Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Grant and I were thinking of the name for our company, we knew we wanted to include the word “equity” because that’s what we’re working to achieve through our innovative use of Virtual Reality technology to combat implicit bias. As soon as the name Equity Commons came to us, we knew it was perfect. White, Equity Commons ! #4-

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The company is based in San Francisco, with significant operations in Africa and elsewhere. #5: They went on to raise capital from Founder Co-op, Vulcan Capital, Trilogy Equity Partners, DFJ, and Top Tier Capital Partners, among others. 5: Scopely (2011). Techstars Ventures 2009 invested in the angel debt round in 2011.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The term ‘community engagement’ is popular in Australia, South Africa, and Canada, while public involvement is the most common term in the United Kingdom. Technically speaking, there isn’t a whole lot of difference between them. The primary difference in the terms relates to your geographical location.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. Prior to that, he worked for the Industrial Bank of Japan and General Electric specializing in deliberative trading, private equity investment, and post merger integration.

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David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

In my research on how private equity and VC funds source investments , one of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the Bay Area. Most investor groups specialize by geography, stage, and/or industry.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2017

This due to equity ownership interest often requiring an exchange for the early stage funding provided by the investor. To successfully secure the early stage support of an angel investor, entrepreneurs need to determine what precisely they are looking for when evaluating an investment opportunity.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In the 1970s, shareholders protested against apartheid in South Africa by withdrawing their equity from companies in that country. The first socially responsible strategies rose during the 1950s and 1960s. Most of them focused on health facilities and affordable housing.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 25, 2014

And a lot more of it comes from massive commodities-driven wealth in places like Russia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. Political instability, corruption, immature financial systems and securities laws close off private equity-type investments close to home. Bank interest rates the world over remain pathetically low.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

She previously worked with the Clinton Health Initiative improving access to vaccines in Africa, and has been has been named to INC ’s 35 Under 35 and Forbe s’ 30 Under 30 lists. What we couldn’t (agree to) was how to split founder equity. There were two of us full time on the startup. Two were half time.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

And, oh by the way, we also really like the idea of the 1M/1M entrepreneurs building valuation and negotiating leverage through these business development efforts, instead of signing off large chunks of their company in form of equity early on. As it stands, it is all over the place. Safarclick.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 6, 2012

Let’s be more stark and look at two places in the world that simply don’t create very many jobs of any type - sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. And yes folks, it is growth companies and growth companies alone that drive equity values and lift stock markets.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Startup Ireland does not take a seat on the board but does take 10% equity. Russia, Belarus, England, Greece and South Africa. Those that are accepted must arrange private-sector funding in an amount equal to the Startup Ireland funding. That’s more than top U.S. But we think we have extra things to offer.”.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

We're excited to be working with @theohubs to forge the path towards true diversity, equity and inclusion this @sxsw. Founder and CEO of @BlackGirlsCode Kimberly Bryant ( @6Gems ) is changing the face of #technology by empowering young women of color. We put them in a nifty list just for you.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2015

More recently we’ve seen this play out with riots and public disturbances within advanced economies like the US, the UK and France and arguably on a global scale with widespread anti-American feelings in parts of Asia and Africa.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I recognized the challenges that the majority of the unemployed face in South Africa: a lack of finance, lack of frequent access to technology, education and language issues (English is not the first language of many in South Africa). Image Credit: Saleem Jaffer. Thanks to Sahil Gupta, Patch Homes ! #19 Image Credit: Ray Higdon.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Robots takeover remaining blue-collar jobs in Asia and Africa. Creative middle class the new majority, globally mobile. Computer pilots make travel common internationally. Eco and heritage tourism primary income for poorest. Internet of everything physical continued. Universal library, and universal lifelong education for free.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 2, 2012

Particularly in ex-commonwealth countries in Africa and in Eastern Europe where democracy slipped into bloody dictatorship.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He expressed to me the idea that investing in Africa was—he used the word “risky.” I don’t think investing in Africa is risky. Whereas investing in a payment processor in Africa is risky because all investing is risky. I think he meant the word “scary.” It scared him. There’s no derivatives that I can buy around it.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

There are four general buckets for engaging with a corporate like Google: Funding – this consists of cash investment for equity. Regional Google for startups accelerators (Africa, Brazil, India, etc.) How can startups engage Google (credit: VC Cafe). Funding, M&A, Commercial, Support.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 8, 2019

In the years that followed Melinda’s encounter with that young mother, she continued making trips to Africa and other developing regions in the world, and listening and learning from the people The Gates Foundation intended to serve. Gender equity lifts everyone.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2024

Martin is a frequent lecturer at Stanford, Wharton and INSEAD, and has advised leaders across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. When you see issues where their feelings of unfairness between equity holders, that's another red flag. Those are other signs too, but I'd say as early as possible is always better.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

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. After graduating from University, he joined McKinsey & Co.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

We did this again, overweighting emerging markets like Africa and EMEA (Middle East) in 2007 because they were cheap with high growth rates. Everyone hated small cap value back then, and loved the large-cap S&P 500 that had ruled for the last 10 years. However, it was the right thing to do from a valuation perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 200,000 members worldwide. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 3, 2023

Private equity firm Alta Semper Capital has provided a financing injection of twenty million dollars to the e-health business MyDawa, which is based in Kenya. Because of this significant investment, Alta Semper Capital is launching its operations in the digital healthcare market in Africa for the very first time.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The “official dignitary” tour of Silicon Valley is like taking the jungle cruise at Disneyland and saying you’ve been to Africa. For extra credit, stand outside one of the 3000 Sand Hill Road buildings wearing a sandwich-board saying “Will work for equity” and hand out copies of your executive summary and PowerPoint presentations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

You’ve got to build equity value." But if you imagine that you're reincarnated, you're less likely to be reincarnated in our homes, you're more likely to be reincarnated in a village in India or Africa or China with not a lot of opportunity. Eric Ries : Talk about how you decided to make it a social venture.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

Britain’s Apax Partners in cooperation with Baltimore, Maryland’s JMI Equity has purchased the US-Israeli software company Paradigm for $1 billion. Stanley is headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. PARADIGM IS SOLD TO APAX AND JMI FOR $1 BILLION. ISRAELI IRRIGATION EXPERT WINS WORLD FOOD PRIZE.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I do not have financial or equity or any other stake in any company mentioned in this blog post (except Google). It uses one of the largest sources of data in the world and can be an excellent way to understand Traffic, Search Keywords, and Also Visited data for a Chinese site or one from Brazil or South Africa.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in early 2017, I worked with ABANA (network of financial professionals with ties to the Middle East/North Africa); Harvard Arab Alumni Association ; and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) to launch an annual Tech Summit in New York focused on the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”). Apply here.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. Impact tech investors include Bridges Fund Managements, DBL, Accion, Elevar equity and Patamar, among others.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Most of Africa runs on a cash economy, making it much harder to Africans to access credit, low-cost financial transfers, and other basic tools of a modern economy. . Traditional equity VCs are looking for high-risk, high-reward, “swing for the fences” models. Why is that? The VC gets a zero on one investment out of 50; they’ll be OK.

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