This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In 2008, I tried to fundraise for my startup the week that Lehman Brothers went under. Over the long term, innovation prevailed and 2008 turned out to be a great year to have a 1-3 year old company if you could make it through the next year. You can imagine how well that worked out.

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OurCrowd

MAY 4, 2020

“Historically, investing in times of economic downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2001 and 2002, and after the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. That’s a very good entry point for new investors,” Medved says. Read more here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 10, 2024

Since April coincides with the start of major league baseball season, Dave saw the opportunity to coordinate two passions: He would leverage his lifelong love for baseball and his purpose of bringing attention to living organ donation by partnering with major league baseball teams. “We

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 11, 2023

However, just as the path seemed paved with success, an unforeseen twist of fate — the 2008 global financial crisis — caused the market to collapse and sales to plummet. Quickly, their vision pivoted to the idea of addressing the lack of diversity and access to opportunity in South Africa’s IT industry.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

Satoshi gave us the playbook to build a decentralized internet stack back in 2008 and I feel quite confident that we will have massive mainstream applications running on this decentralized stack well before 2028. There are opportunities every which way I look to back founders and founding teams building these new technologies.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 21, 2024

The program helps entrepreneurs explore the likelihood of success, discuss business models and financials with experts, expand their network, engage with other entrepreneurs, and develop a pitch deck for funding opportunities. cnp.benfranklin.org/techcelerator.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 5, 2023

It’s also an ideal opportunity for entrepreneurs to share experience, inspiration, and the challenges you’ve overcome to make your business a success. During the 2008 housing crisis, my company was on the verge of bankruptcy. As business owners, we often feel that our challenges are unique to us. . —

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 6, 2020

Others recall the 2008 financial crisis. For entrepreneurs, the job now is to look past that daunting torrent and to the opportunity beyond it. Because there is opportunity. “You’ve probably never felt anything like this,” Rustand says. But we’ve all dealt with things that felt new and terrible at the time.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Sam Altman of YC recently pointed out that pulling back during the downturn in 2008 would result in several big misses: In October of 2008, Sequoia Capital—arguably the best-ever in the business—gave the famous “RIP Good Times” presentation (I was there). A few months later, we funded Airbnb.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them,” reports Tim De Chant. But when Uber rolled out service in San Francisco in 2011, it really transformed the way people got around.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Explains Vlaar: “We see tremendous growth opportunities to further enhance payments for Turkey’s 80 million inhabitants. was established in Turkey in July 2008 and started its operations the following year as the country’s first “direct carrier billing” service provider.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

“We are thrilled to have the support of our investors and to have the opportunity to make quality healthcare services and elective surgeries more accessible and affordable in emerging Southeast Asia,” said Sheji Ho, CEO and Co-Founder of HD. “As

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

ZEBOX CEO Gwen Salley told TechCrunch that along with access to mentoring, experts, business opportunities and funding, its incubator program gives startups opportunities to test their solutions and work with large corporations. The company says it has already reduced carbon emissions per container carried by 50% since 2008.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Over the next 24 months, we believe that we will witness a profound migration of senior cloud talent from public and late-stage private SaaS companies to healthy early- to mid-stage companies that offer a more rewarding professional growth opportunity and higher financial return potential. Here is why: The party is over.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

Whether you have attended EO’s Leadership Academies or still look forward to the opportunity, the foundation upon which this remarkable programme was built is notable. In the first year (2008), we had a meager budget, limited staff support, and only seven months to pull everything together. Some of those things have since gone away.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The company raised $50 million Series C funding led by NewView Capital, with participation from SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund and King River Capital. During the 2008 economic downturn, Almond’s family lost their home. This brings the company’s total funding to $85 million, Paystand co-founder and CEO Jeremy Almond told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

I’ll be honest, the diversity of the answers surprised me — ranging from how climate and workforce mobility are edtech’s next opportunities to how the departure of tourist VCs is playing out differently depending on company stages. The tone also felt balanced: Many admitted that things have changed, but opportunity continues to exist.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Four years later in 2008, the United States was in the grips of the Great Recession. In 2008, I was so invested in this business that I knew I could not sit there and watch it dissolve. I believed in the company, its customers, the employee, and wanted nothing more than to receive the opportunity to grow and manage the business.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Simply put, equity risk premiums (ERPs) have broken down well below the ranges that were established since 2008. Opportunity cost is powerful indeed. The ERP calculates the projected S&P returns versus the returns of 10-year treasury bills (data from Morgan Stanley).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. Markets have reacted, and valuation multiples for both public and private companies have been heavily compromised, leaving growth investors in fear of losing the opportunity to secure targeted returns.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

At Sidus Space, we firmly believe that it is our responsibility to give back to our community and we are committed to providing opportunities for our neighbors and educating the next generation of leaders,” said Craig. Her most important contribution, however, has been as a classroom volunteer.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Induced by a pandemic and unprecedented state responses, it is even worse than the last international period of economic decline witnessed in 2008. During the period of economic turbulence in 2008, I formed my technology consultancy firm, ROCK. For most, 2008 was a time to avoid risk. Client first.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 24, 2020

We sat down as a leadership team to discuss what we had in unused or dead assets, and what opportunities we could seize with fewer employees. In the last US economic downturn in 2008-2009, my Forum and EO taught me that the keys to surviving are being the first to respond, taking quick decisive action and being agile.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The truth is that Twitter is an amazing company and still has an amazing opportunity in front of it. But like many companies over the past five years it hired aggressively and probably had some degree of straying off of a core strategy and some amount of excess jobs relative to its current revenue forecasts and opportunities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy founded theBoardlist , a premium talent marketplace that helps diverse leaders get discovered for board and executive opportunities. I continued to listen to non-e-commerce pitches as well, simply to give myself a point of reference for evaluating online shopping opportunities. More posts by this contributor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2019

But, when I had the opportunity to join a high-growth startup with a team I liked and trusted, I leapt at it. Whenever I’ve been presented with a new career opportunity, the first question I ask is not, “Which job is more secure?” when opportunity strikes. And I loved what I did. To me, it was a no-brainer. Go For Growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

VCs should be excited about the coming buying opportunities. If you look at the 2008 financial crisis, early- and late-stage startup funding crashed, but seed funding exploded, giving rise to some of the biggest companies we see listed on stock exchanges today. Today, similar opportunities exist in SaaS and web3.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 21, 2022

I graduated from college in 2008?—?before When an opportunity to join a hyper-growth startup came my way via a professional connection I’d met through Techstars, I hopped aboard and never looked back. wouldn’t consider me for AE opportunities. How did you break into a career in tech sales? externally and internally?—?wouldn’t

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2014

Even the old Pfizer headquarters, active as recently as 2008, is now home to the production of everything from microchips to pickles. There are huge opportunities in places like Gowanus and Crown Heights to help New York City scale its entrepreneurial endeavors, in contrast to places like San Francisco which seem bottlenecked by geography.

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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. Image Credits: Husk Power Systems. “We welcome the Energy Compact commitments made by Husk Power and appreciate their leadership.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

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. Founded in 2008, by Andre Mason and Eric Lefkofsky as an e-commerce marketplace, the revenue growth of Groupon stands as a perfect example for a hockey stick growth.

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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. We asked Kent how embracing conscious capitalism during the COVID-19 crisis can benefit companies both in the short- and long-term.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If there are no concerns about a technology, then there may also not be a significant opportunity for that technology. Therefore, the possibility of regulation itself creates significant opportunities for companies. In other words, show me a business that should not be regulated, and I will show you a dying business.

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Jason Malki

MAY 3, 2023

Back in 2008 when I stepped into my first corporate job in an Education company, I had an opportunity to get exposed to an e-learning startup being incubated within and that got me fascinated by the world of internet and Technology. How did you break into a career in tech?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The two were also colleagues at Corporate Express, which was acquired by Staples in 2008, where Useckas came in as an external pen tester. That, in turn, has increased the need for security in this context — which presents a ton of opportunity for ThreatX. He declined to name any names.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Canada-based company got its start in 2008 as the payment processing company Zomaron, and rebranded itself as Paystone in 2019. Customer feedback is a development opportunity. Paystone , a payments and integrated software company, secured another strategic investment this year, this time $23.8

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