NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Magnify, we help founders of SMEs to grow a healthy sales pipeline without the risk of hiring. Every day, we get to use our sales strategy and skills to grow pipeline and revenue for some of the most talented founders and business owners on the planet. Its our job to set founders and business leaders up for sales success.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Facebook ad examples: Testimonials and social proof These ads feature real people—for example, customers, founders, or experts—sharing their experience with a product. This article was originally published in November 2021 with contributions from Ana Gotter and Melissa King. It's quick, useful, and scroll-proof.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

These professionals, their educators and employers deserve better,” said Krish Chopra , co-founder and CEO, NPHub. The NP workforce is projected to grow by 45% between 2021 and 2032, making it one of the fastest-growing healthcare professions in the country. A Growing Crisis in U.S.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

While every CEO and founder wants to create the next impactful IPO oriented company, IPOs are rare, even in the best of times. In the 2021 boom, there were 215 tech and media IPOs. HW: Debt financing for startups can sometimes seem like ‘cheap money’ but its definitely more complicated than most founders realize.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 16, 2025

Bonno co-founders, Stefanie and Tony Egerton. Stefanie says it was 2021 when the idea began to take shape – both metaphorically and physically – though it would take a couple more years to get Bonno out of the bush and into the hands of dog owners. She says it also provides a calming outlet for dog anxiety or boredom.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Entering 2021, the bullishness of African tech stakeholders returned — and why not? Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. billion and $2.8

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

Meanwhile, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that “the number of voluntary quits were at an all-time high in November 2021.” The post 5 ways founders and CEOs can diversify their leadership teams appeared first on THE BLOG. million to 6.3 million, respectively.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

I remember about fifteen years ago, a well-known VC said to me “you need to sell a company within a few years of the founder leaving. Companies can’t sustain their innovation after a founder leaves.” I have seen leadership teams take over great businesses from founders and get them to the next level.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

As 2021 begins, we’re witnessing a fast-changing landscape. I recall listening to a podcast years ago with the founders of a company called Eye Love. The post 21 Ways to Grow Your New Business Online in 2021 appeared first on StartupNation. In fact, according to emarketer.com ; “U.S. e-commerce sales will reach $794.50

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. Finding a technical co-founder is even harder. Yet, the benefits of having a technical co-founder make it all worthwhile. A good co-founder will serve as a powerful force multiplier.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. billion in the first half of 2021 — a fourfold increase from the previous year. But what about those minority founders who don’t have family, friends or connections to lean on for the first $250,000?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. In 2017, Stone publicly announced he was returning to Twitter to lead strategic vision, brand, and culture, where he remained until 2021. million in seed funding (5.1 Chroma did.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Contributed by Alexi Cashen, an EO San Francisco member who is CEO and co-founder of Elenteny Imports , co-founder of St. percent by February 2021. percent by February 2021. As co-founder and CEO of Elenteny Imports, a B2B freight forwarding logistics company, and co-founder and chief revenue officer of St.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

Innovating AI research and advancing entrepreneurship skills in Colombia By Jewelle Saunders “What motivates me in everything that I do is the movement that comes with curiosity,” says Jonathan Puerta Pereira , a 2021 YLAI Fellow. on Innovation & Technology Policy with a focus on artificial intelligence.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

Curtis Fonger and Matthew Busel met on YC’s Co-Founder Matching (CFM) Platform, a tool we built to help co-founders find each other. Even in early conversations, their fit as co-founders was clear to each of them. YC invested in Whalesync in the Summer 2021 batch. What was your process for evaluating co-founders?

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Source Link

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Dave Lavinsky, GrowThink co-founder , puts it like this: “I think the mindset for many has become, ‘If I’m going to ditch the office, why not ditch the boss, too?’ Microenterprise Collaborative has helped to create or support over 21,000 jobs in 2020, and is on track to achieve their 2021 goals, according to the report.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Register “Young musicians today treat music-making kind of like playing video games,” says PoChang Wu, co-founder of OurSong, an NFT-based platform for music collection and community building. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

Natasha Miller is an EO member in Los Angeles, and founder and Chief Experience Designer of Entire Productions , which designs, plans and produces incredible event experiences both virtually and in person. But as a founder and CEO, where can you learn such skills while simultaneously hustling to grow your company?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

2021 YLAI Fellow Kenna George knows this well. Kenna is the founder and chief executive of LinkUp , a company that provides small businesses in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines a digital space to collaborate as well as promote and sell their products and services.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. And while this May’s economic backdrop was markedly different from last’s , enthusiasm was high and outlooks remained positive for the startup momentum building between the coasts.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

He is the co-founder and CEO of Surf the Greats , Canada’s largest brand and community for surf education, adventure and lifestyle on the Great Lakes and beyond. Maintaining Balance Sadly, Lennert lost Lucas Murnaghan to cancer in 2021. She is the co-founder of Brand of a Leader , the personal branding agency for entrepreneurs.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” But from the back half of 2020 into 2021, we are bearing witness to accelerated adoption and transformational change in industry after industry. Part I) Cities are Like Startups Cities are like startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

With the support of a friend who gifted her a van (she paid $1 for it) and a mentor in the dry cleaning business, she built a website and embarked on her entrepreneurial journey as founder of WashRoom Laundry. “I When Saichelle joined EO Accelerator in 2021, she had the lowest revenue in her accountability group.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2021, the total number of podcasts broke the two million mark, and in 2023, there were over five million podcasts (Source: Spotify, 2023). Casey is the founder and CEO of Ringmaster Conversational Marketing , which helps B2B businesses launch podcasts with the goal of driving growth and revenue. Happy podcasting!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Arnold Shoko of Tanzania is the CEO and co-founder of Samaki Farms, a company that transforms food waste into protein feeds. That’s where I met my friend David Denis —the 2021 GSEA global runner-up. In the 2022 GSEA Global Finals , Arnold Shoko won the Together We Grow Award for his collaborative spirit. I thought, “What is this?

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Adetola Onayemi was part of the negotiation team that saw the agreement take effect in January 2021. ” Onayemi launched Norebase with Tope Obanla in September 2021. It allows founders and businesses to start and scale across several African countries at once or periodically.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Pakistani children are less likely to go to school for each kilometer of distance between school and their home — with girls being four times affected, Maqsad co-founder Aziz said. Maqsad announced today its $2.1 million pre-seed round to enhance its content platform growth and invest in R&D.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2023

30 Investments to date in the areas of AI, autonomy, cybersecurity and space Shield Capital was launched in 2021 by the Managing Partners Philip Bilden and Raj Shah, both of whom have deep experience in technology and investing, driving their passion to support founders of frontier technologies.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

In 2021, the firm raised $28 million in a funding round. executive and co-founder of OneDegree, stated that the company anticipates one more funding round before considering an initial public offering. The digital insurance provider projects profitability by the end of 2024, according to co-founder Alvin Kwock.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year. Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. In contrast, male-only founded U.S. billion of total venture capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

This builds on AV’s ten-year track record of $200M of investments made into female founders and CEOs, across healthcare, consumer, cybersecurity, fintech, and more. Most notable are the 100+ AV portfolio companies founded solely by females and the other 245 having had at least one female founder and/or CEO.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After creating COVID screening solutions in 2020 and expanding their partnerships, DocNetwork announced a new partnership with Daxko in 2021 that allows for seamless integrations with YMCA and JCC platforms. EverActive has won multiple awards, including a recent 2021 IDEA Innovation Award. Apply now to DocNetwork. Spellbound AR.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., growth from 2020 to 2021. Are accelerators giving founders what they need and want?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Pajani Singah’s company, Amazonia Impact Ventures , was named Top Innovation Winner of the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge for protecting the Amazon rainforest and improving the lives of its people through an innovative finance company that works directly with indigenous communities in the rainforests.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

million in its seed round in 2021, with support from Philippine’s venture capital investor Foxmont Capital Partners. AHG Lab has cultivated an environment characterized by agility and a strong sense of community among founders and leaders. AHG Lab had previously secured $1.1

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

The company originally had intentions to go public, and in 2021 it laid out plans to do so by way of a SPAC. But with the SPAC market facing a lot of troubles, and the tech IPO market drying up at the end of 2021, Acorns scrapped its SPAC IPO plans in January of 2022.

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