Board Effect

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The web developers determined to make the duties of the wonderful people they worked with easier by making a program to help them lead their organizations more efficiently and effectively. Together, they worked on a concept for a software program to ease nonprofit board duties, and BoardEffect was born. About Giving Tuesday.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Today we are announcing the biggest entrepreneurial program ever launched – Startup Weekend Next. I’m partnered with four great organizations to deliver the program. The class is organized, led and delivered by Startup Weekend , the global non-profit that teaches entrepreneurs how to launch a startup in 54 hours.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In his new book, “Tech Debt 2.0 : How to Future Proof Your Small Business and Improve Your Tech Bottom Line” , senior global business and technology executive Michael C. Along with lack of oversight, outdated software or hardware, inadequate cybersecurity, or one bad tech investment could seal the demise of a small enterprise.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Franchises Franchises Home Franchise 500 Home-Based Low Cost Top New Fast Growing Top Global Biz Opportunities Franchises for Sale Franchises A Bright Forecast for a Solar Panel Installation Franchise. What is Sweat Equity Worth? Determining how to value sweat equity is key when negotiating with investors and employees.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

Crypto will change commerce and global adoption of cryptocurrencies is, in my view, inevitable. Now it appears that it will never be stable, hence removing its chances of ever being the global currency it has been touted to be. What we have seen this time is excess asset valuations, as well as booming equity and crypto markets.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

4/ Streaming equity – venture funds + employee stock becomes more liquid. With the advent of programs like CartaX and what I call streaming venture funds , the liquidity in private markets is going to get the foundation to grow significantly in 2021. 7/ SaaS roll-ups and micro-private equity become huge.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

—— I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Finnish startup successes on a global stage include MySQL , F-Secure , Rovio , Habbo , Playfish , The Switch , Tectia , Trulia and Linux.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. The Global Small Business Blog. Working for Equity Instead of Cash. has an article on service firms waiving their fees and instead taking equity in their clients. Follow us on Twitter. Emergent Research.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

When David Cohen and I came up with the idea for the Global Accelerator Network (GAN) in 2010, we counted roughly 100 accelerator programs around the US that were founded following the Techstars model. From that initial outreach, 16 high quality accelerator programs joined us to launch the network. Others are not.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Follow along as we explore 10 of the most exciting college business incubators around today, and be sure to share your own favorites in the comments: Entrepreneurs Hall @ The RIT Global Village. Offering a “holistic entrepreneurship program,” this residential community has entrepreneurship at every step of the college experience.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 15, 2022

It is a well-known fact that millennials will soon represent 75 % of the global workforce. Introduce millennial-centric mentoring programs in the workplace. Globally the workforce is changing. Millennials are uncompromising in the virtues of equality, equity, and inclusion. Encourage your employees to take initiative.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As we enter year three, we are excited to announce that both accelerator programs in Austin and Houston will run simultaneously which gives us the ability to support up to 200 early-stage startups, and help connect them to Texas’ innovation communities. THE TEXAS PROGRAMS 2020 is a hallmark year for the Texas team.

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Transformify

JULY 17, 2019

Our guest today is Valerie Lopez, Vice President of Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Cision , leading global provider of earned media software and services. Lopez continues to build upon the company's work in the DEI area through strategic programming that further expands Cision’s workforce worldwide.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

A systems-wide approach to operationalize diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the startup ecosystem is required and must be built from the ground by communities of color with the support and investment of all. Opportunity Hub is one of those communities forging the path towards true diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

She is the force behind the ecomagination and healthymagination programs, initiatives that tackle the environment and healthcare—two of the more pressing areas of concern in GE’s business area. The ecomagination program at GE applies similar open innovation methods to a different problem: the environment and energy use.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. The Perfect Storm. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time. She is passionate about issues surrounding equal pay, employee wellness, and equity at work. To help companies resolve pay equity and the pay gap.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

And while there are currently there are seven incubators under the program, including Neoteny Labs and Plug and Play , the effort to boost the pool of investors and incubators should see more early-stage, high-tech startup companies in Singapore get nurtured. ” Global Money Flow – From the West to Asia. .

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

In just one example of many, Morgan Stanley used Morningstar data to prove that sustainable equity funds meet or even exceed the returns of traditional funds. Despite all of this collective data and momentum, we have seen little, if any, progress in the private equity and venture capital space.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. 4/ Global Trade Wars Are For Real.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This exposure helps in recruiting entrepreneurs for their rapidly growing Global Entrepreneur Program , as well their integrated suite of cloud services targeted towards tech and startup community members. For IBM, Digital.NYC provides exclusive community-building in the fastest growing tech ecosystem in the world.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Speaking to TechCrunch , Dimensional Energy founder and CEO Jason Salfi said: “The extraction and production of hydrocarbons has resulted in not only climate change but the displacement of indigenous people globally and myriad environmental catastrophes,” “Dimensional Energy makes a replacement for oil from carbon dioxide and water.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 24, 2023

Employees also value organizations that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, and prioritize employee development through training and skill-building programs. This is especially true since today’s job market is more global than ever before. Thanks to Will Yang, Instrumentl ! #14-

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. As a thumb rule, try to get enough validation so that you can get to at least a $2 million pre-money valuation before raising equity capital. That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2013

The Canadian government announced on Thursday it will launch a new program on April 1 to encourage startup founders who will (hopefully) create new jobs and spur economic growth in the country. The program is the first of its kind in Canada and is being pitched as “a powerful incentive to attract individuals with great potential.”

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David Cohen

JUNE 18, 2022

That’s why, this Juneteenth, I’ve invited Makisha Boothe, Founder and Head Business Coach of Sistahbiz Global Network , a business accelerator for Black women entrepreneurs, to write this guest post which I invite you to help amplify. I also wanted to take a more “Harriet Tubman” approach to my equity work.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford's Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Finnish startup successes on a global stage include MySQL , F-Secure , Rovio , Habbo , Playfish , The Switch , Tectia , Trulia and Linux. Even a more serious challenge is the lack of global business competence.

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SiliconHills

JULY 28, 2016

Austin-based BP3 Global announced this week it has raised $10 Million from Petra Capital Partners, LLC., a Nashiville, Tenn-based private equity firm. The company plans to use the funding to speed up development of its Brazos platform, a data and analytics software program.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

I also think that companies are starting to recognize more and more that affiliate programs allow them to increase their gross sales. Thanks to Mark Woodbury, Minerva Equity ! #12- Thanks to Bruno Pešec, Pesec Global ! #14- 12- More due to rise in millennials. Photo Credit: Emma Miller. 14- More inspired to be entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

During this discovery stage, entrepreneurs get to hone their business skills via training and support while typically no equity is taken from them. Although there are numerous acceleration and incubation programs out there, getting into one can be difficult let alone finding the right one for you. Europe, Asia and South America.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. In addition, as part of the program, I’ll be making my first public presentation of our research study on VC portfolio operations value creation.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. VIII: The Leading Flexible VCs, With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 22, 2016

We expanded the program later that year with partner companies ReadyTalk, SendGrid, MWH Global, SpotX, and Moz, as I wrote about here. To date, the program has served nearly 50 participants (mostly women, but a couple of stay-at-home dads, too!) The response from both participants and companies has been nothing short of amazing.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MAY 27, 2014

DevDigital purchased a small Web site programming shop in India that was being sold by one of their customers. “My My theory was that the larger companies, Google, IBM, and Apple were and had been diversifying globally in their software production,” says Peter Marcum, co-founder of DevDigital. DevDigital’s India team).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2012

Don’t think of these comprehensive MBA apps as exorbitant for tablet programs, but mind-bogglingly cheap business school tuition. DejaOffice : Turn your iPad into a very large Blackberry for free with DejaOffice’s contact management, tasks, multiple calendar features, and syncing to programs like Outlook and Lotus Notes.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Jim Franklin was a Techstars mentor during that accelerator program, and would later join as CEO. In 2019, SendGrid become the first ever company from any accelerator program to IPO, valued at over $1 billion. They were originally called BeamIt Mobile (yep – lots of companies change their names during the accelerator program).

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

During this discovery stage, entrepreneurs get to hone their business skills via training and support while typically no equity is taken from them. Although there are numerous acceleration and incubation programs out there, getting into one can be difficult let alone finding the right one for you.

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