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). Enter the Zombie Startup Apocalypse. A few months later, we funded Airbnb.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How would they know unless they surveyed a critical mass of startups all at the same stage now and then three years ago or so to compare? David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans. The tablet market has absolutely exploded.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 22, 2020

The Financial Crisis of 2008 sure seemed bad in the moment as well. There we were at the casino table again after that, pouring billions of dollars into unprofitable startups while cutting taxes when we didn’t need to, for people and companies who didn’t need it, with little regard to the future. Scrutiny is coming in a big way.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Santa Monica is the place where the highest concentration of early-stage startups are created if you consider also the contiguous geography of Venice Beach. Startup Advice' Let’s start with the fund.

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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. Startup success is a team effort and you can't just have great entrepreneurs. Angels: Focus and pace. You can sign up here.

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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. tl;dr summary.

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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.&# For others it feels like a two-speed economy, where rules apply to hot tech startups that don’t apply elsewhere. And time is the enemy of all deals so start sooner rather than later, as anybody who was planning to raise in October 2008 will tell you.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic might have upended the global economy, but according to Meagan Crawford at Spacefund and Chris Moran with Lockheed Martin Ventures, it didn’t dampen investment in space startups. Crawford and Moran both agreed that interest and investment in space will increase as more startups have successful exits.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 4, 2020

We reviewed the data in May and compared it to the effects of the financial crisis in 2008 on startup fundraising. As a reminder, 2008 saw a 40% reduction in venture dollars invested in startups. These corrections match 2008. It took about six to eight quarters to return to normalcy.

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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. Hopefully this becomes the year that most of the startup teams you see have not only a business person and a tech person, but also a designer--and you start to see people looking for "design co-founders".

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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. Within a small startup with 3 engineers, everyone will work on all aspects of the site. Stackoverflow was created in 2008. He then went on to work at Viacom and Juno in NYC. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. 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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Industry change allows the entry of newer players at earlier stages – It doesn’t take as much money to launch a startup anymore. So in the past we needed VC to really get a startup going. If you invest it in startups you’re a VC professional money manager. We all know that.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 21, 2024

Pictured left to right: Barry Snyder, Erin Kerner, Bob Dornich (TechCelerator Coach), Michael Irvin “We are thrilled to witness the success of these promising startups and their potential to drive economic growth in the Erie region,” remarked Brian Slawin, Portfolio Manager for Ben Franklin CNP.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has lived through two downturns (the post-2000 internet bubble bust and the post-2008 financial crisis), I know that entrepreneurial innovation is always alive and that company-building is a marathon, not a sprint. And the past few weeks of geopolitical challenges only added to the bleak scenario.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. So that’s our job.” France and Germany.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

the free YC Startup School courses). At the dawn of 2022, there were 2,900 active VC firms, marking a 225% increase since 2008. Finally, the talent pool for tech startups has broadened immensely. The number of accelerators has more than doubled since 2014 , while the number of accelerator-backed startups in the U.S.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But in some cases, like Groupon, startups cross the $1 billion mark in just their initial years. Several startups, including Amazon and Facebook, saw their metrics shot up dramatically to form the shape of a hockey stick. Not every startup see such hockey stick growth. Such growth isn’t new. Let’s find out.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

Just look at our rebound from the financial crisis of 2008 as something that I feel proud of as an American. And not just Uber – a growing cohort of startup executives who believe it would be better to avoid the scrutiny of public markets. Worst system. Except for everything else. So back to Uber. I understand the urge.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

The move should restore confidence and keep startups solvent and their employees employed, but there likely will be some longer-lasting psychological effects relating to capital risk that we should all be on the lookout for. history, behind only the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual with roughly $300 billion in total assets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Founded in 2018 by CMA CGM Group chairman and CEO Rodolphe Saadé, ZEBOX already has hubs in France, the United States, the United Kingdom, West Africa and the Caribbeans, which have collectively worked with 100 startups that have raised a total of $235 million in funding. ZEBOX looks for startups in four area.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. I’ve always said that the low-interest rate environment that we’ve had really since 2008 has generated an interest-free loan on risky startups.

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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

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. The company based in Lagos, Nigeria, was founded by Emeka Emetarom , Obi Emetarom and Wale Onawunmi in 2008. Appzone is a fintech software provider.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program. government minister and a former MD of Microsoft for Startups U.K. and CEO of Code First: Girls, among others.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

After managing and exiting two startups over a 20-year career, Karl is now M13’s managing partner. I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. The most important next step is to secure growth investment, without which many startups won’t survive.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So, I’ve decided to share the main lessons about VC that I wish I’d known when I was a startup founder chasing venture capital. Startups are all about reaching two milestones: (a) product/market fit and (b) a profitable, repeatable and scalable growth model. Save your cash until you de-risk your early-stage startup.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 22, 2023

Register HYU Holdings has partnered with Singapore’s early-stage fund Farquhar VC to help early-stage university startups scale and thrive in overseas markets. The partnership will allow HYU Holdings, a Hanyang University-based investment-holding company, to work closely with Farquhar VC to help South Korean startups to go global.

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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. The one-year-old startup also has a social component, giving customers a way to support Asian-American businesses and organizations. The startup has also partnered with actor Jimmy Wong , an advocate for Asian rights.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

All-female founding teams did receive 83% more funding in 2021 in absolute dollars compared to the year prior, but that’s likely because US startups overall raked in a record amount of cash last year. in 2008 — that’s quite fast!!” Still, the rising tide did not lift all boats.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Gen Z is getting a dose of some economic medicine that has older generations recalling 2008 and 2001, and Uprise is here for it. We’ve covered myriad startups around the world over the past two years offering different approaches to this, including Twig , Anfin , FamPay and Mitto. Uprise’s financial recommendations for Gen Z.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers.

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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.

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