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

TechCrunch

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

Entrepreneurs' Organization

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? It is also a cross-nation initiative among several African countries and supportive countries. He founded AmberMedia in 2002.

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Tim Brady is leaving YC

Y Combinator

grew when I succeeded him as CPO in 2002, as he left in search of new adventures. When we realized that the two of us were going to need to write a whole bunch of infrastructure software in order to support our new accelerator, Tim didn’t hesitate. My connection to Tim and what he meant to Yahoo! And what adventures!

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The entire fintech industry is not in distress – here’s who is hiring

TechCrunch

And Lee Hower, a co-founder and partner at NextView Ventures who was on the founding team of LinkedIn, believes that despite the downturn, there remain fintechs that are “thriving.” “I was an early employee at PayPal and we grew during the dotcom bust and were a rare IPO in 2002,” he told TechCrunch. billion valuation.

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Taking advantage of Latin America’s market downturn

TechCrunch

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. 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.

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Community Colleges as Incubators of Innovation

EntreWorks Consulting

Since it first launched in 2002, I’ve been a member and close partner of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE). This excellent edited volume is full of insights that are relevant not only to community college staff and partners, but to community and economic development leaders as well.

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Foreign investors, mature startups redraw New Zealand’s VC funding landscape

TechCrunch

In fact, in 2020, investors provided more follow-on capital than ever before, which shows a commitment to support startups as they scale, grow and hopefully exit — a sign of a maturing investment scene, according to Young Company Finance deal data. Note: All monetary amounts are listed in New Zealand dollars unless otherwise stipulated. .

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