Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Congressman Joe Sestak approached her about connecting with the nonprofit FIRST Global , which promotes science, technology, engineering, and math education and careers for youth through robotics competitions modeled on the Olympic Games. It was definitely a challenge, but one she has overcome to help her organization grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

In California the primary school education system has cut 10 days from the school year to save jobs. Also, if there is a lowering of M&A activity this will lead to increased financing needs for startups driving higher failure rates or increases in “adverse terms” entering future financing rounds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It signals a shift from startups playing in the supplemental education space and searching to win a spot in the largest chunk of a students day: the classroom. Earlier this month, Class announced it had raised $30 million in Series A financing , just 10 weeks after raising a $16 million seed round. Image Credits: Class.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 1, 2022

For the past year, we’ve done our best to serve you and provide inspiration and education to help you START and GROW your business! At Smart Hustle, we inspire, motivate, and educate small biz owners to realize their dreams. Put aside some money this year to train, educate yourself to become a better business owner.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 19, 2023

This experience proved invaluable when he co-founded Wisdm, a financial education platform. It was very clear to me how an event like this prompted the need for educational services to be offered to this group of investors, which are young and inexperienced. What motivated you to launch your startup? Thank you so much for joining us!

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 30, 2021

There is a reason that the definitive book on the topic has such a depressing title: Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed–and What to Do about It , by my former professor, Josh Lerner, Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Jacob H. Brain gain.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

And rightfully so: Business school is damn expensive and largely reserved for a select group of people who have the time and money to invest in elite education. Stoa has partnerships that allow it to offer EMI-based financing options, in which students can pay on a monthly basis.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

There is a reason the definitive book on the topic has such a depressing title: “Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It,” by my former professor, Josh Lerner, head of the entrepreneurial management unit and the Jacob H.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 7, 2017

So, when I exited my last company in 2015, I knew that educating and supporting other businesses with my “addiction” to these unique and lean entrepreneurial growth techniques would be the focus of Entreholic. While I don’t believe I fit the exact definition of the term, I would say my mission is very socially minded in two key ways.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

After a week of dynamic news, Ryan Lawler and Alex Wilhelm filed a Friday afternoon collab that looked back at “a series of winning fintech results from BNPL, consumer finance, proptech and corporate finance players.” million seed round not to offer an alternative to education, but to legitimize those alternatives.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I was mainly educated in accounting and finance. Definitely tough to raise funds from LPs, especially for a first-time fund manager with no track record (in fund management) and during this Covid period. He talks to AsiaTechDaily about the firm’s investment strategies, the fundraising journey, and other points.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

You do NOT have to have funding to start a business but you can definitely bootstrap it. The NASE has been around since 1981, providing entrepreneurs and micro-businesses, including those by minority owners with access to grants and educational resources. They attend workshops on business financing and money management.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

Early-stage founders, it’s definitely a stressful time to be in your seat – but also clearly a pivotal one. It’s why I’m taking on fintech, with an angle on wealth, access and education, as my new beat. For now, that means no net new Backstage companies, even though the firm is growing assets under management.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

To give TechCrunch+ readers a better understanding of what education investors are looking for today, seven leading venture capitalists in the category answered a series of questions about the sector’s future. Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education. Malvika Bhagwat and Kriti Bansal , Owl Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

“The heart of short videos is definitely not the short video form itself. With the multimillion-dollar seed financing in its pocket, Surreal plans to find more use cases like online education so it can collect large volumes of data to improve its algorithm. Uncharted territory.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

We’ve definitely not been an overnight success. I think that we’ve definitely carved a place for ourselves in the market. This is definitely not a hobby. Now, people are more and more educated, they expect transparency in the business. That definitely is the future of Maison de Papillon. We are a brand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

I just always thought that there is an obviously huge gap between male and female funding, and we definitely need to find ways to reduce that. I think more female investors definitely means more female entrepreneurs, which is a great thing. It enables us to progress towards our goal to educate the next billion learners.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. The study used multivariate regression analysis to control for education levels and pitch quality to conclude that gender was a statistically significant factor. Think Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Tatum Executive Services provides “CFOs, CIOs and senior finance professionals [to help] lead [companies] through any challenge”. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Armed Services.” .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I definitely had a full-time job, I had a newborn baby,” Walton said. New financing and the boom of the mental health focus amid the coronavirus pandemic puts Expectful in a coveted spot. Expectful raised $3 million in a seed financing round led by Harlem Capital. Even if it was just for a few months. Image Credits: Expectful.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. David Teten is a past Advisor to Real Ventures. *We

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take. By September 26th we had submitted a term sheet which was signed on October 4th and financing was closed in less than 30 days. A bit of fun plus a bit of education and a “give back” component ( Seriously is working with the MalariaNoMore on Malaria education).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

What is your definition of a big idea and how do you know when you see it? And then for the follow-on financing, it ranges in terms of what the person needs and also [it’s tied to] when we invest into that company, so it ranges in valuation, as well. The aim is to help them identify big ideas. But it is a SAFE note.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Examples of airdrops gone wrong include Optimism and Ribbon Finance. The antidote to that fear is education. Define your growth metrics Ideology and bull market momentum does not sell long term, and utilizing terms like “protocol” and “DAO” doesn’t remove the requirement to develop and scale a product that people actually want to use.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

.” So, then I met David Solomon at re:Invent, which is the AWS conference where he was speaking, and then we started to talk and it was pretty clear that Goldman had the same vision that, especially in the world of finance, technology will play a disproportionately important role. Marco: Yeah, and that was definitely new.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

Michaud would only confirm to me that it was “definitely an up-round,” which would put it at at least $1.7 ” He believes the more traditional rush of people doing in-person shopping is “definitely not gong to come back,” with groceries to be in the same position as restaurants in a couple of years.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

SK: [After school], I went into finance and investing in San Francisco [as an associate with JPMorgan, then Oak Hill Capital], and I met Elad through my brother. It’s definitely on our roadmap. We see educators using it. SK: It’s definitely word of mouth. How did you end up working with Elad Gil?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

The third is it’s opaque and definitely not transparent. And B, you’re responsible for the finances of the co-pays of all of your employees here. There are some of these businesses that are very hard to finance at the get-go unless you come in with a big bankroll. Mark: Education comes to mind first.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. David Teten is a past Advisor to Real Ventures. *We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

If our ultimate objective is to understand the current state of opportunity and its expansion over time, we need to, in the words of John Doerr , measure what matters : representation in early-stage financing. The data supports this, as the numbers for women founders and the overall first-financing growth are 1.6x compared to 1.4x

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. Financing the future startup nation. Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Alisa Gumbs: This week, we talk with Ramon Ray the founder of smarthustle.com, a media company that inspires and educates small business owners and the very first entrepreneur in residence at Oracle NetSuite. Ramon Ray: And I think education, that’s important. But finance is important too. Ramon Ray: Yeah.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We’ve all been there — you’re watching a horror movie, and you know that the main character definitely shouldn’t go into that creepy house, but no matter how much you yell at your TV, you can’t change his fate. But what if you told the guy on screen to steer clear of the house, and he actually listened?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

For example: I was familiar with Affirm, the service that lets consumers finance purchases, but I had no idea Peloton accounted for 30% of its total revenue in the last quarter. “Today, nobody except Chinese people outside of China uses Alipay or WeChat Pay to pay for anything,” says finance researcher Martin Chorzempa.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2022

Not everyone agrees with giving away valuable info, and you definitely shouldn’t work for free on the regular?—?but I took a crash course in finance When you don’t have much money, reading about money is profoundly depressing. even if I don’t think we’ll end up working together. Net worth, what net worth?

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

That is definitely not the way any CEO wants to start their tenure, but the pandemic forced Klein to make some decisions to move his customers to the cloud faster. Instead, blank-check vehicles will evolve and will occupy a small and specialized — but important — part of the startup financing landscape.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Products and services that require anything requiring on-site visits and integration as well as a long sales cycle involving face-to-face meetings and customer education are negatively impacted during this time. Definitely see changes in evolution of young startups given the behavioral changes caused by COVID.

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