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. How well do your target LPs understand your investment thesis?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, I have pressed forward despite the disparities that often plague the Black entrepreneurial community. Their parents and community encourage athleticism because that is the only thing they know — as an institutionalized mindset reinforced over time. I was in college from 2000 to 2004.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer made the decision to take her community service commitment to a new level in November 2008 when she successfully ran for the Ward 6 City Council seat. 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.

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Surdna Foundation

APRIL 11, 2022

This is our fourth such survey since 2004. We’re proud that grantees noted Surdna’s focus on social justice as a strength, describing the Foundation as clear and consistent about its “strategic investments in communities of color.”. AFF has also diversified its board to make it more accountable to the communities it serves.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Both integral members of Impact Hub Jakarta’s community and recipients of recognition through the Accelerate2030 Programme, these enterprises blend traditional wisdom with cutting-edge technology to address environmental challenges. Plépah, on the other hand, leverages agricultural waste to create alternative food packaging.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community. 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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And, in the case of Unity, the damaged trust from their recent pricing change execution has left the community seeking alternatives. Community modding enabled out of the box A next gen engine should be designed to enable a first-class modding environment out of the box that developers can choose to extend to end user creators.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software.

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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. By the fall of 2004, the site’s explosive growth attracted the attention of many potential investors and buyers.

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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.”

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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. I had commitments to the community. One day in September 2004, I realized that I had learned enough and had confidence enough to make my vision a reality. I had a lot to figure out, and it wasn’t like I had nothing else to do.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Continuous glucose monitoring has been a recent push within the diabetes community. Since graphene was discovered in 2004 , the material has generated a lot of hype — it was supposed to be the next silicon , though that hasn’t quite happened yet. . Graphene is a single-atom thin carbon sheet. Still, the U.K.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Some members of the “urgent care” community are intelligently rebranding their services as “convenient care.” Also like high deductibles, coinsurance usage in on the rise.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2017

The Mali Rising Foundation was formed in 2004 to provide accessible, quality education for children, focusing on middle school education. What impact is Mali Rising making on students, families and communities? Be the influence that helps better the lives of people and their communities. Educated approximately 12,000 children.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The “Big Lie” of a stolen election was perpetrated by politicians from places like Texas and Florida—the kinds of places New Yorkers were escaping to that had promised better alternatives to our local tech community. It takes a long time to build a truly thriving, world-class entrepreneurial tech community. Come to Miami!

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. NYC needs him not only to wave the flag a bit on the ideas here that could go big, but also to share the steps needed to get here with the local community. Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users. VCs seem to listen.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. We stayed in the middle of January in a “hotel&# that turned not to have showers in the room – you had to walk down the hall to a community shower. I felt like I had survived The Great Depression and I never wanted to go there again.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 16, 2017

When she joined in 2012, her company, CoinX, was in high growth mode, which made support from her EO community an invaluable asset. Megan is a pioneer in the IT security industry and founded CoinX, a fintech company that specializes in domestic and international payment processing and transfer services (money transmission), in 2004.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program is a chance to join a community, grow your business, access $5K for business education, and participate in a year-long virtual education program. Social responsibility: personal community impact, mission-driven business, or track record for volunteering. About Tory Burch.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. Consider this.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

2004 / Cash and financial management is a matter of survival. It shows up everywhere: how you greet people in your office , how your website looks, how your physical office looks, and even how you and your employees show up in the community. We were off to the races with our WOW-worthy service.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2021

I still think of this as a blog—but I moved the e-mail version of this over to Substack because that’s feeling a bit like the beginnings of a community platform and an interesting place to be ). I started posting in February of 2004 and by the time 2007 rolled around, it seemed like everyone had a blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 2, 2020

You may be surprised to learn that the first podcast dates back to 2004, when former MTV video jockey Adam Curry and software developer Dave Winer developed what is largely considered the first podcast. He launched his daily Flash Briefings Journeyto100million.com podcast in early 2019. WHY ARE PODCASTS SO POPULAR TODAY?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Mullenweg became the center point of a growing community. An October 2004 Houston Press profile of him noted that WordPress was running more than 29,000 blogs. The first version of WordPress was released in May 2003 and became the official version of b2, an older project that had been abandoned.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 3, 2014

When I started in early 2004, very few people were blogging--and then I watched blogging take off. I can easily say that the weekly note I send out to over 8,000 people a week in the NYC tech community is a far more important channel for me than my blog. There was only one problem. Blogging is hard. Newsletters aren''t perfect, though.

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