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i2E & Plains Ventures Surpasses $100M Milestone in Total Investments

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million in 2001. Spiers New Technologies , a pioneer in the electric vehicle value chain, was acquired by Cox Automotive Mobility for an undisclosed amount. Novazyme Pharmaceuticals Inc. was acquired by Genzyme Corp for $137.5 Alkami , Oklahoma’s first unicorn, was valued at $3.1 billion at its IPO in April 2021.The

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What is a project management framework? A guide with 7 examples

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Agile Best for: Innovation projects, changing requirements Agile is a collaborative, flexible project management methodology designed by a group of software practitioners in 2001. It divides projects into time-bound phases called sprints and values individual team members—not the tools or processes they use.

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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. Alex Haro says that when they only had a few weeks of runway left and weren’t sure if their next round of financing was going to close, they tried every crazy idea they could think of.

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What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

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What micro VCs need to consider is what happens when several of your companies want to grow and require VC financing? Or when the economy turns downward and they all need financing extensions? You have to be careful about “getting ahead of yourself&# or you make the next financing more difficult.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

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The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Nobody understands this better than First Round Capital.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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Or worse yet they may never get financed. Raise at “ the top end of normal &# but not so high that future financings in a corrected market become impossible. 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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Uprise banks $1.4M to be a ‘family office’ for Gen Z

TechCrunch

Gen Z is getting a dose of some economic medicine that has older generations recalling 2008 and 2001, and Uprise is here for it. She learned a lot about finances from her mother, who was an immigrant to the U.S., and taught herself about finances, passing that knowledge down to her daughter. Image Credits: Uprise.