Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 15, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Alex founded El Árbol English School in Costa Rica, an institution where students of all ages learn English and develop critical thinking skills. Know the individuals, know the families and the cultures, and know the stories to better understand their needs. Creating unique lesson plans.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 30, 2018

In early 2018, EO DC joined forces with the Employer Assistance Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN) and DC Metro Business Leadership Network (DC Metro BLN) to host an event to educate entrepreneurs and small businesses on the value of hiring people with disabilities.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Gartner reported that automation is the fastest-growing software subsegment , seeing year-over-year growth of more than 63 percent in 2018. The importance of good leadership. New jobs will be created. Many new, productive and rewarding roles are being created as part of the digital transformation journey. Access to information.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

This brings the company’s total funds raised to $87 million since the company was founded by Richard Hong and Darwish Gani in 2018. For Richard, he came from a place where skincare was more culturally accepted. Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Porfirio Baez spent his free time dreaming up different ways to contribute to the preservation of the environment. To celebrate Porfirio’s efforts in creating job opportunities in his community, and in leading them toward a culture of sustainability, the YLAI Network asked him a few questions about Green Depot’s successes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Founded in August 2018, Truora was originally focused on background checks for gigster platforms. In 2018 and 2019, its biggest customers were ride-hailing companies, and with the pandemic, the company saw an increase in e-commerce and marketplace customers. . “By billion,” said Bilboa, a former investment banker at Bank of America.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2019

That changed in late 2018 when Brannon helped with launching a new EO chapter, in Charleston. The three original founders of EO Charleston, Haig Berberian, John Laverne and me (pictured above), decided to attend the EO Global Leadership Conference in Toronto, and we talked about what sort of chapter we wanted,” he explains.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 30, 2022

After getting to know Nicki and CardUp over the course of 2018, Funding Societies | Modalku co-founder and group CEO Kelvin Teo said they find CardUp has a great cultural and strategic fit. This will allow SMEs to monitor and pay bills, receive payments, and borrow money all inside one easy-to-use digital platform.

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StartupNation

MARCH 8, 2021

Today is International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. This year’s theme is #ChooseToChallenge. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Dave Calnan participated in 2018 EO Global Student Entrepreneur Award (GSEA) Global Finals in Toronto, Canada. I learned a lot about different cultures, as well as their businesses and specific industry insights which have been extremely helpful. Are you an EO member who wishes to enhance your leadership skills?

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In 2018, Duo, one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity providers in the world, was acquired by Cisco for $2.34 Duo’s leadership team often says that they not only want Duo to be a great place to work, but also a great place to be from. Related: Bamboo Detroit Co-Founder Shares Tips for Creating an Inspiring Shared Work Culture.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

An achievement I am deeply proud of as I hand over the reins of leadership to the amazing leader Tatiana Glad and shift to the Board of the organisation to help with larger-scale partnerships and influence through social entrepreneurship policy. Global leadership pioneering meetings. Leadership team. Unlikely Allies.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Bring CISOs into the C-suite to bake cybersecurity into company culture. ” Founded in 2018, Elisity — whose competitors include the likes of Vectra AI and Lastline — closed a $7.5 However, it currently has no women in its leadership team , nor on its board of directors. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

We fielded the survey in 2016, 2018 and 2020, and released the outcomes of the third edition last month, featuring data (as of June 30, 2020) collected from 378 firms, a marked increase from 203 participating firms in 2018. Once talent has come on board, inclusive culture and retention become key metrics of DEI progress.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

In this fireside chat from the American Dynamism Summit with a16z General Partner Ben Horowitz, Maryland Governor Wes Moore discusses his inspiring journey to the statehouse and how his experiences have shaped his leadership. Ben: Yeah, voting is cultural. Governor Moore: Voting is cultural, right? It’s not the issue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Kim co-founded ianacare in 2018 after spending more than seven years caring for her mom during a cancer battle. . We cannot authentically discuss keeping women in leadership or the workforce at large without addressing their care need,” Kim said. . There would be a tremendous impact on the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Both online grocery platforms, Misfits Market raised nearly $530 million since being founded in 2018, most recently a $200 million Series C round in 2021 that put its valuation at over $1 billion. Indeed, both companies have similar financial and cultural synergies, Ramesh said, including a focus on eliminating food waste. In the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2018

He rebranded Vanderbilt Financial as an impact investment broker firm, ensured that his company headquarters were environmentally sustainable via Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification and became an outspoken advocate for the UN SDGs. He earned a nomination for 2018 EO Global Citizen of the Year.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. As somebody who has seen the shift from Innovation to Systematization many times I can tell you that culturally it is very hard for organizations.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Must-Read: 5 Leadership Traits No Entrepreneur Succeeds Without. Create a fierce focus culture. ©2018 by Entrepreneur Media, Inc. — Lewis Howes , former pro athlete, lifestyle entrepreneur and NYT-bestselling author ; subscribe to Lewis’s global top-100 podcast phenomenon, The School of Greatness on iTunes!

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

Rafael, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and an entrepreneur in Honduras, saw years later a need for his skills in the country’s cultural heritage sector. “My Today Rafael is working with Xiomara and other artisans to market their products, all the while preserving traditional Honduran culture. There is no one Honduran,” Rafael says. “We

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

What would our culture look like? One of the great thought leaders on culture-powered businesses, Paul Spiegelman, nudged me to tell this story on a pretty big platform. 2018 / We’re just getting started. Back in 2008, our team did a vision exercise: What would Ruby look like at 10 times our current size? Our offering?

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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

The essence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem is its people and the culture of trust and collaboration that allows them to interact successfully. Intersections of Partnership and Leadership in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Comparing Three US Regions. Reflections on measurement and definitions for evaluation – Part 2. 2019) [link].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For anyone following venture news, this data should not be new: Fortune reported that while the numbers have tripled since 2018, Black women still only receive 0.27% of all venture dollars in the U.S.; There is a growing body of articles about the important issue of the lack of investment dollars flowing to Black women founders. to be 0.24%.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 31, 2022

As an industry, auto repair severely lacks leadership, which creates awful work environments. Joining EO in 2018 was life-saving—or should I say “business-saving!” We are going “all-in” on Lean Principles , which align perfectly with our culture. Everything gets better when we are working towards common goals.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Innovators Hernann Zabala Naoumov, 2018 YLAI Fellow, and Antonio Mendoza, 2016 YLAI Fellow, co-founded EnerGea , a social enterprise aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reducing pollution and energy consumption through sustainable technology.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A dozen years after stumbling into turning fruity tasting water into a mega-brand, she had some precancerous cells on her nose, and created Hint fruit-scented sunscreen in 2018. Remember Kara Goldin ? The Accidental water mogul morphed into a sunscreen queen through a novel product that brought a fresh Outsider perspective.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Glossier affirmed our inherent beauty, then reminded us that we can be even more beautiful if we buy their “Boy Brow” pomade, which sold one tube every 32 seconds by 2018. Glossier founder Emily Weiss speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2018 Image Credits: TechCrunch. asked Rosie Nguyen in a conversation with TechCrunch.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

They’re highly committed to body positivity and diversity, both in their advertising and in their company culture. Back in July of 2020, The Mom Project announced a funding round of $25 million, and since 2018, has grown to over 275,000 users (up from 75,000), and doubled the number of organizations posting jobs on the platform to 2,000.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

However, 2018 has other ideas, with the most money ever invested in U.S. 3/ AutoDesk Eyes New Markets: Despite going through leadership transitions and quarterly losses, AutoDesk remains an iconic software company that’s been nearly tripled its market value over the past three years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

“Because traditional outsourcing firms tend to attract non-tech clients and their culture revolves around billable hours, our team members were also unsatisfied with the outsourcing company that they worked for,” Samira told TechCrunch via email. ” It’s an argument that’s evidently convincing customers.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

a Suriano, 2018 YLAI Fellow. “It I then moved to Beijing to learn more about my Chinese culture and the language while also learning how to handle business with China. By Jewelle Saunders. Everyone deserves to have equal opportunities, rights, and benefits,” says Marí?a It is time for everyone to fight for what is right and fair.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

Under the visionary leadership of Jeong Ji-hee, MEDIAIPLUS aims to bridge the gap between data availability and accessibility. Before establishing MEDIAIPLUS in 2018, I had gained experience in a foreign company, familiarizing myself with its organizational culture. Firstly, Seoul is home to the Big Five hospitals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

These things, in turn, exert a determining influence on our culture.”. Diversifying an investment portfolio to include more women-led ventures means trusting in the leadership of women, which research has shown to be worth believing in. Why is diverse deal flow important? That is a crime, and it is a waste of incredible talent.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

Under the visionary leadership of JiHee Jung , MEDIAIPLUS aims to bridge the gap between data availability and accessibility. Before establishing MEDIAIPLUS in 2018, I had gained experience in a foreign company, familiarizing myself with its organizational culture. Firstly, Seoul is home to the Big Five hospitals.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

That news is coming at the same time that Thrasio is changing its leadership: today it announced that Greg Greeley, a former president of Airbnb and a longtime Amazon executive, is joining its board and taking on the role of CEO this August. Their final working day will be May 13. Thrasio’s growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2019

These are women who have fought against all odds, made a mark in the business world and crafted their own brands of leadership. She has also created a culture that authentically values giving back and making a positive difference in the world. I hope these women entrepreneurs can give you the same dose of motivation that they gave me!

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