Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

That’s because they’re fitted with noise-cancelling technology. My partner, James Shields , is an avid unicyclist. You may find things suddenly become less enjoyable as you’ve got to start making to meet customer demands or to pay the bills. Hello world, goodbye world. More than that, he’s an avid unicycle hockey player.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. One dimension is a pretty firm belief that starting financial services companies should not be as hard as it is, and that there is demand in the market for yet another venture fund focused on functionally day-zero companies in financial services.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My business partner – Anton and I started Fantastic Services as a solution to a problem. Over the years, we discovered that UK homeowners and tenants needed more domestic services which we added to our portfolio as and when there was a demand. We then partner to improve those areas to help set them up for success.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

A fashion executive wife and technology entrepreneur husband we were moving house and faced a vexing problem: how to sell their fabulous, nearly new furnishings that couldn’t fit into their new digs? I love helping people reach their swimming goals! Thanks to Carolanne Caron, Winning Swimming LLC ! #13 13 – A Vexing Problem.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

No university has said, “We should design the institution to have a bigger impact using academic work and join up with outside entities and organizations and partners to do that.” There were some great examples of enabling students in Africa to participate in programs from Australia, which had never happened before.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2016

My grandfather was a successful business owner and mentored me at an early age as we partnered in a vegetable garden/retail business during the summer months. Knowing that they were losing business to laundry apps that bypassed local cleaners, cleaners were willing to pay for the ability to offer on-demand delivery.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I wrote down things like “I want to be able to go volunteer in Africa for 6 months when I want to. I also couldn’t be just a volunteer for non-profits as you gotta live and flying to Africa is not that cheap + would have to worry about financial security. Partnering for products. What do I really want from life?

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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. We are technology agnostic with our focus on what will accomplish the client’s mission. Image Credit: Andrew Greer.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

A few hours before he had told them, during a talk at Harvard Computer Society, not to come to him for funding, but to seek it elsewhere from individual rich people who had been involved in technology startups themselves. He is, indeed, demanding progress. Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Google+. Daily Dose. Design & Dev.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

This will require many partners – credit card companies, banks, microcredit institutions, the United Nations, foundations and community leaders. However, the vast majority of bankless adults live in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and India. Even the United States has unbanked households. In India, at least 50% of the 1.3

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2010

In June of this year, Quark entered into a collaboration agreement with Japanese diversified materials manufacturer Nitto Denko Corp to develop a treatment for fibrotic diseases using Quark’s technology. Domestic demand in Israel leaped 8.7 Technion leads almost all European engineering-technology universities in the rankings.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Many Israeli companies build technologies which could be very valuable to the broader Middle East region, particularly in water tech, agriculture technology, and cybersecurity. I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. I thought others might be interested in my list.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

And I and my vice chair of this group at the time, Constance Benson, who became Chair of the group after me, worked with the NIH to develop the first therapeutic research centers in Africa and Latin America and Asia. I have a brilliant partner named Natasha Martin who doesn't actually use modeling.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”.

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