TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

While building a company here between 1994 and 2003, I saw the Texas ecosystem firsthand and was excited about what it offered,” Smith told TechCrunch. “It It was a great place to live and work, and I believed that over time, it would be a growing venture opportunity.”.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A: It is an honour to step into this role and have the opportunity to build on the legacy of our past decade and help forge the next one – given the urgent need we now have in the world for sustainable solutions. I co-founded Waterlution in 2003 and continue to touch in with young water innovators through that network.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

“Not only are these groups coming back to market faster, they are often raising bigger funds or additional vehicles, like opportunity funds.” We’ll note here that Khosla Ventures , SoftBank and Better Tomorrow Ventures all raised an opportunity fund this year.). We want to have as many LPs as we can,” Sayani added.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Founded by Ashok Babu Kunjukannan, Harishankkar Subramanyam, and Maharajan Veerabahu in 2003, e-con Systems partners with key sensor makers like Sony, Onsemi and Omnivision, and lens makers like Commonlands and Corning, and ISP partners like NVIDIA and Socionext. EY acted as the exclusive advisor for e-con Systems on the transaction.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year. Salyer was inducted into the Oklahoma Woman’s Hall of Fame in 2017. She has been recognized by Downtown Oklahoma City with the Dean A.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

The Institute for Corporate Directors in Canada helps its members “ perform their director role effectively and make an appropriate contribution in the boardroom (…) [by offering] professional development programs that provide value-added director education and learning opportunities.”. There are two approaches to doing so.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. Airbnb was founded by Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky in 2008. NEW EMERGING MARKETPLACES.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 9, 2018

We think there are a lot of opportunities to differentiate by using technology aggressively, e.g., Totem , an investor operating system built by some of my past colleagues at ff Venture Capital. . We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

and opportunities for impact focused start-ups in the current ecosystem, at the Resurgence TiEcon. 2014-2017); Founding CEO of WNS Knowledge Services (2003-2007); Founding Country Manager of. FreeMarkets (1999-2003); and, Founder & Head of McKinsey Knowledge Centre (1996-1999). Delhi-NCR event.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. Precision Ventures Precision Ventures identifies market opportunities and delivers complete concept solutions to brand-name global manufacturers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 6, 2020

In terms of pandemics, we remember avian flu (1997), SARS (2003) and MERS (2012). For entrepreneurs, the job now is to look past that daunting torrent and to the opportunity beyond it. Because there is opportunity. But we’ve all dealt with things that felt new and terrible at the time. Some of us remember the 2000 dot-com crash.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 26, 2020

Eric Ludwig is a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) Cleveland chapter, which he joined in 2003. Coronavirus has given many entrepreneurs an unlikely opportunity to embrace and truly live their companies’ core values. He is also the founder and partner of Pulsar Eco Products.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2019

As the founder of Poe Group Advisors , a company that has been facilitating the sale and transfer of accounting firms since 2003, Brannon is no stranger to connecting people and growing an organization. The combination of networking and educational opportunities that a peer group provides ensures members have access to top-level development.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

They started their first joint venture, Blue Moon Pizza, in 2003. For their next undertaking, the Slaters wanted an opportunity to create a holistic dining experience on a level that Atlanta had never seen. Ponce City Market presented that opportunity. In Their Industry.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Similarly, as more and more services get digitized, an opportunity has opened up for tools to make those services easier to use. Measuring and improving engagement have become two of the key ways that businesses understand out how well something is working.

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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. Every investing decision was made by the three.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2025

Content: Data scientists are now building production models Software engineers are hitting AI endpoints to build agents inside modern applications Python has become the dominant language of AI and a popular language for software development There’s an opportunity to fuse those two environments Data teams need to adopt software engineering best (..)

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

So, I sort of grew up as a product manager at Google in the early days of the company working on Google AdWords, when we just launched AdWords, I think back in 2003. And so, if you’re lucky, within each of these domains, you get an opportunity to work on different kinds of things. If you will.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. On a more positive note, the silver lining in a political system that is susceptible to influence is that occasionally common sense will prevail when legislators might otherwise miss a good opportunity to do the right thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I saw a few friends politely suggesting that “now was a great stock buying opportunity” meaning that given the stock market is off by 10% it was a great chance to buy and lock in presumably low prices before the market rises again. And by this I assume he meant that “market prognosticator twitter” was vomitous.

financing

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

It was 2003 and I was training for a marathon so I was in great shape (yes, I know this was YEARS ago but I did complete it in 3:57). When you bring them up you take the issue off the table. I can’t say that they’ll get over the issue, but they won’t hold it against you for not bringing it up. Small story.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. It is highly dependent upon many factors: experience of the team, type of opportunity (a big biotech or semi-conductor A round is likely to look different from an Internet A round), geography, etc.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Read how acknowledging reality and strategizing next steps can help consciously shift mental focus toward future opportunities, thus moving past failure smoothly. Shelley joined the EO Brisbane chapter in 2003. But, what are the guidelines for facing failure effectively? Did you miss Thursday’s spotlight on work-life balance?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Ajay has been an instrumental investor since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003. billion fund for later-stage opportunities. Long-time, early-stage investor Ajay Agarwal is hosting a roundtable to discuss lessons learned with other Early Stage attendees. Bain’s venture arm raised $1.9 billion across two funds, a $1.4

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

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. In 2020, I founded a new growth fund to fill the funding gap in the region, giving me the opportunity to see how startups from recent vintages fared in a scenario of bonanza. Morgan and give it a shot.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 27, 2023

Google was about 1,000 people when I started in 2003, which means last week’s layoffs were more than an order of magnitude larger than the entire company I’d originally joined. High performers and culture carriers for years — terminated via email and without the opportunity to celebrate their time with their teams.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

Rob Enderle, an ECT News Network columnist since 2003, writes on various matters relating to technology and business, and he’s published a list of the four industry sectors that he believes will see the most significant disruption in the year 2022.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

I saw an opportunity to both positively affect social impact in the technology industry and meet the growing demand for affordable, qualified software developers, so I created Techtonic Academy. Step Two: Create a Solution to Address Issues. EOBeyondBorders celebrates our rich, global community.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

That presents Oklahoma with an opportunity to tackle the main challenge in our entrepreneurial ecosystem. She was the first of many strong and independent women in our family — my great-grandmother, grandmother, and ultimately my mother — who had and continue to have such an impact on me. Women are key to growing successful companies.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Hubble Investments, LLC Broker Dealer registered with the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and member of the US Securities Investor Protection Corporation, carries out a detailed Broker Review on any investment opportunity offered on the Propel(x) angel investment platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

When Ibex Investors founder and CEO Justin Borus looks at the transportation industry — and the technological changes that are coming — he sees one of the biggest opportunities in a lifetime. And with a fresh $113 million fund focused on early stage mobility companies, his firm is tapping into it.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 26, 2015

ED ZIMMERMAN : In 2003, I remember the general counsel of a prestigious venture fund shouting down the idea of “secondary” or “founder liquidity” (i.e. For later stage venture investors, the opportunity cost of performing due diligence, negotiating and making a new investment are substantial. Rich vs. liquid.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 7, 2019

In 2000, LPs invested $104b into 638 funds, but by 2003, LPs’ commitment rate had dropped to just $11b into 161 funds. In that case, you just proved you did effective research; you’ve learned that other smart VCs agree with you on the market opportunity you identified. But VC is historically and consistently cyclical.

venture capital

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And PR also has a way of generating inbound funding opportunities. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds. Create urgency.

strategy

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. I sent numerous emails for another for a job opportunity and he is now a senior exec at a very prominent startup. And I think this is sometimes missed by those who run to quickly to greener pastures.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Plus, you can also consider if there is an opportunity to use these technologies in your business. In 2003, the company provided official security proof that was verifiable across the blockchain network. Let’s dive in. . Uses for blockchain technology. Businesses have unique requirements.

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