Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2019

A version of this article originally appeared on Entrepreneur. . 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.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Like many startup founders, Anjali Jindal Naik, co-founder and COO of autonomous sidewalk robot maker Cartken, was raised by entrepreneurs. 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.

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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. overall that went to Black entrepreneurs, per Crunchbase data. Last year, less than an estimated 0.5%

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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. overall that went to Black entrepreneurs, per Crunchbase data. Last year, less than an estimated 0.5%

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Impact Hub

MAY 20, 2021

The good news is that local entrepreneurs are creating innovative solutions to address this challenge. 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.

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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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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. All of this is good news for entrepreneurs. 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.

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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. Ycombinator acts like a recursive loop that attracts the best entrepreneurs, which attracts the best investors, and the highest valuations, which attracts the best advisors, which comes full circle to attract the best entrepreneurs.

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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. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. This enabled them to unlock further funding as VC-backed growth companies over time. The creativity of UK entrepreneurs has and will continue to disrupt the status quo in financial services. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Thus, top entrepreneurs are pursuing cross-border infrastructure that is more easily used and integrated—as well as full-stack solutions for businesses themselves. The root of the problem Though money predates software by 50 centuries, it is still much more difficult than software to move it around the globe. Today, U.K.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

A single platform isn’t likely to solve all the data problems hamstringing the enterprise, but entrepreneur Brett Hurt believes his latest venture — Data.World — can affect at least some change. In 2005, he helped to launch the startup Bazaarvoice, which provides data about retail customers’ shopping habits. .

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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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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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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