Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Starting as a project manager with a background in engineering, Ashna launched YHS to develop and implement community projects supporting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals through youth empowerment using robotics and innovation. She created the organization out of her passion for social entrepreneurial impact.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Peer-to-peer lending is back! I’m now the permanent host for TWiVC (until such time as they kick me off). Thank you to anybody who sent Jason a note on Twitter on my behalf. The episode isn’t yet live but it should be in the morning (probably when you’re reading this) – you can find it here. Really!).

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 7, 2020

Step 1: Get MAD – Remember your M ission, assess your A ssets, document the D emand. Know-How your team has developed to solve your own problems such as: processes, curriculum, understanding of complex systems. Those who come up with plenty of ideas but struggle to identify which ones are worth pursuing. The Short Version.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In other words, users can use their NFTs as collateral to get loans from other users on the decentralized and peer-to-peer system. Once regarded as a fad (for some, it still is), NFTs, digital assets that depict real-world objects, are becoming increasingly popular within and outside the crypto world. Risk exists on both sides, though.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Some notable Islamic fintech companies include peer-to-peer lending platform and digital bank Hijra (formerly known as Alami), online bank Bank Aladin , LinkAja , which is backed by Telkomsel and Bank Mandri, the largest bank in Indonesia in terms of asset loans and deposits. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. out of its 33.6

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Second Life, Minecraft, Roblox Collectively Taught More People To Code Than America’s Top Universities Have Almost all my Gen X peers had some lightbulb experience as a child with their first personal computer. How fortunate to be born at a specific time and place and privilege! There’s immense gratitude I feel for this experience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

It requires the technical and financial know-how to develop and implement a new backbone in a highly regulated industry,” said Strange, who joined Vesta’s board as part of the financing. If you’ve ever taken out a mortgage, you know how painful and tedious the process can be. trillion in loan originations in 2022. Image Credits: Vesta.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 13, 2021

Develop a comprehensive senior management course In the past, I had noticed that there was often a lack of mutual understanding between new hires and our existing executive team. While we always strive to promote people from within, we also need to look outside our organization for senior talent as we scale.

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Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, in conversation with a16z’s Bob Swan, explains how AI copilots are keeping developers longer in a flow state and why AI copilots more broadly could be the start of an industrial revolution for knowledge work. [00:59] That’s the exciting thing to me about building a technology.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2013

Over the past 15 years, we’ve seen a wholesale migration of software development on the web towards cloud away from client/server models. All of our Dropbox files, Google documents, and emails are held within one or few companies' servers - which provides easy access for hackers and government. But the cloud centralizes all the data.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

We developed this at our first company and called it PUCCKA – the overall methodology is described here. This is final part of a series that describes a sales methodology for technology companies or frankly many other types of companies, too. Unique Selling Proposition. Compelling Event. Key Players such as enemies, sages and blockers.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

SBA Local Assistance : Provides you with a list of local Small Business Development Centers that you can contact to find grant opportunities. You know you’ll require startup funding, but aren’t sure where to start. Will you self-fund and bootstrap? Will you take investment from others? On the road to funding. Apply for free grants.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2016

If anyone has given you tips about starting your own business, they’re sure to have missed something, too. To be a successful entrepreneur, you have to take the rough with the smooth, and know where to place your valuable, but limited, resources. Here’s what I’ve learned from 19 years of experience: 1. Be prepared for tough times.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Make room for yet another preventative health play: Spotify founder Daniel Ek officially confirmed rumors of his new “health tech” startup, Neko, Friday by quietly kicking off a body scanning service in Sweden (via Tech EU ) after four years of stealthy development.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

As your company develops multiple offices, hires a larger number of sales people or increases product complexity over time this kind of tacit knowledge doesn’t scale. The next few posts are going to talk about scaling your sales operations as you move out of the evangelical phase. Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

In the case of the investment they are often also not only committing personal risk of looking bad at their partnership if things don’t go well but also countless hours of board meetings, financial reviews, legal documents across what is often 7–10 years or more. often out of fear that being too pushy could lead to an earlier “no.”

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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

Identify and develop better metrics and methods for ecosystem building. Other organizations are better suited to convene events where entrepreneurs gather to provide informal peer support to one another and connect to role models in their industry. By Stacey Williams , PhD, MPH – Director of Evaluation, Forward Cities.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

There are nearly six million small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the country, employing 43 million people. 1 But unlike their larger counterparts, SMBs have been ignored by service providers, who have deemed the cost of reaching and serving them too high to warrant the effort. This gap is most visible in the payroll and benefits sectors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2019

At Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), we help entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey achieve new levels of leadership by providing the knowledge, skills and resources to grow and scale their operations. We asked four EO members for their tips and insights on scaling successfully. Matt Doud, EO Baltimore, Founder, PlanitAgency.com , shares: .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 8, 2017

Creating a wiki to cultivate know-how and a frequently asked questions document will also help train employees in how to best handle tough questions or complaints from customers. As a business owner, this could be your busiest time of the year either for the business itself or the act of balancing work with your personal life. Suffocated.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Developer-focused productivity tool Raycast has raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Accel and Coatue. As developers ourselves, we find ourselves spending a lot of time on busywork that doesn’t bring that much value. Users can easily create and re-modify issues in Jira, merge pull requests in GitHub and find documents.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

LawVu gives them a cloud-based platform to share legal advice, documents, communicate with each other or external counsel and create reports for the rest of the company, including the C-suite. offices as it continues developing LawVu’s technology. offices as it continues developing LawVu’s technology. valuation for legal tech.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I have neither worked at Netflix, nor written for the blog myself. In september 2020, 4,100 respondents in a survey ranked Netflix as the best place to work, over GitHub and Google. That is, in no small part, due to its salaries, its culture, and its brand. According to SimilarWeb, the TechBlog gets just over 250,000 pageviews per month.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. Expert Networks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

That means that API tools that do integrate, like Agora and Twilio, still require manual work from developer teams to customize and maintain. To give the rest of you a sneak peak, here’s a bit about all of the startups that presented, in broad strokes: ) AccessBell. What it does: Video conferencing platform for enterprise workflows.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2014

We have raised gentlemen who care about the feelings of others and are polite and respectful of their peers and instructors in life. I’ve written about my own mom before and the role she played in shaping my life but of course you never quite appreciate the full contributions of Mom until you’re much older. And Moms everywhere.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

” While some lending companies have developed pilot projects for alternative data scoring, the process is often time-consuming, complicated and expensive. ” While some lending companies have developed pilot projects for alternative data scoring, the process is often time-consuming, complicated and expensive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As a consumer, you may have encountered these verification systems when trying to send money on a peer-to-peer payment app, sell an expensive item on a marketplace or rent a car. These services ask you to scan your ID, take a selfie video, connect to your bank account, send documents, etc. million funding round (€2.5

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

Practical Metrics and Methods (Practitioner Edition): Identify and develop better metrics and methods for ecosystem building. Collaborative research focused on developing the field of ecosystem building would allow the field to identify the principles and practices that are most effective for fostering successful entrepreneurship.

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

• Good for morale, developing trust. Most offices, whether at a big company or at a startup, allow employees to work at home from time to time. It's not exactly a perk, but it does allow people to better manage work and their lives, as neither of those things adhere to perfect forms of time or place.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Her company has developed a novel, holistic approach called PROJECT TEAM, a platform that helps students understand the value and significance of teamwork, leadership, and the importance of everyone working together. Bullies can’t exist without victims. They retaliate by picking on those they think are too weak or fearful to fight back.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Every branch of science is increasingly reliant on big data sets and analysis, which means a growing confusion of formats and platforms — more than inconvenient, this can hinder the process of peer review and replication of research. Certainly there’s an air of “Too many options? Try this one!”

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 2) Market .

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 1:10 – Being part of the software industry while critiquing it. 3:45 – How he got into programming. 6:10 – Moving to California. 7:30 – Interning at Google then Yelp. 9:00 – Interviewing multiple times at the same company. Google Play.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Raycast is a developer-focused productivity tool that aims to be the quickest way to get common tasks done. The desktop software takes a note from peers like Superhuman and Command E, allowing users to quickly pull up and modify data with keyboard shortcuts. Image via Raycast.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 2) Market .

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