The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2020

Barely 4 months later, Yahoo admitted that there was a previous breach in 2013 that had affected 1 billion accounts, but later revised the figure to 3 billion accounts. In 2015, Adobe had to pay more than one million dollars in legal fees after hackers accessed the data of around 378 million users.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Chorus.ai (2015) – Chorus uses AI to analyze sales calls by joining the conference calls, transcribing the data and extracting important action items. The company’s chairman was the former General Chief of Staff of the IDF 2011-2015. Deep Instinct was named “Cool Vendor in 2016” by the Gartner Research Group.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2015

In 2013, there were 909 million mobile gamers worldwide, nearly half of which resided in the Asia Pacific region, and 146 million of which came from North America. Newzoo, a video game research firm, reported that 2014 revenue for mobile gaming was $25 billion – up 43% over revenues from 2013. Social Integrations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

Meltzer, Using the Internet to Promote Services Exports by Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises, February 2015, p.5. 6] The Guardian, How SMEs can make the best use of social media, 13 December 2013. [7] 7] The Guardian, How SMEs can make the best use of social media, 13 December 2013. [8] 5] [link]. [6] 5] [link]. [6]

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The Next Web

JUNE 21, 2015

In a book based on his 2013 TED talk, Pico Iyer muses about how the more connected we become, the more we need to disconnect and just…be still. If I were to say that #startuplife is synonymous with a “go, go, go,” lifestyle, I doubt I’d be the first person to do so. I’ll be the first to admit I’m horrible at sitting still.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

That statement might be more dramatic if our firm was founded in 1983 instead of 2013, but speaks to a handful of changes in seed investing. ” Phase 1 Bay Area + NYC (2013-14). Phase 2 California + NYC (2015-2017). Homebrew is making more investments outside of Silicon Valley than we have in our history! Yes we did!

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 22, 2014

incubator – which launched in February 2013 – hosted the first regional pitch of its 2015 Challenge Cup. at the Challenge Festival in May 2015. The new year came early to 1776 last night. Founders from four categories – health, education, energy, and cities – competed to represent D.C.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 17, 2022

In 2013, he successfully executed a summer campaign that included larger models with the help of Hollywood superstar Beyonce- known for her body positivity and great confidence. In 2015, Vitalik was declared one of Fortune's 40 Under 40, recognizing the world's most influential young people. 19- Kobe Bryant. Photo Credit: Dan Gray.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

As far back as 2012, McKinsey predicted that, by catering to MSMEs in emerging markets, bank reserves could achieve growth of 20 percent per year between 2010 and 2015 [8]. 13] International Business Times, China’s Cross-Border E-commerce To Rise Ten-Fold In 5 Years, As Taste For Imported Food Grows , 12 June 2015. [14] 3] Varian, H.,

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

It launched the original Pebble in January 2013, and earlier this year in January announced the Pebble Steel at International CES and starting shipping them by March. The smartwatch startup first burst unto the scene on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter in 2012 raising over US$10 million from almost 70,000 backers in a very short time.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In 2013, more than 45 percent of user searching was done through mobile devices. By 2015 more than 50 percent of Google pay per click ad campaigns will be the result of a mobile search. Online visibility now encompasses even more than SEO and search engine result listings.

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SiliconHills

JULY 23, 2014

I am very excited to have the opportunity to restart and lead the Techstars Cloud program: [link] cc @techstars — Blake Yeager (@blake_yeager) July 23, 2014 The Techstars Cloud program launched in San Antonio in 2012 with 11 companies and the next year another 11 startups participated in the 2013 program.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 26, 2015

Forbes discussed the omnichannel revolution in an article from February 2015 , where, “according to a survey conducted by Retail Systems Research in June 2013, around 84% of the retailers polled worldwide believed that creating a consistent customer experience across channels was very important.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2014

In the meantime, your Nest thermostat will be posting how many therms you’ve used heating your home through the 2015 polar vortex while your bathroom scale shares your weight with the world. Related posts: Key Digital Marketing Trends For 2013. Is there no decency left? Manufacturing. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

According to The Economist forecast for 2015, ASEAN will add USD 335 billion and become the fourth largest economy in the world. Atradius, Payment Practices in Asia-Pacific, 2013. Economic Watch, Singapore’s Economic Outlook for 2015. Cash-flow problems spell disaster for young businesses growing overseas accounts.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

101 have been recorded so far in 2015. Safework Australia also provided another report on the amount of non-fatal worker compensation claims by key employment and demographic statistics in 2012 to 2013. In a report provided by Safework Australia , there were 129 reported deaths in the workplace in 2014.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2020

Founded in 2015 by Ariel Rosenfeld. Founded in 2015 by Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger (who just took Fiverr, a company he co-founded, public last year). Founded by Yonatan Adiri in 2013. Founded in 2013 by Tomer Weingarten and Almog Cohen. Founded in 2015 by Amit Bendov and Eilon Reshef.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program. Get Involved The 2015 conference will be held from November 16th-19th at historic Fort Mason in San Francisco.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

She has been named Chicago Business Journal Woman of Influence (2016), the National Association of Women Business Owners’ Woman Business Owner of the Year award (2015), the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Person of the Year award (2014), and Enterprising Women’s Enterprising Woman of the Year award (2013).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

billion – masks how sagging performance from its PC business wiped out the momentum Lenovo had generated since 2013 and has forced Lenovo to reset its profit and revenue growth expectations for its enterprise and mobile device businesses. Lenovo’s modest overall revenue growth in calendar 2Q15 – 3.1% year-to-year to $10.7

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Almost immediately, people started to dig what we were doing: Digital Trends named Localeur one of their favorite new apps of SXSW 2013 and other press followed.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We had a chance to invest in a $500K round at a $12M valuation in 2015. We were introduced to Henry Ward from eShares through our friend Manu Kumar from K9 Ventures in 2013. Philip Krim reached out cold in 2013. And yeah, $12M felt kind of high :-). We were also worried about how much people would pay for it (if at all).

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

I was wondering what ever ultimately happened to that group of OG unicorns, so I looked back at her original post in TechCrunch from November 2013. To analyze what’s become of the OG Unicorns, it’s first worth noting that at the time of the 2013 post about 2/3rds of the 39 on the list had already been realized via IPO or $1B+ acquisitions.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

in 2015 seems like good news. In fact, while the top ten fabricated user-agent variants accounted for 90% of application layer DDoS attacks from November 2013 to February 2014, the top ten fabricated user-agent variants accounted for just 43% of application layer DDoS attacks from March to May of 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

We also sat down and talked about what the big challenges for 2013-2016 would be for the company and we are in the fortunate position of our major issue being how to handle growth. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2020

To learn more about the behaviors and group dynamics of cohesive teams and what you can do to build, nurture and sustain team cohesiveness, check out my 2013 article, Building-Cohesive-Teams. He served as SmithBucklin President & CEO from 2002 to 2015. 5. Create the conditions for a better tomorrow.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

In 2013, this inspired Watch Together and our journey began. Jonathan Williams and I have been working together since 2013 at our previous startup SayYeah, a live streaming platform for Millennials in LATAM. Sceenic is the result of the learnings to do with co-viewing of SayYeah back in 2013-15. How does Watch Together work?

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2015, Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano launched GOAT , a marketplace for the exchange of sneakers. Swing Education was founded in 2015 with the objective of creating a marketplace for substitute teachers. VIPKid , which was founded in 2013 by Cindy Mi , is a truly amazing story. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

in 2013, Benin is among the countries that have made significant progress in the recent years. However, to diversify its workforce and economy, in 2015 the country adopted TizaaWorks. So, what are the African countries with low employment rates doing differently? 10 African Countries with the Lowest Unemployment Rates.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2016

This news follows on the heels of a great close to 2015, where year-over-year revenue was up for 61 percent over 2014 revenue for the survey participants. Digging into the numbers, 70 percent of small business owners reported meeting or exceeding their Q1 2016 revenue targets.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

As at 14 October 2015 the API report concluded that oil inventories fell by 1.2 million barrels for the week ending on Friday, 2 October 2015. US domestic production of crude oil was listed by the EIA ( Energy Information Administration ) at 9.096 million barrels on 9 October 2015, down for the week. The US currently has 29.8

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

We’ve been finding mates online and in personal columns for decades, but Tinder normalised digital as a preamble to the physical meetup process. Meeting online went from weird to just plain ordinary. What happened: Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations + Facebook goes public with IPO. This was that moment. This will be when it got real.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 15, 2015

This research was initiated in 2013 and the latest survey was to add insights to a large qualitative set of interviews that I was able to work on for the last couple of years. Manuel Puppis (@ManuelPuppis) September 28, 2015. 49 percent of women who are non-users of the Internet in India see no benefits of the Internet (Google, 2015).

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