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

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

We stayed in touch and I got to know a bunch of the Louisville startup and creative crew, like Todd Earwood, Matt Winn, and Ashley Cecil. 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.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

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. It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation.

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

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

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. The market had tanked. Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy. I’m long. And Social.

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The Founder’s Playbook: Winning Mindsets & Startup Strategies

American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

Entrepreneurs must be creative enough to innovate, disciplined enough to stay focused, resourceful enough to do more with less, and bold enough to take calculated risks. Creativity & Innovation Thinking outside the box to develop unique products, services, or business models. Why Is an Entrepreneurial Mindset Important?

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Sanchali Pal first woke up to the world’s climate crisis after watching the 2008 documentary Food Inc. The app also has a community component, connecting users with sustainability challenges, classes and other educational tools, along with a social network to communicate with peers to track relative progress.

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Canopy Connect’s Stary is Supercharging Sales via His Deep Finance and Tech Experience

Jason Malki

MARCH 21, 2022

I graduated from college in 2008?—?before I kept a pulse on the tech/SaaS scene by going to networking events, volunteering for a Techstars program, and doing free work for young startups to build up my experience. How did you break into a career in tech sales? if not particularly exciting?—?work. LinkedIn is the best option!

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Impact Hub Bergen: Where History Meets Innovation

Impact Hub

APRIL 16, 2019

Impact Hub Bergen was an early starter amongst social innovation spaces and joined the global Impact Hub network in 2008. Silje had a vision for a space that would invite interactions between unlikely allies in the name of creativity and innovation.

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How Will I Enable Greatness Today?

Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 9, 2013

In the summer of 2008, a crisis evolved on my team at Google: social networks had grown exponentially. The AdSense network was flooded with social network page impressions whose poor performance challenged advertisers and Google alike. There are many who believe Steve Jobs was a creative genius.

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Artifact co-founder Kevin Systrom on the SVB crisis, its further impacts and future of tech

TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Systrom himself was just old enough to have watched the other boom-and-bust cycles in the Valley from a distance — in 2000, he was coming out of high school, and in 2008, he was just coming out of college. After all, China doesn’t allow our social networks, like Facebook and Instagram. “I saw both crises from afar.

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

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. What are your thoughts on Oklahoma’s entrepreneurial community?

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WWF Switzerland CEO Thomas Vellacott shares his views of a world touched by a pandemic

Impact Hub

APRIL 21, 2020

The Impact Hub network brings together like-minded social entrepreneurs, innovators, partners, and industry professionals who are passionate about creating lasting change in places and for people who are the most in need. We struggle for words and search for precedents that might act as points of reference as we try to navigate the crisis.

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Mali Rising Foundation Works to Empower Youth Through Education

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2017

In 2008, I asked to join the board of directors, and have served on the board as chairman for four years and in other capacities ever since. Though they are very different from me, the people of Mali use their knowledge and creativity to produce some of the most beautiful art and music. and board member of Mali Rising Foundation.

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An Invitation to Explore and Adopt “Capitalism With Care”

Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 3, 2020

During the Great Recession of 2008-10, Kent guided dozens of CEOs and their companies successfully through the crisis and positioned them to capitalize on the economic expansion that followed. EO is the only global network exclusively for entrepreneurs. Conscious Capitalism provides that path. Won’t you join me?

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R136 Ventures Tech Stack Profile: B2B enterprise software and fintech

David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

R136 Ventures partners with creative entrepreneurs to help scale their mid-to-late stage startups. Israel, and the UAE, bringing our global network and experience to shape your vision, strategy, execution, and team. At R136 Ventures, we also encourage innovation through creative thinking and experimenting with AI technologies.

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