2004 communities financing 
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 21, 2011
As a Brooklyn native who has never lived outside the five boroughs—and someone who left Big Finance—I feel a special kind of pride over what’s gone on here in the last six+ years. There isn’t a single person in the NYC that is more excited than I am about how far we’ve come.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 26, 2011
2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community.
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This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 15, 2012
He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. or would he have been convinced to take a financing round? Companies going for the long ball aren't discovered--they're juiced up to go for the homerun, with financing. Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users.
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. The virtue of going long.
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JULY 1, 2010
He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. It’s part of what makes him so likable.
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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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NOVEMBER 29, 2010
I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. If you’re business has complicated accounting (like many ad network businesses) and if you’re raised enough money to warrant it – a great VP Finance is worth his/her weight in gold. Even better if he/she can double as a VP Operations & HR.
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