Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 13, 2022

The path begins with educating more young people in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). Graduates of OSSM put that STEM education to work and impact the world in amazing ways. Nathan Seidle, a 2000 graduate of OSSM and founder of SparkFun , puts it well. By Scott Meacham. One sure path is to increase innovation.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Each One, Teach One Masha Guyard is a self-taught pandemic quilter with over 25 years of experience working in community development and engagement within education, families and community support as a trained adult and family learning facilitator. The circular start-up is designed to bring everyone into the climate action space.

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OkDork

MARCH 7, 2024

Sign up for AppSumo.com – we’re giving away a CYBERtruck for Sumo Day 4- Being public Back in 2000 (when I had luscious locks), I started blogging on okdork.com about things going on while I was in college. We did Netflix, Evernote, and Spotify. And we’re STILL doing giveaways 15 years later. 24 years later? Don’t just work hard.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

“I think it’s critical to be able to build your own customer education,” Blosser said. “That’s a big trend for clients that want both to rapidly onboard people but also reduce costs.” It also integrates with third-party packages like Salesforce.com, Workday and Zoom both to build out training as well as distribute it.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For example, if a product is sold for less than 2000 Euros, there is little possibility of implementing customer service or outbound marketing. Take Apple as an example: they don’t offer discounts on their products (except for education), even though they could easily do so because their products are expensive.

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Derek Sivers

DECEMBER 4, 2021

In 1790, Benjamin Franklin gifted £2000 to the cities of Philadelphia and Boston by putting it into a 200-year trust, and by 1990 it was worth over $7 million. If you put $2000 into the stock market for 200 years at the average 8% return, it will be worth over $9 billion. If you can do $100,000, it will be worth over $483 billion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A great deal has changed since Google Ads (formerly AdWords) launched in 2000 with a scant 350 advertisers. I can almost guarantee that you will see very educational sales messaging early on, with more social proof sprinkled into subsequent touchpoints. Welcome to the First Touchpoint Misconception: First Touchpoint Misconception.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 4, 2019

00:18 – Working at Google in 2000. 26:25 – Educating people in government about tech. 26:25 – Educating people in government about tech. Matt Cutts is the Administrator of the US Digital Service and previously he was the head of the webspam team at Google. You can find him on Twitter at @mattcutts.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Historically, many Black students (more so Black male students), are influenced by sports as a vehicle to higher education and not necessarily the institutions recognized for technological prowess. Despite having great grades and graduating with honors, I was completely unaware of how valuable an Ivy League education could be.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

In my company, we focus on three “uniques”: Education and expertise. In 2000, I started writing educational skincare content, which led to the creation of my popular skincare blog in 2005. 9 different skin types. Influencer-endorsed . We play to our strengths in all we do, and we consistently make this part of our communication.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Sparked by a pair of scissors, some pantyhose and a party where founder, Sara Blakely , wanted to look her best, Spanx officially began production in 2000 and changed women’s fashion and fit forever. Peeler isn’t just changing the world of student aid, she’s also redefining the role of women entrepreneurs in finance and education.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

When you're educated by Jesuits, you know the word "discernment". I'd say just about everyone in my LinkedIn network , all 2000 of them, are people who I've at least had the equivilant of a 1:1 lunch with. By the way, I didn't add social media as a tip because, if you're reading this blog, you probably already use it. 1) Be Discerning.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

TIL about freezing : In what is probably the most educational post on the site today, Devin explores the phenomenon of “freezing” in patients with Parkinson’s, and what NexStride — a gadget that helps people avoid it — does. million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to the U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 8, 2015

In the last six months, VCs have invested more than $57B according to Mattermark data , which puts 2015 on pace to exceed 2000 as the year the most venture capital will be deployed, ever. Which sectors are benefitting from all these venture dollars?

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2017

When Aaron presented on stage, his audience comprised C-level executives at Fortune 2000 companies. This strategy educated enterprise customers well in advance of a sales process. The goal was not to sell to them immediately, but to position Box to them for sale in a year or two or three.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 7, 2015

When a potential customer enters the consideration phase of the buyer journey, the marketing team transitions the lead to his sales account executive, who educates the customer from the consideration stage through purchase. The most recent landscape for marketing products totaled more than 2000 alternatives.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2014

Google had grown from $220k in revenue in 19aw99, to $19M in 2000, to $86M in 2001, to $347M in 2002, to $961M in 2003, and would record $3.2B So much excitement and ambition. But that feeling was more than just a product of the rocket ship growth of the ads business. in 2004, the year of their IPO.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

She studied childhood education and development in college, a lifelong passion. I studied in college childhood education and development, so that was really my passion my whole life was working with children. Originally from the UK, Hannah moved to America when she was 19. Her first job, for many years, was as an au pair.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. But how do you convince millions of people that need to be educated that they have a document management problems to upload their documents in the first place? I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Even more interesting is that at GRP Partners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! But then the truth sets in. And I talk about women.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Believe me when I say that there are plenty of people out there with very ordinary educations, average or lower than average IQ’s, and all sorts of learning disabilities and personality disorders who are making a living or a fortune doing something they love. .

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Climate change, growing financial inequality, lack of access to education for billions and lack of food and water security are among the problems that plague society. Between 2000 and 2015, for example, spending on education in the US grew 15%, but test scores have been stagnating.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com. We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2 billion (£7 billion), came from Jerusalem.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. Swing Education was founded in 2015 with the objective of creating a marketplace for substitute teachers. Be a substitute teacher with Swing Education. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. Earn money as an Airbnb host.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. A bit laughable in 2010, just 12 years later.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to find a job as a VC scout. The Part-Time Practitioner. Aspiring Full-time VC. Accelerator Centre.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Read, listen to podcasts and educate yourself. I say at 500,000 a technician, I need 2000 technicians. It’s all about a few key things, which you can read about below, listen to the audio or watch the interview: Hire an executive assistant and leadership team to help you grow and that can supplement your weak areas.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In 1973, President Richard Nixon called for Project Independence, the construction of 1,000 nuclear power plants by the year 2000, to achieve complete US energy independence. We have the silver bullet for virtually unlimited zero-emissions energy today – nuclear fission.

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