Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

We asked 30 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2020. #1- My goals in 2020 are to maintain personal balance and positive attitude even as the business grows over 200% in the year. This has been my main goal for 2020. 1- Rededicate myself to my practices. Photo Credit: Danh Tran.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Outreach was named to the 2020 LinkedIn Top Startups list, which uncovers the 50 companies that have stood out this year, attracting investment, employees and attention. And for us, it’s all about mission-driven founders – those entrepreneurs who will stop at nothing to solve a deep pain point that they know well. . Stay tuned!!

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2023

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , today we present Minué Yoshida, owner of the New York-based Yoshida Academy which offers courses to help clients in mastering public speaking and leadership skills and diversity, equity and inclusion consulting. Please send me a message and let’s connect!

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

8/ Deep Fakes become a huge problem for the 2020 elections. Lifted right from first rounds findings and my bias at Company Ventures, I believe that a vertically integrated tech campus is a strong nucleus for founders and corporations seeking an environment of innovation. Happy 2020! 10/ Community is a moat.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Israeli Startups to Watch in 2020. Our platform’s ‘EQ’ is higher than mine”, as Ori Manor, Co-founder and CEO, once stated. The post 5 Outrageously Innovative Israeli Startups to Watch in 2020 appeared first on ReadWrite. DayTwo was founded in 2015 as a science-empowered approach to food as medicine.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Tom Bedecarré the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Steve was CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. He runs H4X Labs. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Entrepreneurs and business owners have never faced a crisis like the 2020 pandemic. It is safe to say that 2020 is the most crucial time for your business to be visible in the trendy digital era. He loves writing informative blog posts to help small business owners and startup founders in their entrepreneurial journey.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2020 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. 2020 was an unpredictably eye-opening year that brought forth swift change, lots of uncertainty, and a shift in perspective for many. I wanted to take a look back at the most popular episodes we aired in 2020.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2020

The Biggest Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is the CEO and founder of Social Media Examiner and the producer of one of the largest social media marketing conferences, Social Media Marketing World. Marketing Podcast with Mike Stelzner. Podcast Transcript.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”? Pre-seed rounds accounted for 14% of all seed stage deals in 2023, up from just 5% in 2020 according to Pitchbook data and I predict it will be even higher in 2024. especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? who’s talking to customers?)

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” What is a VC To Do? I can’t speak for every VC, obviously.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2019

To take place on 19-21 February 2020 at Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre, the event will host over 3,000 attendees from over 40 countries, as well as featuring over 200 tech partners, more than 60 startups and 50 investors. The post [Event] People Matters TechHR 2020 appeared first on Young Upstarts. and 100+ speakers.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time to take steps to start your business in 2020. Nobody wants to think about legal trouble when they launch their business, but no founder can afford to ignore this very real potential pitfall of starting a company. What’s the problem with this approach?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 28, 2020

by Rohan Thambrahalli , the Founder and President at UpstartWorks. Following 2020’s shift to remote work, virtually every business adapted in ways they’d never previously thought possible. The only thing that’s changed is deciding how to emphasize company values in light of the challenges 2020 presents us.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. Let me start with the obvious… Airbnb is a remarkable company which is redefining the hospitality industry in a number of ways.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

2020… where to start? If you look at the prediction lists of 2020, none (or at least very few), would have foreseen the chain reaction of Covid-19 to both enterprise and consumer trends. billion (up from $175 billion in 2020) but not sustaining the 20% growth experienced in the pandemic. Twitch stats in 2020.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 16, 2020

2020…the year of the pandemic. We shifted to Zoom meetings with founders and deals came together without a single in-person meeting. Enterprise SaaS and marketplaces continue to be very established and favored categories for founders and investors alike. But two of our emerging areas of focus had their moments in 2020: .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

Based on my experience, most startup failures occur simply because the founder gives up too soon, without exploring creative alternatives. For example, renowned TOMS shoe company founder Blake Mycoskie continually made it clear that his most important goal was making life better for the less fortunate.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia ( source ) Michael Eisenberg, co-founder of Aleph, an Israeli venture firm, said in a recent post: “What is the elevator pitch for investing in Israel for the next decade? Fast forward to mid 2020, at the peak of Covid.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Aaron Skonnard is the CEO and co-founder of Pluralsight , an online training resource for Web developers and IT professionals. Let’s look at five advantages code-savvy founders and CEOs bring to their investors and businesses: 1. Navigating the tech landscape. Is this whole “iPad” thing going anywhere? Acquiring top talent.

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Mucker Lab

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Mucker’s first meeting with Emotive happened in November of 2018, though our initial investment wouldn’t happen until 18 months later in May 2020 when we would lead their Series A. We normally tell founders we can be fast and turn things around in just a few days if needed.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

This past month, SXSW called on the community to enter proposals for conference sessions at all SXSW 2020 events— and so the buzz begins. With your help, they’ll get the opportunity to present their ideas through educational panels, presentations and workshops for attendees to discover at SXSW 2020. Deadline to vote is August 23.

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View from Seed

APRIL 3, 2019

Original research on gender diversity and fundraising amongst HBS founders. Historically, there has been a general bias against MBA founders — a skepticism around their grit and hustle. of venture capital went to companies with only female founders (Pitchbook, October 2018).

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VC Cafe

MAY 20, 2022

billion in investments into Israeli RetailTech during 2021 (180% more than in 2020) 46% of investment rounds were early stage, Pre-seed through A (Significant rebound from 39% in 2020) Shelf maintenance, store-associates management and cashierless payment represent 29% of investments. Amazon link. VCs should aim to be reachable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

In fact, angel investing worldwide does seem to be leveling off at around $25 billion annually, while crowd funding is setting new records, achieving over $34 billion in 2020, despite the pandemic. It doesn’t seem to matter what the founders’ projections are, or how fast they believe they will turn profitable.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2020

by Nemanja Zunic, founder and CEO of IdeaBuddy. Nemanja Zunic is the founder and CEO of IdeaBuddy , an innovative business planning and modeling software that helps aspiring entrepreneurs and startup owners to develop their ideas and turn their passion projects into a successful business. “A goal without a plan is just a wish!”

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This bifurcation of seed syndicate roles affects how Founders should approach fundraising strategy. But a Founder’s best source of fundraising information is peer Founder/CEOs who have recently gone through a similar process. My partner Rob likes to talk about “ big rocks first.”

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Friday, September 18 th from 10:00-11:00am MT – Mental Health Fireside with Brad Feld and Dave Morin : Dave is Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Sunrise whose mission is to cure depression, reduce suffering, and understand the brain. Come join us for some of these, or any of the other hundreds of events at Denver Startup Week 2020.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

2020 was a good year for Zoom. Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. Their latest round of 138 millions dollars, led by Viola Growth ?-Next47

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Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

The first thing most eCommerce companies did in February of 2020 was to smash their crystal balls and toss out demand forecasts because the world was shaping up to be like nothing we’ve seen before. Other social channels also made inroads as 2020 ended. Transparency was the key for starting 2020.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Most founders reported (in several different surveys) that knowledge and belief in their industry/sector and personal connection is one of the key reasons they would choose one investor over another. See the recent reports by Frontline Ventures and Creandum on what makes founders choose one offer over another.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2020

by Joseph Heller, CEO & Founder of The/Studio Technologies and SuppliedShop.com. Many believe the 2020 holiday season will be the single biggest e-commerce event in history. During the 2020 holiday season, getting packages to arrive on your customers’ doorsteps on time will be tricky. Expect delays.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2019

by Daniel Ramsey, founder and CEO ofMyOutDesk. The demand for these services, which is largely driven by those small business leaders that desire to make their companies operate more efficiently and effectively, will only continue to increase in 2020 and beyond. Virtual Assistants: What’s All the Fuss?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

by Luke Heinecke, founder of Linear. Luke Heinecke is the founder of Linear, a Utah-based PPC agency with an intense focus on conversion rate optimization. The post Facebook A/B Testing For Ads In 2020 appeared first on Young Upstarts. You might compare A/B testing to fantasy football.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Congratulations, class of 2020. In 2020, entering the real world means staying at home, sheltering in place. So what’s the YouTube or the Facebook of 2020? But for you, in 2020, when jobs are hard to come by, what does that mean? In other words, compared to you guys, we had it pretty sweet. Instagram Influencer.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

As a result, entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs, marketers, and anyone in between can take advantage. Artem is a serial entrepreneur as he co-founded and acted as CTO of two companies (200 labs & Gipis) between 2011 and 2020 before founding Chatfuel in early 2020. The point of no-code tools is to empower non-engineers to create.

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