Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 1, 2016

Praveen Varshney, a long-time EO Vancouver member and investor in Lyft, Guiides.com, ShareShed and other sharing-economy companies, is capitalizing on this new movement while helping the environment through supporting a culture of access over ownership. What inspired you to invest in peer-to-peer marketplaces?

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This is particularly true of industries where technology is disrupting business models. When you drive through your local community or go to your place of employment, you are coming in contact with businesses, both large and small. The most common advice given to aspiring entrepreneurs is to start a business that ignites your passion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Like LinkedIn, the app also invites users who aren’t necessarily on the cusp of changing jobs to expand their network by connecting to their pharmacy peers. This round of funding reaffirms our commitment to disrupt this deeply fragmented industry while improving public health by supporting the pharmacy channel.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Peer to peer lending, community supported agriculture, ride sharing, house sharing, fans supporting artists directly, bike share--even the growth of healthy lifestyle activities like yoga and running--it''s not just about new business models. Last night, I went to go see Dallas Buyers Club. It''s a very powerful movie.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Right here. 1) Your school. school of engineering). school of engineering).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Grab a red Sharpie, circle September 20 on your calendar (ooh, how old-school) and get ready to jumpstart your TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 networking experience. Sure, Disrupt’s “official” run is September 21-23, but why wait to meet other movers and shakers in your specific tech category? Make the most out of your TC Disrupt experience!

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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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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

But in the background, some excellent use cases for NFTs were being tried, including something that will disrupt how we consume music. Photo by Diego Mora Barrantes on Unsplash During the last NFT hype cycle, most of the money went to profile picture projects with vague aspirations to build something in the metaverse. two lost decades?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

In total, Vise has raised $63 million since launching on the TC Disrupt stage in 2019. Vise uses AI to support financial advisors in their relationships with clients, giving them the ability to justify and explain (with data) the reason for making this or that investment, as well as the ability to customize a portfolio quickly.

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Source Link

MARCH 24, 2020

To this end, here is how we are going to support you: COVID-19 Support and Recovery Webinar. SourceLink Support and Technologies. No service disruptions have been recorded, and our help desk is being monitored by both email help@joinsourcelink.com and hotline at 844-804-8775. And I’m hearing it again.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Disrupted supply chain, diminishing demand, and reduced cash flow were just a few of the many business challenges that most SMBs faced. When you join a good network of business owners, you can access the advice of peers to tackle any challenge. Now, things are improving and more and more business owners are expecting good growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

This makes us a somewhat unique case in the ecosystem and among our fintech peers in general – few companies have managed to reconcile over 100% year-over-year growth with a positive bottom line,” he told TechCrunch, describing Mercado Bitcoin as “the crown j ewel” of 2TM Group. Today, Mercado Bitcoin has about 500 employees.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

We are grappling with healthcare challenges, irreversibly disrupted industries, millions of underemployed workers, and devastating racial and gender inequities. Angels are nimble, identifying and supporting entrepreneurs with desperately needed new technologies and innovations. More than ever, we need innovation. We need ingenuity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Our 110 communities are diverse yet they all need an enabling environment of supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, stronger social and environmental sustainability standards, and a brave impact funding environment. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

According to a statement, the company seeks to “disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses and developers with the tools to access credit” via blockchain technology. million in pre-seed funding. Decentralized finance’s premise transcends this segment of banked people.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The orbital economy is heating up, but the infrastructure that supports it is starting to creak. Kayhan presented today at Disrupt SF as part of the Battlefield, and the business is considerably further along than when we first covered them ; at the time, they were raising a pre-seed round, but now they’ve got their feet under them.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Autify announced today it has secured a $10 million Series A round to support new product development, including its launch of native app testing for mobile and global expansion. Now, Autify’s software testing automation addresses the issues of a labor shortage as well as technical difficulty through its no-code platform.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2019

Last year, OCAST received 145 research applications that were deemed “qualified-for-funding” by outside peer review and rigorous vetting. By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Oklahoma is a great place to live. Oklahoma is a great place to work. Unemployment is down; the economy is moving along.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

They might work in local, state or federal government, a university, an economic development agency, a chamber of commerce, a small non-profit organization, a large corporation, or more directly in some kind of entrepreneurial support organization. There’s more to being an ecosystem builder than a job title and supporting entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

They figured out how to motivate talent to work with the company, how to stitch together a network where everybody gained by being supportive of each other and they figured out how to make the economics work. Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. More posts by this contributor. Miami won’t be the next Silicon Valley because we don’t need another one.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Kegg was unveiled on the TechCrunch Disrupt SF stage, back in 2018 , as part of our startup battlefield competition (though it didn’t go on to win). Fertility tracking has seen an explosion of startup activity in recent years. Femtech startup Lady Technologies is adding to this rich mix with the full U.S. market — priced at $275.

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Continuations

APRIL 8, 2019

Many organized religions intentionally disrupt the Knowledge Loop. It can often be difficult to recognize just how much of one’s behavior, which one thinks of as free and voluntary, is actually tightly controlled by custom or peer pressure. The prior excerpts covered the freedom to learn , to create , and to share.

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Unvalidated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

“Businesses that disrupt/create huge markets with a non-replicable product offering a must-have service , which gets better the more people use it.” Jean de la Rochebrochard ( @jlr ), a partner at TheFamily , recently published a very good piece on Medium titled “ Here’s my investment thesis. What’s yours? ”?—?below We are hunting “unicorns”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. Market Size.

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Feedough

MARCH 15, 2021

Example: “Hey {name}, we found that your engagement rate is slightly under that of your industry peers. They post, get engagement, increase followers, and then use the same to monetise. And even those who don’t tag themselves as influencers tend to use LinkedIn posts for their own benefits. Welcome, Inlytics. Welcome, Inlytics. The Offering.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Her experience led her to found and lead She Matters , a digital health platform focused on supporting Black women experiencing postpartum comorbidities, and providing cultural competency training for care providers. The company is part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022. “It’s territories. territories.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A question that I’m sure you’ve gotten a million times is: where do you get all the GPUs to support growing and expanding relationships? Could you take a few minutes and talk about how you see the vision and the future of AI and what is the role of a large tech leader, like Microsoft, in this wave of AI?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2016

Because of these three attributes, chat seems to be reemerging as a potentially disruptive user interface for both consumers and business users. Most retailers provide customer support via chat. Post a note on Slack to provide peer feedback at work or file an expense. Chat differs from other forms of communication.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Despite all of the jockeying, misplaced competition, resources, politics and the like, we are here to help our communities to thrive by supporting the success of entrepreneurs… It’s important to remember and focus our mindsets there.”. Ecosystem building work is often thankless, tiring, and even demoralizing at times. Doing both centers me.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I find level setting to be one of the most difficult things to do around any task or skill. Just how good is good? What are the best people accomplishing? How do you measure it? It comes up a lot with my coaching clients who aspire to be top VCs and are trying to figure out how to self-assess and goal set. But I thought I was good!?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a consumer-focused financial platform—that is also now the primary bank account for millions of UK consumers—in the midst of a once in a century pandemic is close to impossible. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. This did not happen by magic. Banking is a ubiquitous but hard to crack industry.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 11, 2023

By working with a business consultant, startups can better prepare themselves for challenges and unexpected disruptions, allowing them to respond quickly and effectively when the need arises. To understand the value of business consulting for startups, we reached out to CEOs, founders, and other business leaders for their insights.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

92% of consumers trust peer recommendations , while only 22% of brands are trusted. 92% of consumers trust peer recommendations , while only 22% of brands are trusted. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. This had a dual purpose?—?the

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