American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 10, 2025

For those engaged in the highly competitive and fast-paced startup ecosystem resilience is more than a soft skill—it’s a strategic advantage. Creating a Support System Building a business can be isolating. Having a support network can help you maintain perspective during tough times.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

We’ll continue to support our members and their portfolio companies by discussing and breaking down that information via our articles, webinars and at Summit 2023. We commend the VC’s and angels that have rallied around their entrepreneurs to repurpose lessons learned from the 2008/2009 recession.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems. ” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios.

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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. Finally, the talent pool for tech startups has broadened immensely. The most notable example was allegations of fraud at Newchip , a popular virtual startup accelerator. long-term support at the earliest stages).

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Founders Coop

APRIL 15, 2019

In early 2008 we announced the formation of Founders’ Co-op. million, to lean into our strategy of being first to support the most promising founders here in the Pacific Northwest. As with our first fund back in 2008, it looks like we’re heading into another cycle of uncertainty in the global economy. Where does the time go?

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The world of software investing has changed dramatically since we started Founders’ Co-op back in 2008. Founding a company here, even with the support of local and Bay Area VCs, was ten times harder than bootstrapping my first company in San Francisco had been. As a self-taught VC I learned my most important lessons the hard way.

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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. “We are a new generation of young people in government.

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