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What does it take to go carbon neutral as a business?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A vast number of our members are capitalizing on their business success in order to tackle the world’s greatest obstacles. When we heard about the EO’s initiative to support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals , we felt on the right path. How does Amber Media support it?

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After bootstrapping since 2002, Articulate raises $1.5B on $3.75B valuation

TechCrunch

But Articulate , a SaaS training and development platform, is not your typical company and today it announced a whopping $1.5 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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Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile Are Changing the Face of Angel Investing

Angel Capital Association

Keenly aware of the need to build, support and professionalize angel investing, they devoted their partnership energies over the last decade to writing books and articles about angel investing, as well as speaking, developing courses and teaching. I looked forward to reconnecting once or twice a year with such a collegial group.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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Jedox raises over $100M to expand its financial modeling and analytics software to more verticals

TechCrunch

fund to help support portfolio companies through the pandemic. Jedox got its start way back in 2002, and in a way is a very typical European startup story. all previous backers) also participating. The company currently works with some 2,500 customers, including big players like Microsoft, McDonald’s and industrial giant ABB.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

Both Sides of the Table

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). What are your predictions for the road ahead.

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

is the primary provider of venture capital to itself and the rest of the world, the companies vying for these funds are now more global than ever. That’s not much firepower to support what’s coming through an increasingly conical funnel. Because the U.S. This trend of foreign startups seeking earlier and earlier U.S.