Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2024

Since its launch, the Talent x Opportunity Initiative (TxO) has been more than a funding vehicle; it’s been a launchpad for culturally inspired innovation and a community of support for under-networked founders. Like the startups in our portfolio, TxO is constantly evolving to ensure we’re meeting the needs of our founders.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The startup announced Friday that it raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding led by Third Culture Capital. Parents can book a free, initial 15-minute virtual consultation with a lactation expert and then subsequent 60-minute sessions for $100 each. Andrea Ippolito, founder and CEO of SimpliFed. Image Credits: SimpliFed.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

What it does: Decentralized order book for loans. The pitch: Lulo is a DeFi lending infrastructure that aims to utilize order book technology to create a global liquidity layer in a permissionless way. In July 2021 it raised $235 million from General Atlantic and is using the funds to hire developers. Stage: Seed round.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

My advice would be to pick and develop a focus in which you have competency and passion. Also, utilize our ecosystem and engage support systems available such as our growing network of business accelerators, and the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program, a support system from which AireHealth has benefited.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2017

The agency has developed a robust internship and mentorship program. Jessica shared best practices for developing such a program. TCS Interpreting has developed a well-rounded internship and mentoring program that reflects its core values of growth and collaboration. Jessica Moseley is an EO member in Washington, D.C.,

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founder Christina York created the tech to work as augmented reality for published books but quickly pivoted into health care when she found the technology could be readily used as pediatric patient distraction during medical procedures. RightBrain Networks. FreightVerify. With RightBrain, you can handle AWS migration, DevOps and more.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 9, 2022

Coming from cultural revolution China where they barely had enough food to eat, they thought I was throwing away all the hard work they went through to come to America. Netflix’s culture was so different than the more secretive culture I experienced before at Amazon. Netflix has a strong A/B testing culture.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2023

And execution means developing the right habits. But as I started, there was no playbook, no blog posts, and only a few books on entrepreneurship. And execution means developing the right habits. They also listen to podcasts, attend webinars and networking events, and take online courses to expand their knowledge and skills.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

PubNub tells me that its messaging, presence and other data-based APIs today are used across some 600 million devices in more than 70 countries, with some 900,000 developer projects generating some 21 petabytes of data on a monthly basis. It says that customer bookings have grown 200% year-over-year in 2021.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 29, 2023

Register WhyQ’s plan to focus on improving their existing products and developing new ones to help small businesses better compete in the digital economy received a boost after it raised $1.4 Rishabh Singhvi, COO and Co-Founder of WhyQ said that in Malaysia, small businesses play a crucial role in both the economy and culture.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Upskilling is really just the corporate way of saying " learning new skills ": it's when you learn a new skill (hard or soft ) or develop an existing one in the context of your career. By continuing to learn and develop your skills, you'll: Become more confident in your abilities: If you battle imposter syndrome (?‍♀️),

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Co-founded in 2007 by Yasser Bashir, Arbisoft falls on the larger end of the spectrum of software development partners that our readers have recommended in our ongoing survey. If we wanted to add a developer, we could have an incredible one join our team in under one week,” said Traub. ” Image Credits: Yasser Bashir.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Ally Shoes is a proud member of the Female Founder Collective, a network of businesses led by women, supporting women. She raised a very small amount of Angel pre-seed capital, mainly focused on product development. Samantha recommends a book called Traction. “.what So Samantha looked into it and learned shoemaking from scratch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

It’s been a little over a year since Ryan Reynolds bought a majority stake in Mint Mobile, a deal that has already had a dramatic impact on the the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). Lenovo famously hired Ashton Kutcher as a product engineer to help develop the Yoga 2 tablet, on which I assume you are all reading this post.

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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.” billion in cash.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Calendly : The explosive growth of meeting-booking service Calendly was bound to attract competition. As our own Zack Whittacker notes, the company wants to protect “systems critical to transportation networks today,” which it appears is a lucrative niche, if the company’s latest venture round is any indication. Fantastical v.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Growing too slowly is particularly dangerous in a business with network effects, which the best startups usually have to some degree.” And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. ” I don’t love that culture. It’s not merely that you need a scalable idea to grow. Or pivoted too quickly.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Nick Cromydas said that the new capital will be put toward further developing the platform while growing Hunt Club’s national footprint. Hunt Club , a senior talent recruiting platform powered by AI, today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B round co-led by WestCap and Sator Grove.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

We had more than 700 resumes, short-listed 65, interviewed 16 in one-hour meetings had 6 full-day interviews including a presentation by the candidate on a selected market opportunity and we did 3 finalist dinners to test cultural fit. on all the computers and established a network using Novell. I installed Windows 3.1

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Don’t get me wrong, I do think an important sign from startups is their ability to keep a startup culture going for as long as possible and one sign of this in the early days is scrappiness. It was probably true, but I created the wrong mindset – the wrong culture. Our company developed a cost-conscious mentality.

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StartupNation

JULY 13, 2021

That’s because successful digital transformation requires a fundamental shift from focusing on mitigating risk and operational efficiency to developing a mindset fixed on growing revenue and developing new bold business models. Success requires a complete rethink of the brand. Why do we exist?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Traditionally, companies hold in-person sales kickoffs (SKOs) in January and February to network, educate sales teams about new products and devise strategies for the year ahead. You wouldn’t hire a plumber to redo your wiring, and you shouldn’t hire a web3 developer if you’re building a team for your metaverse startup.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2016

Ashoka, the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, is a partner of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. New Belgium is admired for its culture of engagement that you formalized in 2013 when you sold the company to your co-workers. So I read the book and it made sense to me. How did the notion of ownership evolve?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It takes months of preparation, marketing, networking and other activities to create a strong business profile that will ultimately lead to a highly-successful organization. It takes time to develop a customer base and even longer to develop a loyal one. Living this established culture has earned me a few fans.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Among those was the audio social network TTYL , a sort of “ Clubhouse for friends.” But the app also bypassed some best practices around user privacy by requesting full access to users’ address books to get started. “Poparazzi was maybe the 11th or 12th app that we built,” Alex says.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

Rafael, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and an entrepreneur in Honduras, saw years later a need for his skills in the country’s cultural heritage sector. “My Today Rafael is working with Xiomara and other artisans to market their products, all the while preserving traditional Honduran culture. The result was, as Rafael describes it, amazing. “It

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 30, 2018

Here’s a solution for employee development and engagement that’s worked well for our organization: more frequent one-on-meetings. Supporting and developing the people on your team is not only personally rewarding, but will lead to a stronger organization overall. Why one-on-ones? But that’s okay. Actively listen.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The professional networking site takes into consideration a variety of criteria based on its own data when coming up with the list: employment growth, engagement with the company and its employees, job interest and ability to attract talent from companies. companies “gaining attention and recruiting top talent.” billion valuation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 28, 2021

Jokes aside, it is a real strategy and a necessary approach to help companies still in the stone age of operations and product development to avoid becoming the future Blockbusters, Kodaks, and Blackberrys of the world. Digital transformation is a broad term for changing a company’s products and operations into a digitalized format.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 30, 2019

As Eli Pariser notes in his book The Filter Bubble , Consuming information that conforms to our ideas of the world is easy and pleasurable; consuming information that challenges us to think in new ways or question our assumptions is frustrating and difficult (p. NY: Penguin Books. NY: All Points Books. As David E. McGraw, D.E.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

is predicated on developing countries polluting their local environments in order to produce nickel, copper, cobalt, and other key industrial commodities. The meteoric rise of Bitcoin from nothing to a $1 trillion dollar plus asset in the span of a decade created the HODL culture. Miners spend energy to maintain the Bitcoin network.

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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. That kind of thinking will kill your company.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2021

There’s been an emergence of “pre-accelorator” or “people accelorator” programs—experiences that you can buy your way into with cash, as opposed to potentially valuable future equity, that replicate the education and network provided by the likes of YCombinator. Social development or “Campus life” - Parties! But what about the network?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

After reading the book, Senior Editor Devin Coldewey talked with Lee and Chen about how the collaboration came about, how their points of view coincided and differed, and why they think the future will be how they describe it. Our culture and values have more or less remained the same.”. Awotona says. BioNTech co-founder and CEO U?ur

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 29, 2021

Active Solution Development: We worked (and are continuing to work) with our partners to develop new approaches to addressing COVID-19 and its repercussions, engaging our funder network to immediately learn the big questions they were grappling with and develop new programming and other solutions. 8 and above.

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Derek Sivers

JANUARY 20, 2014

This is the first chapter of my new Vietnam 2014 book. Vietnam has long been considered the cultural and artistic heart of Asia, and the Vietnamese are the “Italians of Asia”. This means the government maintains a large ownership and control of major companies, while small and medium businesses are left to develop freely.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 10, 2019

Throughout our lives, we develop countless shortcuts to help us make sense of the vast amount of information coming at us. People process information they receive from the news in the same way they process all information around them — in the shortest, quickest way possible. Jennifer Bonnet (M.A.,

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