TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

Fresha — a multipurpose commerce tool for independent wellness and beauty businesses such as hair, nail and skin salons, yoga instructors and more, based first and foremost around a completely free subscription platform for those businesses to schedule bookings from customers — has picked up $100 million.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Mel Shakir , Securetech Managing Director with over 15 years of experience in bringing innovative cybersecurity solutions to market, is back to give his tips on product management. In the early days of a startup, the focus should always be on innovation. All companies must prioritize innovation, especially young companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. See Fred Wilson’s post on Twitter referring traffic. That was a kerfuffle too.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

.” That pre-COVID transformation that Pichette is referring to is Hopper’s shift from being essentially a machine learning-powered lowest fare finder to what co-founder and CEO Fred Lalonde says is really much more of a fintech company. We allow you to come in and hold the price of a booking for between two hours and 14 days.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). At at time where nearly all advertising was purchased on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis and not very measurable this was a huge innovation that should be credited to Bill Gross, the founder of IdeaLab.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As chair of the entrepreneurial practice at Forbes Books, a former director of an entrepreneurial center and a tech entrepreneur, I drill this philosophy into aspiring entrepreneurs. even a book. But in order to capitalize on that benefit you need to encourage satisfied customers or clients to refer you. Referral Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. It’s what venture capital teams at innovators like First Round Capital and True Ventures realized 15 years ago?—?they somebody he knew from afar?—?to to do the interview.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

As the field of entrepreneurial ecosystem building has started to grow over the last decade a few books dedicated exclusively to the topic have become valuable sources of information for ecosystem builders. I suspect many ecosystem builders will find the final sections of the book the most rewarding.

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Revolution

JANUARY 6, 2020

Over the last decade, there have been many innovations that have changed our lives by addressing long-standing pain points in age-old industries like transportation and financial services, and in so doing, raised complicated questions for policymakers and society. This week, I’ll plan to share?—?in in no particular order?—?two

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The Visionary focuses more on driving innovation, creating ideas and assessing the market. Testdrive and check references with the team. I recommend the books Topgrading and Who. Testdrive and check references with the team. What does a COO actually do? Fill the funnel to the maximum.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

And yet, managing your professional life as a model, actor, writer or designer remains a mish-mash of emails, manual booking processes and dreaded PDFs. Late last year the Contact platform launched, initially offering models a way to take bookings and manage some aspects of their work. Image Credits: Contact.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

Having seen the massive amount of paper the investment bank had gone through to update their daily trades and prices, Bloomberg used his $10 million severance package to build an independent IT solution, initially called Innovative Market Systems, to bring firms that needed it the same type of data and simple analytical tools.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

The Act, which allocates $2 billion to states under the “Innovation and Startups Equity Investment Program,” enables investors in undercapitalized regions to leverage federal dollars into startup investments. No one tells this story better than Harvard Business School professor Tom Nicholas in his recent book VC: An American History.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It partners with entrepreneurs in funding their growth stories through innovative market access and public venture capital strategies. What are the top-three books, or movies that changed your life and why? A book that I read after I came out from the professional firm or the comfort zone, turning myself into an entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

The high-volume, mixed-quality platform was eventually what edtech now refers to as a learning experience platform, all about discovery of content. Degreed helped innovate on self-directed learning, but didn’t work on implementation of those practices within bigger corporations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Often, they’re found in the review sections for books and movies, where, in my anecdotal experience, Amazon reviewers tend to be more… verbose. I’ll have a longer story soon about how it’s being used by VFX artists in innovative and totally uncontroversial ways soon, but the papers on display were also pretty great.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Members frequently collaborate, hire one another or refer work through our community. We’re booking out our events through 2022, making sure we have everything scheduled well in advance!”. This) often leads to business development for our members,” Lewan said. It’s not just a space. Green Garage Detroit. SpaceLab Detroit.

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Feedough

JANUARY 6, 2021

There are also several books and YouTube lectures to which you can refer. For example, Danny Kahneman’s books are a great way to learn about his wonderful insights into human psychology and the various heuristics and biases we are susceptible to.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The Tourism Innovation Academy: Supporting early-stage tourism startups. In cooperation with Impact Hub Yerevan , the EU4Business “Innovative Tourism and Technology Development for Armenia” project is driving innovation in the tourism sector by supporting the Tourism Innovation Academy.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

The most common example of this phenomenon is in the books category. But Faire’s most important product innovation has been to reduce inventory risk and increase retailers’ willingness to buy online by offering free returns, net 60-day payment terms, and bulk shipping. (1) The viral loop and network effects. Raffaelli, Ryan.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Thanks to i2e1, my love for books came back. Prashant and I would often travel together back home in the Metro, read books while standing, and exchange what we learned from the books we read. Satyam and Prashant were my reading partners. Entrepreneurial and leadership mindset Another important aspect!

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

So, he took inspiration from his favorite science fiction book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy’ and in 2015 founded the deep-semantic QA (Question-Answering) platform, which understands a user’s real intention in a question and derives a single answer from an extensive unstructured data. Register South Korean startup 42Maru Inc.’s

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Almost half of all Americans play mobile games, so Alex reviewed Jam City’s investor deck, a transcript of the investor presentation call and a press release to see how it stacks up against Zynga, which “has done great in recent quarters, including posting record revenue and bookings in the first three months of 2021.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Employees in this role are tasked with building a startup within a startup, whether that is rooting an innovative idea or leading an experiential team. Right now, the site has a number of references to “motherhood” and women. Currently, a lot of information or advice around pregnancy lives in books or in-person classes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polo: One of the main things that makes this law pretty solid is that it comes from a dialogue that we held with the different sectors of innovative entrepreneurship. So it’s a very solid law and everything that went in it really reflects the long conversations that we held with innovative entrepreneurship in Spain.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

In some cases, companies will keep loans on their books for 2 to 7 days to season the loan and become the lender of record, for regulatory compliance. For example, if a credit agreement references a benchmark interest rate such as SOFR , Finley will map this field to a programmatic interest rate feed for real-time interest calculations.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In addition, there are many other groups will give you cash, training, and community with few or no strings attached: Ashoka is a foundation that engages in scouring for and choosing the leading social entrepreneurs across the globe, who it refers to as Ashoka Fellows. Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

Terra references the Bitcoin and Ethereum white papers in its preponderance of what other value blockchain technology can bring to the world. He’s way “down the rabbit hole” with NFTs and well-connected to innovators. FTX offers sophisticated asset price charts & order books. on “ The Best Business Show.” Stakers (i.e.,

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

[if you're not old enough to get the reference between this image and the title you can click on the image for a prompter]. One of the meetings I had (organized by my good friend Jeff Yolen ) was with New Atlantic Ventures held the at the CIC, aka the Cambridge Innovation Center (no prizes for guessing where it’s located).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Indeed, many Canadians refer to Toronto as “east”’ despite there being 1,900 miles between Drake and The Weeknd’s hometown and St. million USD) through its Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF). Past innovation hubs have relied on physical proximity in order to build networks of human and social capital.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 8, 2021

They both reference the writing of Dror Poleg on this topic so I will link to his blog as well. I expect the innovation around work spaces will be fast and furious once we can actually start working somewhere other than our home. We’re Never Going Back – Packy McCormick.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Alisa Gumbs: In this podcast series, we help you find new ways to grow your business through our interviews with innovative entrepreneurs and business leaders. I was taking a book, which is right behind me called Strength Finders. Ramon Ray: And the books that I have was a strength of mine. And welcome to Elevate Black Inc.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

So there’s a book from Clayton Christensen. He’s a professor at HBS and he wrote Innovator’s Dilemma. More recently, he published a book called Competing Against Luck and in it he talks about the theory of jobs to be done. One of the things that changed our thinking was this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. Innovation. How valuable are these legacy businesses? And they have. Of course they are.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

His popular book on this subject, “ The Lean Startup ,” lays out how today’s entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses. This refers to a change from an application to a platform, or vice versa. This refers to the monetization or revenue model. Platform pivot.

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Dream It

APRIL 3, 2020

In this episode, the two discussed how you can effectively sell in an environment where budgets are being cut, executive decision-makers are distracted with other priorities, and companies are less inclined to invest in innovation. His strategy for selling in 2009 is relevant to any economic downturn.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Their track record of success and innovation, along with their platform’s growing suite of tools and intuitive user experience has Guesty positioned to define and consolidate its category, working with hosting businesses of all sizes. “Guesty is not looking for an exit,” he said.

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