VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

Global search engine market share in May 2023 (source) However, since the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, user habits (and perhaps expectations) began to change. But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

by Monica Eaton-Cardone, Co-Founder and COO of Chargebacks911. For example, you can’t influence the global spread of the virus, how long your team will need to operate remotely, or when you will be able to return to the office. It’s a demanding responsibility, and it can be a time-consuming one as well.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

by Andriy Skoropad, co-founder & CEO at Perfectial. FinTech had started to grow popular soon after global financial crisis happened, fueled by public’s distrust of banks and incumbent legacy firms, and then exploded in 2015. If there is demand for what you offer, you’ll get the money shortly. FinTech’s history.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

by Chen Amit, co-founder and CEO of Tipalti. Based on the ever-evolving finance industry, your small business will encounter a few key trends in the next few years: an increase in complex cross-border payments, demands for faster payment reconciliation, and the need for more secure processes. Go paperless.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 7, 2015

Recently they’ve been pretty heads down on global expansion so I thought it would be fun to check in with Zach for Five Questions. Zach Sims: We started working together in January of 2011 after my cofounder Ryan and I saw the huge gap between education and employment. HW: Startups are about testing, learning, iterating.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 11, 2021

the world’s largest senior care network and technology platform which recently acquired global home care provider Home Instead , today announced it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing. With our new global scale, we are excited to accelerate the rollout of our game-changing care delivery platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

founders, marketers, investors?—?and Some of this can be attributed to the exponential growth in e-commerce and direct-to-consumer businesses as a result of the pandemic and global lockdowns?—?eCommerce eCommerce for example grew 39% just last year - so there’s simply more demand. Founders, marketers and growth leaders?—?join

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

Jonathon Karelse is co-founder and a partner at NorthFind Partners, a Canadian-based, global consultancy that helps businesses transform through the use of data driven analytics, forecasting and planning, and change management strategies. It happens because they often neglect the forecasting and planning that helps them prepare.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

There is a good (though far from great) story to be told about the global fight against white collar crime, money laundering, and other financial bad behavior. However, we know about their crimes–and Mueller was able to quickly suss them out–because of a transformation of global financial enforcement. And that is great.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. It seems learning to code has become a theme in 2012, and the demand is being met by Code Year and others. guest author. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. That’s why everyone says execution is everything, not the idea itself.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

Due to lowering capital costs, global competition that spans industries and continents, quicker market validations, and facilitated iteration, the nature of the investment game has changed. Just like everything else, VC investment is subject to the whims of supply and demand. However, this investment model is starting to evolve.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. I’ve seen people succeed as solo founders – but I think not having a co-founder makes an already hard journey that much harder. The rest is history.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

“Camunda was founded on the premise that making it easy for business stakeholders and developers to automate and improve business processes would have a transformational impact on organizations,” company CEO and cofounder Jakob Freund said. “It

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2021

by Andy Prakash, founder of Privacy Ninja. The increasing pervasiveness of online activities have led to a greater demand for interconnectivity. It should be noted that as the global cyber landscape evolves, cyber threats have also surged.

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Globalizing Silicon Valley - See the Worldwide Schedule - Lead a Local Chapter. -->. Our vision is to Globalize Silicon Valley by creating and fostering local startup ecosystems in promising markets across the globe. Founder Feedback. Why a 50/50 Split is Almost Never Right for Co-Founders by @DaveParkerSEA.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 19, 2019

Kris Oestergaard is a researcher, author and globally sought after keynote speaker on innovation, corporate culture and the impact of technological change. I decided that I needed to know more and so attended a program at Singularity University, which Ray co-founded.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2022

My co-founder and I started our labor-only moving company as the first movers ourselves. We quickly realized the demand for movers in college towns and the demand for flexible jobs for college students. I was a co-founder of a startup rather early in my career and my first startup was acquired by Microsoft.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2021

Career survival today requires thinking and acting like an entrepreneur starting a business, staying nimble and resilient, willing to pivot, and supersensitive to the market realities of supply and demand. Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn, helped me crystallize these similarities with his classic book “ The Start-up of You.”

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. Then finally, after (say) four months, they’re up to speed. But it’s not impossible in principle, it’s impossible for them. Materiality Threshold.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

@jack : Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is on Twitter as well, sharing updates from his work as the CEO of Square. dens : Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley gets personal on his Twitter account, sharing his interests in soccer and hidden urban art. MichaelDell : Follow Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Elemind offers a non-chemical, direct, and on-demand solution that learns and dynamically adjusts to each person,” said Meredith Perry, CEO and co-founder of Elemind. Thanks to early investment from Village Global, LDV Partners, and other funds, the company plans to build more wearable adaptations for the neurotech platform.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Malaysia will see over 500 youth descend on its capital Kuala Lumpur this October for Global Startup Youth (GSY) , a three-day idea accelerator program aimed at helping young entrepreneurs shape and launch new projects that will hopefully evolve into sustainable global businesses.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Our investment thesis is simple: Blockchains will impact trillions of dollars of economic activity across many industries globally. Cryptoassets have fixed supplies; therefore increases in demand drive up prices. We look for projects and protocols that can rethink major classes of global commerce. Factom, Inc. Factom, Inc.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

This session will utilize Eduventures’ traditional and adult learner demand studies to highlight the distinct, but in some cases overlapping, behavioral mindsets of prospective students. We’ll compare how schools can effectively diversify their marketing, recruit successfully and provide support services. FDA BLOCKCHAIN PILOT?—?WHAT

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View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2022

Founders: Anita Broellochs & Alex Shirazi. AB: The global meat market could be worth as much as $2.7T To meet this growing demand, the industry must provide alternatives to the traditionally sourced animal meat. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . Company: Balletic Foods.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Neil Blumenthal , the youthful cofounder of Warby Parker, a disruptive company that transformed the conservative eyewear industry by creating affordable, stylish glasses for people across the world, defined a startup as “ a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed. “

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The chatter of the “Retail Apocalypse” began long before the recent events of a global pandemic. Retailers have proven amazingly resilient in the past year, as they’ve worked through the mass shift to ecommerce and balancing the demands of lockdowns and shifting consumer behavior. Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Greylock Partners will be talking about “blitzscaling” with his co-author Chris Yeh, and Stanford Professor Bob Sutton. Co-founder Holly Liu will walk us through the the decisions that led to that outcome. That’s why we’ve put together a panel that looks at the human side of being a founder.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Demand for divorce services will lead to more professionals getting into the divorce industry. The housing demand has far outpaced the supply in 2020 and this will continue into 2021. I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

They identify young women with the potential to learn programming and give them access to a comprehensive training program that gets them ready to work in just 6 months, covering the technical and soft skills highly demanded in the web development world such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, self-education, communication, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2019

He was voted one of the Top 10 Organizational Culture Gurus in the world and is CEO and founder of the Best Practice Institute. It’s won a number of awards and includes more than 42,000 ranking managers from Fortune 500 and Global 1000 brands. The highest CEO-level must demand it, live it, and show he or she is getting involved.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Capital Factory is so excited to welcome the OHUB community to Austin during SXSW,” said Joshua Baer, founder & CEO. This also ensures that socially and economically disadvantaged communities pursue and gain high demand tech skills and careers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

by Manni Sidhu, Co-founder and CEO of Coleegs , and William Gilchrist , Founder and CEO of Konsyg. A new challenge has bloomed for founders and managers in the Covid-19 era –how do they set key performance indicators (KPIs) for the years ahead? Founders should focus on stability. Retention of Staff.

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