Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Investing in the digitization of your finance team is a great way to boost the efficiency and growth of your small business. In fact, the McKinsey Global Institute estimates that today 40 percent of finance activities can be fully automated. For years, finance departments have been tied to practices that happen in offices.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Sanzhar and a team of highly experienced co-founders with tenure in global management consulting launched a new venture to tackle the foremost issue in the food supply chain. Trade financing desperately needs a new architecture since more than half of food exports and a quarter of all imports belong to countries with volatile currencies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A CPA, CIA, and an experienced auditor and process consultant, Shagun started her career in public accounting. The great surge in entrepreneurship following the pandemic resulted in a significant disruption of most industries, which was mainly reflected in significant and widespread adoption of tech, both old and contemporary.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

A traditional company focuses on disruption or becoming more customer centric. It has become an essential way to pay—whether you’re purchasing a water bottle at the kiosk around the corner or financing your wedding plans. is the founder and CEO of VIVALDI as well as a marketing consultant, author and visiting professor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Promoting Disruption. Suhail is also a member of EO Bahrain.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Fearless Fund : invests in women of color-led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level, or series A financing, bridging the gap between venture capital funding for women of color founders to build scalable, growth-aggressive companies. They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

It’s a vital question, and it’s why we’ve invited three investors — who we think know their stuff — to share their insight and advice on the TechCrunch+ stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco. As a consultant at Bain and Company, Case worked with clients in technology, private equity and education.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

” I said I learned this 15 years ago because that is when I stopped being a consultant. I enjoyed the first half of my time at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) because I was a computer programmer and had to build stuff that actually worked. Consultants spend all of their time pretending to know these answers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Erik previously worked on Wall Street as a VP for AIG investments and was a co-founder and consultant of other startups. It most recently raised $125 million in January and has raised more than $400 million to date. The last startup he co-founded before Blockstream was Dan’s Plan, a health tech company.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans. I suppose, more specifically, the bubble ended in the last two weeks of September--right after this financing. The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Grant Easterbrook is a fintech consultant based in Amsterdam. Share on Twitter. His work has been cited in the media over 150 times. He also co-founded Dream Forward, which was acquired in 2020. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the fintech phenomenon.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 2, 2022

“The pandemic has brought existential threats and societal challenges to the fore and generated a fresh impetus for change,” Nair added saying the company is committed to solving these challenges through disruptive e-learning, which empowers users with insights and understanding to redesign society.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

The circumstances around his departure remain fuzzy, but one source speculated that tension arose between Ackerson and Fin founding partner Logan Allin over some of the goings-on at alternative financing startup Pipe last year. More details here. government. surge in revenue to $285.7 Fintech projected to become a $1.5

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 9, 2021

Through working groups that use innovative and disruptive methodologies, it allows participants to design the 2030 Agenda and seek solutions to the challenges posed by the Sustainable Development Goals. New technologies enable more open, innovative and inclusive financing systems that drive impact investment.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in philosophy, Tavel was a consultant at The Kerden Group and then vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Recognizing that inflexible company structures and policy negatively affected both employees and organizations—especially women—Auerbach and Dean left careers in consulting and corporate law to build tools and training to make flexibility a competitive advantage for everyone. Written for EO by Michael Neidert, a writer and consultant. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

Cobbling together different platforms for these separate functions creates friction for finance users. Each corporate finance process — AP, commercial banking, spend management/cards, treasury management — works better when they work together in a single, connected view.”. Expensify), and banking services (ex.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Today, the concept has made its way into the Middle East and Africa as Opontia has closed a financing of $20 million to acquire and scale e-commerce brands across the regions. This seed round, one of the largest in the Middle East and Africa, is a mix of debt and equity financing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield startup Cellino Bio raises $80M : This is the leading story from startup-land today, I reckon. And VCs are stepping up to finance it. TechCrunch wants to know which software consultants you’ve worked with for anything from UI/UX to cloud architecture. Startups/VC. TechCrunch Experts.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 19, 2024

Then, start digging into other expenses: startup expenses, consultants, HVAC, utilities, etc. I’ve used this same model on two startups, and when consulting other business owners. Therein lies realistic budgeting—not rigid austerity, but creatively working within our means, aligned by a common purpose more than strict finances.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

They will take more accounting, marketing, or finance courses or read up on industry specifics. In 2013, recognizing a need for disruptive distribution and retail changes in the 100-billion-dollar U.S. Many will look to expand their knowledge in the area of their business expertise.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Maya Moufarek, founder of Marketing Cube , spent more than 15 years working for companies like Google and American Express before launching her own growth consultancy. That’s why I founded MarketingCube.co , a boutique strategic growth consultancy for innovative startups and scaleups.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 26, 2018

If fixed expenses, especially payroll, are paid out before cash is received from services or shipments, the company is financing its growth with ever-increasing working capital needs. Many great businesses in their growth periods find themselves stretched for cash.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

A study by MIT Sloan and Boston Consulting Group found that while nearly two-thirds of business respondents felt sustainability issues were important, only 10% fully tackled them. As with Lamey Wellehan, the key to success for that 10% was practicing abundance. His first microloan was the $27 he had in his wallet.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

However, it wasn’t until two years later that Njeru joined fulltime as he had a six-year engagement with Deloitte South Africa from 2012 as a consultant actuary. Therefore, the new financing will scale up operations in its existing 13 markets across Africa, where it has insured over 4.3 The pair both act as co-CEOs.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). Venture Partners may also consult with companies directly or serve on boards, in which case we’ll expedite their being compensated directly by the relevant company. How to find a job as a VC scout. Anthos Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. Like many other e-commerce aggregators, including Thrasio, Una raised debt financing to buy brands because it is non-dilutive. Tanna said Una usually continues working with sellers on a consulting basis for about three to six months after a sale.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

By: Chris McCannell, Senior Government Affairs Consultant at GrayRobinson. Senators we are engaging with include Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-NV), both on the tax-writing Finance Committee, and moderates Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV). Timeline for Senate Action.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 8, 2020

Talk to a trusted advisor—a mentor, another business owner or a business consultant. Finally, engage in conversations with suppliers, vendors and landlord, as well as assess any and all financing options, government programs and loans. Ask how disruptions in the supply chain affect your company. Protecting the Business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2016

Still, if your start-up operation manages to align itself with the immediate needs of the marketplace, to the point that it disrupts reigning trends, there’s a very strong chance you’ll appeal to investors, as well. But with genuinely disruptive products and services, early adoption will pay dividends.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Free consulting. Startup contests.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

In their book Cracking Complexity , David Komlos and David Benjamin share the steps to working through any complex business problem—both quickly and using existing talent, not consultants. One of the most interesting things about your approach is that it doesn’t outsource the thinking work to external consultants or experts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With only three weeks left to the start of the holiday shopping season, Miranda Halpern checked in with several growth marketers to find out how they’re advising their clients to prepare for supply chain disruptions. Dipti Parmar, founder, Dipti Parmar Consulting. This is not the time for doing business as usual.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Both achieved master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Yash in finance, and Puneet in health/healthcare administration. After graduation, both accepted jobs in New York City — Yash in private equity and Puneet in healthcare consulting. Yash speaks five languages; Puneet is fluent in four.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They also offer consulting services to help companies acquire commercial sites, manage projects, and handle solar integrations. Integral is a Detroit software consultancy that works with cloud-native agile engineering practices, human-centered design, lean product management strategies, and other gold-standard software development practices.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

And the founders of the startup themselves come from consulting backgrounds so they well understand the role these companies play in the process of bringing technology into big businesses.). Partners include the likes of integrators and other global services technicians, such as Microsoft, Deloitte, CapGemini, KPMG and so on.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

“Immunotherapy has achieved excellent results in certain situations for several cancers, allowing patients to achieve longer control of their cancer with maintained quality of life and longer survival,” says Dr. David Farrugia, consultant medical oncologist and chief investigator for the NHS trials. HR Coordinator for LocusView (Chicago).

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