Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

As a technologist he felt the US was “ground zero&# for technology innovation. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. Once you start censoring the Web, you restrict the ability to imagine and innovate. He told me that at the time he still held out hopes of being able to start a company in the US. But I have some.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Even an extraordinary engineer or product lead who have built a breakthrough product aren’t guaranteed success unless they can get access to capital, get much needed press to drive low-cost customer acquisition and persuade fickle business leaders to join their company and help them shape their businesses beyond tech innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

These days that’s not the case and it’s a great outcome for entrepreneurs and for innovation. At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so. So what took me $2 million at my first company now takes $20,000. That’s awesome.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Today we are launching the new i2E blog, Stories of Oklahoma Innovation. Each week, we will publish a blog taken from our actual experience working with Oklahoma’s entrepreneurs to build new, innovative technology companies. . Since 2007, i2E and Plains have invested more than $61 million of equity funding in 58 companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Yes, I studied Ricardo’s theory of Comparative Advantage in college that says that lower-skilled jobs should move to countries with lower labor costs, but Andy Grove’s point about loss of skills in manufacturing leading to a decline in innovation in the next technology wave is both real and troubling.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

and Dan Clark, Linear Health Sciences is a globally recognized MedTech Innovator company whose innovations address the issue of tension-based dislodgement of medical tubing for patients in most clinical settings. Since 2007, iMCI and i2E, Inc. About Linear Health Sciences. Founded by Ryan Dennis, M.D., About i2E Management Co.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. Overall, we are very optimistic about construction robotics and hope to see more companies attempt to solve the issues in productivity with breakthrough technologies, as well as innovative business models.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That success has been bolstered by the fact that the UK is among the world’s most innovative financial services regulatory environments. Regulation is generally a blocker to innovation. In 2007, it became one of the first markets in the world to issue contactless (tap-to-pay) cards. (A A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2023

Business problems and other life responsibilities in 2007 took control and made some days outright bad ones. Start now, get creative, experiment with different techniques, and find what resonates most — because everyone benefits from an increase in gratitude and innovative ways to incorporate it.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

echPetHub’s Clemens is Leading Innovation in the Pet Tech Industry I had the pleasure of interviewing Lorien Clemens, co-founder and CEO at PetHub , Inc., He started working on it in 2007 and developed the business plan in 2009. the first networked database in the U.S. for pets and pet parents. Thank you so much for joining us!

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 23, 2024

April 23, 2024 ) – Phase Sensitive Innovations – a veteran-owned, University of Delaware spinoff that specializes in radio-frequency components, devices and systems – has chosen to expand operations in its hometown of Newark, Delaware, to support its continued growth within the domestic defense and global semiconductor industries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Register Singapore is emerging as a hotspot for cleantech innovation, with a growing number of startups focusing on sustainability and environmental impact. TablePointer Pte Ltd About Startup: TablePointer Pte Ltd , a Singapore-based startup, specializes in providing innovative Energy-Efficiency-as-a-Service (EEaaS) solutions.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The company was founded in 2007 by T. We look forward to partnering with the company and its leadership as they bring innovative and affordable off-grid solar products to new markets and continue to grow their meaningful contribution to the global net zero transition,” said Aheto. Patrick Walsh (CEO) and Anish Thakkar.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Founded in 2007, Ataccama develops data governance, data catalog, data quality and data management capabilities for enterprises. “A second big opportunity is continuing product innovation, focused on bridging the gap between data democratization and the need for centralized data governance and data quality management.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Here are four startup myths that hold innovation back. businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). On the other hand, startup founders who fall into the majority can increase creativity and innovation by diversifying their workforce, and doing so as early as possible.

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Paul G. Silva

JULY 11, 2018

Due diligence doesn’t completely “de-risk” a deal, but it helps eliminate deals in which there are clear problems that lead to failure – things like products with no real customers, CEOs with integrity issues, and no true right to sell the innovation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 22, 2016

in 2007 during the collapse of the housing market, precisely because I believe change and chaos breed opportunity. And, according to research by Gartner , by 2017, 50% of product investment projects will be redirected to customer experience innovations. By Cindy Koebele, EO Minnesota member and President of TitleSmart, Inc. ,

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Led by charismatic chairman Dr Kira Radinsky, the company is described by the Israel Innovation Authority as “the most prominent company in the Israeli healthcare ecosystem.” I believe we have now reached the inflection point that Doerr foresaw in 2007. Early partners include the Mayo Clinic and Brown University. Read the column here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Plus, in his view, there has been very little innovation in cloud storage since Dropbox launched in 2007. . Founders Fund’s John Luttig said when the firm first met Ko and Zirbel last year, it was “ clear that they had a depth of understanding and thoughtfulness around file management” that his firm hadn’t seen before.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 5, 2018

They said as much on page 6 of Berkshire’s 2007 shareholder letter. What matters is the pace of innovation, that is the fundamental determinant of competitiveness. The speculators believe great investments develop competitive advantage through innovation, disruption and displacement. That is not investing.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

2007 marked an important milestone for the Earth’s cities. It is clear that without rapid innovation on a global scale, what we eat in our cities and how we produce it poses an existential challenge. It happened without us realizing at the time. Meanwhile, the individual costs to our own health of what we eat will add up to 1.3

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

The new funds will also be used to build out Ten-Nine Technologies’ engineering, business development and managerial team and continue development of its innovative battery materials. Johnson received the Battery Innovation Center (BIC) award for the development of hydrocarbon parity lithium battery technology in 2017.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

has been a first mover and innovator in the space.” “Based on our previous experience from the financial crisis in 2007–2009, an economic slowdown pushes companies to rethink their digital strategy which is often connected with rebuilding their website. “Kontent.ai

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The Ben Franklin Program invests in and supports technology-based start-ups, innovative manufacturers, and a technology-based ecosystem throughout the state. Since 2007-08, funding for Ben Franklin has dropped approximately 50 percent, from $28 million to $14.5 million per year.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott remained at Adobe, managing the deep integration of Behance into the Adobe Creative Cloud and leading Adobe’s innovative mobile product efforts. In 2007 he founded 99U, an annual conference attended by thousands of design leaders and creative professionals.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Their Cebu Center, according to Fujikura, will be opened during the early part of 2023 to uphold their mission of “turning encounters into innovation.”. Established on June 11, 2007, the company that is based in Tokyo, Japan has a capital of 6,450 million yen as of August 31, 2022.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The competitive NIH SBIR program funds early-stage small businesses seeking to commercialize innovative biomedical technologies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On a whim, Moeller and a friend tried out for a reality show called American Inventor, a precursor to Shark Tank that aired on ABC in summer 2007. How it works. Keep Technology’s Knight device connects to the OBD port in a vehicle. It was here that the entrepreneurial bug first bit.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The real innovation was a business one, with Klarna’s young and non-technical founders, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsso, taking an old idea and reconfiguring it for the burgeoning e-commerce industry. However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Helps daring companies with innovative consumer-facing solutions expand to new markets. The firm was founded in 2007 by Goldman Sachs professionals and manages $400 million across multiple funds. Our goal is to be the investment and growth platform of innovative technology startups with global growth potential in the EMEA region.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. He immediately started meeting with every eCommerce business and has a few themes on where he thinks innovation at the brand level will come. I wrote about him here.

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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. I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. Two years later in 2007 I interviewed Paul and asked him why he started Ycombinator.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

ecosystems to drive collaboration and entrepreneurial innovation around the UN’s Sustainable. Amit Bhatia, Founder of Aspire Circle & Aspire Impact (since 2007), was Inaugural CEO of The Global. 2014-2017); Founding CEO of WNS Knowledge Services (2003-2007); Founding Country Manager of. Impact Hub builds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The real innovation was a business one, with Klarna’s young and non-technical founders, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsso, taking an old idea and reconfiguring it for the burgeoning e-commerce industry. However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved.

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