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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

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. Pitch perfect, you might think. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone.

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Austin’s Will Hurley on the city’s incredible tech rise

TechCrunch

government essentially shut them down in 2005, he said. Whurley pitched him to invest in the company. It is targeting applications in the aerospace, energy, finance and pharmaceuticals industries. In 2001, for six months, Whurley left Austin to follow a girl to Las Vegas and to break into casinos as a hired hacker. But the U.S.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

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. Pitch perfect, you might think. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. Two years earlier I saw another Boston based startup called Carbonite pitch a similar cloud backup solution to investors. Back in 2005 no one anticipated the success of YCombinator, not even its founders.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tomasz Tunguz

I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. ” Tomasz Tunguz: Great sales pitch, please come do this. 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.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. There have also been many high profile financings of infrastructure players to support these gaming platforms including Offerpal Media, SuperRewards (bought by AdKnowledge), Gambit and more recently LA-based Sometrics. The iPhone success is more profound than just iPhone apps.

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