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. Just send me your dog damn deck 7. Remind me why I love you?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

PayPal was the latest large company to announce layoffs — with about 2,000 full-time employees, or 7% of its workforce, affected. In his blog post, Soman said the company wound down its health insurance product in anticipation of signing on a partner, who recently backed out in what the founder called “a massive and unexpected setback.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2019

A version of this article originally appeared on Violet’s LinkedIn blog. Global Shopping Festival broadcast in November 2017! appeared first on THE BLOG. By Violet Lim, CEO and Co-Founder at Lunch Actually Group. Violet is a member of EO Singapore. The post 10 Women Entrepreneurs Who Have Inspired Me—and Will Inspire You!

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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. The company’s data suggest that drivers can increase revenue-earning miles by 25% by switching to Convoy 7.

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OkDork

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

7 million from his fight against Eddie Alvarez. $10 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. 200/week to $200 million net worth??

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 13, 2020

OC50 Series I, launched in 2017, saw six firms exit, generating on average 2.3 7: The tech cure for fake news and deepfakes. The post Newsletter: Airbnb, DoorDash & DropBox incubator appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. times gross return on invested capital as of Q3 2020. For more information, click here. Learn more.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In fact, some estimates put the number of apps downloaded during 2017 at 178.1 For example, some mobile devices are still on Android 6 Marshmallow, some are on Android 7 Nougat, and still others are on the latest Android 8 Oreo. appeared first on THE BLOG. The post What Could Stop Your App From Succeeding?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. A free plan is available, with paid plans starting at $7/user/month for SMS notifications, unlimited appointment types, multiple time zones, and two-way calendar sync. It was most recently updated in April 2023.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 13, 2021

since the moment my co-founders and I started building our first prototype at the end of 2017, to today in 2021, with a team distributed in 5 different countries. In this blog post, I’ll share what we learned setting up our remote-first startup. We’ve been a remote-first startup from day one at Uizard ?—?since Reason 1: P eople.

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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. Check back here soon for a blog post where we’ll explore the solutions and people who are part of the Impact Hub network and already taking action. And World Economic Forum, 2017, ‘The New Plastics Economy’.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

He was up to 90 there for about 2017. Man, I would go to school at 5:30 AM, come home after football practice or the weight room at 7:00, and I had like an hour and a half after I saw my kids, to actually sit down and build a business. And he realized people were coming to his website and they were reading his blog posts.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Palico (7%) and Trusted Insights (6%) are the firms mentioned most often in our survey. 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. cross-posted on Blue Future Partners’s blog.).

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

7) Negotiate . See their blog post on multiples.). As of the beginning of 2017, ffVC spun out Totem into a separate business. I have not found a thorough platform for due diligencing all aspects of a potential investment. If you have one, please contact me. Kushim manages your deal flow and track portfolio performance.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

7) Negotiate . See their blog post on multiples.). As of the beginning of 2017, ffVC spun out Totem into a separate business. I have not found a thorough platform to track all steps needed to due diligence all aspects of a potential investment. If you have one, please contact me.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2022

The auto loans outstanding have jumped 44% over the last 7 years. Kraken wrote an excellent blog post explaining the difference between PoW and PoS systems. There shall be many, just as there were during the 2017 Bitcoin chain splits. If you make $50,000 a year, and the average car costs $48,000, you financin’ that b h!

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. The company’s bad behavior was nothing new.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Endless anti-union tantrums, delivered with the confidence that only a VC who had a single personal interaction with a union 7 years ago could muster. You led TechStars Chicago for two years (2017–2019) and have been connected to the local scene there for a quite a while. A lot of confused, raised brows, “Wait, aren’t unions bad?”

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