Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Todays hearing underscores this committees commitment to prioritizing entrepreneurship and innovation, and I thank you for your leadership in making this a shared nationaleffort. In 2011, I was part of the Presidents Council on Jobs and Competitiveness with several other leaders in finance and tech. were on the platform.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 30, 2017

Whether you lead an entire organization or only a team of people, it’s smart to be aware of the key trends in management and leadership. Greater Investment in Professional and Personal Development. To keep up with rapidly changing technology, more companies recognize the need to invest in their employees’ education and development.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 18, 2025

Taking place in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington, the premiere event will present pioneers in business, innovation and leadership, including innovative founders Brianne West , Nadia Lim , Sam Stubbs , Iyia Liu , special guest Dan Carter and more. View the full session agenda here. said Brianne.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 8, 2022

Most commonly they are a bridge to a round of financing with new investors (outsiders). That is a real round of financing and it is not a bridge. While that can sometimes be the right answer for a startup, I strongly prefer bringing new investors/new capital into a company in every financing round.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

San Francisco-based FinTech company Mercury has announced a $300 million Series C investment round, bringing its valuation to $3.5 Bank accounts are the nucleus of business finance, said Akhund. This deep integration streamlines operations and provides business owners with greater visibility and control over their finances.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

“Metropolis has developed a new growth buyout model, demonstrating how innovation and technology can evolve legacy industries for the 21st century,” said Tony Minella, Co-Founder and President of E ldridge Industries , an existing investor in Metropolis that led the recent financing transaction. The financing included $1.05

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But how can biotech teams effectively communicate to investors and partners how they will, with each round of financing, incrementally reduce the risks of discovering and developing successful new drugs? How is the company’s go-forward budget split across platform investments and program-specific spend?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. Of the first four investments I made as a VC in 2009, two have exited and two (Invoca & GumGum) still are independent and likely to produce $billion++ outcomes . sold to Disney for $670 million and since our first investment was at < $10 million valuation we did quite well.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. I love the idea of USV investing in a company that can help our portfolio companies do things better.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

He was doubling down on his investment and also gave me a great lay of the land on handicapping how all of the other seed investors saw the company. Through many meetings discussing strategy, approach, recruiting, financing, etc. And finally it comes down to the good old instinct test.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

EQ and Team Leadership? So common are founder tensions that my intervening is a weekly occurrence and it’s so common that if I ever write about it I’m sure that instantly every company I’ve invested in and every company in which I’ve been an informal advisor thinks I must be writing about them. Nail on the head.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. In fact, the headline of one read, “How Putting $10m into uBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.” Leadership over backbenchers?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Back in the early 1990s, I was a married father of two very young children working as an investment banker in a small, boutique firm. It was just a profitable side-hustle, and it remained that way for years while I continued to work full-time as an investment banker. . Here’s the story of how I came to run my own company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2020

This is especially critical when talking about finances—one of small business owners’ biggest challenges anyway. Are your investments smart decisions? What you discover will make you a stronger, more competent entrepreneur ready to face leadership in difficult times. You’ll sleep better—and so will your trusted employees.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

With this in mind, ThrivingDollars has been addressing the need for financial literacy in Jamaica by simplifying and disseminating quality financial education that covers key topics such as budgeting, saving, debt management, and elimination, investing, insurance, and retirement and estate planning.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 26, 2022

Ben Franklin’s investments paid huge dividends for the commonwealth as the state continued to rebound from the pandemic, according to the statewide initiative’s “2021 Annual Statewide Impact Report,” with clients generating more than $2 billion in revenue and securing $917 million in post-Ben Franklin financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day. Seriously, this happens.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In each sales situation your goal as the leadership of the company is listening to feedback, calculating the customer ROI, testing what prices people are willing to pay, learning where budgets will come from, etc. I would work through my sales deals pipelines by doing pipeline reviews.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “By I approached several EO women colleagues and nCourage Investment Group was born. I also love seeing women introduced to the world of early-stage investing.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

From this I saw civic involvement and leadership first hand. I’ve been pitched by hundreds of entrepreneurs who never actually asked me whether I would invest. Hold interviews with tech people, marking people, ops people, finance people – whatever. She was a natural leader. Even today. She was a hustler.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. As such, VCs have to consider a number of factors when choosing which companies or entrepreneurs in whom to invest.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

In the video I describe how to best play this meeting and why, without a champion going into the meeting, you’re unlikely to get an investment. This isn’t weakness – it’s leadership. If you make it past this stage you will go to a “full partners meeting&# which is exactly what it sounds like. Competition.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

Good partners are people who are confident in their own abilities, and willing and able to make decisions, take responsibility for their actions, and able to provide leadership, rather than require leadership. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Compatible work styles.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Your Finances Will Be Quite Strained. With no actual influx of capital into your business, you’re looking at a dangerous mix of emotions, finances, and ego. If one of your friends invests more, will they expect more control? If you’re relying solely on funding from your friends, you may quickly run into trouble.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Since its launch nine years ago, Seedstars has invested in 81 companies in over 30 emerging countries. Now it’s set a goal of investing in 100 more startups with the launch of its second emerging market seed-stage fund, called Seedstars International Ventures II (SIV), with a first close of $20 million.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2020

One of the most important--understanding your business’s finances. Some business owners feel that finances are not their strength so they shy away from that aspect of their business. Leadership Equals Financial Literacy. You might even think it a good business decision to outsource the bulk of the finances and bookkeeping.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 5, 2025

A mentor acts as a trusted advisor whos invested in your success, helping you confidently navigate the entrepreneurial journey. Mentors bring valuable knowledge from their entrepreneurial experiences that you do not readily find in books or online courses. This will help you look for someone with specific expertise in those areas.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pakistan’s embedded finance platform Neem has raised $2.5 If you look at the embedded finance space, it is a $167 billion opportunity,” Shaikh said in an interview with TechCrunch. Owing to COVID, the strong growth in digitization has helped Neem embed its finance services across private and public sectors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Contributed by Madhavan Sivashankar , chief executive officer and founder, Gulf International Finance Limited. We invested in online technologies and continue to do so, to improve communication and its periodicity. Sivashankar has been a member of EO UAE since October 2020. . Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing. Supporting the growing roster of programs also required more administrative overhead to solve legal issues, track investments and support cross-program communications and learning.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Azim Premji’s Premji Invest, Motilal Oswal Alternates, TPG-backed NewQuest Capital Partners, and Mirae Asset Ventures — all previous backers — invested, as did Japan’s MUFG Bank. The investment adds more weight to our vision of encouraging financial independence through a smart digital experience, which is what India stands for today.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 2, 2021

Photo Credit: Fortune Adding to the lack of female representation in the industry, research also shows that only 8% of the investment professionals at the top 25 VC firms are women. While much remains unsure, I’m certain of one thing: I have to step aside and pay attention to the women who are navigating the complex world of investing.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

intends to use the funding to investment in technology and scale its business operations and teams in the United States, India and the Middle East. It was also the first investment for Sorin Investments, an early-stage tech fund founded by private equity veteran Sanjay Nayar, Former Chairman of KKR India. Uniqus Consultech Inc.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2023

This is the launch of a second MM Catalyst Fund (MMCF) that will focus on investing in Black-led startups as well as overlooked businesses across Massachusetts. The inaugural MM Catalyst Fund launched in 2021 invested in 16 businesses across Massachusetts that included Black-led growth companies and rural startups. economy.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

VCs need to invest to make their returns—and eventually, they’ll want to raise the next fund to layer more fees upon more fees. Even after the worst period for VC in history—VC funds were back to market in 2004, no more than four years after the crash, right in line with the historical pace to get back at the game of investing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. In fintech, the problem is especially prominent: Women-founded fintechs have raised a meager 1% of total fintech investment in the last 10 years. of total investment dollars. More posts by this contributor.

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