TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

HiPeople , a HR tech startup based in Berlin that wants to automate the reference checking process, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Just like the hiring processes of HiPeople’s clients,” founders Jakob Gillmann and Sebastian Schüller told me in an email. It follows a $1.1 million pre-seed in late 2019. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. Syndicate leads are often experienced angel investors or successful startup founders.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

Natasha Miller is an EO member in Los Angeles, and founder and Chief Experience Designer of Entire Productions , which designs, plans and produces incredible event experiences both virtually and in person. But as a founder and CEO, where can you learn such skills while simultaneously hustling to grow your company?

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

What Role Do Partnerships Play in New Business Development? To provide insights into the role of partnerships in new business development, we asked 13 CEOs and Founders for their expert advice. Ironically, that experience with our partners has given them the trust to become our clients and refer other clients as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. Founders think in options. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. Customer also buy social proof because others are acting as strong references. Here are mine.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

He’s known Gani since college and worked with Hong over the past two years, calling the pair “one of the most data-driven and founder market fits I have seen.”. “At Gani later joined Hong as a co-founder to scale the business, as they realized there was a bigger opportunity for global e-commerce.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

We used Dumbo as a reference and talked about how the critical mass of Two Trees buildings created a neighborhood with multiple destinations. What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community. So he asked me how you make something like that happen.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Local developers and constituency groups have been foaming at the mouth to weigh in on what should happen with all of these properties.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 28, 2019

Written by Mike Scott, co-founder and CEO of NONA , a software development studio based in South Africa. Software development is still a ‘dark art’ for many founders, executives and business decision-makers, and yet it can be absolutely critical to the success of your business. How are different time zones handled?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

I’m sure you know, but Elon was the co-founder (and largest shareholder) of PayPal, the most important payment transfer technology of its era and still the most instrumental to date. The reference to Andy Dunn and me is responding to this post I wrote (in response to Andy’s earlier post). But Elon Musk stole the show.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 2, 2022

Bevon Charles , Grenada , CEO and founder of Akata Farms , a company that builds sustainable farms. Facundo Cajén, Argentina, CEO and founder of Proponas. Afroricas creates content on finance management, social networking, careers, and leadership to support black women in their personal and professional development.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

When you’re hiring most reference checkers focus on the person’s former bosses. Just literally this week I had breakfast with a guy giving a reference who said, “He’s brilliant. Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup. In many ways that can be way more telling.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

The company develops blockchain platforms that can work with financial institutions’ existing infrastructure, and its core technology is also used in GreenSTACS for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments. Singapore-based fintech Hashstacs Pte Ltd (STACS) announced today it has raised $3.6 million USD in pre-Series A funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

These engagements went well and he came highly referred by my friend Gary Swart who runs oDesk. Just ask the founder of JetBlue (Azul Brazilian Airlines), Dave Neeleman. The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems. But they didn’t go as well as Dave might have liked.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

If you’re a company’s founder in an early market, you know how hard it can be to cross the chasm between early adopters and mainstream customers. Early markets are by no means easy to tackle, so in this post, I’ll discuss seven tips that will help founders navigate these difficult waters.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

For the unacquainted, web3 refers to a decentralized web based on the blockchain. Alchemy’s goal is to be the starting place for developers considering building a product on top of a blockchain or mainstream blockchain applications. Alchemy CTO and co-founder Joe Lau told TechCrunch. It launched its offering in August of 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Google has selected 30 startups to receive a share of its $2 million Black Founders Fund in Europe, providing these companies with a spot of cash, some valuable cloud services and a bit of good old-fashioned networking among the Google crew. All the startups are led by Black founders, and 40% by women of color.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements. Axelera and GigaSpaces are both developing in-memory hardware to accelerate AI workloads. Verma says that the company is pre-revenue.)

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Dream It

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Recently, Mel served as the SVP of Product Development at Securonix and Director of Product Management at RSA NetWitness. Mel knows firsthand how crucial strategy is to develop products that customers love. This is only possible with continuous customer feedback at the ideation, design, and development phases.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

To watch a young company win 1,000+ seat deals at Global 100 companies at this stage of development has been simply stunning. I also have really enjoyed working with Satish Dharmaraj at Redpoint who like me was an enterprise software CEO (he was the founder & CEO of Zimbra — so he’s a perfect board partner for Tact).

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Developers can be a tough crowd. Coming up with relevant content that developers find interesting takes specific know-how, and this is where Draft.dev comes in. One of the survey respondents noted that developers are underrated as a target audience: It may be niche, but it is a large one. What inspired you to create Draft.dev?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2021

As the founder and CEO of AmberMedia —a media company based in Berlin, Germany—Karsten has been working toward carbon neutrality for a decade. Carbon neutrality , often referred to as “CO2-neutrality” or “net-zero carbon,” is the balance between emitting carbon and absorbing carbon from the atmosphere. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA , which I wrote about previously. This obviously doesn’t scale once the founder can’t be in every sales meeting. The first post covered the topic of “P” or pain. You’re ready to test drive your new deck.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s where we develop the understanding that success does not create happiness. In Indian ancient wisdom traditions, this is referred to as your dharma. Gordy Bal is a social entrepreneur and the founder of Conscious Thought Revolution (CTR) , a technology platform that measures and expands global levels of human consciousness.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

But 15 years elapsed before he developed the system knowledge, as the owner of a successful trucking company, and the insight to transfer entire containers instead of individual crates and barrels. Most innovation models refer to the final stage of the process as “execution” or “implementation”–making it sound very straightforward.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

George, Utah-based Zonos is classifying the round as a minority investment that also included individual investors Eric Rea, CEO of Podium, and Aaron Skonnard, co-founder and CEO of Pluralsight. The Series A is the first outside capital Zonos has raised since it was founded in 2009, Clint Reid, founder and CEO, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

A developer can, on a whim, change their mind and do whatever they want with their open source code that, most of the time, anyway comes “as is” without any warranty. Developer Azer Koçulu ran into a trademark dispute with messaging app Kik because his npm package was called “kik.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

My thesis is that it will become a major I/O computing metaphor or as this field is sometimes referred to HCI ( human-computer interaction ). One of the most obvious to me was Nanit, that was brought to our firm by my colleague Jordan Hudson who met them team, fell in love with their founders & technology, and encouraged us to invest.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Web3 developer infrastructure startup Alchemy, which last raised a $200 million Series C1 last February, has just made its first acquisition ever — and it’s in the education space. Alchemy, which aims to be the ‘de facto platform’ for developers to build on web3, is now valued at $10.2B.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

led by Founder & CEO Jonathan Webb ?—?rang Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor. I used to joke that the company moves at “the speed of Jonathan,” referring to the founder’s incredible impatience with the status quo.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Kefer referred me to this statement: We are aware of FBI activities related to an ongoing federal investigation into the personal activities of Slync’s former CEO, Christopher S. Tive and Altana , firms developing supply chain visibility tools, recently raised $54 million and $100 million, respectively. billion in 2022.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

To help our founders in transition , some of which are interested in becoming scouts. Our goal is to invest in, coinvest with, and/or recruit founders in transition. We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. Alpha Partners , Proof VC ) which share the carry earned in their coinvest to the referring party.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

million in seed funding led by Primer Sazze Partners with participation from Twitch co-founders, including Kevin Lin, and leaders at Scale AI and Founders, Inc. Anyone can get it if they refer a successful candidate. Paraform founders Jeffrey Li and John Kim. Today, Paraform announced that it has raised $1.4

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I’ve spent the last three months talking to dozens of e-commerce founders, investors, and industry experts about what happened to the e-commerce industry and, most importantly, where we go from here. Consequently, when it comes to investing in e-commerce, you’ll hear many VCs say they’re “waiting for the dust to settle.” How did we get here?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

She is the co-founder of Brand of a Leader , the personal branding agency for entrepreneurs. I remember walking into the room one morning and fellow attendee Robyn Rosenberger, founder of Tiny Superheroes, said she believed in me and told me to keep going. I have also developed a women’s leadership retreat in Tuscany, Italy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The search for solutions to the challenge has given rise to startups like Doppler, which offers a service that developers can use to manage and secure secrets — specifically app secrets — “at scale” in enterprise environments. And it automates secret syncing, requiring developers to update secrets only once.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Ayoken founder and CEO, Joshua King , told TechCrunch that the marketplace is a bridge between fans and artists, and gives supporters a sense of ownership in the success of their idols. Users will get token (Ayo) rewards when they buy the NFTs or refer people, which they can redeem later for an NFT.

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