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. You will present in front of hundreds of the most successful Angel investors and Venture Capital investors.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Superscout provides learning resources for current and upcoming VC scouts, a community forum, and tools to help scouts present their deals and find the right investors to send them to. . Helps daring companies with innovative consumer-facing solutions expand to new markets. The firm invests $1,000,000 to $3,500,000 in start-ups. .

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

Impact Hub is present in 60 countries already and has delivered over 450 incubation, acceleration and. 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. Impact Hub builds.

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OurCrowd

JULY 22, 2020

That’s not to say many didn’t see it coming: WHO published a strategic action plan for pandemic influenza in 2007 and in 2014 Bill Gates, representing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, presented a TED Talk about his anticipation of both a pandemic and societal lack of preparation for such an international medical crisis.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Steve Jobs did not attempt to make another flip phone or a Blackberry lookalike back in 2007; he absolutely revolutionized the mobile phone industry. Action Item: Calendar a three-hour block once per month by yourself or with the most innovative members of your team discussing what you could be doing that no one else in your industry does.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Lucid began in 2007 as Atieva, a company founded by former Tesla VP and board member Bernard Tse and entrepreneur Sam Weng that focused on developing electric car battery technology. The investor presentation released Monday echoes Rawlinson’s earlier comments, noting that “Tesla is innovative but not luxury.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The company says it plans to use the funds to speed up customer acquisition in its present markets. There are so many trailblazing innovations that we don’t talk about a lot about Nigeria, like the BVN and the NIP system. Flutterwave wants to become a global payments company, and the Series C investment helps to reach that goal.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalypse (originally published in 2007) is offered as premium content behind the Longreads subscription wall. Friends I know close to Santa Fe confirm that he is not merely present, but also an active and skilled participant. Two of my favorite innovative thinkers from history are Charles Darwin and Adam Smith.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

While Nigeria and Kenya have been at the forefront of African fintech innovation, activities in Egypt are beginning to shape up nicely. Asides from Egypt, Paymob is also present in Kenya, Pakistan, and Palestine. The pandemic presented one of the best opportunities for fintechs all over the world to achieve massive growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2021

The even bigger issue to making home automation ubiquitous is cost: Since 2000, the cost of homes has outpaced household income in all but the years 2007–2012. I like this definition because it honours the fact that for something to be sustainable it must also be presently viable. 4 Lessons learned on my sustainability journey.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

In fact, many of Expensify’s initial team actually met at Red Swoosh, which was eventually acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2007 for $18.7 By 2007, Beevers had completed his Ph.D. in robotic mapping at RPI and tried his hand at co-founding and running an engineered-wood-product company named SolidJoint Research, Inc. for 10 months.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 12, 2020

of the market share in 2007. Nokia was the pioneer of innovation. In 2007, the market share of Nokia swelled up to 49.4%, making it the one and only company in the world to do so. From being the largest telecom company in the world in 2007 to being on the brink of bankruptcy in 2013, Nokia saw their worst days.

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Impact Hub

JULY 1, 2019

In 2007, San Francisco was the first city to implement plastic-free grocery stores. Zero-waste grocery stores all over the world are now present, where you can buy chewable toothpaste or olive oil dispensed into your own container.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 18, 2025

Celebrating Medical Innovation: Nominations Open for the Prestigious $100,000 Thomas J. Fogarty Prize (Fogarty Prize), a new award designed to honor innovators who have successfully developed and brought life-changing medical technologies to market. Recognizing Excellence in Medtech Innovation Named after Dr. Thomas J.

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