Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 11, 2016

The term “digital divide” was first coined in 2001 by political scientists to describe how uneven access to the internet would create a population of left-behind “information have-nots.” Yet local software companies have had such a struggle finding qualified software developers that they are resorting to “off-shoring.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Each facility houses about 50 companies so you really do get the opportunity to work with similar companies before “sizing out.&# It reminds me of PlugnPlay facilities which have long provided this kind of environment. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Total raised: $30mm.

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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.). We want to have as many LPs as we can,” Sayani added.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Here’s a little background on each panelist, as well: Kedma Ough , MBA, is a nationally recognized business development and business funding expert. Being a hustler at heart and helping her grandmother in the kitchen, Donna saw a business opportunity. Jaime joined the product development team at ComplyRight in 2007.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Today, a company focused specifically on developing AI for drones for maritime deployments is announcing a round of funding after seeing strong demand for its devices and services. Going forward, there is a vast amount — a sea, even — of ways that Tekever might develop its technology.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 22, 2018

ERIE, PA – More than 15 years ago, a Penn State Erie faculty member, Tom Briselden and his team at Spin-Works LLC, developed an innovative, silicon-carbide radiant tube insert called a SpyroCor. Recuperators were the only real competitive technology in 2001, but they were expensive and inefficient.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. They saw the opportunity to develop products that assist in the intellectual development of a child from a very early age. According to the EEOC, 83 percent of tech executives are white.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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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. He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 8, 2022

In 2001, while serving in the Hawaii Air National Guard, I started working for ABM Onsite Services as the Administrative Assistant. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. I was raised by my single mother in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hungry team members are self-motivated and diligent.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Because times are slightly better now for fund raising I’d probably say two extra things: a) it may be worth a modest increase in your team size / activities / development IF you can raise more money to do this now & b) if you can raise more than you need right now (within reason) without too much extra dilution I would do so.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

At your stage of development do you really think a shit-hot VP Sales is going to join you to head up sales? This was a reasonable achievement when you consider that it was 2001-02, one of the worst years to be selling enterprise software and we were selling it SaaS style, which was still evangelical back then.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1817, David Ricardo published On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation where he expanded upon Smith’s work in developing the theory of Comparative Advantage. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. annual GMV.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Coco-Cola, Lancôme explore virtual stores Technology for global ecommerce stores developed by OurCrowd startup ByondXR offers a full-scale simulation of the physical shopping experience. See some opportunities below: Finance Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis for DailyPay (NY). Cyabra warns on public attitudes to Texas storm.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Including a substantial number of investments with smaller opportunities only reduces the possible return on the entire portfolio. Such comparisons can only be made for companies at the same stage of development, in this case, for pre-revenue startup ventures. Size of the Opportunity. Scorecard Valuation Methodology. 10% max.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The whole ‘90s were the early days of the Internet and I saw a lot of opportunity,” Whurley said. In 2001, for six months, Whurley left Austin to follow a girl to Las Vegas and to break into casinos as a hired hacker. IBM acquired Tivoli and Whurley became a principal engineer and master inventor at IBM. Austin got hit hard.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Communicating with the developers who write code.

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