TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. In 2020, now-defunct video platform Quibi alone raised almost 8% of the total funding that female founders got that year. But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Dave Samuel, the co-founder of Freestyle.vc. An experienced executive, serial entrepreneur and internet pioneer in software and media, Dave Samuel is co-founder of Freestyle.vc. In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 25, 2023

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

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Nektar co-founders Abhijeet Vijayvergiya and Aravind Ravi Sulekha. Singapore-based Nektar.ai , a productivity platform for sales teams, has raised $2.15 million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

What can early-stage founders do to accelerate outcomes? After all, that’s the thesis we built our venture model around — we purposefully designed M13 so that early-stage founders get access to experienced executives they wouldn’t otherwise have the money to hire or the time to vet, onboard and manage.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

James Kilkelly is founder and CEO of Tellerex , a company that enables its customers in the banking and banking technology industry to manage their ATM assets in a secure, compliant and environmentally responsible manner. He joined EO in 2004. But how do we get there? This #EOImpact story is a true win-win-win!

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2021

Why fight about valuation, or disappoint the founder at the outset? The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. Email readers, continue here…] The second story involves the same founder. Lessons founders learned. More of my stories.

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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. Lastly, all politics is local.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

During the show, he noted that Sequoia tells “founders that the IPO is a milestone” — not the finish line — for a company. A recent report from OpenView makes this point well, noting that since Salesforce’s 2004 IPO, it has grown its valuation 210x. Shopify, the venture group noted, is up 143x from its IPO price.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 16, 2017

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. As the CEO and founder, Megan is known for her ability to push the envelope in security and risk management technology.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. A group of founders also invested in the company, including those from Plaid, Cash App, Ethos, Instacart, Front, Flatiron Health and Tango. homeownership rates in 2020 were about 65.8% according to Statista. The rate reached its peak of 69.2%

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 30, 2020

I saw this tweet coming out of the Upfront Summit yesterday (where I will be today): Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users. He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. What I do care about is that a person who is long on vision and has a knack for being around big companies early on is now living in New York City.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

For more page-turning corporate drama, including the feud between Intermix co-founders and UCLA college buddies Brett Brewer and Brad Greenspan, Nasdaq delisting, proxy contest and lawsuits by Greenspan after he was fired as CEO, see Stealing MySpace by WSJ reporter Julia Angwin. Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.

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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. Fred Johnson is an EO Global Board member, founder of Eagle Environmental, Inc. , The foundation’s goal is to establish a middle school within walking distance for every child in every rural village.

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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. The investment in patents, and intellectual property more broadly, isn’t always on top of founders’ minds. But, anyone with a unique idea and a vision to bring it to reality should definitely consider patenting.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 7, 2018

In 2004, Oprah named our Key Lime Bundt Cake to her “Favorite Things” list. The Entrepreneurs’ Organization is the premier global network for founders, entrepreneurs and pioneers. However, the very thing you desire could eventually be your undoing. Consider another familiar saying: “Be careful what you wish for.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Written by Alex Yastrebenetsky, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Cincinnati, Ohio, and founder of InfoTrust , an award-winning digital analytics consulting and technology company that helps marketers use data to make smarter decisions. For Evans, it wasn’t just another project.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

He started Thrillist with Adam Rich in 2004, which later became Group Nine Media in 2016. Lerer: Oftentimes we meet a company we incorrectly pass on, but stay close to the founder. We didn’t love the terms or the sort of setup for the round, but we’re really impressed with the founders.

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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. Other than that, we place significant weight on the founder’s attitude.

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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2014

Why fight about valuation, or disappoint the founder at the outset? 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

the founders of a young company hailing from Cambridge, England addressed a crowd of celebrities, investors and entrepreneurs at Y Combinator’s August Demo Day promising a revolution in food science. “Conventional cane sugar is heavily heavily water intensive,” said Supplant co-founder Tom Simmons in an interview.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The firm, which, according to Ayeni, spun out from a conversation between himself and Helios Investment Partners’ founders, has backed one startup already: Egyptian payments company Paymob. Helios Investment Partners has experienced great success as a private equity firm since Tope Lawani and Babatunde Soyoye launched it in 2004.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). Total raised: $17.0mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. Competitors: Skype. Total raised: $22mm.

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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. Hopefully this becomes the year that most of the startup teams you see have not only a business person and a tech person, but also a designer--and you start to see people looking for "design co-founders".

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 2, 2020

Sarah Bartholomeusz is a member of the EO Adelaide chapter and founder of You Legal , a law firm that provides tailored corporate and commercial legal solutions. Erik Olson is a member of EO Southeast Virginia and the founder and CEO of Array Digital , a website design and digital marketing agency. WHY ARE PODCASTS SO POPULAR TODAY?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Jill Nelson is the founder and CEO of Ruby ® Receptionists , which recently reached its 15-year anniversary. 2004 / Cash and financial management is a matter of survival. Founders bear the weight of the success of the organization and the livelihood of employees. Below is an excerpt from the original article. 2006 / Surprise!

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Cooley, a top tier startup law firm, reported this trend in their valuation quarterly report , which tracks these figures where they are counsel to either investors or founders. The grey line smooths the chart to show long term changes and the blue dashed line marks the 2004 Median Series B pre-money.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Founder, and former President and CEO. 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. Q&A with Meg Salyer. of Accel Financial Staffing. President and CEO, Broadway Realty. Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

million from Trinity Ventures, Founder Collective, Highline Ventures, NextNew Ventures. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Founded by Matt Rutledge in 2004 and based in Dallas. Founder Bart Decrem and COO Andrew Lacy will join Disney as a senior VPs. total funding $1.7 My-Wardrobe.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. Another area where founders sometimes spend too much time is accounting.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. embassy or consulate abroad.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2014

in 2004, the year of their IPO. More importantly, I hope more founders and leaders of startups will post their values publicly and use them to inspire their employees to build great, enduring and unconventional companies. But that feeling was more than just a product of the rocket ship growth of the ads business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The culture is driven by the 20-something irreverent founder with huge technical chops who in a “David vs. Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg at TechCrunch Disrupt 2014. Automattic’s founder, Matt Mullenweg, was barely of American legal drinking age (21) when he began building, at a time when venture capitalists wanted “adult supervision” at their companies. billion valuation. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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