Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 30, 2021

In 2009, he co-founded DALS Lighting, an LED lighting business where he implemented the Scaling Up Growth System and led the company to 3X its revenues. Shawn Johal is a business growth coach and Certified Scaling-Up expert, helping entrepreneurial companies achieve alignment and profitable growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

My Dad was drafted into the Air Force and was given accelerated citizenship. January 2009 where he said in a column on Tax Cuts for Teachers : “One of the smartest stimulus moves we could make would be to eliminate federal income taxes on all public schoolteachers so more talented people would choose these careers. Crazy, huh?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

I have come to realize that since the great tech boom started in 2009 and given the massive increase in first-time angels, first-time seed funds, first-time accelerators … there market is just filled with well-intentioned terrible advice. Whom you take advice from really matters. So back to reality.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Back in March 2009, USV hosted an event called Hacking Education. Appetite for products and services that reframe what it means to learn – and how to learn – is high, and quickly accelerating. It was the beginning of our effort to invest in the transformation of the education sector.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

4/19/2009 – Still an agency. 12/11/2009 – Slight tweak: Now you use our tools to control your social media. Our engaging social app-vertisements —games, quizzes and contests— create social brand loyalty. We help brands to engage their audiences by extending their advertising campaigns into the social world.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The company’s computing-focused AI accelerator products will revolutionize AI computing efficiency and expand client computing solutions. Verma, a Princeton University professor since 2009, has conducted pioneering research in next-generation computing technologies. EnCharge AIs future product roadmap is equally ambitious.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

“We looked back historically over the last decade and a little bit more, and it turns out that even during the 2008-2009 economic downturn, the space industry continued to grow at 7% per year,” Crawford said, adding that they saw almost no correlation between the performance of the Global S&P 1200 and the space industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Dan talks about a landmark case in 2009 that involved whether it was legal to strip search a 13-year-old girl. Of the 106 judges who preceded her 105 of them were men (Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman). Now 33% of Supreme Court Justices are women (vs. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). But here’s a story that hit home with me.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Founded in 2009, AppWorks started its accelerator program before launching a $11 million debut fund in 2012. Lin said that many of AppWorks accelerator graduates over the past three to five years are from Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and, increasingly, Indonesia and the Philippines. for the other funds.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

The phenomenon, they argue, will accelerate creativity across a larger network. Come laugh and learn as we dissect the twelve worst social media campaigns of 2009. Others, meanwhile, have predicted that it is a passing fad but one that downward pressure on prices on current agency work. So which is it? The Suxorz occurs in four rounds.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

This helped the local and regional enterprises accelerate their digital transformation and move from on-premise computing to cloud computing. Established in 2009, FunP Innovation Group (BVI) controls cacafly.com, a leading digital advertising sales, consulting agency and Tenmax.io, an advertising technology development.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2022

Two years later, the company would re-accelerate growth from 13% to 26%, and again to 34%, while driving to profitability and increasing their cash position from $540m to $738m. All this took patience: Amazon’s share price exceeded the dot-com high Oct 23, 2009, a decade later.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2017

In this special interview, EO South Australia’s DAVID BARTHOLOMEUSZ , a longtime member leader and EO Accelerator trailblazer, opens up about his PoL journey, finding his purpose as a leader and giving back to get ahead. I remember walking into my house after my first Forum experience in 2009. And I burst into tears.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2016

years , and the average lifespan of Fortune 500 companies is falling at an accelerating pace. Yet, in an optimistic vein, Keynes looked forward to the point when societies would adapt to this accelerating rate of change. Not too long ago, a single job or employer would often last a lifetime. Read the rest of this article !

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

While a run on a bank by current depositors can clearly accelerate negative trends we must also be mindful of the responsible support of the startup ecosystem that can and should come from venture capitalists, angels and other stakeholders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

was founded in 2009 and has raised $12.9 This powerful combination of content and intelligence will push the industry forward at an accelerated pace.”. We want to preserve the flexibility and interoperability [of WordPress], and we want to make sure from a Parse.ly perspective that it still exists as a standalone product.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

That move was notable in that the storied venture firm was founded in 2009 in Menlo Park and has historically been associated with the Bay Area. The firm earlier this year also announced it was building an accelerator for early-stage entrepreneurs, which also may be indicative of its wanting to broaden its offering.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

“The business performance has continued to accelerate, and all of the [reasons] that we gave to you last time [we spoke] around company metrics, the acceleration on the monetization side, all of those things have just continued to improve and get better,” Movafaghi told me.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The company has largely been bootstrapped, although it did raise a private round of a few million dollars in 2009 and a $20 million injection of capital in 2020. To date, Rad Power has raised $175 million — the vast majority of which came in this new round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Building a startup can be a slow, lonely endeavor, but getting into a business accelerator can change that in a big way. A quality accelerator packs expert mentorship, essential business acumen, entrepreneurial resources, investor access, community — and a collaborative, motivating environment — into three short months.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The startup also joins 39 other African startups per YC data which have passed through the accelerator since 2009. Getting into the accelerator helps Mono with one of its biggest challenges. It will receive $125,000 in seed funding with an opportunity to receive follow-up investment after graduating in March.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

CEO Karkal has a long history in the fintech space, co-founding Simple, an app unifying various accounts into one accessible bank card, in 2009. Places like India, Africa and Latin America could accelerate at the same time because they are mainly starting from zero. There is a massive wave of fintechs emerging in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Stein, who began her career as a holistic nutrition counselor, started the company in 2009 after going back to school and learning about superfood ingredients and food as medicine, a concept that wasn’t as popular then as it is now. “It It felt like an opportunity in the market for products to help people,” she told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Dick Costolo, who is managing partner at lead investor 01A, says that one of the reasons he liked what BrightHire was doing was because he recognized that they were solving a fundamental hiring problem he had when he was running Twitter from 2009-2015 during a period of extreme growth.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I have come to realize that since the great tech boom started in 2009 and given the massive increase in first-time angels, first-time seed funds, first-time accelerators … the market is just filled with well-intentioned, but inexperience advice. Whom you take advice from really matters. So back to reality.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii. An engineer at heart, Sven is passionate about technologies that forge new industries and accelerate novel user experiences. Mar received her Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Wilcox founded E Ink, which commercialized electronic paper displays and was acquired by Amazon in 2009. TechCrunch hosts Darrell Etherington and Becca Szkutak will interview serial-founder-turned-VC Russ Wilcox. Currently he’s a partner at Pillar VC.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Founded in 2009, Strava has emerged as one of the preeminent activity tracking services, proving particularly popular in the cycling and running fraternities which use the Strava app to plot routes, converse with fellow athletes, and record all their action for posterity via GPS. . Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Rsquare will spend the proceeds on advancing its AI-based proptech platform, accelerating its commercial building transaction and fulfillment centers brokerage service and increasing headcount to 400 employees by next year, Lee said. The latest funding brings its total raised to approximately $95 million. It has 354 employees as of October.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Today, they’re on track to surpass half a billion rides globally by 2021, far outpacing early growth in the carbon-heavy ride-hailing industry founded by Uber in 2009. It will be added to a growing body of research that’s rapidly influencing micromobility technology and accelerating its adoption around the world. Looking forward.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the Business Beat, Jeff discusses how the pandemic has accelerated the growth — and funding — of delivery drones and other autonomous systems. That’s nearly a fivefold increase and that compares to just $438 million in venture capital funding for the entire decade between 2009 and 2019. for the WJR Business Beat.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Culture Amp was founded in 2009 to let companies conduct anonymous employee surveys, but since then, its focus has expanded to helping employers turn the data they collect into action. The company announced today it has raised $100 million in Series F funding, led by returning investors Sequoia Capital India and TDM Growth Partners.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Alongside the equity raise, the 2009-founded startup has secured another chunk of debt financing ($75M) from Blackrock. Jobandtalent says the latest funds will be used to accelerate its expansion in key markets, including the US — its most recent focus. “ Jobandtalent is by far the largest job platform in Europe.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Still, founder Alex Zhavoronkov doesn’t think that Insilico Medicine’s strengths lie primarily in accelerating preclinical drug development or reducing costs: its main appeal is in eliminating an element of guesswork in drug discovery, he suggests. . Currently we have 16 therapeutic assets, not just IPF,” he says.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The pandemic didn’t represent a major change up or down in the business, but it accelerated the digital transformation in enterprises that are now asking for a cloud-native, composable approach,” Omlo said.

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