TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

In 2017, the founding team (Sophinos, Kannah, Ryan Vanshur, Marc Barron, Michael Woo, and Fadi George) partnered with a large vocational education provider to build and launch what Sophinos describes as “the world’s first trade school management system.”. It was occupied by our friends and by our family members,” Sophinos said. “It

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

“I know that our repeat purchase rate is lower than the industry average now, but …” “I know that our margins are lower than VCs like to see, but …” “I know our revenue decelerated in the last 2 quarters of 2017, but …” Remember that fund raising is a sales process. Cash in, cash out 12. What to do about that chip on your shoulder ?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In 2017, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that, among married couples with children, 96.9 We started with our parental leave policy, which is 12 weeks of fully paid maternity and paternity time off followed by 12 weeks at a reduced work schedule. percent of households had at least one employed parent, while in 61.9

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2018

Our oldest, Ryan, now 12, has had a job since he was 10 years old: He convinced a local barber to hire him for a couple of hours every Saturday. Adrian started on 9 December, 2017, and is more than halfway to his goal. Read more on raising entrepreneurial kids from the Octane blog. but he was determined to go for six months.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2017

In June 2017, you won Visa’s Everywhere Initiative. Currently, we operate in four European cities; we plan to grow into 17 cities over the next 12 months. The post The Value of Competition for Young Entrepreneurs appeared first on THE BLOG. We asked Tom about his experiences and inspirations. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The firm cut the majority of staff four months ago , impacting nine of the 12-person team. Forward it to a friend, share it on Twitter, and follow my personal blog for more content. The autonomous vehicle startup raised $1 billion after launching in 2017. If you like this newsletter, do me a quick favor?

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Impact Hub

JUNE 14, 2022

Basically, since we started in 2017, we have had a circular approach to all aspects of our venture. For more inspiring stories like this, head to our blog. For instance, if it was about sourcing materials and furniture, we were scavenging items from the streets of Athens or refurbished materials that would otherwise be thrown away.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Total raised: $12 million. Over the years, the company managed to raise $12 million, including a $10 million Series A led by GV (Google Ventures) back in 2017. Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth noted in a blog post that the project simply wasn’t able to achieve profitability. Abundant Robotics (2016-2021).

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OkDork

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

12 million from his fight against Jose Aldo. $25 million in 2017 and plans to turn it into upmarket apartments as well as rentable social housing units. Conor McGregor has also developed a media company called The Mac Life which includes a blog, YouTube channel, and social media presence. He purchased the property for €13.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Perspectives and pointers from the FY 2016/2017 PEAK Global Winner , EO Utah. Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Utah chapter decided to pursue a FY2016/2017 PEAK win due to, at least in part, tradition. However, they went “after it with a twist,” explains EO Utah President FY2016/2017 Matt Glover. “We

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

When we first started working with Convoy in 2017, the company had fewer than five large shippers on its platform, served less than half of the United States, and relied on manual operations for more than 30% of shipments. convoy.com/blog/empty-miles-in-trucking. convoy.com/blog/introducing-guaranteed-primary/.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When I last interviewed Casey, back in 2017 , he recognized there’s a “natural, & healthy, tension between myself & the people I write about.” I think you’re the first person I’ve interviewed twice on this blog. When Substack introduced this feature on April 12, we had 57,135 free subs. Platformer Subscriber Growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

If you run a food or recipe-related business, for example, you might opt for a quiz like Are You Sophisticated Enough To Get 10/12 On This International Food Quiz? Let’s take Buzzfeed’s quiz You Can Only Eat Pasta If You Get 12/15 In This Quiz as an example. You can then ask, will this topic gel with my intended audience?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

By December 12, Bankman-Fried had been arrested in the Bahamas. Kite struggled to pay the bills, founder Adam Smith revealed in a postmortem blog post , running into engineering headwinds that made finding a product-market fit essentially impossible. Sebastian Thrun at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. The next day, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

As always, you can support me by sharing this newsletter, following me on Twitter or subscribing to my personal blog. Amira Yahyaoui started the company in 2017 as an edtech business built to help students navigate their way through applying to and attending college. Also, has anyone had a busier 12 months than Josh Buckley?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

He was up to 90 there for about 2017. But this particular episode was about how he took all of his blog about passing the architecture licensing exam and he put his … He had documented his process, how he studied and passed it. And he realized people were coming to his website and they were reading his blog posts.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

I have been reading Fred’s blog AVC for about a decade now. I sort of feel mentored by Fred via his blog, which is pretty remarkable for just writing words on the web and sharing them. Of course, over the last decade, the rest of the world doesn’t need to read these blogs to see what’s going on. A blog entry for another day.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

Create an Impact Track with a deliverable of increasing participation of EO-member companies with the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), with a goal of the Chapter Impact Chair achieving a minimum 20% UNGC engagement among chapter members within 12 months. Chapters to use B-Corp B-Lab Assessment to aggregate data and measure EO Impact.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 10, 2021

Join OurCrowd and Technion-Canada on Monday, April 12 at 12PM EST for a live online discussion with Prof. The original OC50 Series I launched in 2017. The post Newsletter: Robot brain surgery + Reinventing manufacturing appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Click here or below for more details and to register. Register Now.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 21, 2021

Within three months, I put my hand up to be the GSEA Champion, followed by Learning Chair (2016/17), then President (2017/18). Reflecting on your total experience in the past 12 months, what surprised you most? The post Jamie Pujara: The 2021 EO Mark Lincoln Volunteer of the Year appeared first on THE BLOG.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

To manage board meetings, our respondents mentioned a variety of data sharing tools like Box (12%), Dropbox and Google Drive (6% each). It would appear that most of our respondents are spending quite a bit of money on their technology (bearing in mind these are mostly smaller firms) with 74% having spent $10k or more in 2017.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 6, 2019

This blog post is part of a wider campaign aiming to share knowledge about environmental challenges within our communities. billion tons ended up as waste out of which 9% has been recycled, 12% was incinerated, and 79% ended up in landfills and nature. 5 Jamberk & Geyre, 2017, ‘Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made”’.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2022

Kraken wrote an excellent blog post explaining the difference between PoW and PoS systems. ETH staked on the beacon chain will remain locked for another 6 to 12 months. Therefore, if the Merge happened today, validators could expect to earn a total of ~8–12% APR due to all the factors mentioned above. with a market cap of $13.5

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