TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

CEO Adam Schwartz founded the company with his life savings in 2002 and hasn’t taken a dime of outside investment since. He says that the company started back in 2002 as a plug-in for PowerPoint.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Jack Selby, a former PayPal exec and the longtime managing director of Thiel Capital who attracted some attention years back for his low-key largesse , has a new, $110 million venture fund that he intends to invest mostly in his adopted state of Arizona, where Selby has lived since 2002.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2016

I then spent 13 years as an independent financial advisor before deciding to start Glen Eagle Advisors in 2002. What were you looking for in an organization when you selected EO? I was an educator before becoming a financial advisor. I sought and found that both the Forum experience and the learning events have exceeded my expectations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Iyuno-SDI Group was formed after Iyuno Media Group completed its acquisition of SDI Media last month.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I started my career in private equity in 2002, but my first job at J.P. But over 200 late-stage Latin American companies are holding back as much as they can before trying to raise additional capital. Foreign capital will only cover a portion of these funding needs.

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EntreWorks Consulting

MARCH 11, 2019

Since it first launched in 2002, I’ve been a member and close partner of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

He references a scene in the 2002 movie “Minority Report,” where Tom Cruise encounters a hologram at the GAP that asks him about his personalized shopping experience. In an example video of how the voice-control technology works, a shopper goes to Target to find a pajama set.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2021

New Zealand’s government established the New Zealand Capital Growth Partners (NZGCP) in 2002 as an initiative to stimulate the early-stage startup ecosystem. Note: All monetary amounts are listed in New Zealand dollars unless otherwise stipulated. . Elevating Kiwi startups into scale stage.

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OurCrowd

MAY 4, 2020

“Historically, investing in times of economic downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2001 and 2002, and after the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. That’s a very good entry point for new investors,” Medved says. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

” That’s because since 2002, medical nutrition therapy has fallen under the scope of Medicare under certain criteria, a move that led major private insurers to follow suit. The startup’s CEO, Aidan Dewar, told TechCrunch that “94% of our patients are fully covered by insurance and pay nothing out of pocket.

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Mark MacLeod

APRIL 15, 2024

I bought my first book on business coaching in 2002. For some reason, I was intuitively drawn to it. I knew I wanted to do it. I didn’t become one till 2020, but I never lost the desire to be […] The post When, Why, & How to Hire a Business Coach appeared first on Mark MacLeod.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Site59 was acquired for $43 million in 2002 by Travelocity, where Harris served as SVP of strategy and distribution prior to Expedia’s purchase of Travelocity in 2015. Harris also started Intent, a data science company for online travel providers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In 2002, Michelle and her husband Vernon joined the Charlotte chapter, which counts over 80 members and is the creator of the Global Entrepreneur Indicator (GEI). “We are used to investing in the business, but as entrepreneurs we don’t about think taking care of ourselves personally – that was a huge lesson.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2019

In 2002, she fell in love and moved to the United Kingdom to marry Alex Chapman, the son of a famous businessman. Now for my first story, a story about a beautiful, bold, smart woman named Anna Chapman. After studying economics, she became a well-known, successful model and TV presenter.

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Derek Sivers

MARCH 27, 2024

I don’t take many photos, so the only two I have of him are from 2002: on the phone at work, and at a New Year’s Eve party. Ben was the one who told me to post the “232 sand dollars” story on my website, because he thought it defined me. That’s why many of the comments on that page from 2011 are thanking Ben.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Natalia Holgado Sanchez, head of capital markets at Secfi, studied the impact of five downturns since 2002 to see how well privately held startups held up, “and, most importantly, how long it took the IPO market to reopen.”. The past may hold some clues. Image Credits: Rezus (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But u nlike Interswitch, which was founded in 2002, IROKO has been operating for just 10 years. Joining IROKO in plans to go public within the next two years is Interswitch , a Nigerian-based payments company valued at $1 billion. Within that time, the only internet company to have gone public is Jumia , and it did so after seven years.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. Why does vintage matter to you?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

New Capital Partners were early investors in Teladoc, a virtual healthcare company founded in 2002. This Series A was led by New Capital Partners — a firm with a history of success in the telemedicine space. Teladoc went public in 2015 at an enterprise value of $620 million.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

Now, instead of boring people over dinner (as I’m prone to do) about how you saw the first dubstep pioneers in Brixton back in 2002, you have an NFT to prove it. NFTs benefit fans too because they accrue value as collectibles. And chances are that NFT would have grown in value along with the artist’s career.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Domestika has been around for years — it was founded back in 2002 — but its focus and the attention it is getting right now taps into a couple of areas that have proven to be especially popular recently with users, and in turn, investors. You are with your people, Cotorruelo said: “A home sweet home.”).

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

eBay hosted a jobs fair in 2002 for 75 jobs and 2,000 people showed up,” states Martino. Martino outlined essentially two types of outcomes for this financial crisis from a historical perspective: “In 2001-2003, there was a depression in Silicon Valley. It went from 1 million employed people to 750k employed people within 18 months.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 11, 2021

4,371,752 is just one of the more than thirty-three patents issued to Tulsa born and raised inventor and entrepreneur Gordon Matthews (1936 – 2002). There is no single path to entrepreneurial success. But it is arguably the most of impactful of his portfolio of innovation, as No.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 8, 2022

When her landlord would not renew her lease, unexpectedly in 2002, Jessica had 60 days to vacate the property with no advance warning. However, she shifted things around and now brings that experience to wedding locations and it’s thriving. Take Care of Your Team. as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. Have a cushion.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2014

The first row contains data from IPOs between 1998-2002, the second bucket contains data from IPOs between 2002-2006 and so on. 2002 71 3.0 These figures are inflation adjusted and are in 2014 dollars. IPO Cohort Median VC$ Raised Median # of Rounds Median Round Size $M Median IPO Size Number. 1998 42 2.5 2006 66 4.0

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2014

Looking at the gross dollars invested in engineering, the 2014 cohort spends much more than the 2010, 2006 and 2002 cohorts, setting aside one outlier year in the 2006 cohort. I’m not sure, but the trend is real on a percentage basis as well as on a dollars basis. There seems to be a bumpy, but persistent decline. 1998 34 11.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Shleifer focused on China; Fixel focused on India, and the rest of the firm’s support team (it now has 22 investing professionals on staff) helped find deals in Brazil and Russia before beginning to focus more aggressively on opportunities in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We have been using social networks for 25+ years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Interswitch, for instance, was founded in 2002, which doesn’t necessarily make it a startup despite still being private. While the aforementioned companies’ valuations can’t be disputed , there are question marks on whether some are startups and whether others are African companies.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 13, 2015

In 2002, the company invested significantly in sales and marketing, but suffered a decline in revenue. in 1999, and ultimately wrote off about $1.4B, which had to be recognized in the period from 2000 to 2002. Presumably this is due to customer churn, as a fair number of their customers must have gone out of business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

I started having my own psychedelic experiences many years ago, the first one was in 2002 I think. . “How can we have the biggest possible impact using the smallest amount of resources? But psychedelics became a bigger part of my life around 2010.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

After graduating from Stanford in mathematical and computer science when he was just 19, Eric joined the newly-formed enterprise software company Loudcloud (which became Opsware in 2002). He stayed briefly at HP as a vice president.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. How did you get into VC? (9:30

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2014

Before 2002, the median ROIC never exceeded 0.9. The line chart above shows the trend across the four different IPO cohorts from 1998-2014. The blue line shows the median ROIC and the red line shows the average ROIC. The trend is more pronounced in the average metric which grew from 0.822 2.0 over the course of the same 16 years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Jedox got its start way back in 2002, and in a way is a very typical European startup story. He called those approaches “interesting” but also said the startup was equally considering an IPO route in several years — the route that its closest competitor, Anaplan, has taken, he points out.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

That project was so successful that when the two joined Google in 2002, Sergey Brin and Larry Page personally stopped by to tell the new hires how much they liked it and explained how they used the program to create the first Google logo. Cockroach Labs was started by developers and stays true to its roots to this day.

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