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Profile of a Young Entrepreneur: It’s All About Choice

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We all have strategies and ideas, but the difference between businesses that grow fast and those that grow slowly is the ability to execute and put things into place. Costa Vasili’s story is similar to the stories of many other young entrepreneurs. What sets him apart? Costa Vasili is a son of migrant parents. 1 critical life lesson.

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Navigating Startup Growth: The Hero’s Guide to Success

AsiaTechDaily

Nahm highlights the significance of combining the Hero Customer Journey with the playbook to develop a powerful Customer Journey Playbook (CJ Playbook). First, value follows, where the customer obtains enough value from the product, gaining validation from peers or superiors.

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Visual workspace Whimsical closes first funding as it enters next phase of growth

TechCrunch

The company was founded by Kaspars Dancis in 2017 when he saw that the tools most people use for work — the documents, spreadsheets and slide decks — were not conducive to the way people were working, for example, increasingly remote. More companies should shift to a work-from-home model. Whimsical dashboard.

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Ashna Mahepal to Young Entrepreneurs: Identify Your Source of Empowerment

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

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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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Peer-to-peer lending is back! Others I have not.

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Vesta closes on $30M in an a16z-led Series A to build a new kind of mortgage infrastructure

TechCrunch

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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3 ways to set up new senior-level hires for success in a hypergrowth start-up

Entrepreneur's Handbook

We applied the same strategy that had worked well for us in the past for team members that we had elevated internally. The strategy was simple: Throw them into the deep end and see if they sink or swim. While we always strive to promote people from within, we also need to look outside our organization for senior talent as we scale.