Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

We started the firm in 2008, on the cusp of the Global Financial Crisis, and it’s somehow fitting to be entering our 15th year as the laws of financial gravity reassert themselves once again. Founders’ Co-op turns fifteen this year.

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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. The product combines more than eight nutritional products into one, including multivitamins, probiotics and immune support, and is approaching its fifty-third iteration later this year.

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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 Glad. About Impact Hub.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

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. After 10 years of leading the Impact Hub Network, Gabriela Gandel will move into a new role on our Impact Hub Association global board in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

In a statement, the BoE said: “SVB UK has a limited presence in the UK and no critical functions supporting the financial system. It plays a pivotal role in supporting and financing Britain’s startups. In the interim, the firm will stop making payments or accepting deposits.”

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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. We use a methodology that supports inclusivity with clients, so we can keep the mission true to its end users. Annmarie Lanesey is an EO Albany member and President of Greane Tree Technology.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It’s a different kind of milestone for me as an investor: 10 years ago I led the company’s Seed round and joined the board, where I served until the Series C. The world of software investing has changed dramatically since we started Founders’ Co-op back in 2008.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . But getting farmers on board has never been easy, Goslinga told TechCrunch. Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds.

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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 This becomes a support group and allows them to help each other succeed. What is ideal board structure? How to run a board meeting? Howard is successful enough that he doesn't need to work.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 6, 2022

The first step, as with college-bound seniors everywhere, is that OSSM students have to figure out how to pay for books and tuition, room and board. Jessica Decker, OSSM graduate in 2008, has been an OSSM instructor since 2012 in various courses on the main campus. The question I received was, and what happens after that?

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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. Gather information to support your observations. How do roundtables operate? Every leader has stories to tell.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

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. disclosure: I am thankfully no longer on this board).

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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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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. Women business leaders have created mentorship networks to help support a culture of innovation and risk-taking. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

The organization serve as an informal business advisory board. There, I discovered we had grown our customer count far faster than our employees to support it, and customer service and employee happiness were suffering. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life. I certainly did. You can read them here.

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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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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 1, 2020

Our decisions to support a startup are totally our own. 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. Be ruthless.

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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. It‘s our choice what path we follow. .

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Nelson Gray , Europe’s 2008 Angel of the Year, suggests that crowd funding may lead to the “dead-end of an uninvestable proposition.”. Unfortunately, crowd investors will not usually be available to provide such support. VCs and angels routinely require a seat on the board of directors of new companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. I looked up the funding details on Crunchbase and noticed that they closed a big round in March 2008 (e.g. Or are you sure that they’re really supportive of you? It is 2010. before the world changed).

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Jason Malki

MARCH 24, 2023

She received her Bachelor of Arts in History and Women’s and Gender Studies from Pace University in New York City in 2008. She also currently sits on the Junior Advisory Board for the Leopold Schepp Scholarship Foundation Event Planning Committee. Prior to founding Dare to Run, Ms. In addition, Ms.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2022

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. The idea was that eventually the Terra ecosystem will grow enough that it can support the high APY. Terra was essentially paying for Anchor’s growth and adoption.

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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

APRIL 28, 2022

If no Bitcoin changes hands because we all sit smugly clutching our USB sticks, then there will be no hashpower supporting the network. 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. No network … no value.

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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. Gather information to support your observations.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. By then I was still on the board of my first company but it hadn’t yet sold (it ended up selling in 2007 to a publicly traded French company). I believe this is wrong.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Greater governance role for limited partner Boards of Advisors. On the one hand, there will be more investors to write follow-on checks for our deals; on the other hand, top-tier VCs are launching $400M – $500M seed funds accompanied by larger value-added portfolio support staff, providing more deal competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Our existing investors supported us and a new lead came in. I started my second company while retaining a board seat at my first company. Exercise hadn’t been enough of a priority in 2008-09. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this. At least not externally. But now I’m nearly 42.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

But before I sent it I had made 10 private phone calls, sent emails & built support. He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro.

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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. Providing phone, chat, and email support for residents online payments and our clients (HOA’s, Multifamily and Single family rentals). There’s no better place to learn a business than in customer support. I was right.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

You will see in societies, people will just put a board outside of their house and start selling products. I don’t know where, but in another interview, and you said you don’t really want to scale customer support, because it’s unsustainable. It’s not just us, this is 2008 to 2012.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

Then there’s obviously a lot of companies like the ZoomInfos of the world that popped up with data to support that sales motion. In 2008, I started a business called RJMetrics, which was basically the first SaaS analytics platform. There was a time when everything was field sales. Inside sales felt like a foreign concept.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

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. How do we get from finite to infinite support? Government bond yields will fall across the board for a few reasons. Right off the bat, the Fed implicitly printed $4.4

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 10, 2016

What he also did, unlike Giuliani, was advocate civilian review boards and neighborhood policing where cops worked together with their communities as partners. Thankfully, this person had family support. in 2008, I was in a failing business that I had started. This person is white. They had a good lawyer.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2022

This essay shall argue that on July 27, the Fed telegraphed that, should growth disappoint, it will shift its policies towards supporting growth rather than fighting inflation. To support growth and a return to form in a fiat, debt-backed, financialised economy, the Fed must reduce the price of money and expand its quantity.

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