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In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. MORE
But, Kim pointed out, while many startup aids and incubators exist in New Zealand, the community-enabling factor of CO.STARTERS was missing. By David Kraus. It all started in October, 2013 when Chorus , a New Zealand telecommunications company, launched a competition. MORE
You can do this in two ways: First, you can create, enable, or increase something that’s good. Google and Wikipedia enabled all of us, rich and poor, to access virtually limitless amounts of information. MORE
Kesha Cash founded Impact America Fund in 2013 with a goal of investing in software and tech enabled companies that have a positive benefit on underserved communities in America. Strong mentorship was essential to Kesha Cash’s journey to becoming an impact investor. MORE
Bowery Valuation raised a $12M Series A for their tech-enabled real estate appraisal platform. Our UrbanTech News Roundup is one of the features in our bi-weekly newsletter. MORE
Professor Roberts strives to create classroom environments and session plans that enable a-ha moments for students. The post Faculty Spotlight: Dustyn Roberts from Temple University appeared first on VentureWell. MORE
The startup has raised over $13 million to enable designers and individuals to build dream homes using a massive product library of digital furniture from retailers like Amazon, Houzz, and Wayfair. MORE
Practically speaking this means deploying small teams on projects and constraining meeting sizes; empowering/trusting these small teams to make bold strides; hiring well; providing clear direction and honest feedback - ultimately enabling faster iteration cycles for better results. MORE
In the late 90s, one company changed its name five times before they settled on one which today is a well-known brand. The business started as Silver Computing in 1995, then Stellar Computing in June 1997. Six months later, the company would rebrand as next ActiveTouch Systems, then six months later to ActiveTouch Inc., and finally, six months before IPO to WebEx. WebEx went public in June 2000 with $8.3M in revenue over the previous twelve months. MORE
The company GoFundMe enables individuals to crowdfund philanthropic projects and has encountered a lot of success in the past few years. . Looking to make a positive impact along with a profit? MORE
Doghead Simulations | About : Doghead Simulations creates rumii, a social-virtual reality platform that enables people to educate and collaborate in a 3D virtual environment. Meet the companies that will pitch Steve Case and the Revolution team on the upcoming Rise of the Rest Road Trip. MORE
Techstars , the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, today announced the launch of Techstars Talent : a new offering that will enable startup founders to build highly successful teams and gain a competitive advantage when it comes to Talent. . MORE
Its initial use cases target pharma companies to enable the creation of voice and chatbot products to improve sales reps’ performance, complement their medical science liaisons, and support clinical trial sites and investigators. Voice tech is on the rise. MORE
The Custom Ink team has been doing the same thing for customers in local communities by enabling them to easily design and order custom t-shirts and gear for their clubs, companies, charities, family reunions, and much more. MORE
Over the last year, CLEAR has started to introduce these new experiences for members including access to the Hertz Fast Lane, which enables CLEAR members to verify their identity and rental car reservation via facial recognition in order to get through the exit gate in 30 seconds or less. MORE
The Summary Remix is currently being used by over 4,000 planners in over 300 cities to enable planners to visualize tradeoffs when making urban planning decisions. Smart city initiatives and open data projects have enabled Remix to get better over time. MORE
Office & Recruiting Coordinator at STORD Location: Atlanta, GA STORD’s mission is to build the technology and network infrastructure that enables global distribution. Revolution portfolio companies are hiring all over the country. MORE
Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Co-founder and Director of Venture Centre , has an awesome Twitter bio: “Creating connections and exploring intersections between people and ideas by delivering meaningful opportunities to do good stuff together #entrepreneurship.”. MORE
Techstars Talent enables you to build highly successful teams! By Sabrina Kelly, Techstars Vice President of Talent. MORE
SaaS Enabled Marketplaces employ elegant business models. They are verticalized SaaS companies that manage a marketplace to create winner-take-all market dynamics. SEMs can generate revenue in four ways: charge the buyer and/or supplier a software fee & charge the buyer and/or supplier a marketplace fee. In addition, a startup must determine what rake to charge. MORE
It aims to inspire and enable girls and young women under the age of 25 — who at this age are at particularly high risk of being systematically shut out of sport. She Breaks Barrier s’ is about inspiring and enabling th e next generation of strong, confident leaders. MORE
The opportunity Matt has identified enables companies and organizations to train employees faster and more efficiently, improve safety in high-risk situations, design better products, improve healthcare, and much more. MORE
SaaS Enabled Marketplaces benefit from a unique advantage in their go-to-market. This data enables the marketplace to amass census scale data on supplier performance, granular to the type of service rendered. They have a panoptic view of their market place, which over time provides them an unassailable competitive advantage. SEMs provide software to suppliers and consumers, and then make a market between them. The first SEMs flourished in advertising. MORE
The president of PayPal Canada, Paul Parisi, says , “Strategic partnerships enable teams to bring the best of their talent and strengths forward … Every business has unique strengths.” Successful companies and emerging startups often find themselves in need of more resources and partners. MORE
Today, we’re seeing a new segment of the SaaS ecosystem move to free - the SaaS Enabled Marketplace (SEM). SaaS Enabled Marketplaces, like Contently, charge for both software (content management tools) and access to a market place (of content producers). The free SaaS enabled market places (FSEM), of which Zenefits is the most prominent, also build software and provide access to a market place. Traditional software was initially sold by perpetual license. MORE
To enable people to do this work well, we need different types of spaces. To do that means we need different types of spaces, with a different aesthetic, and a different focus on what is required to enable people to be as productive as possible. by Cat Johnson. MORE
With a very interesting name and an equally interesting story to match, Edgybees is the leader in real-time collaborative visual-intelligence technology, providing critical software that enables for the most accurate, collaborative virtual worlds of any complex environment. MORE
Techstars Talent enables you to build highly successful teams! By Sabrina Kelly, Techstars Vice President of Talent. MORE
The post [Celeno in Yahoo Finance] Orange Labs to Research AI Innovation Over Celeno Wi-Fi Doppler Imaging Platform to Enable New Smart Home Applications appeared first on OurCrowd. Celeno, a leading provider of smart, innovative Wi-Fi solutions, announced today that Orange Labs will engage in researching AI classifiers for human postures, behaviors and events to increase contextual interpretation of situations in the home. Read more here. MORE
Techstars Studio will enable Techstars to source and support new company concepts from Techstars alumni founders, community leaders, venture capitalists, and corporate partners. Techstars Studio Will Create Disruptive New Startups and Help Large Corporations Innovate. MORE
Unconference: Tips For Enabling Healthy Ecosystem Builders. David Hirsch, from our Memberships and Training team, shared tips for enabling healthy ecosystem builders. More than half of our CO.STARTERS national team (8 out of 15!) MORE
The post [Global Kinetics in GlobeNewswire] Data Published in Functional Neurology Demonstrate that Global Kinetics’ Personal KinetiGraph® (PKG®) is Uniquely Positioned to Enable Objective Assessment of Motor Fluctuations in Parkinson’s Disease Patients appeared first on OurCrowd. MORE
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To use NewsGuard on your mobile phone, download the Microsoft Edge browser and enable “news ratings” in settings. NewsGuard helps its users distinguish between reliable news websites and those from bad actors trying to fool readers. By Macaela Bennett and Sarah Brandt. MORE
The results were dramatic: MDmetrix has enabled its customers to improve care for thousands of patients, while also surfacing millions of dollars of cost savings and revenue enhancement opportunities. The U.S. spends about twice what other high-income nations do on health care, but with results that are often worse than those countries achieve at much lower cost. MORE
Technology-Enabled Consumer Lending as an Employee Benefit. We are thrilled to announce the 10 extraordinary teams that are joining the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars Tel Aviv today, March 31. Three months of hard work in the world’s “Startup Nation” is awaiting the class of 2019. MORE
The introduction that Reece made for me to Aaron (CEO of Startup Catalyst) and the two trips that I’ve done with the Catalyst mission to London have really enabled me?—?as MORE
Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars. While culture may seem an ambiguous and fuzzy concept, strong cultures are the best way for leaders to manage their companies throughout their evolution. One founder/CEO described his company’s rapid growth to several hundred employees in just a few years this way. First, I was one of a few founders. As we grew, I became a manager of people. MORE
That absolute concentration of tech-enabled entrepreneurial businesses is quite incredible and it just makes you realise what is possible when you lift your gaze and look a bit further afield. I’m Rosie Odsey and I interviewed Rowena Barrett from QUT in late August 2018. MORE
A peer-to-peer-enabled system, like blockchain, can make it easy for charities to break down borders, allowing blockchain-created cryptocurrencies to be utilized from any country around the world. By Matej Michalko, Founder and CEO of DECENT. MORE
Camilla’s current company, Savitude , uses mobile commerce and hyper-personalized technology to enable shoppers to find body-positive clothing and beauty products that build retailer loyalty. MORE
I asked Michael Hoffman, Partner and General Counsel of Feenix, how he compared his firm with tech-enabled Merchant Cash Advance companies, e.g., Clearbanc , C2FO , Shopify Capital , etc. Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? Absolutely not. VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . MORE
Control4’s IPO last week and Nest’s massive success mark the beginning of mainstream, useful connected devices. In the decade to come, the most successful will be united by one common characteristic. They will anticipate our needs and make us lazier. Living is hard work. So many things to remember, like buying milk on the way home tonight. Plenty of software has been written to help us manage our daily torrent of to dos. In fact, there is a fine app for Remembering the Milk. But it has one flaw. MORE
Our partnership really was to enable Startup Weekend to take that model and expand it from a few dozen countries ultimately into 140 countries. MORE
EVmatch is a mobile platform that allows EV drivers to find and reserve charging stations anywhere they go by enabling increased access to private charging stations. MORE
enablement Related Topics Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 9, 2013
Practically speaking this means deploying small teams on projects and constraining meeting sizes; empowering/trusting these small teams to make bold strides; hiring well; providing clear direction and honest feedback - ultimately enabling faster iteration cycles for better results.
OurCrowd
JULY 23, 2019
The post [Celeno in Yahoo Finance] Orange Labs to Research AI Innovation Over Celeno Wi-Fi Doppler Imaging Platform to Enable New Smart Home Applications appeared first on OurCrowd. Celeno, a leading provider of smart, innovative Wi-Fi solutions, announced today that Orange Labs will engage in researching AI classifiers for human postures, behaviors and events to increase contextual interpretation of situations in the home. Read more here.
Tomasz Tunguz
DECEMBER 6, 2015
SaaS Enabled Marketplaces employ elegant business models. They are verticalized SaaS companies that manage a marketplace to create winner-take-all market dynamics. SEMs can generate revenue in four ways: charge the buyer and/or supplier a software fee & charge the buyer and/or supplier a marketplace fee. In addition, a startup must determine what rake to charge.
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 6, 2015
In the late 90s, one company changed its name five times before they settled on one which today is a well-known brand. The business started as Silver Computing in 1995, then Stellar Computing in June 1997. Six months later, the company would rebrand as next ActiveTouch Systems, then six months later to ActiveTouch Inc., and finally, six months before IPO to WebEx. WebEx went public in June 2000 with $8.3M in revenue over the previous twelve months.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
SaaS Enabled Marketplaces benefit from a unique advantage in their go-to-market. This data enables the marketplace to amass census scale data on supplier performance, granular to the type of service rendered. They have a panoptic view of their market place, which over time provides them an unassailable competitive advantage. SEMs provide software to suppliers and consumers, and then make a market between them. The first SEMs flourished in advertising.
OurCrowd
JULY 23, 2019
The post [Global Kinetics in GlobeNewswire] Data Published in Functional Neurology Demonstrate that Global Kinetics’ Personal KinetiGraph® (PKG®) is Uniquely Positioned to Enable Objective Assessment of Motor Fluctuations in Parkinson’s Disease Patients appeared first on OurCrowd.
Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 16, 2015
Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars. While culture may seem an ambiguous and fuzzy concept, strong cultures are the best way for leaders to manage their companies throughout their evolution. One founder/CEO described his company’s rapid growth to several hundred employees in just a few years this way. First, I was one of a few founders. As we grew, I became a manager of people.
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 20, 2015
Today, we’re seeing a new segment of the SaaS ecosystem move to free - the SaaS Enabled Marketplace (SEM). SaaS Enabled Marketplaces, like Contently, charge for both software (content management tools) and access to a market place (of content producers). The free SaaS enabled market places (FSEM), of which Zenefits is the most prominent, also build software and provide access to a market place. Traditional software was initially sold by perpetual license.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 12, 2019
In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation.
Venture Well
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Professor Roberts strives to create classroom environments and session plans that enable a-ha moments for students. The post Faculty Spotlight: Dustyn Roberts from Temple University appeared first on VentureWell.
TechStars
JULY 16, 2019
Techstars , the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, today announced the launch of Techstars Talent : a new offering that will enable startup founders to build highly successful teams and gain a competitive advantage when it comes to Talent. .
Paul G. Silva
AUGUST 20, 2019
EVmatch is a mobile platform that allows EV drivers to find and reserve charging stations anywhere they go by enabling increased access to private charging stations.
Co Starters
JUNE 18, 2019
Unconference: Tips For Enabling Healthy Ecosystem Builders. David Hirsch, from our Memberships and Training team, shared tips for enabling healthy ecosystem builders. More than half of our CO.STARTERS national team (8 out of 15!)
Dream It
APRIL 23, 2019
Its initial use cases target pharma companies to enable the creation of voice and chatbot products to improve sales reps’ performance, complement their medical science liaisons, and support clinical trial sites and investigators. Voice tech is on the rise.
TechStars
MARCH 31, 2019
Technology-Enabled Consumer Lending as an Employee Benefit. We are thrilled to announce the 10 extraordinary teams that are joining the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars Tel Aviv today, March 31. Three months of hard work in the world’s “Startup Nation” is awaiting the class of 2019.
Revolution
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Over the last year, CLEAR has started to introduce these new experiences for members including access to the Hertz Fast Lane, which enables CLEAR members to verify their identity and rental car reservation via facial recognition in order to get through the exit gate in 30 seconds or less.
Dream It
APRIL 24, 2019
The startup has raised over $13 million to enable designers and individuals to build dream homes using a massive product library of digital furniture from retailers like Amazon, Houzz, and Wayfair.
TechStars
AUGUST 19, 2019
Camilla’s current company, Savitude , uses mobile commerce and hyper-personalized technology to enable shoppers to find body-positive clothing and beauty products that build retailer loyalty.
TechStars
JULY 9, 2019
Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Co-founder and Director of Venture Centre , has an awesome Twitter bio: “Creating connections and exploring intersections between people and ideas by delivering meaningful opportunities to do good stuff together #entrepreneurship.”.
Revolution
APRIL 2, 2019
Doghead Simulations | About : Doghead Simulations creates rumii, a social-virtual reality platform that enables people to educate and collaborate in a 3D virtual environment. Meet the companies that will pitch Steve Case and the Revolution team on the upcoming Rise of the Rest Road Trip.
Founders Coop
MAY 14, 2019
The results were dramatic: MDmetrix has enabled its customers to improve care for thousands of patients, while also surfacing millions of dollars of cost savings and revenue enhancement opportunities. The U.S. spends about twice what other high-income nations do on health care, but with results that are often worse than those countries achieve at much lower cost.
Dream It
MARCH 7, 2019
The Summary Remix is currently being used by over 4,000 planners in over 300 cities to enable planners to visualize tradeoffs when making urban planning decisions. Smart city initiatives and open data projects have enabled Remix to get better over time.
TechStars
JULY 17, 2019
A peer-to-peer-enabled system, like blockchain, can make it easy for charities to break down borders, allowing blockchain-created cryptocurrencies to be utilized from any country around the world. By Matej Michalko, Founder and CEO of DECENT.
TechStars
AUGUST 13, 2019
Techstars Talent enables you to build highly successful teams! By Sabrina Kelly, Techstars Vice President of Talent.
Co Starters
JUNE 26, 2018
But, Kim pointed out, while many startup aids and incubators exist in New Zealand, the community-enabling factor of CO.STARTERS was missing. By David Kraus. It all started in October, 2013 when Chorus , a New Zealand telecommunications company, launched a competition.
Impact Hub
JUNE 3, 2019
It aims to inspire and enable girls and young women under the age of 25 — who at this age are at particularly high risk of being systematically shut out of sport. She Breaks Barrier s’ is about inspiring and enabling th e next generation of strong, confident leaders.
Startup Catalyst
AUGUST 15, 2018
The introduction that Reece made for me to Aaron (CEO of Startup Catalyst) and the two trips that I’ve done with the Catalyst mission to London have really enabled me?—?as
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
JULY 23, 2019
To use NewsGuard on your mobile phone, download the Microsoft Edge browser and enable “news ratings” in settings. NewsGuard helps its users distinguish between reliable news websites and those from bad actors trying to fool readers. By Macaela Bennett and Sarah Brandt.
TechStars
JUNE 4, 2019
Our partnership really was to enable Startup Weekend to take that model and expand it from a few dozen countries ultimately into 140 countries.
Revolution
APRIL 4, 2019
The Custom Ink team has been doing the same thing for customers in local communities by enabling them to easily design and order custom t-shirts and gear for their clubs, companies, charities, family reunions, and much more.
OurCrowd
AUGUST 16, 2019
With a very interesting name and an equally interesting story to match, Edgybees is the leader in real-time collaborative visual-intelligence technology, providing critical software that enables for the most accurate, collaborative virtual worlds of any complex environment.
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
JUNE 2, 2019
The company GoFundMe enables individuals to crowdfund philanthropic projects and has encountered a lot of success in the past few years. . Looking to make a positive impact along with a profit?
TechStars
JULY 25, 2019
The opportunity Matt has identified enables companies and organizations to train employees faster and more efficiently, improve safety in high-risk situations, design better products, improve healthcare, and much more.
TechStars
JANUARY 16, 2019
Techstars Studio will enable Techstars to source and support new company concepts from Techstars alumni founders, community leaders, venture capitalists, and corporate partners. Techstars Studio Will Create Disruptive New Startups and Help Large Corporations Innovate.
Startup Catalyst
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
That absolute concentration of tech-enabled entrepreneurial businesses is quite incredible and it just makes you realise what is possible when you lift your gaze and look a bit further afield. I’m Rosie Odsey and I interviewed Rowena Barrett from QUT in late August 2018.
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
MAY 20, 2019
The president of PayPal Canada, Paul Parisi, says , “Strategic partnerships enable teams to bring the best of their talent and strengths forward … Every business has unique strengths.” Successful companies and emerging startups often find themselves in need of more resources and partners.
TechStars
JUNE 18, 2019
Kesha Cash founded Impact America Fund in 2013 with a goal of investing in software and tech enabled companies that have a positive benefit on underserved communities in America. Strong mentorship was essential to Kesha Cash’s journey to becoming an impact investor.
TechStars
JULY 30, 2019
Techstars Talent enables you to build highly successful teams! By Sabrina Kelly, Techstars Vice President of Talent.
Guy Kawasaki
MARCH 1, 2015
You can do this in two ways: First, you can create, enable, or increase something that’s good. Google and Wikipedia enabled all of us, rich and poor, to access virtually limitless amounts of information.
GCUC
JULY 26, 2019
To enable people to do this work well, we need different types of spaces. To do that means we need different types of spaces, with a different aesthetic, and a different focus on what is required to enable people to be as productive as possible. by Cat Johnson.
David Teten - VC
AUGUST 19, 2019
I asked Michael Hoffman, Partner and General Counsel of Feenix, how he compared his firm with tech-enabled Merchant Cash Advance companies, e.g., Clearbanc , C2FO , Shopify Capital , etc. Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? Absolutely not. VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. .
Dream It
APRIL 29, 2019
Bowery Valuation raised a $12M Series A for their tech-enabled real estate appraisal platform. Our UrbanTech News Roundup is one of the features in our bi-weekly newsletter.
Revolution
JANUARY 9, 2019
Office & Recruiting Coordinator at STORD Location: Atlanta, GA STORD’s mission is to build the technology and network infrastructure that enables global distribution. Revolution portfolio companies are hiring all over the country.
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