AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 25, 2023

VNG, established in 2004 and acclaimed as Vietnam’s pioneer tech unicorn, has experienced remarkable growth since its inception. The company, supported by investors including a unit of Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte, was contemplating a public listing in the US through a reverse merger strategy with a blank-check company.

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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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Startup Grind

AUGUST 20, 2018

Think of your motivational materials as a marketing strategy to generate one-on-one clients. You can’t sell happiness directly, but you can sell strategies designed to help individuals cultivate happiness from within. Tips, tricks, processes, strategies, and tools sell. Packaging is everything. You can thrive and be happy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Rob Olson is a partner and head of data strategy at M13 , a venture engine focused on investing in the core technologies that are going to drive and change consumer behavior over the next decade. exchange or an exit via M&A from 2004-2019. Contributor. Share on Twitter. What can early-stage founders do to accelerate outcomes?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

His eBay business took off and he voluntarily left his job in 2004 and never looked back. This is a marketing strategy that really works. John got into e-commerce a little differently — he was going bankrupt about 20 yrs ago and started selling stuff on eBay to make some money.

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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. Umapathi isn’t the first to see the potential that “digital fluidics” hold for biological applications.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

He started Thrillist with Adam Rich in 2004, which later became Group Nine Media in 2016. We just want to continue with a persistent, consistent strategy. The firm also promoted Graham Brown to managing partner and brought on Tanaz Mody as Lerer Hippeau’s first head of people to support the portfolio.

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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. Hope is not a strategy. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. It’s not early, and it’s not quite growth. The firm manages funds totaling $3.6

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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. Hope is not a strategy. 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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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

APRIL 24, 2017

After last week’s post, Is There a No Man’s Land in SaaS ACVs , a founder asked me to highlight some of the go to market strategies in different segments. Founded in 2004, Fleetmatics employs about 1150 employees. Based in Massachussetts, the company generated $320M in revenue in 2016. Thanks for the inspiration, Abhinav!

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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. Hope is not a strategy. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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Surdna Foundation

APRIL 11, 2022

This is our fourth such survey since 2004. They asked that we give them more opportunities to provide input into program strategies and “proactively reach out with new funding opportunities.” We need to communicate clearly, consistently, and responsively. Respondents asked for more “consistent, clear, and frequent communications.”

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Reforge

AUGUST 8, 2022

Memos have come in and out of fashion but were (somewhat) recently re-popularized by Jeff Bezos’ 2004 mandate that all Amazon employees had to write a 4+ page memo before presenting to executives. I started in my best power pose and — of course — the CEO interrupted me on slide two to ask how this strategy connected with our onboarding plans.

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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. Do we have the wrong strategy? It was fun.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But in retrospect, doing everything wrong was exactly the right strategy — a fact that’s just now becoming apparent. An October 2004 Houston Press profile of him noted that WordPress was running more than 29,000 blogs. With exponential growth, things look small until the end,” says Mullenweg.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 28, 2016

The second largest, Jasper, is an internet of things software company founded in 2004, which Cisco acquired for $1.2B. This new behavior is a shift in strategy for private equity firms. The 2016 software buying spree hasn’t benefitted private startups or unicorns yet, and that reflects the different strategies of the buyers.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

With that, Joseph Lee shared enthusiastically about Kairous Capital and its cross-border business strategy: Can you tell us about your background and how you started your entrepreneurial journey? We also plan to dive deep into our existing markets by forming a local partnership to expand our network and reach further.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

2004 / Cash and financial management is a matter of survival. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life. Those two exercises created an excitement towards achieving the vision of growing by 10 times, and the strategy and execution path to get there. We were off to the races with our WOW-worthy service.

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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. Even Unity grew out of a failed game called Gooball.

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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. It’s a great hiring strategy and retention tactic.”. Learn More. Elon Musk’s genius is battery powered.

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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. Have a PR Strategy. Think John Kerry and the “swift boat&# scandal. Whatever your political view we can all agree that John Kerry is a terrible communicator.

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Red Rocket

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Google has always been a staple of any good digital marketing strategy, especially for search engine optimization (SEO), to attract free organic traffic based on the quality of the content on your page. A Quick History of Google Search Ever since Google hit the scene in 1998, Google has been a staple of any good digital marketing strategy.

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