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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

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We used to chat a fair amount via our respective blogs about management and entrepreneurship. Rob messed around with some local video thing in 2008, which everyone but Rob thought was a pretty terrible idea. " — Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) December 29, 2008. I'm fearing the day Yahoo goes "Oops!"

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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. He is a successful entrepreneur, video game pioneer and venture capitalist and founder of the startup accelerator Play Labs @ MIT. The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy.

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

TechCrunch

Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014. Nine of the 16 portfolio companies are participating in Sopoong’s first accelerator program, which launched in June and runs for six months.

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What Drives The University Of Michigan’s Entrepreneurial Success

HPA

What’s not as widely known is how Ann Arbor has a storied and growing entrepreneurship ecosystem that shows no signs of slowing down. I found that the university has more than 15 programs and centers in entrepreneurship and exceeds 30 entrepreneurial student organizations. In the mid-2010s, that focus began to evolve. Just as the $2.4B

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

Hence the parallel goal of tackling a variety of gaps (territorial, gender, socio-economic, generational and so on) that might otherwise be exacerbated by a more single-minded rush to accelerate the size of the digital sector. “We are not only focusing on innovative entrepreneurship.

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Cheese raises $3.6M for its digital bank aimed at the Asian-American community

TechCrunch

Many things have accelerated in the world of fintech over the past year, not the least of which is the trend of digital banks aimed at specific communities in the U.S. Co-founder and CEO Ken Lian came to the United States from China in 2008 to attend college. First Boulevard raises $5M for its digital bank aimed at Black America.

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ESHIP Communities Ecosystem Builder: Chef Esra England

Forward Cities

Q: What is your deeper ‘why’ behind your commitment/work to support inclusive entrepreneurship in Kansas City? . I hope to see business incubators/accelerators and resources dedicated to these areas specifically east of Troost Ave. I graduated from Michigan State University with a BS in Clinical Laboratory Science in 2008.