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Taking advantage of Latin America’s market downturn

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As a banker covering technology, I thought there was an opportunity to invest in the region and decided to quit my job at J.P. When I called my former boss Nicolas Aguzin to thank him for his support, he said he’d introduce me to Marcelo Claure at SoftBank. I started my career in private equity in 2002, but my first job at J.P.

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Fireside Project manifests a $200K fund to improve access to careers in psychedelic health

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Given the legal status of these substances, people are hesitant to call 911 if they are experiencing a crisis, many don’t have access to peer groups that can offer support and there’s not a lot of other support available either. “How can we have the biggest possible impact using the smallest amount of resources?

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

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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. Coursera set to roughly double its private valuation in impending IPO.

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Domestika raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to expand its learning community for creative types

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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. I am excited to support the team as they continue to innovate and grow.”.

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There’s no single path to entrepreneurial success

Innovation 2 Enterprise

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). The military is an important partner with private industry — in developing human talent and in providing opportunities for service people to enter technical fields.

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Tiger Global is raising a new $3.75 billion venture fund, one year after closing its last

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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. Every investing decision was made by the three.

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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. Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities. Social Networking in Web 2.0.