Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. But first, what’s the purpose of a board?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. But turn to the enterprise and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It was clear that there was more opportunity for their research and data products, but they wanted to invest their resources in promising ideas for their target market. The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more. PAD P urpose: Why innovate?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Whether this is a lounge with a table and chairs, a pair of couches or an open area with a white board, create opportunities for your team to communicate. Are you working with a large group of extroverts, or do have a mix of sensitive and tough-skinned employees? Buy white boards and different colored dry-erase markers.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 2, 2024

The eight entrepreneurial teams chosen for the 2024 Erie program represent an exciting mix of products & ideas: Premier Manufacturing – d.b.a employs the widely recognized Big Five personality traits, Objective Key Results for performance measurement, and a proprietary job board for candidates and recruiters.

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Gust

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Some executives think they can mix business with pleasure, with inter-office relationships. The result of budget and expense overruns is not only lost growth opportunities, but lost credibility and lost support from investors and vendors. Lastly, make good use of your Board Members. Make all the decisions yourself.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

It felt like an opportunity in the market for products to help people,” she told TechCrunch. Fast-forward to today, and Purely Elizabeth, which has since added pancake/waffle mix and oatmeal, is one of the top brands in the breakfast category. What we put in our mouths is one of the most important things we can do.”.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

And in around 2018, 2019, there was a strategic focus by the Board of Trustees to start looking at how can we more specifically support and service founders in the Greater Canterbury region to help them pursue their ideas. For us, it was not a good use of money. And then Day Two is that traditional day of inspiration.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

million in a mix of debt and equity. Though he wasn’t actively seeking new funds, Al-Ansari had been speaking with Crédit Mutuel Equity, which used to be CIC Capital Canada, prior to the pandemic, and their deal was put on hold. Customer feedback is a development opportunity. It raised $54.9 million in revenue this year. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The autonomous vehicle space is an exciting emerging market with plenty of opportunity. The first generation of the shuttle debuted in 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland at a mixed-use development. Former CEO Jay Rogers transitioned to an advisory role on the company’s board.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The e-commerce boom that started with the Covid-19 pandemic shows little sign of slowing down, and today a company called Shopware , which provides a set of open source tools to power online shopping experiences for some 100,000 mid-sized and larger brands, is announcing $100 million in funding to capture the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Warm introductions are not factored in, and anyone can apply to be evaluated, screened and accepted or rejected on equal terms, in part using the data science that Sequoia’s product team (led by Lee) has built internally to evaluate potential investments. “Europe is so fragmented. “Europe is so fragmented.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

In the 5+ years since CLF was founded, we’ve seen firsthand that these partnerships can produce new ideas, new opportunities, and new shifts in culture faster than operating in silos. Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because this is an opportunity for your company to get ahead of the competition and reap the rewards of being an early adopter. An injury or an illness can cause someone to use the internet differently on a temporary basis. This starts with having the right people on board. of the websites evaluated. What does this mean for you?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The company brought on chief science officer Frank Rossi, who has a PhD at Cornell, to create its core product, which requires a mix of tech and science to work. As customers use Sunday’s lawn-care products, the startup also uses aerial imagery to check on the status of users’ lawns throughout the experience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

But all that opportunity also has a flip side: how can you say what you want, just how you want to say it, without technical hurdle after hurdle getting in your way? Sanity stands out partly by keeping its focus wider than e-commerce and by not using the words “content” or “commerce” in its name.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

November 21, 2023) – Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved a new $20 million pilot program to support rising real estate developers. The program will support small-scale developers that have completed at least two – but no more than five – commercial and/or mixed-use properties of similar scope.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in a new chapter for virtual learning, giving a boost of attention to existing tools and spurring the creation of new services and use cases as students of all ages were ordered to stay home and stay out of classrooms. It is also notable for being Atom’s first outside funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 For instance, users can save their data spend when they use Jambo. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

The product can also be used by partner businesses to manage their own insurance needs. Some customers like Stanbic Bank in Kenya use Lami’s API to run insurance operations; HR platform WorkPay makes insurance products available to the businesses using its platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

It plans to use the funding to bring the tools it has already built to a wider set of verticals that have some of the same needs to manage risk, compliance and other factors as finance — healthcare and manufacturing are two examples — as well as to continue building more into the stack. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Its solution, in part, may be based on creative ways of presenting content to users, but also keeping a focus on strong material to use in those channels. “We see an outsized opportunity for alternative content that lives at the intersection of daily habit and fulfilling human potential.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The growing complexity of fundraising has the opportunity to make tech either inclusive or exclusive.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Sendbird , a popular provider of chat, video and other interactive services to the likes of Reddit, Hinge, Paytm, Delivery Hero and hundreds of others by way of a few lines of code, has closed a round of $100 million, money that it plans to use to continue expanding the functionalities of its platform to meet our changing interactive times.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

The end of the product lifecycle is where Murthy and Kaplan feel Ghost has “an enormous opportunity to help people be more efficient in that process,” Murthy added. Naturally, they started in apparel but are also seeing opportunity in beauty and home goods. Other options can be not to sell the goods online or in a certain country.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

It plans to use the funding to continue building out its software and its capabilities, to hire more people, and for business development, according to Artificial’s CEO and co-founder David Fuller. “You can really think of a lab, frankly, as a kitchen,” he said, “and the primary operation in that lab is mixing liquids.”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2020

On top of this, the pandemic has now given threat actors new opportunities to launch attacks. As employees log on to company networks from outdated home devices and mix their online work and personal activities, business accounts and data are put at risk. Start with cybersecurity hygiene. Update and check all data backups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

I don’t have much to say about this since anyone who follows the most basic tenets of society and uses logic understands it is wrong and ridiculous. My one thought: perhaps, it’s time for us all to put our grown-up pants on and stop normalizing this kind of behavior. The pairing has been something of a mixed bag.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Charity events are also great because the organization’s board of directors will be well represented. As you commit the intel to memory, make sure you don’t mix things up. If your first thought is “But I don’t know anyone,” stop and think: that’s not an excuse, it’s an opportunity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. ” Image Credits: Paystand/Yaydoo.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

From 1,300 applicants, the company picked its first cohort to start building opportunities with the startups. Snickerdoodle Labs – Uses blockchain to build agnostic data-sharing layer that enables individuals to control and even monetize their personal data through a tokenized data architecture. NeuroTrainer, Inc.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.)

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

The next morning, the exchange (either the NYSE or NASDAQ) finally does a market-based matching process where we find out the real price of the shares (ironically this is the exact process used in a Direct Listing, also ironically the only people allowed to sell are the ones given the shares the night before).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

They saw how successful high-growth, mobile-first, food-retail businesses were in Asia and saw an opportunity to replicate that street vending experience in the United States. King David Tacos is the first to use this new model, which involves its breakfast tacos being sold alongside Blank Street’s coffee and tea. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The gradual return of tourism and travel in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to see a wave of startups raising rounds of funding to meet new opportunities in the market. “We see that as a major opportunity, giving creators the chance to get inventory from elsewhere and push theirs out to other places.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It is the latest startup feeling some investor love as it develops a software stack designed for business-to-business marketers, hosting interactive virtual and hybrid events, to use go-to-market channels and actionable account-based insights for sales teams to show the pipeline impact of events. Prior to coming to the U.S.

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