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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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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. Finance where needed. The market had tanked. Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with.

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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. They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. Stackoverflow was created in 2008. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( Recode ).

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Nigerian fintech Appzone raises $10M for expansion and proprietary technology

TechCrunch

The company based in Lagos, Nigeria, was founded by Emeka Emetarom , Obi Emetarom and Wale Onawunmi in 2008. First, the company says it created the world’s first decentralised payment processing network. But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up.

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Hockey Stick Growth Explained

Feedough

Usually, entrepreneurs use bootstrapping to finance their expenses. To capitalize on this excellent growth opportunity, some entrepreneurs tend to make significant changes in a model that has been working reasonably well for them. Blade years usually last for 3 to 4 years, and the revenue generated is meagre. million.