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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. Here's the graph for the books.]. The market had tanked. I'll cover this in my next post.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

So BuildOnline kept the employees on their books and they did subcontracting work for our company, Koral. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. They come from smart, creative, inspired risk-takers. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral.

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Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try

TechCrunch

million premium subscribers and $190 million in booked revenues in 2020. It has a popular and meme-ified mascot in the form of the owl Duo, a creative and engaging product, and ambitious plans for expansion.There’s just one key question in the midst of all those milestones: Does anyone actually learn a language using Duolingo? “I

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Yes Is the Answer—and Other Ways to Succeed in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In his book YES IS THE ANSWER. You write that the title of the book, Yes Is the Answer: What Is the Question? , You believe that leaders should embrace their culture and values more deeply in a crisis and cite the 2008 Great Recession as an example. Our young people are really the reason why I decided to write this book.

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Building Business Community: Focus on Cooperation, Not Competition

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Nowadays, we try to solve problems by negotiating; many books and experts still compare business to war. Competition can drive creativity if we look at it healthily. For instance, in 2008, UPS agreed to ship DHL’s packages (because DHL couldn’t do it at the time and asked a competitor for help). Who’s the real enemy?

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AI’s hype isn’t going to be simply star-studded 

TechCrunch

Others saw a potential liquidity event as an opportunity to usher in a new generation of creative, and perhaps entrepreneurial, designers. Book your pass ASAP! Any new tool would need to excel at so many things that Figma is currently doing that it’s hard to imagine any new competitors coming out of the woodwork.” Laid-off talent.”

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How I Got a Deal on Shark Tank

Entrepreneurs' Organization

There’s the all-important pitch, creative sets, unexpected reactions by five seasoned investors and the possibility of scaling growth fast with a cash infusion and industry connections. My latest company, Hire Santa, started at an employee Christmas party in 2008 where I handed out bonuses dressed as Santa Claus.

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