TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. There was no IP, no MVP and the founder had only a general idea of the go-to-market strategy. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

But as I rose in my career (and post MBA) I moved into a role in which I was to advise board-level executives on topics where I was expected to rapidly become an expert. What is the right organizational strategy for a large UK conglomerate to operate more effectively? ’ The correct answer is ‘I don’t know.’

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Momenta adapts what it calls a two-legged strategy of supplying advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to auto OEMs like GM and Tier 1 suppliers like Bosch, while conducting R&D on truly unmanned vehicles, that is, Level 4 driving. The new injection brings the total of the startup’s Series C to over $1 billion.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 2, 2023

Peer-reviewed studies find clear associations between longer commuting times and lower job satisfaction, increased stress, and poorer mental health. Then, we develop a communication strategy to convey the value of these face-to-face tasks to hybrid employees, to get their buy-in on coming to the office for high-impact work pursuits.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It’s a quick-read providing some practical tips and sharing best practices from peer companies to help you come out of the pandemic with a strong international presence. We and our team at Taylor Wessing advise 50 to 75 venture-backed North American companies each year on setting up in Europe or Asia.

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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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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

But as a “company town” where most engineers come for a well-paying job, not as founders seeking like-minded peers, our region’s entrepreneurial support systems are surprisingly weak. Startups are defined by velocity and growth, learning and adapting faster than your competitors on the path to dominance in your chosen category.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Employee recognition is often left out of the conversation but it is something that has a significant impact on any retention strategy. For example, the former co-CEO of Salesforce, Bret Taylor, was also chairman of the board of Twitter in addition to his role at Salesforce, which helped draw attention back to Salesforce.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Jason Dressel is president of History Factory , which helps companies use their history and heritage to enhance and transform strategy, positioning, marketing and communication. Yet we found that tech execs appear just as unprepared for C-suite transitions as their peers in other sectors. Jason Dressel. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Actually, I think the best analogy for a social media strategy looks something more like this: If you’ve never seen The Price is Right’s Plinko game, it’s highly entertaining. A lot of people ask me what I think of posting to Twitter these days… (I’ll start calling it X as soon as I learn to stop saying Battery Tunnel and Triborough Bridge).

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

While most of the company’s peers focus on product companies, Al-Ansari saw how underserved the service side was: their needs are different, and unlike retail, aren’t looking to sell online. The company has 150 employees currently, and another 50 are expected to come on board by the end of the year. This year, Paystone entered the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Jay Kapoor is a general partner at VSC Ventures, where he invests in seed and early-stage companies, helping them break out with value-add support on PR, content, and media strategy. At that point, the investor’s engagement is limited to their attendance at the quarterly board meeting — and that’s the lead investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary. She leveraged herself and even sold many of her possessions to get started. And when her assets were tapped she rented out her bedroom and even her couch on Airbnb to afford her year-one operations. More on that later.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

They designed Archive to be a kind of a peer-to-peer, white-labeled product that brands could release that had the same look and feel of their existing retail channels, Rowe, CTO, said. It turns out the fashion industry is quite a wasteful industry, contributing an estimated 13 million tons of textile to landfills per year.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Peer-to-peer lending is back! Others I have not.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Simultaneously, diversity and inclusion strategies have become more widespread; 43% of firms have implemented a diversity strategy (against 32% in 2018 and 24% in 2016), while 41% have an inclusion strategy (versus 31% in 2018 and 17% in 2016). Let’s be clear: The venture capital industry has lacked diversity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

-based Curated Loop — which soft-launched a high-end fashion rental marketplace last week after bootstrapping to launch an MVP — is sourcing statement pieces from independent designers’ sample stock to style itself as an edgier alternative to more conventional rivals. So the promise is access to unique high-end designs.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Our collective strategy Ambition 2030 represents the promise of Impact Hub when I first joined as a member (Impact Hub Islington, 2005). Also, it’s why I started an Impact Hub (Amsterdam, 2008), why I served on the global Board (2015-2018) and contributed through other roles, and why I want to continue to serve the network.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

This capital flow is highlighted in the 2022 Angel Funders Report and results from a variety of factors including a more integrated strategy highlighting the value proposition to ACA members and a new emphasis on programming for entrepreneurs. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Our members are able to stay on top of trending investment approaches, terms and exit strategies. Launched the ACA syndication pilot with current ACA peer groups and a new deal-sharing platform. Launched the new Boards in Action course, available in March as part of the AU winter term. Identify like-minded investors.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

This funding is a critical milestone to defining a new, modern standard for supporting medication adherence using evidence-based public health strategies.” The investment is the latest validation of Scene Health’s unique video-based platform, which empowers people to take medication properly through person-to-person connections, every day.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

When incoming EO Malaysia Chapter President, Felicia Lim, was cracking her head over the ideal venue for our latest Strategy Summit, the location of Jakarta, Indonesia, wasn’t even on the short list. Second, in line with our board’s tagline—”The Crazy Ones”—how could we create a memorable experience that, well, bordered on insanity?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

However, he believes Emi differentiates itself by focusing on the frontline worker — getting them access to a competitive advantage, whereas other peers in the space are focused on the enterprise. Enter Emi , the latest company targeting technology to this portion of the workforce with a conversational artificial intelligence recruiting tool.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Some notable Islamic fintech companies include peer-to-peer lending platform and digital bank Hijra (formerly known as Alami), online bank Bank Aladin , LinkAja , which is backed by Telkomsel and Bank Mandri, the largest bank in Indonesia in terms of asset loans and deposits. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. out of its 33.6

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

With a little patience, forethought, and strategy, you can avoid angel burnout. You're going to want syndication partners on the deals you find and sounding boards on the thesis behind each of your potential investments. Here are just a few suggestions: 1) Advise first, invest later. Its certainly not a way to become a great advisor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

It requires the technical and financial know-how to develop and implement a new backbone in a highly regulated industry,” said Strange, who joined Vesta’s board as part of the financing. If you’ve ever taken out a mortgage, you know how painful and tedious the process can be. trillion in loan originations in 2022. Image Credits: Vesta.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Who else can provide context if your portfolio isn’t growing as quickly as your peer group, if they believe you paid too high a price on a deal, if they question your due diligence in a given situation or whatever critique they might offer? Contrast that with a VC conversation I had. We were talking about raising money from LPs.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

When you set up a board it is often initially a combination of the founders and the early investors. This post sets out how I believe founders (and investors) should think about independent board members having worked with many of them for the past 20 years. The board is where large equity investors get their representation.

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

For those following this blog and the seed market over the past decade, you may have noticed that every year, we see increases across the board — more investors, newer funds, and funds that get larger. 2M per firm, funds may want to grow so they can keep co-investing with their peer group.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 30, 2023

After we closed the round, our lead investor revealed how capital efficient we had been compared to our peers. Welcome to the fourth edition of Learnings of a CEO. You can read previous editions here. Snapdocs is the leading digital closing platform for the mortgage industry. Even after YC, we didn’t raise much immediately.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

The other day, I got interviewed for Business Insider. It was a good interview, save for that little vein that I had no idea was so prominently featured on the side of my head--but what's a bald guy to do? At least it's not a weird fold in the back or a dent at the top. All hat and no cattle as they say. How about as a VC? And you know what?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

Yesterday I wrote a primer on how to use Snapchat for my peer group of “over 30” people who don’t yet “get” Snapchat. Unless you work at Snapchat or are on the board – nobody really knows how many users they have but I think it’s well reported to be a s**t-ton.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

And I spoke with the CTO of another great company I used to be on the board of and enlisted his support in potentially being an advisor to one company. You might first seek to meet your peer group in comparable jobs at similar companies. Having a peer group of people “like you” is incredibly helpful. Whom to Meet?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The numbers are devastating and point to the need for massive changes across the board in terms of providing more sustainable and inclusive working environments for underrepresented groups. Candice Bristow. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Candice Bristow is director of EID and recruiting at Expel Inc. among Black workers and 6.4% The reason?

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