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Baseline Ventures
Baseline Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on seed and growth-stage investments in technology companies. The company was the first seed investor in Instagram, an early investor of Twitter and has been called "one of Silicon Valley's most successful — and smallest — investment firms" by ''Forbes''. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California. They also do commercial representation of some athletes. The company's founder and Managing Partner, Steve Anderson, was recognized on '' Fortune's'' 2012 list of "50 Businesspeople of the Year" and included on the ''Forbes'' Midas List from 2012 to 2020. History Anderson founded Baseline in 2006. He previously worked for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Microsoft, eBay and Starbucks. Anderson has a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University and has invested in companies founded by Stanford alumni including Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger of Instagram; Katrina Lake of Stitch Fix; and Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A baseline is a line that is a base for measurement or for construction. The word baseline may refer to: * Baseline (configuration management), the process of managing change * Baseline (sea), the starting point for delimiting a coastal state's maritime zones ** Baselines of the Chinese territorial sea ** Baselines of Indonesia ** Baselines of the Philippines * Baseline, in Glossary of underwater diving terminology#baseline, underwater diving, a value used to convert cylinder pressure of a tank to free gas volume * Baseline (surveying), a line between two points of the earth's surface and the direction and distance between them * Baseline (typography), the line upon which most letters "sit" and below which descenders extend * Baseline (budgeting), an estimate of budget expected during a fiscal year * Baseline (medicine), information found at the beginning of a study * Baseline (pharmacology), a person's state of mind or being, in the absence of drugs * The isoelectric line of an el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It is the world's largest coffeehouse chain. As of November 2021, the company had 33,833 stores in 80 countries, 15,444 of which were located in the United States. Out of Starbucks' U.S.-based stores, over 8,900 are company-operated, while the remainder are licensed. The rise of the second wave of coffee culture is generally attributed to Starbucks, which introduced a wider variety of coffee experiences. Starbucks serves hot and cold drinks, whole-bean coffee, micro-ground instant coffee, espresso, caffe latte, full and loose-leaf teas, juices, Frappuccino beverages, pastries, and snacks. Some offerings are seasonal, or specific to the locality of the store. Depending on the country, most locations provide free Wi-Fi internet access. Company overview Starbucks was founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker at Seattle' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weebly
Weebly () is a web hosting service, headquartered in San Francisco. Weebly is a subsidiary of Block, Inc. History Weebly was founded in 2006 by Chief Executive Officer David Rusenko, Chief Technology Officer Chris Fanini, and former Chief Product Officer Dan Veltri. Rusenko and Fanini both attended the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). Veltri attended the university's Smeal College of Business. At the time, Penn State required all students to maintain an Internet portfolio, so they built upon this idea and created software that made it easy for anyone to build a personal website. Formal development of Weebly began in January 2006. The invitational beta release was announced in June 2006. The official private-beta launched in September 2006. In 2007, Weebly raised a US$650,000 financing round from several angel investors, including Ron Conway, Steve Anderson, Mike Maples, and Paul Buchheit. In 2011, Weebly raised a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sneh Rana (cricketer)
Sneh Rana (born 18 February 1994) is an Indian cricketer, who currently plays for Railways and India as a right-arm off break bowler and right-handed batter. Early life and background Rana hails from Sinaula, on the outskirts of Dehradun. Her father was a farmer. International career She made her Women's One Day International and Women's Twenty20 International debuts against Sri Lanka in 2014. After a knee injury in 2016, she was side-lined from the national team, and would not play international cricket for another five years. During this period, she played domestic cricket, and also played for India B. In May 2021, she was named in India's Test squad for their one-off match against the England women's cricket team. Rana made her Test debut on 16 June 2021, for India against England. In January 2022, she was named in India's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. In July 2022, she was named in India's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakshya Sen
Lakshya Sen (born 16 August 2001) is an Indian badminton player. Sen is a former world junior no. 1. He has won gold medals at the 2018 Asian Junior Championships in the boys' singles and at the Summer Youth Olympics in the mixed team event. He won the bronze medal at the 2021 World Championships and was runner-up at the 2022 All England Open. Sen was also a part of the Indian team which won the Thomas Cup 2022. He also won the gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham in men’s singles badminton. Personal life Sen, was born in Almora in Uttarakhand. His father, D. K. Sen, is a coach in India and his brother, Chirag Sen is also an international badminton player. Career 2016 Having trained at the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, Sen had shown his talent as a badminton player at a very young age, and had a brilliant year in the junior badminton circuit in 2016. He clinched the bronze medal at Junior Asian Championship after losing to Sun Feixiang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayank Agarwal
Mayank Anurag Agarwal (born 16 February 1991) ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2012-02-01. is an Indian international who plays as a right-handed top-order batter. He plays for in domestic cricket .He made his international debut for the on 26 December 2018 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crashlytics
Crashlytics was a Boston, Massachusetts-based software company founded in May 2011 by entrepreneurs Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert. Crashlytics helps collecting, analyzing and organizing app crash reports. Its main product is a software development kit for crash reporting, application logging, online review and statistical analysis of application logs. It supports iOS, Android and Unity. In January 2013, Twitter acquired Crashlytics for over $100 million. Most of the package was in stock vesting over four years with an upfront payment of $38.2 million in common Twitter stock. In January 2017, Google announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Crashlytics and its offspring creations including Fabric and Answers. The acquisition would bolster its existing efforts in mobile by becoming part of the Firebase platform and known as Firebase Crashlytics. History Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert co-founded Crashlytics in 2011. The company raised $1 million from venture capital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Seibert
Jeff Seibert (born July 27, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known for co-founding Crashlytics, which in a little over a year was acquired by Twitter for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO), and co-founding Increo, which was acquired by Box_(company), Box in 2009. In 2020, Seibert starred in the American docudrama film The Social Dilemma. Early life Seibert grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He discovered technology at a young age. He taught himself C (programming language), C in 6th grade and went on to write a range of Macintosh shareware applications. At the age of 13, Jeff released his first application, Histogram, a specialized graphing program for Mac OS. During high school, in 2002, Seibert went on to release EVONE, a graphical editor for the computer game Escape Velocity (video game), Escape Velocity by Ambrosia Software. Education Seibert attended Gilman School in Baltimore, graduating in 2004. Seibe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stitch Fix
Stitch Fix is an online personal styling service in the United States and United Kingdom. It uses recommendation algorithms and data science to personalize clothing items based on size, budget and style. The company was founded in 2011 and had an initial public offering in 2017 with a valuation of $1.6 billion. Stitch Fix generated more than $1 billion in sales during 2018 and reported 3.4 million customers in June 2020. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California and employs 8,000 people worldwide. History Stitch Fix was founded in 2011 by Katrina Lake and former J.Crew buyer Erin Morrison Flynn. The business was originally called Rack Habit, and was initially run out of Lake's apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company began by catering only to women, but it has subsequently expanded to men's clothing, plus sizes, maternity wear, and kids. In 2014, Stitch Fix started to be profitable. In July 2016, the company ended its fiscal year with recorded sales of $730&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Lake
Katrina Lake (born December 24, 1982) is an American businesswoman who is the Founder and former CEO of Stitch Fix, a fashion-based subscription service. Stitch Fix was established in 2011 in San Francisco and went public in 2017. In 2017, Lake became the youngest woman to take a company public at age 34 and was the only woman in 2017 to lead an initial public offering in technology. She was surpassed by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2021, who took Bumble (company), Bumble public at age 31. As of November 2017, Lake held a 16.6% stake in Stitch Fix. In 2017, ''Forbes'' named Lake one of America's richest self-made women. Early life and education Lake was born on December 24, 1982, in San Francisco. Her mother is a Japanese immigrant who taught in the public school system, and her father was a doctor at UCSF and the University of Minnesota. She initially wanted to become a doctor before she became an entrepreneur. She began on the pre-med course but became very interested in economics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Krieger
Michel Krieger (born March 4, 1986) is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram along with Kevin Systrom, and served as its CTO. Instagram expanded from a few million users to 1 billion monthly active users while Krieger served as CTO. On September 24, 2018, it was announced that Krieger and Systrom were resigning from Instagram. Life and career Krieger was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and moved to California in 2004 to attend Stanford University. At Stanford, where he studied symbolic systems, he met Kevin Systrom, and the two co-founded Instagram in 2010. Krieger and Systrom had the idea of building a check-in app, before they made it exclusive for pictures. During the early days, most of the engineering and user experience were developed solely by Krieger. One of the stories related to Instagram’s early days that Krieger recalled is:One time I woke up and there was an email saying that the site went down, and I was like, who fixed it? ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
