Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Jeremy Johnson.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. This raised the company's name, despite all controversies. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood. 3- Sam Walton.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

Africa is a huge and diverse continent, and over the last few years, it has emerged as one of the world’s hotspots for startups. In Africa, entrepreneurs have serious, intractable problems that western startups don’t face. Take Ndubuisi Ekekwe, founder of Zenvus. by Sharon Fishburne. In fact, quite the opposite is true.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. What is your company name? Image credit: Shutterstock / Africa Studio. Mikael writes about psychology, startups, and product marketing over on the ooomf blog. Who are you? Solution?—?How

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. It was originally called Romotive, and I still remember founder Keller Rinaudo just crushing it at demo day that year. These are sorted by the year that we funded them.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. The Third Mainland Bridge is one of three bridges that connect Lagos’ Victoria Island with the ‘mainland’ and is the longest bridge in Africa. Not only is crime prevalent, but the traffic in the city is astounding.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2018

by Ralph Welborn, co-author of “ Topple: The End of the Firm-Based Strategy and the Rise of New Models for Explosive Growth “ The past 40 years of corporate strategy have focused primarily on building firm-based competitive advantages to maintain or improve growth.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

My Mama, the founder of Yuca’s Hut in Los Feliz, CA, didn’t allow a lack of college degrees or a business plan to deter her from launching her dream. Larry Page, Google co-founder.I I am co founder of GreenPal which has been described as Uber for lawn care. I’m Marty, the Co-Founder of REIZE.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Domain Name/Basic Site. COMPANY AOL COMPANY|AOL. Comcast Corp.,

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. It is currently sold in Africa through Kenya’s largest medical distributor. The name of our company, Sisu, means, in Finnish, persevering in the face of adversity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. And he followed through. So he had had a taste of it.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. Conforming will give you the status quo. Now, the present.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

I started my business because I was the victim of a horrible acquisition (can you name a good one?). My co-founder, Paul Pirner and I were old friends and craft beer lovers who had each decided (independently of one another) to adopt an alcohol-free lifestyle. Thanks to Omid Semino, Diamond Mansion ! #7- Photo Credit: ????Jay

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

Several hundred years later, Phoenician entrepreneurs did so on the open seas, leveraging their superior nautical skill to establish profitable new trade relationships with previously unknown parts of the world – including West Africa and England. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Named after Alan B.

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David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

Because of that insight, we co-founded the Venture Capital Access Program , focused on helping women and minority entrepreneurs raise capital from HBS Alumni Angels. The Showcase is focused on US-based founders with ties to the MENA region. Kashmir, Board Member and Screening Co-Chair of HBSAANY.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Forbes names Bezos one of “ The Greatest Living Business Leaders Today ,” and that accreditation continues to be validated, as he now owns The Washington Post. Mashable’s Founder and CEO, Pete Cashmore, earns props from Forbes as one of “ The 30 Most Influential People in Tech.”

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. How was VisionSpring named? Originally named the Scojo Foundation in 2001 and re-named VisionSpring in 2008, Scojo Foundation was named for co-founders Jordan and Scott (ScoJo).

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. How was VisionSpring named? Originally named the Scojo Foundation in 2001 and re-named VisionSpring in 2008, Scojo Foundation was named for co-founders Jordan and Scott (ScoJo).

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. California Dreaming.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The software product grew from tools and processes developed by Pattern r+d, a sustainability consulting firm run by Cove.tool co-founders Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson (both building scientists and architects). Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Jeremy Howard has had tremendous impact on the world of AI entrepreneurship. Jeremy Howard : Sure. Good Lord, no.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2017

It is important to note that passion, integrity, and commitment do not represent the full range of abilities an angel investor seeks in any startup founder. The group of companies is comprised of Vivier & Co, Vivier Capital, Vivier Developments, Vivier Investments, Vivier Ventures, and launching shortly Vivier Growth Fund.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Our winner in Rwanda Zilencio Creativo is a Kickstarter clone; When asked why the founders built a clone they told us they were unable to put a project on Kickstarter as the legalities state it’s for USA users only. In Rio we stayed with the founders of Resolveai, an Uber clone. Africa ahead in mobile.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. In 2018 my wife and i drove from London to Cape Town along the west coast of Africa.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Sinclair Schuller is the CEO and co-founder of Apprenda. My name is Sinclair, and I’m an enterprise developer. One prefers light roasted coffee beans from Africa, while the other likes joe from Dunkin’ Donuts. Why are the so-called “alpha developers” all the rage right now? One wields a Mac, while the other a PC.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2019

That’s the story of Zima Media, and the co-founders, Michael Zima and Damien Bouvier. How did you come up with your business name? From the ashes, I started to do a consultancy that had a rather long name, and Artur suggested, “hey, go with Zima Media” on a brief phone call about what to do after the startup failure.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Richard Witten , special advisor on entrepreneurship to the President of Columbia University ; and Kathryn Minshew , co-founder of the popular online career platform TheMuse.com both joined me in Sirius’ New York studio and shared their version of being knocked down and coming back stronger. Two were half time. It was incredible.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2017

Ayoub Moutiya, co-Founder and CEO of Paparide Network , talks about how he was able to leverage the sharing economy to not only reduce traffic in cities, but also clean-up pollution along the way. Ayoub Moutiya, CEO and Co-Founder of Paparide Network. I was living east side, and my workplace was in Downtown Montréal.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

I read this quote by a guy named Parker Palmer, who is an author and an activist. If you are familiar with Steve Jobs, the late founder of Apple Computer, co-founder was Steve Wozniak, that if you’re familiar with this story then you know that he went to college for a brief period of time. He went to Reed College.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. Like a parent, Y Combinator protected and guided a group of eight applicants who were chosen to be part of the Y Combinator Summer Founders Program.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Swipely is focused on payment marketing, namely unifying loyalty programs and payments for main street merchants. Though it has happened elsewhere and usually in places where there was a need (Rural Africa). I’d be happy to co-author with you. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Disclosure:] I am the co-Founder of Market Motive Inc and the Analytics Evangelist for Google. And it does not matter if they use a large brand name Agency. You are not going to use all of them all at the same time (or with every client), but 1. it is good to know what is out there and 2.

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