Martincevic will oversee its growth strategy. She will also take a seat on Deputy’s board of directors. She is also a board member of Lemonade and Kiva. Deputy says it has surpassed $100 million AUD (about $69.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Once boda boda riders get on board, they can double their take-home profit from $5 per day to $10 per day after becoming owners, the CEO claims. ” Over the years, Tugende’s demand has come mainly via word of mouth, a strategy Wilkinson says the company has struggled to keep up with. Image Credits: Tugende.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Frustrated with only helping the rich get richer, the pair founded Titan in 2017 with the goal of disrupting what they viewed as “an archaic industry. The startup currently offers two stock-focused strategies on its platform, One of those strategies, called Flagship, is focused on large cap growth.

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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. LatAm SEED Program meeting, São Paulo 2017.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

We’re board already : As the end of COVID may be in sight, Connie reports that investors are losing their taste for board meetings in a big way. 9 strategies that will help you overcome your fear of fundraising. ” 9 strategies that will help you overcome your fear of fundraising. You can sign up here.).

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Rob’s personal philosophy and growth strategy involves leveraging the expertise, relationships, and capital of angels around the world. with relevant expertise, joined the board of directors. Savara Pharmaceuticals, Rob’s 4th startup, is an orphan lung disease company working on inhaled investigational therapies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Atlassian today announced that it has acquired Percept.AI , an AI company from Y Combinator’s summer 2017 batch that offers an automated virtual agent support solution — a chatbot, basically — based on a proprietary AI engine for natural language understanding. Why can’t we draw from, for example, maybe a Trello board?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

However, as the authors of a 2020 review paper on the electrowetting industry note, the instrument was “discontinued for undisclosed reasons” in 2017. Whether the end of NeoPrep in 2017 has bigger implications for Volta’s own commercialization process is hard to say. But, it does seem that Illumina hasn’t put the idea to bed yet.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Before diving in: a growth strategy is nothing without its product and for Morning Brew, the strength of our product comes from our writers. actually building it back in 2017. the logistics of maintaining an email list, our referral program flywheel, and how we evaluate and optimize our growth channels. Tyler did the hard part?—?actually

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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. On the Techstars side, the 2019 class we’re recruiting for now will lift the total number of Techstars Seattle alumni to over 100.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

While global investors have previously invested in African startups, their activity seemed more prominent in 2021, probably because of their participation across the board. Others include Ventures Platform , LoftyInc Capital , Voltron Capital and 4DX Ventures , all sub-Saharan-based VC firms with a pan-African strategy.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

My journey and how I came to this decision My journey into crypto began in 2017. I ended up taking a job at a SaaS startup called Troops after graduating, but I had already been orange-pilled back in 2017. Now with big banks, corporations, and governments on board, Bitcoin and?—?by The year 2017 was filled with promises?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and co-founder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin led Ironclad’s Series A deal back in 2017, making it one of his first Series A deals after returning to Accel.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Founded in 2017 by Aditya Kothadiya, Devendra Laulkar and Albert Lai, Avoma developed an artificial intelligence meeting assistant that has templates for meeting agendas and takes both notes and video, transcribes everything in real time, summarizes the notes and calls out actionable insights for participants in the agenda.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

He also would close a $6 million, three-year deal in 2017 with New York City, but he found getting financial institutions involved proved more challenging. 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.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. Sutton Place Strategies helps private equity funds identify the best-positioned intermediaries (investment banks) for their sector. As of the beginning of 2017, ffVC spun out Totem into a separate business.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Gabriela will continue to support our Ambition 2030 as a Board Director focusing on developing partnerships and engaging in policy efforts. Sarah Stamatiou Nichols, Impact Strategy & Measurement Director. At the same time, I plan to continue enabling our impact through large scale partnerships and policy efforts in my Board role.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The strategy proved to be a success. Most times, your investors and board are present when it’s working. It also didn’t help that Ife Oyedele , his right-hand man since the company graced the tech scene in 2017, had to resign for personal reasons. When it’s not working, it can get lonely. But the show had to go on.

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