Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 28, 2016

My grandma taught me how to seize every opportunity and ‘taste’ everything in life at least once. We didn’t have enough cash flow to keep the staff and sustain the cost of running the business, so we were forced to close. I was so moved by everyone’s testimonials that I decided to seize the opportunity. RT: Not always.

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StartupNation

MARCH 30, 2021

Great entrepreneurs seize opportunity. Like determination, your passionate desire to “make a dent in the universe” can sustain you through a startup’s inevitable struggles. So, I wrote to a number of my former students who’d launched ventures during 1999 and 2000—almost all of which failed when nuclear winter set in.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

Managing Consultant for IBM Global Services, where he guided Global-2000 accounts on SEC electronic records compliance, leading to two publications for IBM Redbooks. So Blockperfect was founded to these entrepreneurs the resources and guidance to build sustainable revenue-first companies they can grow as large as they choose.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

This was the key insight that led to the creation of YC, and also to the hundreds of institutional seed funds that sprung up to take advantage of the new opportunity. Many traditional biotech investors are still looking for the controlling legal terms that went out of vogue in tech in the early 2000’s.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

“Not only are these groups coming back to market faster, they are often raising bigger funds or additional vehicles, like opportunity funds.” We’ll note here that Khosla Ventures , SoftBank and Better Tomorrow Ventures all raised an opportunity fund this year.). That’s new.”. We want to have as many LPs as we can,” Sayani added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

That’s where he sees an opportunity for digital healthcare and new business models to increase access to healthcare. Hence, we see a clear opportunity to invest in an undercapitalized stage and region. It’s never too late to align product-market fit metrics with your company’s values

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

The decline doesn’t seem to be letting up in 2019, with retailers shutting down 23% more stores than they did at the start of last year (2000+ store closings), according to Coresight Research. Buyers now expect stores to offer an opportunity to connect with a brand in a way that is relational rather than purely transactional. “A

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Consequently, there are many huge opportunities for entrepreneurs to seize. Second, the capital startups require to pursue those opportunities is plentiful. 2014 will be the third largest year in VC fundraising since 2000. First, technology is changing nearly every part of the economy.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The recovery following the Internet bubble collapse of 2000 similarly took three years. But as with most crises, opportunities for experienced investors who have learned from prior down cycles are still plentiful. The investor exit calculus increasingly includes expectations about exit sustainability. We Warned You!

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

When I realized that it wasn’t going to be easy, if at all possible, to raise our Series B round of funding, I had to realign several team members around a very different kind of culture— one focused on building a profitable, sustainable business rather than a unicorn. This is especially important when it comes to making difficult decisions.

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A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Addressing those risks head-on, is required for a healthy and sustainable business that can last for many years. Rather, it should mean new people, new roles, new values, new processes, new recruiting, new stories, new constraints, new opportunities. Other risks, however, are not only possible, but likely.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Commenting in a statement, Will Wolf of Polychain Capital, said: “We’re incredibly excited to partner with the Nym team to further their mission of bringing robust, sustainable and permissionless privacy infrastructure to all Internet users. In short, the opportunity for privacy tech, both B2B and consumer-facing, is growing.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

I say at 500,000 a technician, I need 2000 technicians. I’ve been through COVID, I’ve been through 2008, the housing crisis, we are sustainable, we’re what you call an essential home business, and I didn’t deem that on myself. So, what I did is I wrote down, Grant Cardone 10 times. You started Infusionsoft.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Money poured into a business that takes off provides job opportunities and helps the economy grow while investors recoup their money and make a profit too. Between 2000 and 2015, for example, spending on education in the US grew 15%, but test scores have been stagnating. The global impact ecosystem is starting to take shape.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Create a sustained campaign. Our 2000 fund is the single best fund of its vintage. And PR also has a way of generating inbound funding opportunities. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds. Create urgency.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Markets cause entrepreneurs to seek out high prices as a signal of opportunity to create new wealth by driving those prices down. 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.

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