This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I asked a few developers I knew about it and the feedback was " Not ready yet, but has conceptual promise and it doesn't suck." One did note that " this kind of platform is going to change the way we educate people in application development ". It was even earlier when I talked to Jason at Shopkeep--December of 2009 by my records.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Verma, a Princeton University professor since 2009, has conducted pioneering research in next-generation computing technologies. EnCharge AIs Path Forward As EnCharge AI prepares to bring its AI accelerator solutions to market in 2025, it is seeing the fruits of years of research and development.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The company has opened its API to approved sites for distribution and approved developers who want to build games, etc.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community. It was a happy accident when I got back into NYC VC in 2009 that I just happened to find the Ace Hotel--a space that was really conducive to meetings and founders working on projects.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Total raised: $120.3mm; $43.5mm raised prior to 2006 recap; post-recap, raised $7.7mm; Series B in 2009 for $15mm; – Read more: VentureWire (requires subscription). Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008).

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MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In the early spring of 2009, the fundraising nuclear winter of the previous year hadn't yet thawed. Two Sigma is a technology and finance company in Soho filled with incredibly bright engineers and developers, so I’m really excited about leveraging that partnership in a number of cool ways.

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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. Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions.

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Dream It

APRIL 3, 2020

In addition to his books, Geoffrey Moore assisted in writing “In a Downturn, Provoke Your Customers” for the Harvard Business Review in 2009. His strategy for selling in 2009 is relevant to any economic downturn. In solution-based selling, you match benefits to the needs and pain points that customers signal.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2021

Inequality is growing for more than 70 percent of the global population, exacerbating the risks of divisions and hampering economic and social development. Example: In 2009, Southwest Airlines decided to go against industry standards that were shifting toward fees for checked luggage.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. International and non-Valley startup communities are developing at a rapid pace. After that, we were pretty much back on track, growing every year.

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APRIL 5, 2010

TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. He covered the topic again in June 2009 titled Invent, Invent, Invent. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs. Crazy, huh? He stated: “China is also courting trouble.

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JUNE 19, 2012

Buddy Media was an amazing exit, but I never really thought of it like “enterprise software” I thought about it more like an agency that had developed off the shelf social tools around its service solutions. 4/19/2009 – Still an agency. Hell, it might as well have screamed “Salesforce should acquire us. ,

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 3, 2014

In 2009, I was introduced to Havi Hoffman. She was working as a developer evangelist at Yahoo! It''s super interesting to go back and trace connections and relationships that led to new opportunities. If nothing else, it serves as a good reminder that every thing you do now is an investment in the future.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I note a couple of trends: (1) Seed stage venture capital financing have been pretty stable over the past five years and (2) while the number of deals funded was a bit lower in 2009 and 2010 for most regions, the NYC Metro area had a significant increase in the number of seed stage deals funded.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I have not seen a better articulation of “native” than my partner Albert’s post from 2009 on native mobile applications. He started out by laying out the new primitives that mobile smartphones made available to developers. What is a “native” Web3 application?

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JUNE 28, 2011

The biggest media attention in our industry went to the so-called “super angels&# during the 2009/10 timeframe and while I don’t believe there is such thing as a super angel I believe that much media attention was deserved. Amazon allowed 22-year-old tech developers to launch companies without even raising capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

“Most of the technical content published misses the mark with developers. I think we can all do a better job,” author and developer marketing expert Adam DuVander says. DuVander was recommended to us by Karl Hughes, the CEO of Draft.dev, which specializes in content production for developer-focused companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. But we do have great technology developers. I have one message for you, ‘get over it! You don’t.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. They did development in SF and had the ad sales team in NY. The idea immediately resonated. I believe investors had forced him to do this.

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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. As Rebecca was developing her presentation, I wrote an email to her that said: when did we do Hacking Education? It was the beginning of our effort to invest in the transformation of the education sector. Was that ten years ago now?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. I remain as childishly giddy at Nick’s vision as I did in our conference hangout we had in 2009.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

But 15 years elapsed before he developed the system knowledge, as the owner of a successful trucking company, and the insight to transfer entire containers instead of individual crates and barrels. In 2009 he went to Silicon Valley to find seed investors. In preparation, he spent months researching who might be amenable to his pitch.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal. I have told this to people for years and some people can’t understand how we’ve been able to keep this strategy going through this bull market cycle and I tell people?—?discipline discipline & focus.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. Chris Dixon made the point that he thinks investors should look for the founders to have the domain knowledge rather than them having domain knowledge themselves.

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MARCH 3, 2012

But it was early 2009 and not many companies were getting new financings at all so I thought they should take the deal. I saw it first hand in college, which is where I first developed the analogy. Since I didn’t originally source the deal I let my co-investor set the terms and negotiate the deal with my consent.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade. Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008. They have data from surveys they did with corporate development officers (e.g.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network. Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). OTHER DEALS: 1.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Series A is the first outside capital Zonos has raised since it was founded in 2009, Clint Reid, founder and CEO, told TechCrunch. The new investment provides fuel for Zonos to grow in product development and go-to-market while also expanding its worldwide team into Europe and Asia Pacific.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Monday, February 1st 10:30AM Branding the Future with Social Engagement, sponsored by Pepsi Refresh The opening session of Social Media Week will focus on a top-level discussion of the increasing importance in utilizing social media to grow and develop corporate brands in the twenty-first century. The Suxorz occurs in four rounds.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

In a statement, FunP said that it will use the recent capital injection to develop and roll out smart retail and cloud services solutions for the Indonesian market and other Asia Pacific (APAC) countries, under its business unit cacaFly and in a partnership with Ennoconn.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2023

He’s the creator of several personal development programs designed to transform each area of life: Superhuman Journey, Master Your Inner Game, Guided Forgiveness, and Recode your Thoughts. He’s on a mission to show every human being on planet Earth how to Master their Inner Game.

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Jason Calacanis

DECEMBER 10, 2023

” “If only I had started an app or cloud company during the ZIRP run up from 2009 to 2021!” Co-location providers and office sharing started, as did remote work and offshore developers. APIs and open-source software cut costs and developer cycles dramatically. 2000s In Web 2.0 we started companies with $1.5m

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

Metropolis has developed a new growth buyout model, demonstrating how innovation and technology can evolve legacy industries for the 21st century,” said Tony Minella, Co-Founder and President of E ldridge Industries , an existing investor in Metropolis that led the recent financing transaction.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

Or something. ”Yes, but… ” Those who have spent much time in the developing world are likely accustomed to dealing with this sort of frustration on a daily basis. The risk-reward tradeoff in finance should hold true in developing and unstable regions as well.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

He’s the creator of several personal development programs designed to transform each area of life: Superhuman Journey, Master Your Inner Game, Guided Forgiveness, and Recode your Thoughts. On 5 June 2009, I received an unexpected call from one of my clients. At the time, I was entering a new phase in my life.

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