This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

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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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

But attaining the right resources, funds, and support can be an uphill battle. Thankfully there are other companies happy to help show support. So the Tory Burch Foundation created a fellowship program to support women-owned businesses and help guide them toward success. About Tory Burch.

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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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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2021

The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. This one is using outsourced development, support, outsourced customer relations and more. The real focus should be on smart planning, finding ways to launch and build the business with smart but frugal use of money.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In 2004, I left the firm to join Intuit as their in-house GM. I had left my previous role as an attorney for this position and had a family, including two sons, to support. I grew up in Southern California and graduated from Pepperdine University with a JD. As a leader, I was also struggling from anxiety. I felt worried all the time.

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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 achieve my goals with determination, as well as with the support of the people I actively build relationships with over the years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 16, 2017

When she joined in 2012, her company, CoinX, was in high growth mode, which made support from her EO community an invaluable asset. 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.

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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. A close friend of mine founded Mali Rising, and I quickly became inspired to offer support when I learned about Mali’s low literacy rate and the poverty that coincides with it.

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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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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The post [CyberMDX in PR Newswire] CyberMDX Supports Cyber Awareness Month with Hospital Hacks Video Campaign appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Department of Homeland Security. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

He started Thrillist with Adam Rich in 2004, which later became Group Nine Media in 2016. 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. Lerer and managing partner Eric Hippeau spoke to me about the new funds.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Helios Investment Partners has experienced great success as a private equity firm since Tope Lawani and Babatunde Soyoye launched it in 2004. He also stated that his PE firm will support Helios Digital Ventures-backed startups with private equity as they mature. The firm manages funds totaling $3.6

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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. Women business leaders have created mentorship networks to help support a culture of innovation and risk-taking. Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019.

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Surdna Foundation

APRIL 11, 2022

This is our fourth such survey since 2004. Multi-year general support is invaluable. Grantees like that we provide unrestricted support and asked us to give even larger and longer general support grants. Support beyond the grant makes a big difference. Source: Surdna Grantee Perception Report. Learning together.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 20, 2018

You have to support them and ruffle their feathers in the correct balance, in order to get them to stretch beyond their limitations without quitting. A master of her craft, she knew the value of personalized party accessories, so Mintz launched her own party supply company in 2004. You can thrive and be happy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

2004 / Cash and financial management is a matter of survival. There, I discovered we had grown our customer count far faster than our employees to support it, and customer service and employee happiness were suffering. Bonus lesson: Don’t put your coffee machine, your microwave, and your telecommunications server on the same circuit.

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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. As you may guess, I am very proud of the supportive/collaborative culture we have built at One Horn. Do your employees fit in, or are there toxic people dragging you down?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2014

HubSpot’s target customer base are SMBs and with this price point, it’s possible to support a profitable inside sales model if the team is very efficient. FLTX 2004 10 128. HubSpot’s average revenue per customer (ARPC) of about $7,752 is the fourth smallest of the companies I analyzed. RNG 1999 14 162. CTCT 2007 9 31.

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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. As a result, there is no true need to predict demand aside from hiring the staff to support customers. First, to understand GoPro’s business better. Third, to draw conclusions for other hardware startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. It’s modifying existing Visa types and what has happened recently is we built a steady drum beat, very solid grass roots momentum and support, plenty of endorsement, Venture Capital community pretty broadly endorsed it. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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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. The Mac version of Dragon is buggy, and no longer supported by Nuance. So I installed it and tried to use it for a few days. Here are my impressions. Pros of Windows. Speed: the operating system is much faster than Mac.

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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.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 18, 2016

They will support and inform human-decision making, which reinforces the need for many of these systems to explain why. Jeff Bezos used the Five Whys in 2004 to investigate why a conveyor belt had injured a worker.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

We were founded in 2004 by David Rose, Founder & Executive Chairman, Gust. Q: Do you offer your angels any technology tools to support portfolio construction for direct investments? We are one of the world’s largest and most active single-chapter angel groups. Q: Can you please share your major tech needs (e.g.,

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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. Ishenny – a scientist and inventor – and his son, Muhamad Fauzal Rizky, an ex-banker, Sampangan’s journey is as unique and captivating as the solution they bring to the table.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Companies founded by immigrants.

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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. OurCrowd has supported Tmura since its inception, encouraging all our startups to donate a percentage of their options.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. The VCs basically have liquidity in management fees along the way, in the sense they get paid decently along the way. We managed the business because we felt responsible since we raised money.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 30, 2022

“Now we can connect it also to the treatment, and we can monitor whether patients do respond to treatment, and how they respond to treatment, how they develop side effects,” says Ciechanover, winner of the 2004 Nobel prize for chemistry. “If We might be the only technology that can support these at scale.”. Personalized panels.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

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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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. And I joined as a customer support rep. Well, I joined Google, I guess now fairly early, but it was 2004. I’m Travis Bryant. Excited to be back emceeing.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Enter Facebook. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. David Goldhill, in his enlightening book Catastrophic Care , declared: “…a guiding principle of any reform should be to put the consumer, not the insurer or the government, at the center of the system.

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Red Rocket

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

And, finally in 2004, Google launched Google Local, which allowed businesses with multiple retail locations the abilities to advertise and promote their various locations, in addition to the corporate parent company. it means search engine optimization as a strategy is on “life support”.

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