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Bringing startup expertise to the boardroom

NZ Entrepreneur

Maria King’s governance career has focused on supporting and building innovative new businesses, so when she undertook the Institute of Directors ’ Advanced Directors Course (ADC) , she was delighted to see a section on startup governance included. I just want to unlock potential and support success.”

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EO Honored by Nuway Foundation for its Work Supporting UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

Entrepreneurs' Organization

While Evans always gave back, his life changed in 2004 when his team built the National Underground Railroad Museum. Repaid funds go toward supporting more entrepreneurs. EO supports all of these initiatives by supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. For Evans, it wasn’t just another project.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. I thank Rich and his team, as well as David Orfao from GC for their support of my good friend long after I left First Round. In fact, my history with Rob and Backupify goes back almost ten years, well before the idea of cloud backup was ever a glimmer in anyone''s eye.

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Embracing the Circular Economy: One EO Entrepreneur’s Story

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Integral to the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s core beliefs is our commitment to making a positive difference in the world—exemplified by our pledge to support the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read more about EO’s support of the UN SDGs. He joined EO in 2004.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

Both Sides of the Table

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Mike told the potential evangelists that Hashable would love their support, and he asked them to tell Hashable what they didn’t like about the tool. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Thank you, John.

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HealthTech News Roundup

Dream It

The study looked at 316,244 women whose health insurance switched from a low-deductible plan to a high-deductible plan between 2004 and 2014. An article in NPR describes a recent study that linked high-deductible health plans to delayed diagnosis and treatment. months longer for diagnostic breast imaging, 2.7 months for first biopsy, 6.6

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