Dream It

APRIL 8, 2020

Jason sat down with Steve Barsh , Managing Partner of Dreamit, to give founders relevant downturn strategies. Having been at the forefront of the dot-com boom, 9/11, and the financial crisis of 2008, Jason knows what it takes to survive this downturn. In fact, Jason started investing during the financial crisis.

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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. Gibson, who previously served as general partner focused on crypto, web2, SaaS and devops) will lead the firm’s early-stage investment strategy. Since inception, my goal has always been for Initialized to outlive its founders.

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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. Hamet is an extension of this strategy. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. I stayed close. What does that mean?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy founded theBoardlist , a premium talent marketplace that helps diverse leaders get discovered for board and executive opportunities. A technology executive and entrepreneur, board member and investor, she has 25 years of experience founding and helping to scale companies, including Google, Amazon and Yodlee.

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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. In addition, Al-Ansari expects growth to accelerate for the rest of the year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). At any moment in time one of Upfront’s associates are likely to be working on: a pricing strategy, a market-expansion strategy, an M&A review, or helping build a company’s first board deck template.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Their popularity has surged over the last decade, with the asset class growing from just over $3 trillion in 2008 to more than $10 trillion in 2019, according to data provider Preqin. . ibnAle is set to join the company’s board of directors. Alto last raised $17 million for its Series A in April 2021. .

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Our collective strategy Ambition 2030 represents the promise of Impact Hub when I first joined as a member (Impact Hub Islington, 2005). Also, it’s why I started an Impact Hub (Amsterdam, 2008), why I served on the global Board (2015-2018) and contributed through other roles, and why I want to continue to serve the network.

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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.

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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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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 Investing Strategy. What is ideal board structure? For a company that raises a seed round of capital a three person board that includes the CEO, Investor, and an Independent member is fine.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

Another founder … “When I pitched the idea to Adam, he was super on board,” Mr. Sloyan said. If you can’t raise from a few strong angels, from seed funds or from a VC then raising from a ton (let’s say 20+) angels is a perfectly acceptable strategy. All of my partners at Upfront do. If all else fails, angel-load away!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. Bu when you start to worry that the world is ending (as it seemed it was in late 2008 / early 2009) you tend to get worried about large burn rates. As a personal story, I sat on the board of one company with a very unhealthy burn rate relative to revenue or expected growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

The organization serve as an informal business advisory board. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life. Back in 2008, our team did a vision exercise: What would Ruby look like at 10 times our current size? I certainly did. Bonus lesson: Set your domain name to auto-renew! Our offering?

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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. Rethinking growth targets, in light of the rising cost of capital, to focus more on efficiency in this environment is a consistent thread in board meetings these days.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

We elevated the business value to new heights in 2008 and yet I was powerless to stop the carnage as it plummeted to earth a few years later due to errant decision making. He is also the president of Idea Gateway which works with its client partners to reach the next level of excellence through effective business planning and strategy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Roccia joined straight from Georgetown the same year, 2003, and left as the magazine’s accessories editor in 2008. For those who might be curious, their former boss, Anna Wintour, is a champion of theirs. “It’s why people liked wedding registries.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Since investing in startup companies is very risky, the only winning investor strategy is to pick well and invest in many companies. Nelson Gray , Europe’s 2008 Angel of the Year, suggests that crowd funding may lead to the “dead-end of an uninvestable proposition.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“This essay is dedicated to the great VC’s on my board who I am lucky to work with: Sameer Gandhi from Accel, Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed, and Kirsten Green from Forerunner. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. After 6-7 years they therefore have 7-10 board seats, which is about all most VCs can effectively manage.

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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. He forms the interface between the board and the employees and between the organisation and the community.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Greater governance role for limited partner Boards of Advisors. Recovery from the 2008 Great Recession took two years and was relatively weak. The survivors will place greater focus on core products, services, more efficient processes and strategies to gain market share even in tougher times. Stronger Survivors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. Klarna is apparently the first European board for legendary Sequoia partner, Michael Moritz. and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. -

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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. He forms the interface between the board and the employees and between the organisation and the community.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2022

A hedge fund that was previously successful executing boring but stable yielding arbitrage strategies decided to strap on leverage to accelerate returns, and paid the price. As bankers, Su and Kyle saw this inefficient market and used their own money to start a fund with a trading strategy centred around profiting on these mispricings.

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OkDork

JANUARY 27, 2023

Content strategy consulting: When you get good at content remixing and know which type of content performs best on which channels, you can consult creators. Airbnb was made during the 2008 recession, and this is very similar. Here’s my number…” This is a perfect recession-proof business. And that's going to always be true.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

VantagePoint Venture Partners came to the rescue in late 2003 with an infusion of $15 million in capital, adding Andrew Sheehan (now at Sutter Hill Ventures ) and David Carlick (now at Rho Ventures ) to the Board. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

And basic searches on the Micromax brand on Google from 2008 — its first year in mobile — lay bare the general decline in chatter about the company. Founded in 2000 by Vikas Jain, Rahul Sharma, Sumit Kumar Arora and Rajesh Agarwal, Micromax first started life as a small IT firm, making its first move into phones only in 2008.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2022

While you might think that a governing board of unelected bureaucrats determining the fate of the most successful “democracy” is a bit odd, that’s just how the cookie crumbles. ??? Words that might sound innocuous to the masses are sweet nothings to the Wall Street Journal editorial board. is directly correlated to the fed funds rate.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2023

In 2012, the economy was starting to bounce back from the financial collapse of 2008 and 2009. At an executive level, we were focused on building a strategy where our business was able to still grow and make every dollar count. To managers and boards so they’ll believe in your ability to execute. I was right.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

Nothing wrong with this asset liability management strategy so far. Obviously, that strategy didn’t work. Banks are Shitty Investments Unlike the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed didn’t bail out banks and allow them to participate in the upside this time. Government bond yields will fall across the board for a few reasons.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

It’s like adding rocket fuel to space ship before you’re sure that it’s pointing in the right direction for take off (or even if all of the people on board are qualified to take this into outer space). I say define a strategy, test it up front and pivot if you’re not getting the traction you had expected.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

The US 10-year treasury yield is in yellow, and the size of the Fed’s balance sheet is in white from 2008 to 2022. China should likely employ a blend of all three strategies I laid out above. The green trend channel shows that yields broadly fell as the Fed’s balance sheet ballooned in size.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

The number one input to whether or not someone buys that next incremental piece of software or potentially engages that service provider is actually how well it interacts and interoperates with the other technology decisions they’ve already made to drive it some kind of bigger strategy. And that is absolutely transformational and huge.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Looking back at the burst of the first internet bubble in the early 2000s and the 2008 financial meltdown, Chaddha notes that we can expect roiling public markets and “geopolitical challenges” to inform the size of seed and Series A rounds. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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