Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. Consumer debt relative to incomes has risen to an all time high reaching 138% of 2007 (obviously that’s not sustainable!)

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Moeller spent several years researching and developing prototypes and business plans for what would eventually become Keep Technologies. Keep’s technology, of which it has secured five utility patents and another 16 pending, has already attracted several investors. Image Credits: Keep Technologies. How it works.

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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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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

These companies are global magnets for technical talent eager to work on the most advanced and highest-impact technology products in the world. The next logical step was to go up-market and look for financial “partners” among the many corporations struggling to keep up with the pace of technological innovation during the go-go ZIRP years.

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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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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

Plains Venture Partners is a growth-oriented venture fund focused on investing in entrepreneurs and technologies with a strong potential for disruption. Since 2007, iMCI and i2E, Inc. Plains evaluates companies that have established proof of concept, including strong market validation and a demonstrated ability to execute. i2E.org.

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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.

energy

Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

Ten-Nine Technologies to onboard engineering and management talent, develop prototypes, and build production facilities to supply a leading battery manufacturer – major funding provided by i2E Management Company, Inc., The iMCI-led investment in Ten-Nine Technologies includes $1.65 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

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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.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The Ben Franklin Technology Partners (Ben Franklin) Pennsylvania statewide network will present before the Pennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee regarding the proposed 2019-2020 Pennsylvania budget at 3:00 PM on Wednesday, March 6, live-streamed here: [link]. million per year. in additional state taxes.

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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., Tom told me about his amazing idea to start a company in the pet technology space. He started working on it in 2007 and developed the business plan in 2009.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 23, 2024

Growth of veteran-owned, Newark-based company will support production of semiconductor components and other advanced technologies for Department of Defense contracts and private-sector clients WILMINGTON, Del. I’m pleased by Phase Sensitive Innovations’ work to recruit employees from our institutions of higher education.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

One of the largest solar companies in Africa and Asia, Sun King , has raised $260 million in series D funding to deliver off-grid energy technologies to more people across the two continents. The company was founded in 2007 by T. Its current systems can power lights, mobile phones and small home appliances like TVs.

energy

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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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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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. billion in 2011.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 5, 2018

“Can you explain to me why public key/private key technology is important on the Blockchain?” Buffett and Munger aren’t technology investors. 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

There are lots of interesting technology challenges when you focus on the creative side of cloud storage,” he said. Plus, in his view, there has been very little innovation in cloud storage since Dropbox launched in 2007. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

has been a first mover and innovator in the space.” On the developer side, customers can integrate Kontent with other apps and technologies through APIs and “flexible content models,” enabling control over the structure of content and how it’s delivered to websites and apps. . “Kontent.ai

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We invest in UK technology companies with global ambitions.”. Our mission is to grow and diversify Western Canada’s technology startup ecosystem. . “If Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally. It partners with technology founders at Series A and beyond.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

2007 marked an important milestone for the Earth’s cities. Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. It happened without us realizing at the time. trillion USD by 2030. Feeding the City.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The opening of its newest center is aligned with the company’s effort to further strengthen the development of Sansan’s product functions for global markets by establishing a global-standard technology development environment.

development

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved. 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. .

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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

Majority of the respondents agreed that mentorship, technological inputs, R&D Support 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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved. 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. .

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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.

innovation

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While many lament government regulation as an infringement on innovation, I believe increased scrutiny is a net positive for the future of the software industry. anti-competitive practices that stifled innovation, as was the case with AT&T, IBM, Microsoft and today’s tech titans) rather than how their software operated.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

R&D spend is the lifeblood of technology companies—all the more so as companies race to build and incorporate AI into their products to remain competitive. Imagine if, in 2007, Netflix decided to follow the 70–20–10 rule. Without a product that provides unique value to customers, nothing else matters.

frameworks

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. It also has a long history of innovation and a rich tech legacy.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. But the critical distinction in the direction of both companies was that while MySpace was putting up moats to keep outside companies from innovating and making money off their backs, Facebook took the opposite approach.

networking

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. Sometimes they take off and they reward the early innovators. But how can you invest in technology unless you’re going to use the tools and understand them? In 2008 I started VC blogging.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2011

In the days to come, there will be a lot of back and forth analysis over who "won" SXSW and whether or not there was a breakthrough technology to watch out for. I was at SXSW in 2007--the "Year of Twitter". It is the single best place in the creative innovation world to build relationships and get to know people.

creativity

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

As President and co-owner of the 102-year-old Lamey Wellehan shoe stores, Jim Wellehan used sustainability to foster innovation and remain relevant in the face of fierce competition. In 2007, as the most affluent people in the world were meeting the first iPhone, another mobile innovator entered the market. billion in sales.

sustainability

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Provides publishers innovative site-search tools that enhance user engagement ( icanhazcheeseburger.com and Fred Wilson’s blog avc.com use Lijit as does Feld.com [but he's an investor]). Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. Formerly known as Fonelet Technologies. I’ve already started the business modeling.

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