Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation. Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. No continent knows “the curse of potential” better than Africa.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

One of our marketing strategies was to partner with an underwear company, and have models do deliveries in the underwear. We have now evolved into the brand that we are today, even having the ability to partner with nonprofit organizations to help provide diamonds to struggling young couples. Thanks to Omid Semino, Diamond Mansion ! #7-

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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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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Successful founders believe anything is possible but they build strong founding teams to achieve their startup dreams. Joining me at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco were: Liz Powers , co-founder of ArtLifting , a for-profit online art gallery that features the work of homeless and disabled artists. Liz Powers.

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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. This will require new partners, new skill sets, and new business model innovation.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners. Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. Listen to my entire chat with John.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Along with longtime partners like Warby Parker, Ella and the VisionSpring team are making it their priority to use their immense resources for this unprecedented fight. The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. billion people worldwide who need them.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2012

This payment solution was beta-tested by merchants such as Russian-themed restaurant and caviar bar Buyan in Singapore since June last year, and is now launched worldwide, with the company targeting Southeast Asia, South Africa and South America as key target markets. Mobile Payment Now A Reality For Singapore Small Business Owners.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Along with longtime partners like Warby Parker, Ella and the VisionSpring team are making it their priority to use their immense resources for this unprecedented fight. The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. billion people worldwide who need them.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions. As Western growth stalls, and emerging and frontier markets (such as Africa) grow, we will collaborate in ways not imagined before. Stanford University rolled out a free online Machine Learning course.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. Our customer engagement has been solid, as has our engagement with partners.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Many international entrepreneurs are looking at what is working in the USA and cloning them in various countries, our venue partner in Rio De Janeiro, Peixe Urbano (which means “Urban Fish” in Portuguese) is based upon the Groupon model. In Rio we stayed with the founders of Resolveai, an Uber clone. Africa ahead in mobile.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2024

” Martin Gonzalez is the creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, a global research program that decodes the factors that enable startup founders to succeed. Martin is a frequent lecturer at Stanford, Wharton and INSEAD, and has advised leaders across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Euvin Naidoo on investing in Africa. Kiva.org partners philanthropists and lenders with impoverished and marginalized innovators to create some amazing, sustainable business opportunities. Ponder some of the tips offered here and strive towards striking a better balance between the financial and the filial.

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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. Broken startup dreams. Two were half time.

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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. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? On Sushi and VC. It scared him.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Guest Post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co., First up in our speaker spotlight series is an edited transcript of our Q&A with Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , a non-profit working to distribute beneficial goods to rural communities in Kenya. with Kirsten Cluthe as Contributor.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 18, 2017

I was very involved in a few clean water NGO’s in Sub-Saharan Africa, and knew that whatever company I would start, regardless of the industry, its focus and mission would have to be on improving conservation and access to clean water and education. I also did a lot of volunteering. Tell us about your business and what you do. . .

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. We have an amazing co-parenting style that works for both of us, and we’re both happy. Thanks to Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4 I’m the founder of Lime Inc., Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack ! #2

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

from South Africa, and battling breast cancer, I became overwhelmingly humbled by the toughness, the tenacity of my experience. 11-Suggested by my partner’s husband. In the early 2000s, my co-publisher and I were writing a book on how to break into freelance writing by breaking the rules. Photo Credit: Cheryle Jackson.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With the theme “Build Back Better” Jerry Engel , Pete Newell , Steve Weinstein and I co-hosted nearly 500 Lean Educators from 63 countries and 235 universities online for a three-hour session to share what we’ve learned about educators on how we can help our communities rebound, adjust, and recover. Students/Teams.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

“The acquisition of Tellme will bolster Microsoft’s existing speech capabilities, bringing both immediate and longer-term value to our customers and partners.”. But although about 70% of the population now has access to the internet in North America, the figure is just 11% in Asia and less than 4% in Africa.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2020

The beer brand Carling Black Label combatted domestic violence in South Africa through its #NoExcuse campaign against gender based violence and fighting against toxic masculinity. Toothpaste brands have tackled school absenteeism and oral hygiene. And these are just a few examples. Shift social standards through “norm-reinforce”.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

After graduating from University, he joined McKinsey & Co. as a management consultant and in 1977, he co-founded Apax Partners, a private equity firm. Apax Partners became one of the most successful private equity firms in the world, and Cohen became a billionaire.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2021

Consequently, we concentrate around 80% of our giving in two organizations that I co-founded and Chair — African Mission Healthcare and United Hatzalah. For instance, people ask us at African Mission Healthcare how they can best help with Covid in Africa. Our answer: Mt. Great medical institutions are ready to handle everything.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

(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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. Image Credit: Andrew Greer.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Her community work includes being a co-founder of ITH Charities, which seeks to promote sustainable healthcare and educational development primarily in Africa. Corporate Partners. Constance’s entrepreneurship has built a multi-million dollar staffing company within a few years. Guest Links. Website: [link].

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc.,

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Determined Founders. Being an international founder is a significant advantage if you’re looking to sell abroad.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Determined Founders. Being an international founder is a significant advantage if you’re looking to sell abroad.

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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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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. raked in five-figure daily signups after announcing its upcoming launch, according to the site’s founders. I do like Obama, being the seed of a Muslim (my native country-sake – Africa). Have an account?

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Both are building on top of the existing credit card infrastructure because as Swipely Founder/CEO Angus Davis points out, millions of people are walking around with a mobile payment device in their pocket… it’s called a credit card. Though it has happened elsewhere and usually in places where there was a need (Rural Africa).

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