Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Restaurant life was trial by fire and required stellar teamwork abilities, a strong passion for food and wine , and a propensity for understanding people—all of which I quickly developed and cultivated. These experiences taught me that I possessed excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated talent in sales and marketing.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2011

But I am also someone who is very colored by my past experience of seeing the venture implosion after the first bubble and walking through the fundraising tumbleweed of late 2008. If it doesn't, you pack up your marbles and go home to try something else. Strengthen the VPs and Director-level.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? 15 minutes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. That’s a fact.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee.

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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. 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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

The AI “stack” has emerged with Large Language Models and other important models (like audio, imagery, video, etc) operating in the cloud with well-documented and supported APIs that are available to developers to build on. AI developed for over forty years before its coming out party.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. When you look at the developing world this is the majority of users (due to lack of landline infrastructure) and it portends future opportunities in payments, entertainment, application development and services.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

It is a spirit that has contributed to the personal development of some of the world’s finest entrepreneurs making a true impact on companies, communities, and families across the globe. In the first year (2008), we had a meager budget, limited staff support, and only seven months to pull everything together.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

We commend the VC’s and angels that have rallied around their entrepreneurs to repurpose lessons learned from the 2008/2009 recession. history, behind only the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual with roughly $300 billion in total assets. and its failure is the second largest U.S. House Committee on Financial Services.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Startups are known to disrupt the markets, and this disruption usually ends up in developing totally new demand for its offerings. At this stage, entrepreneurs’ primary focus should be on experimenting and developing the offering according to the feedback they get from their potential customers. Stages Of Hockey Stick Growth.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 21, 2024

PureLine Putting (Michael Irvin), creators of a revolutionary putting aid for golfers, clinched the runner-up position, walking away with $5,000 to further develop their product. Since February 2008, ECGRA has invested more than $55 million in Erie County turning gaming revenue into transformative investments in Erie County, PA.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

The investment will be used for product development initiatives. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. Clients include Pepsi, Sony, CNN, Universal, AT&T, Victoria’s Secret and Facebook, which has used the service for multiple campaigns.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Maintaining source code is one of the toughest challenges that software developers face. In a 2020 survey from Sourcegraph, 51% of developers said that they have more than 100 times the volume of code they had ten years ago while 92% say the pressure to release software faster has increased. ” Detecting issues in source code.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. Travis Connors, Building Ventures At Building Ventures, we see enormous opportunities developing for the use of robotics in construction over the next 20 years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Husk Power Systems , a clean energy company that has been at the forefront of fueling rural electrification since 2008, is planning to launch 500 solar mini-grids in Nigeria over the next five years. Husk has to date raised $40 million from investors, including the Shell energy company and the Dutch Development bank FMO.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

The company based in Lagos, Nigeria, was founded by Emeka Emetarom , Obi Emetarom and Wale Onawunmi in 2008. It commenced as a services firm to provide commercial banks with custom software development services. Appzone clearly plays a different game from other African fintechs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Sanchali Pal first woke up to the world’s climate crisis after watching the 2008 documentary Food Inc. After scoring a job at the development firm Dalberg, then working in India and Ethiopia, Pal returned to the U.S. to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School.

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Forward Cities

JANUARY 30, 2020

A: I am really excited with the growth and development that’s going on in the city right now. Looking back, there were some seriously corrupt politics during the twentieth century that allowed developers like J. I graduated from Michigan State University with a BS in Clinical Laboratory Science in 2008.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Ken Lian came to the United States from China in 2008 to attend college. Cheese has a list of products they want to develop for that type of customer…We know there is a product market fit based on our research and we know this is a strong team.”. We were already determined to invest on the mission side.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

The APAC hub is backed by Enterprise Singapore, a board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry to foster SME development, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, alongside industry partners Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore, PSA unboXed and Synergy Marine Group.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the new cash, which brings ThreatX’s total raised to $52 million, CEO Gene Fay tells TechCrunch that ThreatX will “accelerate” investments in platform development while scaling sales and marketing initiatives.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

We have not seen a sharp increase in unemployment — as of May 2022, unemployment was just 3.6%, compared to 5% at the start and 10% at its peak during the 2008 recession — largely due to the tight labor market that emerged from the pandemic and the Great Resignation. In fact, one of our companies had their best quarter on record in Q2.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn estimates that Duolingo’s upcoming product developments will get users from zero to a knowledge job in a different language within the next two to three years. But for now, he is honest about the limits of the platform today. If you want to be fluent, Duolingo needs innovation,” Niesner said.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The CFE is a unit of the College of Engineering and the Center has helped more than 30,000 researchers and students since 2008. The institute helps them develop an entrepreneurial mindset and adapt quickly to an ever-changing business world. The U-M’s Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) is one of the key engines driving that growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A classically trained pastry chef, Christina Tosi spent years in New York City restaurants before founding Milk Bar in 2008. Plus, FEED products are crafted in emerging and developing countries to create employment with partners around the globe. . Christina Tosi / Milk Bar. Jennifer Hyman & Jenny Fleiss / Rent the Runway.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2020

The previous three recessions (2008, 2000-1, and 1991) were followed by spikes of automation. Dan Fishel, VP Business Development, OurCrowd. In just two months, the world has seen a digital transformation worthy of two years, according to Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella. But wait, there’s more. Download the full edition here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

’s 2008 Climate Change Act — and is funded by the Quadrature Climate Foundation, a climate-focused corporate social responsibility initiative launched by algorithmic trading tech firm, Quadrature Capital, in 2019. such as those seeking to develop greener products or cleaner industrial processes, etc.).

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2024

Luis Caballero and Sung Choi (Muse) Luis Caballero , born in Oklahoma City, acquired a diverse set of self-taught skills at an early age, including music production, website development, and social media growth. His career began in advertising, but the 2008 recession prompted him to shift to radiology.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 13, 2021

What if, after the success of that concept fund, the state funded and i2E created a seed stage fund to provide critical capital to Oklahoma-based startups that was unavailable and then i2E continued to develop a continuum of capital? Alexion developed the blockbuster drug Solaris and is now a $39 billion acquisition target of AstraZeneca.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When developing a business plan, be sure to write down what your company culture and values are first. You believe that leaders should embrace their culture and values more deeply in a crisis and cite the 2008 Great Recession as an example. Cameron Mitchell Restaurants celebrates its 25 th anniversary this fall.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

At the dawn of 2022, there were 2,900 active VC firms, marking a 225% increase since 2008. Factors such as remote work, offshore development, and the steadily growing labor pool of software engineers have enabled startups to hire additional engineering talent, adding yet another catalyst to this vibrant ecosystem.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2019

We are a state that seems ready to seize the moment and leverage the quality of life and business-friendly advantages here to add innovation and technology-based economic development to Oklahoma’s list of “greats.”. Since 2008, OCAST’s budget has been cut by nearly 40 percent — from about $22 million down to $13.4

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

At this two-day virtual event, early-stage founders can take part in highly interactive group sessions with top investors and ecosystem experts, in fields ranging from fundraising and marketplace positioning, to growth marketing and content development. Shardul joined Index in 2008. Image Credits: Primary Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. ” Lime scooters outside El Retiro Park in Madrid (Image Credits: Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch).

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Jason Malki

MAY 3, 2023

Radha has experimented across diverse functional areas such as general management, business development, sales, marketing, corporate development, and international expansion. Fun Fact — Radha loves yoga and meditation and is an amateur hypnotist. She has also worked in global and regional roles in India, Singapore, Dubai, and the USA.

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