Impact Hub

MARCH 25, 2024

This national collaborative partnership, born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, addresses structural inequalities faced by Black and racially minoritized communities in accessing grant funding in the UK. This programme, born out of extensive consultation and codesign, focuses on social innovation, offering a blended investment approach.

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Startup Blogpost

JUNE 9, 2023

To help you ensure your startup is environmentally sustainable, we reached out to CEOs, founders, and other business leaders for their best advice. From integrating sustainability into company culture to hiring a sustainability consultant, here are the top nine tips shared by these experts on making your startup eco-friendly.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

EQT Ventures, the venture fund arm of Sweden’s investment giant EQT making early-stage bets on startups primarily in Europe, has closed its latest fund and filled its coffers with €1 billion (and $1.1 How do they keep the culture alive? Collaboration station : Ready to Freeform? billion in total commitments).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Run a Company With Two 10-Minute Weekly Meetings and Post-It Notes Barry Raber (EO Portland), a serial entrepreneur and CEO of real estate investment firm Business Property Trust , shared his insights on how to keep team meetings short and sweet with an effective system that fosters collaboration and engagement.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

YC invested in Whalesync in the Summer 2021 batch. Some specific things we were highly aligned on were: Team culture: We both wanted to build a fun, collaborative, and focused culture. It is really good advice to do this ahead of time. Really, ALL the advice is right there in front of you in Startup School.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

NEA partner Liza Landsman invested as well, and Tishgart said that Sweetgreen’s Nic Jammet and Parachute’s Ariel Kaye have joined the startup’s board of directors. ” The funding, Tishgart said, will allow Great Jones to invest in further product development and production. .

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

But there are at least three reasons to invest in getting it right: The right name can give you a leg up. Unlike naming a pet, company naming requires legal availability, linguistic and cultural viability, internal alignment and customer acceptance. Why would anyone pay so much? And those are just the tangible deliverables.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

However, if you are unsure about someone and wondering if you should check in with them, my advice is always to reach out. They are constantly investing in themselves, their knowledge and their skills. As an employer, you can invest in them as individuals as well. Education says you care.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Register Pangyo Techno Valley in Seongnam City is a global R&D hub of IT, BT (biotechnology), CT (cultural technology) and NT (nanotechnology), where R (research), P (people), I (information) and T (trade) all come together. It is open to provide startups with opportunities to attract investment. for companies.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 2, 2021

Photo Credit: Fortune Adding to the lack of female representation in the industry, research also shows that only 8% of the investment professionals at the top 25 VC firms are women. While much remains unsure, I’m certain of one thing: I have to step aside and pay attention to the women who are navigating the complex world of investing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Bird noted that “thanks to our high retention, we’re able to build a company culture that makes up for any of the disadvantages of a smaller labor market.”

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“Jeongsu Lee and Sanghyuk Lee were senior classmates at university, and we collaborated on several projects together. “EventUs went through the Pre-Seed stage in 2017, the Seed stage in 2018, and successfully attracted Pre-A round investment in 2019.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This strategy worked for two reasons: 1) By the end of the contract, the contractors had poured weeks of energy into the work – learning the code base and investing their time – and getting to know potential coworkers. The collaborative Google Doc is shared with the candidate and used throughout the entire interview process.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit. I was stuck in startup culture and he was stuck in big company culture and their was a chasm between us that couldn’t be rectified. Tags: Sales & Marketing Advice Startup Advice. This is obviously a marketing & CEO activity.

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HPA

AUGUST 9, 2019

Her perception of what it means for a startup to be acquired—which could have been a lucrative experience for her—is one of the most painful parts of an acquisition: merging two different companies’ cultures, adapting to more bureaucratic corporate policies and processes, and then experiencing the pain of layoffs.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

As Our Colleague Kate Stern Departs Homebrew To Go Back to Company Building, Here’s Her Advice. We mutually anticipated it would be a three year role, after which Kate could decide if she liked investing or wasn’t ready to leave the world of operating (she joined us from 5+ years at Uber). It’s just the nature of the job.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

We asked the 40+ Unsung Heroes of Ecosystem Building which skills they would invest in to become even better at what they do. Policy and collaboration with policy, academic and funding institutions. I hope to gain more understanding of cultural differences and how they influence an entrepreneurs’ decisions. Adam Arredondo.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She is also principal of Broadway Realty, investing in, and repurposing, historic properties. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma? Collaboration and cooperation are key traits of our people, and this desire for all to succeed is part of our landscape. Get started!

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

And also in collaboration with Microsoft, we built some of the largest online stores back then in the U.S. ” Those questions and then having them written into narratives, fundamentally started to change the culture. In fact, we launched a little bit before Amazon. Obviously, we weren’t as successful.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

month support, the top startup teams can also look forward to getting further assistance to expand to Asia and investment from prominent VCs. South Korea is the best country among the other countries in Asia because there’s no cultural barrier here. Besides the 3.5-month ” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). Seriously, this happens.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

From CEO to investment banker to CEO. She also spent a decade in investment banking, rising to managing director of the technology group at Piper Jaffray. She went into investment banking as she was settling down to be a parent. She also has two things small businesses need to have an eye on. Kate Winkler is a CPA.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Most of my experience is in B2B SaaS, so this advice is tailored to founders in a similar space: #1 Hire an experienced leadership team to define the culture and vision A brand new startup only has one asset?—?the This cultural interview is critical. the people in the room.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

I wish more startups were rigorous in defining market needs and competitive differentiate versus throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks but it seems as an industry we’re breeding the culture of the latter. Startup Advice' Of course websites like Reddit and HackerNews try to weed out such behavior.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

What holds them back in their work (scarcity, silos, unrealistic expectations and an unwillingness to collaborate). Imagine what the diversity of ownership and in the workforce would look like if people with the means to invest would care as much about social and human return on investment as they do about potential profit.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

But only the minority have high WeQs (Collaborative Intelligence). If you want your senior leadership team to work as a team you have to pay a lot more attention to many different areas e.g. communication, listening, supporting, collaborating etc. personality, cultural background?—?and It’s got harder!! Systemic not linear.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

You need to get straight to the beating heart of the business, understand the culture, involve the right people — and be comfortable telling founders and exec teams things they don’t always want to hear. That may seem strange advice for a new startup, but the economy is volatile and things change very fast.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Most startups will require ongoing capital investment for years, while generating little to no income. Inventory your savings, learn your credit score, and familiarize yourself with basic financial and investment vehicles such as bank loans, grants, and investor funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

This realization drove my decision to establish MEDIAIPLUS, aiming to tackle these challenges collaboratively and foster advancement in the industry. Before establishing MEDIAIPLUS in 2018, I had gained experience in a foreign company, familiarizing myself with its organizational culture.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A culture very different from that of the Western world. Habitto is Japan’s first digital bank offering financial advice that primarily targets financial novices, with an emphasis on a savings interest rate of 0.3%, which is higher than most traditional banks. A different language. That might not be the case, actually.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

This realization drove my decision to establish MEDIAIPLUS, aiming to tackle these challenges collaboratively and foster advancement in the industry. Before establishing MEDIAIPLUS in 2018, I had gained experience in a foreign company, familiarizing myself with its organizational culture.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

Jason invests in startups at the intersection of the technology, biology, and the consumerization of health. How did you break into tech investing? Thankfully I could write and was taking an economics class on the advice of my father, so I was able to get a job doing PR for life sciences companies.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It requires a lot of attention to make sure the pace of execution does not slow and cultural issues do not emerge as you scale. I used these meetings to get advice, but more importantly I was always giving them updates on our progress, vision, fundraising, and product releases. We plan to keep investing in this area as we grow.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? Oh, and one more thing. We just launched Extra Crunch in Israel.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. But it really helped them in a tricky time when we were scaling quickly and they had to collaborate on a bunch of things that we were building for the first time. ” There’s a quick guide to Stripes culture that you can find on our job site.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 20, 2023

21 Ways to Encourage Collaboration Among Startup Team Members To help you foster collaboration among your startup team members, we’ve gathered twenty-one insightful tactics from CEOs and founders. Plus, it’s fun and builds a culture of innovation and collaboration.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Think again, especially if you’re looking for investment. Unfortunately, the venture capital scene is embarrassingly backward in terms of diversity, and women and ethnic minorities are shockingly underrepresented among investment decision-makers. Legal templates and investment documents? Are you an expert in your field?

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