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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

So, in August of 2020, I and a mostly menopausal team of experts turned my plant-based gluten-free recipe into delicious and nutritious female formulated energy bars that help women navigate the menopause years with confidence and ease. With this database, we now use AI to create customized skincare formulas for our customers.

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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Juan Delgado-Moreira, co-CEO of Hamilton Lane, a $900 billion asset management company, said in an interview last week : “Now is the best time to invest in Israel. The list goes on and on.

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When Entry Multiples Don’t Matter

Ben's Blog

When speaking with founders and private growth investors, we hear countless references to “multiples paid” on current or near-term revenue; both obsess over this because a higher multiple translates to a higher valuation. When Salesforce went public in 2004 as a new kind of CRM provider, its S-1 indicated the CRM applications market was $7B.

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I Just Got Paid For Work I Did 20 Years Ago.

Hunter Walker

Startups Should Work To Make Their Employees Wealthy Not Just Their Founders And Investors. And when that company was acquired in late 2020 by another private party, my stock purchased in 2004 turned into cash. And when that company was acquired in late 2020 by another private party, my stock purchased in 2004 turned into cash.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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Summer in the City: Why there's no other place I'd rather be than New York

This is going to be BIG.

On March 13, 2020, my wife and I went out to dinner with my dad in Brooklyn. If it wasn’t necessary to work in physical proximity to your co-workers, if your favorite restaurant shuttered and if your kid’s school went remote, why stay? That would be our last time indoors in a New York City restaurant. We can do both.

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How Israel and the Arab World Connect Through Technology

David Teten

Abu Dhabi Virtual 2020 : Cooperation between The Nest – ???? ?????? ?????? & & Founder Institute UAE Abu Dhabi Virtual 2020. Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. Apply here.

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