Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. -Company reports 250,000 users in 49 countries with 1mm+ application downloads. Competitors: Skype. Current round: $16.5mm in Series-B. Total raised: $22mm. See: TechCrunch. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

These investors can also be hesitant to bet on emerging managers, whom they may perceive as higher risk than established investors, even though Cambridge Associates data shows emerging firms made up 72% of the top returning firms between 2004 and 2016.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups. Freestyle led the seed rounds in Airtable, Patreon, BetterUp, Narvar and Snapdocs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

While Evans always gave back, his life changed in 2004 when his team built the National Underground Railroad Museum. His company, Megen Construction , is synonymous with some of Cincinnati’s most iconic landmarks, including the Fountain Square renovation and Underground Railroad Museum. For Evans, it wasn’t just another project.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

I later moved to Denver, Colorado, and have worked in the world of banking and real estate as a partner and co-CEO of a company called Legacy Management Group since 2004. So, I traveled to West Yorkshire, England, to acquire an education then went back to Jamaica to start my professional career.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

In fact, today we are witnessing fewer acquisitions relative to IPOs than in years past, as the average acquisition-to-IPO ratio since 2004 is approximately 15:1. But as Patricia Nakache of Trinity Ventures said in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee: “[Acquisitions have] been commonplace in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

exchange or an exit via M&A from 2004-2019. To find out if leadership experience significantly impacts startups’ success, we analyzed nearly 800 executives at more than 200 companies that reached a sizable exit (greater than or equal to a $500 million valuation) via an IPO on a U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. Enter Facebook.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I was in college from 2000 to 2004. As a star basketball player, with my skills and grades, I could have played and graduated from somewhere like Yale, Brown, Columbia or even a school like Southern Methodist University where I was offered a full scholarship. A lot of great companies were started at elite schools during that period.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Musk, whose 2004 bet on electric cars looked risky at the time and now seems prophetic. It is not by chance that governments and corporations that grew wealthy from carbon are looking to a fossil-fuel free future. New energy is good business. Just ask Elon.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. First Round did not include their investment in Uber in their analysis we reference above on the grounds that it was an outlier.

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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. Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019. 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

MARCH 5, 2021

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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Surdna Foundation

APRIL 11, 2022

This is our fourth such survey since 2004. That’s why we’ve partnered with the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) to periodically survey our grantees to understand how we’re doing as a partner in our shared work.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The roots of Sampangan trace back to Langsat, a small town in Aceh Province, devastated by the 2004 Tsunami. Ishenny – a scientist and inventor – and his son, Muhamad Fauzal Rizky, an ex-banker, Sampangan’s journey is as unique and captivating as the solution they bring to the table.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. Well, I joined Google, I guess now fairly early, but it was 2004. Tomasz Tunguz: Well, I love the [inaudible 00:21:55]. It was fun.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

I initially worked as an analyst at a stock-broking firm until 2004 before embarking on my venture capital and private equity journey, where I made my first investments in Greater China before exiting via the London Stock Exchange later between 2005 and 2006.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

In 2004, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk took what appeared to be a huge and perhaps reckless gamble. In 2004, Musk was way ahead of the curve in foreseeing the transformation of energy from fossil fuels to renewables. .” Memic’s strong management team is led by Chairman Maurice R. Learn More. Elon Musk’s genius is battery powered.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Unity, founded in 2004, took nearly 5 years of bootstrapping to launch the engine, cultivate a cult following of Mac hobbyist developers, raise venture funding and ascend the curve of relevancy such that studios with real budgets were willing to bet their projects on Unity.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Probably not, since that''s not exactly what happened the first time around.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

Back in 2004, I was working for the General Motors pension fund, which had been making limited partnership investments in venture capital since the early 1980’s. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

And I’m sure everyone remembers the video that put them on the map – the one I first saw – which was the Bush/Kerry video This Land is Your Land (“you have more waffles than a house of pancakes), which was part of the 2004 elections and both candidates were asked about while they were campaigning.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software. Case in point, Procore just went public and is trading at an $11 billion valuation. Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Individual investors also contributed to the funding, including Five9 executive vice president Anand Chandrasekaran; Airtel chief executive of enterprise business Ganesh Lakshminarayanan; Vinod Muthukrishnan, the chief growth officer of Cisco’s Contact Center Business Unit; Venkat Tadanki, who sold his former startup Daksh to IBM in 2004; and Capillary (..)

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 25, 2023

VNG, established in 2004 and acclaimed as Vietnam’s pioneer tech unicorn, has experienced remarkable growth since its inception. With founder Pham Nhat Vuong holding 99 percent control of VinFast, the limited availability of publicly traded shares has led to potential stock volatility.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As reported by Slate from a study from researchers at the University of North Carolina, “We have lost about 20 percent of local newspapers in the United States since 2004, and at least 900 communities now are without any local news source in that same time frame.” It’s the Gannett cuts that worry me the most.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

That spring of 2004, I was looking after our three kids—Emma, five; Kaitlin, three; and Keenan, two. One day in September 2004, I realized that I had learned enough and had confidence enough to make my vision a reality. Obviously, I couldn’t do that by myself, slicing up tons of fruit and filling up my fridge with pitchers of water.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In 2004, I left the firm to join Intuit as their in-house GM. I grew up in Southern California and graduated from Pepperdine University with a JD. Shortly after graduating from law school, I began working as a lawyer at a local law firm.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 28, 2017

One typical Friday morning in 2004, I walked into a government building and headed to work. I was a junior Java engineer and part of a hired team building an internal system for a government agency. We were a few days behind on schedule, and a technical issue arose.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 17, 2020

For example, Nicholas Woodman presented his patent in 2004 , to enable people to easily record their exciting life moments. Some of the world’s most valuable conglomerates once started as a small startup with big ideas – and often they’re still loyal to the very same vision outlined in their first patent filings.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg famously launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room at the age of 19. By that summer, Zuckerberg moved himself and the company to Silicon Valley and never looked back.

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