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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

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. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well.

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

TechCrunch

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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STEM funding boosts state’s economy

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Since 2008, OCAST’s budget has been cut by nearly 40 percent — from about $22 million down to $13.4 Last year, OCAST received 145 research applications that were deemed “qualified-for-funding” by outside peer review and rigorous vetting. By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Oklahoma is a great place to live.

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Tech, Education, and Making a Difference in South Africa: Meet Justinus Adriaanse

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Nelson Mandela’s 1999 retirement brought these injustices further to the forefront, unveiling the deep-rooted inequalities within South Africa’s education system and society as a whole. These injustices ignited Justinus’s drive to take action and create a profound and lasting impact on his country.

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How To Unleash Sustainable Innovation That Matters

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2008, Unilever , a company of 172,000 employees and 2015 sales of $60.6 In 2008, Unilever , a company of 172,000 employees and 2015 sales of $60.6 With little formal education and using this principle, Cheung Yan founded Nine Dragons Paper and became one of the richest women in China. billion in sales.

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Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India’s Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung

Y Combinator

Vidit Aatrey is cofounder and CEO of Meesho. Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. They were in the Summer 2016 batch of YC and you can check them out at Meesho.com. Adora Cheung is a Partner at YC. Before working at YC she cofounded Homejoy. 00:00 – Intro.

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