American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

Her involvement in JA over the past 15 years includes serving as Board Chair, classroom volunteer, and speaker for the female-focused STEM initiative. “At She was honored as an entrepreneur and for her range of work in 2015 when she was inducted into the JA Space Coast Business Hall of Fame as Laureate.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2017

The work Mali Rising accomplishes is EO Global Board member Fred Johnson’s passion. When a child takes your hand and thanks you from the bottom of his or her heart for the opportunity to learn, you never forget that moment. Fred Johnson is an EO Global Board member, founder of Eagle Environmental, Inc. ,

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. While I or other full time partners may sit on the boards of 8-10 companies each Hamet will sit on the board of 4-5.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Tan was a YC founder in the summer of 2008 and served as a partner there from December 2010 to November 2015. Months after the departure, Tan said that Ohanian isn’t leaving the firm altogether but is instead stepping into a board partner role at Initialized. Next year, I'll be going back to Y Combinator as President and CEO.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Canada-based company got its start in 2008 as the payment processing company Zomaron, and rebranded itself as Paystone in 2019. The company has 150 employees currently, and another 50 are expected to come on board by the end of the year. Customer feedback is a development opportunity. million in revenue this year. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As part of the investment, Matt McIlwain, managing director at Madrona Venture Group, is joining Read’s board of directors. McIlwain also worked with Shim when they were both at Farecast, which was bought by Microsoft in 2008. There is a huge opportunity for someone to get hints,” he added.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A: It is an honour to step into this role and have the opportunity to build on the legacy of our past decade and help forge the next one – given the urgent need we now have in the world for sustainable solutions. A: A pragmatic visionary! Q: You’ve been with – and part of – the network for over 15 years. Why this role?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2008, he ended up in a clinic, spending $35,000 on every kind of blood, stool, saliva or urine test there was to figure out why he continued to get sick. It’s about the growth and the opportunity to continue to drive innovation,” he added. “We Image Credits: Athletic Greens. “I

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Everyone loves an underdog, which is why investors and tech journalists are so fond of discussing startups that launched during the Great Recession of 2008, like Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp, Mailchimp, Square and Venmo. The send-ahead deck. The presentation deck. The leave-behind deck. You may need more than one pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said. We see tremendous opportunity for innovation in the world of B2B payments. If you study previous compression periods in the ecosystem (e.g., What do you feel might be overhyped?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2016

When Annmarie Lanesey co-founded a software development business in Troy, NY in 2008, she saw business ownership as a means to successful living. By Annmarie Lanesey, EO Albany member and co-founder of Greane Tree Technology .

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Gabriela will continue to support our Ambition 2030 as a Board Director focusing on developing partnerships and engaging in policy efforts. Tatiana Glad, current Co-Founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam (since 2008), brings diverse experience to our global leadership team. Tatiana holds an MSc in sustainable business practice.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. Unlike other groups, ABL members all belong to either healthcare or technology industry-focused roundtables.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

I have sat on a board with Howard and have known him a few years. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 It is also a good opportunity for CEO’s to mingle with VC’s who might lead future rounds of fundraising. What is ideal board structure? How to run a board meeting?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer made the decision to take her community service commitment to a new level in November 2008 when she successfully ran for the Ward 6 City Council seat. With a lot of faith, and the opportunity to participate in the rebuilding of what would later become Automobile Alley, we opened our doors on July 17, 1995.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

In 2008 Eric co-founded his own startup, RockMelt, and ran the company as CEO until its acquisition by Yahoo last year. It also allows us to recruit the best possible partner candidates, like Eric Vishria, early in their careers and allow them to dedicate many years to refining their craft as venture investors and board members.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

If that entrepreneur has enough money to conservatively make it work (but not quickly), he or she can go it alone, but the business will not scale quickly and it may lose its niche opportunity. Whitaker is co-founder and board member of RevTech Accelerator, a leading venture accelerator seed fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

In 2008, he started Bluechip Technologies with a friend, Kazeem Tewogbade as an enterprise company that provides data warehousing solutions and enterprise applications to banks, telcos, insurance firms. .” The ticket sizes will range from $20,000 to $100,000, focusing on startups in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and North Africa.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Consequently, US regulators have discouraged the selling of equity (shares) through crowd funding websites, so online companies, such as Kickstarter.com , offer the opportunity to donate funds to interesting US startup ventures in exchange for the right to become early product users or simply listed on the new ventures’ websites.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

If given an opportunity to take seed capital on a discounted fee basis from an anchor investor, I’d always do that deal on a vehicle-specific basis. From CAIA : “Before 2008, a widely accepted rule of thumb was for a [hedge] seeder to expect 1% of revenues for each $1 million of seed capital. Back office , in some cases. .

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. I think you're going to see a major shift towards getting youth across the board interested in math and science, on accessible learning on demand, and the positive encouragement of innovation. Reader beware.).

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Impact Hub

APRIL 21, 2020

For 9 years and counting, WWF and Impact Hub have collaborated and supported innovations to accelerate, and scale solutions tackling environmental issues and economic opportunities in local communities. . Thomas Vellacott is CEO of WWF Switzerland and a board member of Impact Hub Association. Views expressed are personal. .

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 1, 2020

An inexperienced entrepreneur might neither have the experience nor the tools to manage their impending company crisis; we as knowledgeable Angels and mentors and board members can draw on the experiences we have faced as investors in those previous cycles. It is our hour to shine and help our startups survive and thrive! Be ruthless.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

If given an opportunity to take seed capital on a discounted fee basis from an anchor investor, I’d always do that deal on a vehicle-specific basis. From CAIA : “Before 2008, a widely accepted rule of thumb was for a [hedge] seeder to expect 1% of revenues for each $1 million of seed capital. Back office , in some cases. .

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Feedough

MARCH 5, 2021

He is accountable to and reports directly to the board of directors – a group of individuals elected to represent the company’s shareholders. It’s this board that elects and appoints the chief executive officer of the company. Visionary: The CEO looks into the future for opportunities that the business can capitalise on.

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Feedough

MARCH 5, 2021

He is accountable to and reports directly to the board of directors – a group of individuals elected to represent the company’s shareholders. It’s this board that elects and appoints the chief executive officer of the company. Visionary: The CEO looks into the future for opportunities that the business can capitalise on.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2022

They, in the service of the devil that is TradFi, will use any and every opportunity to poke fun at our economic / social experiment?—?gleefully Su and Kyle graduated university in 2008, the same year as myself, and at some subsequent point made their way to Asia Pacific as employees of TradFi banks / market makers.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 25, 2015

Since my co-founders and I started Invoca in 2008, my role as founder-CEO has broadened from proving a concept and building a team to managing personnel and scaling operations. The transition process involves handing off essential responsibilities and creating the opportunity for true leadership. It took six months, but it paid off.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 22, 2023

I'm joined here today by Mr. Jeffrey Lang, chairman of the board for the Desert Angels. A great place to be able to start today is maybe tell our listeners a little bit more about yourself; a little bit more about your personal journey that led you to becoming chairman of the board, and of course, why you decided to become an angel investor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

But as a founder during the Global Financial Crisis and subsequent recession, I learned how a broad market pullback in online ad spending can create opportunities for startups willing to double down when others are running for the exit. We also learned faster by having more people using our product than we otherwise would have.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2014

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. Unlike other groups, ABL members all belong to either healthcare or technology industry-focused roundtables.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Today, one of the more promising startups out of Europe building software to help SMEs run online businesses is announcing some funding to better tap into both the opportunity to build these services, and to meet a growing demand from the SME segment.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

This is the first deal I've closed for FRC and I've also joined the board of the company. Back in late 2008, I noticed that one of my Flickr contacts seemed to be short a few photos--like, a few thousand of them. Josh Kopelman will be working closely on this investment as well. The origin of this company is pretty interesting.

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OkDork

JANUARY 27, 2023

Airbnb was made during the 2008 recession, and this is very similar. Business Idea #5: Employment Coaching Sadly, there's lots of layoffs across the board in many different companies, and more and more people are looking for work. Business Idea #9: Garden Specialist Yes, this is a real business opportunity.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. For every bear there’s somebody else thinking they have an opportunity. That was written in September 2008. In September 2008 this was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the rippling effect was massive.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

In 2008, I started a business called RJMetrics, which was basically the first SaaS analytics platform. It was in that moment that I finally had an opportunity to pop my head up and look around, and do some pattern recognition on the last decade. I wanted to ask you, why did you decide to write the book? The first two were much nerdier.

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