Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 16, 2017

What stood out to Megan was that EO encourages and values diverse opinions while cultivating a culture of trust that gives members the opportunity to develop in a peer-to-peer learning style with true transparency. Megan’s favorite aspect of EO is her forum, which she says has been instrumental in her growth as a leader.

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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. I was on a mission to develop a game that would be exciting, challenging and engaging – a game that was just as fun to watch as it was to play. Popongo was born.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 17, 2020

That’s why it’s crucial that you know your invention through and through, and whether there’s any aspect you need to develop further before having it patented. Cases of former staff being pumped about processes or unethical surveillance techniques being used to anticipate competitor developments are not uncommon. In the U.S.,

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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. I got in touch with several co-packers and told them I had developed a new line of unsweetened flavored water.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

In his summary at the end, he writes: Tim Berners-Lee developed the protocol for the web in 1989. Facebook launched in Feb 2004, four years after the start of the internet crash. David Kelnar ‘s “ blockchain primer ” is a very good summary of what is promising about the crypto sector and what is challenging.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

-Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Competitors: Gowalla.

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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 has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 29, 2019

Personal strengths are a culmination of our natural talents and how much we develop those talents during our formative years. But this insight is needed more in terms of developing a sound foundation of self-leadership and self-mastery than ticking off a “chances of success checklist” before we start anything.

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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2014

The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. The second story involves a founder who is using outsourced development, support, outsourced customer relations and more. Let me tell you two stories that are linked. Email readers, continue here.]

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. 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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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 13, 2015

In a typical year, the company invested about 20 to 30% of their revenue in research and development. Of course, given the large size of professional services contracts, a fair amount of custom software development was completed at the behest of customers. But, the company has been operating at close to breakeven since 2004.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The World Health Organisation’s first global report on diabetes found that 422 million adults live with diabetes, mainly in developing countries. NEW YORK – DECEMBER 6: Packets of the popular sugar substitute Splenda are seen December 6, 2004 in New York City. Photo by Luis Ascui/Getty Images).

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 20, 2018

Personal development is still important. Personal development is a $9.9 A master of her craft, she knew the value of personalized party accessories, so Mintz launched her own party supply company in 2004. billion industry , and people pay thousands of dollars to attend seminars and conferences across the world.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Developers and coders historically go to specific schools and colleges, entering a funnel that guides them to success. I was in college from 2000 to 2004. Black founders need to own their resiliency and leverage the power that has resulted from their unique experiences.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. 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. Total raised: $18.3mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested. If you need money to even hire a developer [means you cannot even excite one person to put in some sweat equity – not a good sign about your ability to motivate people.]. Mark’s view: too much money can eliminate discipline.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2015

ServiceNow’s software allows clients to develop custom applications for their own needs, often with the help of the company’s professional services team. The business was founded in 2004, but hit its stride 2009 and went public in 2012. ServiceNow has recorded a better than 1.0 at $93M in revenue.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

The grey line smooths the chart to show long term changes and the blue dashed line marks the 2004 Median Series B pre-money. As young startups raise larger seed rounds, they are able to progress further, develop more momentum and increase their valuations before raising the next round of capital, the Series A.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 12, 2016

Then in 2004, I read The Millionaire Next Door by Stanley and Danko and decided to have the lifestyle I wanted, I had to become an entrepreneur. She is also CMO of Stratebo Technologies, a company founded to market the software One Horn developed to run the back office.

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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. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do 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. Our company developed a cost-conscious mentality. We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company.

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Surdna Foundation

APRIL 11, 2022

This is our fourth such survey since 2004. We also develop partnerships with regranting partners and participatory grantmaking initiatives to ensure people closest to the problems have a say in how and where the funding flows to their communities. But we do use other methods.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In a blog post that’s still online , he wrote: My logging software hasn’t been updated for months, and the main developer has disappeared, and I can only hope that he’s okay. Nevertheless, his post got the attention of a few other developers and the group set out to create the open source WordPress project , focused on blog publishing.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 26, 2012

Although results vary widely across applications, these kinds of prompts curtail user adoption to the chagrin of developers. After Facebook increased the granularity of permissions on these boxes last year, some developers observed a 20% decline in user installs.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 6, 2014

Founded in 2004, GoPro is about 10 years old and during the past few years has witnessed spectacular growth. The chart above shows the four different expense categories GoPro reported in its S-1: Advertising, General and Administrative, Research and Development, and Sales and Marketing.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Before the 2010s, most studios developed their own internal engines to build their games. Now, almost all games are built using the third party engines shown below, excluding some of the largest AAA budget games that still develop on their own (e.g. EA’s Frostbite, Infinity Ward Engine, etc).

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Just as background, I’ve been on a Mac since I was seven and I last worked on a Windows machine in 2004. With VS Code (Microsoft’s development environment), and you have a powerful combination. So I installed it and tried to use it for a few days. Here are my impressions. Pros of Windows. Even websites load much faster.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Specifically, GraphWear is developing a skin-surface-level wearable made of graphene (more on this material later). 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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

He founded Boston Logic – an integrated marketing platform and online marketing services for real estate offices and agents – in 2004. Knox also has developed a rental pricing and projection model for calculating the investment rate of return a property will produce over time. Image Credits: Knox Financial. “We

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2011

I remember hearing that a New York City venture fund was raising money in 2004 and almost skipping the meeting, because New York wasn’t a viable place to deploy that much capital—it was a small blip in the past. From an infrastructure perspective, we’re a lot better off than we were before.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

During the 2004 election he was accused of having made up material facts from his service in the Vietnam War in an election against somebody who didn’t serve in a war. Develop Trusted Advisors. Think John Kerry and the “swift boat&# scandal. He’s verbose, often off message and wooden. How do you lose that debate?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

In 2013, Illumina acquired Advanced Liquid Logic, a company founded in 2004 that had already been working on applying digital microfluidics to prep work for Next Generation DNA sequencing. One is a company focusing on cancer care and neurological disorders, which has been using Volta’s tech to develop a DNA extraction process.

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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. Following his graduation, Fauzal ventured to Jakarta to pursue a career in banking, while his father embarked on a mission to develop inventions aimed at addressing the waste problem.

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Derek Sivers

MAY 3, 2015

If you are a web or API developer, programming code that uses an SQL database, this is for you. How things are Most web development — whether custom or using frameworks like Rails, Django, Laravel, Sinatra, Flask, and Symfony — tends to work the same way: At the core is a database , which is just the storage of data.

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