TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

One is S3 Ventures , a venture capital firm that’s been around since 2005, which raised $250 million for its Fund VII, touting itself as “the largest venture capital fund focused on Texas-based startups.” She recalls over a decade ago talking to tech-enabled consumer lenders about how technology would affect financial services.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. annual GMV.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2005, he helped to launch the startup Bazaarvoice, which provides data about retail customers’ shopping habits. . Hurt cofounded Austin, Texas-based Data.World in 2015 alongside Bryon Jacob, Jon Loyens and Matt Laessig. Image Credits: Data.World.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Our collective strategy Ambition 2030 represents the promise of Impact Hub when I first joined as a member (Impact Hub Islington, 2005). Also, it’s why I started an Impact Hub (Amsterdam, 2008), why I served on the global Board (2015-2018) and contributed through other roles, and why I want to continue to serve the network.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. In 2005, it was a risky bet to join Union Square Ventures and plant my VC career here in NYC. Mayors don’t build startup cities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. Back in 2005 no one anticipated the success of YCombinator, not even its founders. DropBox is one of those Ycombinator Cambridge winners that most investors missed, including me. None of the local VC firms invested.

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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. What qualities do you seek in start-up founders whose companies you would invest in?

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Impact Hub

MARCH 30, 2020

We could not agree more with the International Women’s Day 2020 campaign theme for this year’s celebrations of female achievement: “An equal world is an enabled world.”. The post She Breaks Barriers: Enabling an Equal World for Girls in Sport appeared first on Impact Hub.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

What we’re doing at Meebo is trying to socially enable websites by allowing them to immediately get not only the social graph information but to do useful stuff with it. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. With three co-founders, what was decision making and roles and responsibilities like?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2019

Risk is what enables you to innovate yourself—to get better and grow. A former professional athlete, Nagtegaal speed-skated with the North Holland Region/Utrecht KNSB from 2005 to 2008. It is what makes you pivot when a solution doesn’t address a need the way you want it to.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 The paid had worked together before — founding their first online payments company, MOIP, in 2005. million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses. “The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Back in 2005, that meant working on ringtones for mobile phones, and even trying, and failing, to stream Indian concerts to mobile phones in the U.S. Naik followed her passion for Bollywood music and built her first company, Saavn, a successful distribution and streaming service for Indian and Bollywood music and content.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

has had real-time payments since 2005 via the Faster Payments network. In Brazil, for example, Pix became the most popular payment method in the country in just two years—as well as the second-most used instant payments system in the world. Today, U.K. consumers use contactless payments for nearly 90% of in-person transactions.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. boom where many companies had deeply inflated values.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 9, 2016

In 2005, an economist named Benjamin Jones published a paper called The Burden of Knowledge and the ‘Death of the Renaissance Man’: Is Innovation Getting Harder? Remarkably, the Eastgate maintains an ambient temperature between 73-78°F despite variances in external temperatures from 58° to 88°.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The company is claiming this is the “world’s first” technology of its kind, and Daniel Russek, founder and CEO of Atarraya, told TechCrunch that Shrimpbox was an idea he got after college in 2005 when he started with a non-government organization working with fishing communities. So they created Atarraya, a U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

based incorporation management company that has incorporated more than 450,000 companies since its foundation in 2005. It enables entrepreneurs and small business owners to open a deposit account in just a day through the Sleek app and start transacting, getting rid of the onerous paperwork requirements before opening an account.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Launched in 2018, the company’s software lets enterprises plan programs for their employee resource groups (ERGs), which enable employees who share characteristics or experiences to come together, share resources and connect. Five to Nine , which makes event management software, has closed a $4.5 After moving to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Launched in 2018, the company’s software lets enterprises plan programs for their employee resource groups (ERGs), which enable employees who share characteristics or experiences to come together, share resources and connect. Five to Nine , which makes event management software, has closed a $4.25 After moving to the U.S.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

YC was founded in 2005 as an antidote to the classic venture capital firm. PG, Jessica, Trevor, and Robert decided to fund hackers and thereby enable the next generation of startup founders who would understand technology and its capabilities.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Presuming the trend continues, and computational power becomes free, or near free, what new technologies are enabled by it? When I worked at Google in 2005, we would test individual machine learning models one or two at a time. The first manifestation of large scale, near-free compute I’ve seen is in machine learning.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Using Crunchbase data from 2005 to 2012, I’ve plotted the follow-on rates by size of seed investment quintiles across 2906 companies in that period. Second, the additional capital enables seed stage startups to be more aggressive ramping the business either through marketing efforts, recruiting efforts or other tactics.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 25, 2013

In 2005, I started as a customer support rep in the AdSense team at Google. My training focused on using a customer service tool called Trakken that Google had acquired and heavily modified to enable AdWords and AdSense teams to manage the torrent of inbound support emails from customers. Emails didn’t get lost.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 18, 2014

Each chart shows the number of rounds raised bucketed by size from $0 to $5M and up to $150M to $200M from 2005 to 2013. The chart above breaks down fund-raising activity in US tech companies using Crunchbase data. Each bucket has grown over the past 8 years and most of them steadily. But there are a few outliers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

Larger seed rounds enable a seed stage company to achieve more - more growth, more revenue, more hiring. In addition, these larger seed rounds enable successful startups to raises larger series As, and the data supports it. What does this imply for early stage founders? First, it implies greater competition at the Series A.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded.

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Impact Hub

MAY 20, 2021

Annual food inflation in Nigeria reached 22.95% in March 2021 – the highest reading since October 2005 – according to a recent report by the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics. The good news is that local entrepreneurs are creating innovative solutions to address this challenge.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

On top of actually feeling like an AI, I was looking for website builders that checked a few important boxes: Enable you to make a great-looking site. Theme-based website builders have set the bar really high here, so there's no need for a website to look like it was built using Dreamweaver in 2005.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

Two-factor authentication vs. multi-factor authentication Benefits of two-factor authentication Types of two-factor authentication How to enable 2FA on popular apps What happens if you lose access to your 2FA device? It's simple and works on any phone—even your 2005 Nokia. How does 2FA work? Why is 2FA important?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 4, 2011

I feel like some kind of a social media-enabled product wiki should be able to help with this, but until then, I’ll do this here. About a year and a half ago, I bought a used Trek 1000 for like $250. I would say that it was about two or three years old at the time. I used it in my triathlon and 4-5 days a week as my commuter bike.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2011

I had a flip screen Toshiba at USV back in 2005, where I found myself to be as equally poor at note taking as I am now. It has some downloadable plugins that really improve the functionality around browsing, including Readability, which enabled me to grab text. This isn't my first time with a tablet.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

In 2005, Gmail claimed the title of most sophisticated app. Soon there after, Google Maps enabled interactivity in the browser for 2D maps. When the internet became popular in the 1990s, websites were static & adopted the design language of their creators : blue links & images. Then, we added interactivity with Javascript.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. But honestly Twitter never evolved and built tools to enable that to progress. Others had very few connections and they used it to share personal information. I was always more the latter. It was my public square.

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