This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It's why you get press and even how to get customers. My startup Golden Rule is this: Be someone that people want to work with. That's how you get funded. That's how you get hired and how you can hire the best people. It's key to getting into venture capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 3, 2025

The Series A funding round was led by Healthworx , the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst , further solidifying Culina Healths unique approach to addressing one of the countrys most pressing public health issues. This statistic highlights a pressing need for accessible, clinically rigorous nutrition care.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

It’s why long before you ever want press coverage you need to spend time actually helping journalists, respecting their profession, taking their calls (not having your PR department screen them) and knowing what interests them. When you want press, it will come. It becomes easier to ask when you need help or money.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

And while of course the founders & management deserve all the credit for Maker’s success and will no doubt get their accolades in the press, from an investor perspective, Dana & I were hugely active in the company for years behind the scenes in recruiting, PR, product strategy, M&A, etc.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Each new cohort brings a fresh wave of innovation to solve pressing real-world challenges. empowers ambitious founders with bold ideas to create a lasting impact,” said Shintaro Matsumoto, President and CEO of NEC X.

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Source Link

JULY 26, 2021

Click here to read the press release). Last week, EDA announced six programs to equitably invest $3 billion allocated under President Biden’s American Rescue Plan. The EDA will be holding “EDA 101 and American Rescue Plan Overview” webinars this week at 3 p.m. ET on July 27 and 3 p.m. ET on July 29.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For every seed funded company struggling to get press, journalists fell over themselves to get the latest scoop on who became a decacorn and to rewrite the same story on private valuations that meant absolutely nothing. What's worse is that this end of the market is even affecting early stage VC mindset.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Everybody reads the tech press. Reassure your company that it’s healthy to have competitors (after all – all startups are naked in the mirror in the morning). Pretending the funding didn’t happen is dumb. Send a quick note to your investors that you read the news, you feel good about your market positioning and your product.

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The Seraf Compass

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

For a variety of reasons, the mainstream business press is writing more about angel investing than ever. It seems like more now than ever before, if you tell a distant relative that you are an angel investor, they will say “oh I’ve heard of that” rather than give you a blank stare and assume you are talking about church choir.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

I can''t tell you how many times I''ve been pitched and examples have been made of companies that I don''t think are doing that well--but that you''d never know that from the press.

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Dream It

APRIL 2, 2019

Press Release The venture fund and growth-focused accelerator accepted the cohort from a field of nearly 2,000 pre-Series A companies NEW YORK CITY, NY — April 2, 2019 — Dreamit Ventures, an early stage venture fund and growth-focused accelerator, announced its latest batch of startups this week.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 15, 2025

Maki’s cutting-edge AI agents enable companies to successfully tackle some of the most pressing HR challenges, including automating screening and interviewing processes, improving candidate experiences, reducing time-to-hire, and lowering employee turnover.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. Almost nobody believed and now look at it. Online education.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 31, 2025

The funding is timely as Bonsai tackles the industrys most pressing challenges, including labor shortages, rising operational costs, and broader sustainability and climate change issues. One of the most pressing concerns facing farmers today is labor shortages. Its portfolio already includes over 40 deployed units across the U.S.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 14, 2020

Mais, Desde Cero Finanzas ‘ Julio César Pineda and North Central College ‘s Dr. Ryan Decker, helped you work through your most pressing money management questions. To best address these pressing questions for those unable to participate, we included below your top four money management questions, answered.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2021

Our clients, the press and even our competitors have been inspired. One of our competitors copied our press release almost totally. GREENAMBER is bonding our team even closer. We are all very excited to go even further with GREENAMBER and invest more money in carbon-reducing projects. So, it’s one more company. Even better!).

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Dream It

MAY 19, 2021

When you don’t state the ask upfront, here’s the incorrect answer most founders give when pressed. At Dreamit, we coach founders to use a snapshot slide at the beginning of the deck which covers this element and highlights why you’re an exciting investment. This answer raises a few red flags. Most notably, you’re not raising a range.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 2, 2022

The theme for this summit is “Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Future,” which responds to the hemisphere’s most pressing issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, threats to democracy, the climate crisis, and a lack of equitable access to opportunities. . The YLAI Fellowship Program is funded by the U.S.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

There has been some negative press about Toucan, but that reporting misunderstands what Toucan is doing and why it is so important. USV is invested in the Toucan Protocol which is building the web3 infrastructure to bring carbon offsets on-chain and to allow them to be traded/invested/etc using DeFi protocols.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

But the broader issue that hasn’t garnished much press attention is how the restaurant industry itself is being transformed and what tools a modern restaurant will need to compete. What is the Shopify of the restaurant industry? ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product. Covid-19 has changed all of that.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

Since Airbnb, however, it feels like not only is YC missing another billion dollar plus home run, but the percent of companies worth $40 million (a standard YC has used in the press), either by financing or exit, seems low.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 13, 2021

It delivers a “6 lead” EKG reading into your smartphone by putting the device on your knee and pressing both thumbs on it. He pointed me to this Kardia Mobile device which I purchased on Amazon a few weeks ago. This Kardia Mobile 6L device is remarkable. But it is really amazing because it is so easy to use in your own home.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2020

Every day, we meet on Zoom not only to discuss pressing issues impacting our business, but also to bond over books we’re reading and television shows we’re watching. Traits to Look for When Hiring Your Leadership Team. I cannot imagine confronting the coronavirus crisis without my leadership team by my side.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

Institutional Support for a Global Clean Energy Push The Citi Impact Fund s Robin Volk echoes this sentiment: Omnidian is solving one of the most pressing challenges in solarensuring systems deliver long-term performance.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

This happens because many CEOs are passionate, market-driven people who are constantly trying to launch new products, win contracts, get press, hire staff and woo VCs. It literally can put you out of business. The daily grind of keeping track of minutiae on the budget seems a distraction and the CEO is already putting in crazy hours.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

We did a full-court press led by Steven because once we decided this was the team we wanted to work with and this opportunity mapped to our belief system that content + tech will build a generation of great Internet companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2018

Founders read the tech press every day filled with stories about these $20 million fund-raisings by this firm and that firm and it sounds like everybody else is doing it except for you. When you read about the funding in the press it sounds like it was a walk in the park.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. While this is totally understandable, I believe it creates the false notion that accelerator = funding. It did for me, at least.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

Third, for viewers the product allows viewers to easily scroll through your video album or story without having to watch the full video and if they find it interesting they press the button to consume it. This is critical because I never believed your friends would want to endlessly watch videos of yours and of all their friends.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

Very, very few founders have an easy time despite what you read in the press. Read the press and gather every named investor you’ve never heard of before and see if they’re increasingly active. Fund raising is hard for everybody. If the big names turn you down and the second-tier turn you down and strategics turn you down — keep going.

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Revolution

MAY 2, 2022

Originally published in The Hill on April 23, 2022 America faces a host of pressing economic challenges today?—?but but if inflation dominates the public discourse for the moment, we can’t lose sight of the profound role the startup economy will play in driving tomorrow’s prosperity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Look at many of the high profile companies you know and you can trace some press coverage of high-profile blow-ups in team members. Facebook went through many early executives. One story I enjoyed was the self-deprecating tale of Noah Kagan who says he lost $100 million by being fired from Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Yet the best and the strongest founders are able to overcome the stresses, the self-doubt, the sacrifices and the risks and they press on with optimism every day anyways. Good press and industry mojo wasn’t enough to overcome the financial metrics of the business and the offers came in at more like $10 million. It was not.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 23, 2020

On a typical day, I will devote two significant chunks of time to my most pressing tasks. Research finds that structure and routine can lower stress levels, boost productivity and increase focus—all of which can contribute to improved leadership. I do my best work when my days are structured into time clusters.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2025

It seeks to solve one of the most pressing challenges for entrepreneurs today: access to capital. More Than an EventA Movement The Good Soil Movement is one of the fastest-growing entrepreneurial ecosystems in the country. In just two years, it has invested nearly $1 million in small businesses and now connects over 26,000 members nationwide.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 22, 2020

Start from the firing of the National Security team’s epidemic response experts to the continued misinformation that has to be corrected and backtracked after every press conference and I think the story of our national nightmare comes to a close soon.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

You can''t get a story just about you in the press everyday, but a reporter has to write something every day--so how can you help them fit your news in a context and have something to write about when they''re not writing about you. 5) Create an editorial schedule.

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