Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who find a new marketplace or niche – or how to reach the mass market in new ways. Innovation is valued by our society, by investors and certainly by consumers. Well, it’s a fair question.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2018

Jeff Carruthers founded Resonate in 2001, and has steered the business with a focus on what makes organizations relevant to contemporary customers as well as a keen eye for technical innovation. He joined EO in 2015. The post Four Steps to Making Customer Service an Organizational Priority appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Though this stage poses the least amount of pressure on an entrepreneur, some mistakes can still upend an innovative startup idea. Usually, entrepreneurs use bootstrapping to finance their expenses. Surging Growth: This period started in 2001. Usually, founders haven’t quit their jobs at this stage. Did we miss something?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Venture Financings we Discussed. Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001. When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Whether we will see as dramatic a correction in the next few years as we did in 2001 to 2003, however, is anyone’s guess.”. “If We see the acceleration of females building businesses, and a lot is going on in innovation, so we want to bring more capital into that.”. We want to have as many LPs as we can,” Sayani added. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Since BCV’s first fund in 2001, the firm has invested over $4.5 Other areas Melas-Kyriazi believes “continue to explode” are e-commerce enablement and B2B payments, which despite tremendous innovation, remains “quite broken” in her view. The firm currently has $9.2 billion in assets under management.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In a study conducted by Cambridge Associates, researchers found that the real failure rate hasn’t gone above 60% since 2001. SOLUTION : Create the right mix of people who can come up with innovative ideas and people who know how to execute on those ideas. The problem, she says, is that the data actually proves otherwise.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

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. And of course you will produce our next wave of innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. Or worse yet they may never get financed. But as an investor you cannot simply sit out period of great innovation. I believe that. Have a cushion.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

These days that’s not the case and it’s a great outcome for entrepreneurs and for innovation. 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? That’s awesome.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

In the United Kingdom and Europe, government innovation programs have helped entrepreneurs close higher numbers of Series A and B rounds. Enterprise SaaS company Latch makes keyless entry systems; Sunlight Financial helps consumers finance residential solar power installations. Image Credits: Acquia.

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The Entrepreneurs Library

JUNE 30, 2015

I then intersected my work in social innovation in Australia and my economics work and looked at how those two things came together in designing new economic systems. So we uncovered some interesting data that between 2001 and 2011 there were more non-profit organizations added to the U.S. The Book’s Unique Quality (3:45).

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As Albert says in his post : It is difficult to overstate how big an innovation this is. It reminds me of the early days of web2 in 2001/2002/2003, when we started USV. We went from not being able to do something at all to having a first working version. Again to be clear, I am not saying this will solve all problems.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2020

Within a few days of 11 September 2001, I purchased plane tickets for optional personal travel. We are also negotiating payment terms with creditors such as landlords, freezing raises, eliminating all but the most essential expenses and exploring a range of other steps. New York City lost so much of its important economic driver, tourism.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“Going public now gives us the ability to meet this demand and scale up faster across product innovation, channel marketing, international markets and customer success initiatives,” he said in a statement. Jiang sees this as a way to keep growing the company.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

No, we are not going back to the future As we ride the 2021 market roller coaster through wreckage and recovery, accompanied by a raging bull market in tech stocks, some people are wondering whether we might be re-living the dreadful dot-com boom and bust of 2000-2001. Is 2021 the new 2000? Are we heading for another bottomless crash?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Really, it’s finally fulfilled the vision we’ve all had of it becoming a leading city around innovation, tech, and culture,” 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. Whurley’s success has tracked with Austin’s success.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. Mark: Apple is like China, they have introduced an incredibly amount of innovation to the market. They’ve forced the entire industry to innovate and change. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001.

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