Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At the same time, 2018 was the summer of LaCroix and other flavored sparkling water brands across a larger $45 billion carbonated soft drink category that has been in decline in the U.S. BTS, the K-pop group, was going on a nationwide tour where they were literally selling out football stadiums. as consumers reduce their sugary soda intake.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Across the globe, as the novel coronavirus moves us from communal spaces into the confinement of our homes, our social experiences are forced to adapt. Beyond the social networks we already know and use, we are finding new ways to integrate social into our online lives. But first, a bit of background.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 9, 2021

Leslie Lefkow, deputy director for Africa at the organization Human Rights Watch , argues that these types of questions fall into a broader discussion of access and the differences in how various governments deal with economic, social and cultural rights. As an individual, don’t forget about your own role online.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

I spend so much of my public life talking about the challenges of startups precisely because it’s not for most people and with Shark Tank and Silicon Valley and The Social Network we as a society have so glamorized startups that we expect them to be all fun and games. I wrote about that in this much-read post about what it takes.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

American innovator addresses hygienic sanitation for those living in poverty Seven years ago, Fundación MAPFRE, a global non-profit created by MAPFRE, launched the inaugural Social Innovation Awards in partnership with IE University. This year’s competition held in Madrid Spain yielded U.S.-based The post U.S.-based

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 7, 2015

There's no social impact clause in the fund's mandate and the background and status of the founders arent criteria. So, while my fund might be 100% run by one white guy, I'm sure I'd fare pretty well on The Information's list if they added actual funding data. Yet, here's the thing: I'm not actually aiming for diversity. Not directly, anyway.

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Revolution

JULY 21, 2021

While nearly all categories of advertising have automated media buying, only 2 percent of OOH spend is currently programmatic. In a world of 24-hour news and heightened social awareness, this is a critical consideration for brands. Place Exchange is reinventing the category with powerful, engaging consumer experiences.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

If you were a new developer in this category you often had to sub-contract in a fees-for-service arrangement to build for the big guys. Mobile really enabled the entire category and created the free-to-play powerhouses like Angry Birds, Words With Friends, Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, Cut the Rope, Best Fiends and others.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

He has managed to seamlessly weave charity into his life and businesses through social entrepreneurship, employee volunteer programs and much more. We had different categories and one was philanthropy. Create sustainable giving through social entrepreneurship. I wrote down, ‘Put a stranger through college.’

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

…” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter. Clichés abound about, “You know what would be cool? You are not Instagram. Let me explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

So the team set out to solve the “chicken or the egg” problem by onboarding > 1,000 high-quality merchants across 50 service categories while going deep in two micro-areas within LA as our test market. Ethan’s experience with RedBeacon led him to believe that merchant density would really matter and I agreed.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2020

When businesses want to reach an online customer most effectively, they basically have Facebook and Google to choose from to spend money on, creating a scenario where these platform companies have all the data necessary to pick and choose category winners. Amazon can use purchase data to create new Whole Foods brands and Amazon labels.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Drawing from their global base of Sellers, the company has set up 10 categories featuring 50 businesses that the public can vote on through October 24 at 1 am PDT. The Square 50 features 50 businesses across 10 categories are as follows: The Inspiring Innovators: Businesses that diversified operations and built resiliency for the long term.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 10, 2024

Often touted by the ultra-ambitious, this method could lead you to neglect your family life, social relationships, health and hobbies — all at the expense of relentlessly pursuing your goals. Keep it SIMPLE I think of the flaps of a plane as six different life categories. The Focus Method. Have you heard of this? Work-life Harmony.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

“I believe that the best consumer investments come from people who have unique insights on consumer behavior and ways that new tech products can allow new forms of social interaction,” said Charles Hudson from Precursor Ventures , who led the pre-seed investment round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Specifically, it lets users track their estimated carbon footprint for a given time period (which can be broken down into specific spending categories); track the estimated carbon footprint of individual transactions; and compare their overall carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of spending categories with that of other users.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. It’s like a link-in-bio service, but with a social element that encourages young creatives to connect, collaborate and develop friendships. Image Credits: Tagg.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I do seem to be the absolute worst at figuring this out on my own as I can think of at least three founders that I’ve backed that turned out to fall into this category that I would not have assumed. This seems to be a trend in the rest of my life, too, not that one should ever make assumptions. It needs to end.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes. One is “tentpole company,” or a category-defining startup that helps put their hometown on the map, both for investors and future generations of founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

And of course African Americas and Latinos over-index in spend and consumption in many categories including many health & beauty products, movie theater attendance, mobile phone usage and even social media. . “The demographic shift is real and it’s valuable,” he said.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 25, 2025

Hosted by i2E and presented by Loves Travel Stops, this years event awarded more than $167,000 in prizes across multiple categories, celebrating the brightest emerging entrepreneurs from colleges and universities throughout the state. The first-place team was G&J Sensing Solutions from The University of Tulsa, winning $6,000.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

.” The company aims to address a lot of different categories of business risk, with the ultimate goal of increasing resilience for the companies it works with. “At the heart of it, we are building a new category. “And as a result, we see that as an emerging new compliant-by-design category.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Every exhibiting startup gets a virtual booth where you can post a company video and links to your website and social media accounts. TC editors will host a one-hour crawl for each business category. During a crawl, they select a few exhibiting startups from the relevant category and interview them live on the Disrupt stage.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Consistency is a big part of social media success. But producing content, handling the posting schedule, and finding what your audience wants to read can be hard—even with a standard social media management app. It'll support your social media strategy with content generation, sentiment analysis, and big data insights.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Mentalaba.uz, a disruptive project focusing on revolutionizing education in Uzbekistan, secured the top spot in the category of “Information technologies in the social sphere.” […] The post Mentalaba.uz

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Mike , who we backed when he started podcast creation platform Anchor, wrote last year about what he calls the “ Creativity Supply Chain ” – how basically the market for Creativity is really much much larger than how we originally defined the Creator Economy, which became overly focused on Influencers and social platforms.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

The startup plans to use the funds to accelerate creator acquisition, expand into more categories, and grow its team and product. The company empowers creators to build multi-brand digital storefronts, curate products and services, and facilitate native checkouts for their followers on social media.

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Ginsburg has an extensive background specializing in digital, social and convergence media and branded entertainment. If done right, social media provides brands with the opportunity to counter fragmentation on traditional entertainment platforms and reach and engage with key audiences to move the needle forward.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Instead, Love launches first as a wellness marketplace that features an initial 200 curated products, like supplements, health testing kits and essential oils, among categories including reducing stress and gut health. New products and categories will be added in stages and will also be accompanied by educational content, Breslow said.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It is a new category of integrated products allowing SaaS companies to scale their product distribution by combining Self-Serve growth motions (end users can sign-up, try their products w/o talking to sales) and Product-Led Sales (Sales/CSM teams engage with users at the right time for conversion, upsell and retention).

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses. Despite the incredibly rich data feeds, analytical models, and real-time news, the most valuable aspect of Bloomberg is the social aspect.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As a global financial center, one could argue that Singapore’s startup ecosystem is in a category of its own when compared to its neighbors. Social commerce. That is where social commerce startups like Super , Evermos and KitaBeli come in, hoping to replicated the success of Pinduoduo in China and Meesho in India.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Take these ideas as inspirational — they aren’t limits, nor should the borders of these categories be seen as anything but liminal. How do we build humanistic societies with strong social fabrics that enliven, enrich, and build meaning for our lives? Let’s move beyond 2020 and start thinking about the 2020s.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Evermos is an Indonesian social commerce startup with two goals: to let people earn extra income by opening online stores without spending capital and to help small brands grow into household names. Super, an Indonesian hyperlocal social commerce startup, raises $28M led by SoftBank Ventures Asia. Image Credits: Evermos.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The 10 speakers — in each category — who receive the most votes will present their topics at the show. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda.

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