TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

. “Swyft is a new form of urban mobility, using autonomous cabins on lightweight cable infrastructure to solve transportation problems in densely developed areas including corporate campuses, airports, universities and tourism districts. This adds capacity into an area, allowing higher density and more profitable developments.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

You’ll also often hear companies that started in coworking spaces praise the networking benefits of being in a shared space — team collaboration, events and close contact with people in other companies helps startups connect and grow. This) often leads to business development for our members,” Lewan said.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. It would also have required more patience from the owners of the network itself, but would have been much more likely to serve their long-term goal of massive value creation over time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Rashad has experience building his own following, as well as Redpoint’s own TikTok presence, while Josh has helped Redpoint portfolio companies develop their founder and company brands. Wilcox founded E Ink, which commercialized electronic paper displays and was acquired by Amazon in 2009. Currently he’s a partner at Pillar VC.

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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. What was lacking, however, was a unified body to help guide and develop mobility data standards across the micromobility industry.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2017

Each year, thousands more do the same through the Path of Leadership (PoL) program, which equips members with the tools, knowledge and networks they need to grow as leaders. I remember walking into my house after my first Forum experience in 2009. My wife, Sarah, looked up at me and said, ‘You’ve found your people, yes?’

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 23, 2020

Impact Hub San Francisco has been a driving force in growing both the Impact Hub Network and social innovation movement in North America and beyond. However, after over 10 years of operations we are sad to share Impact Hub San Francisco has had to close.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1817, David Ricardo published On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation where he expanded upon Smith’s work in developing the theory of Comparative Advantage. With the launch of Airbnb in 2008 and Uber (*) in 2009, these two companies established a new category of marketplaces known as the “sharing economy.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

between 2009 and 2019 — providing data on 3,784 entrepreneurs who started 2,002 companies over this period. The finding of baked-in bias holds true across all funding stages, per the findings. The report , by the not-for-profit community interest company Extend Ventures , looked at how VC has been invested in the U.K.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

PlainSight is a new networking app. It’s a unique take on the networking problem we all face finding the right partners at events and in business. Nextek is all about low-voltage power networking systems, including lighting and controls for efficient building lighting. PlainSight. EXPLORE DETROIT STARTUP JOBS. Love crypto?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

An online day will follow on May 20 to give our audience, including those who were unable to attend, a chance to tune in online and catch highlights from the live event, network and watch the full sessions. However, challenges remain on all sides — political, technological, commercial and social. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

An online day will follow on May 20 to give our audience, including those who were unable to attend, a chance to tune in online and catch highlights from the live event, network and watch the full sessions. However, challenges remain on all sides — political, technological, commercial and social. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

the first networked database in the U.S. He started working on it in 2007 and developed the business plan in 2009. As pet parents, we saw the need to develop innovative technology and modern pet identification tools to help pet parents locate lost pets faster. for pets and pet parents.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

is a New York-based company that develops innovative color technology products. After four years of arduous research and development, my determination and ingenuity finally led to the creation of a pen that could contain the infinite spectrum of colors! We started the research and development of the project in 2018.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

An online day will follow on May 20 to give our audience, including those who were unable to attend, a chance to tune in online and catch highlights from the live event, network and watch the full sessions. However, challenges remain on all sides — political, technological, commercial and social. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

In contrast, the number of independent bookstores in the US increased 49% from 1,600 stores in 2009 to 2,500 stores in 2018 6. Instead of having to navigate a network of independent sales representatives or travel to trade shows, brands can sell into thousands of authenticated accounts already buying inventory on Faire.

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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’s analytics comprehensively monitors customer behavior over multiple networks, including location-based mobile networks.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

But following the rapid development of its ecosystem (desktop and then mobile MP3 players, Torrent and then download and streaming services), MP3s rapidly became a better option than CDs for the majority of the population, rendering the previous paradigm obsolete. They therefore started by giving away a simple desktop-based MP3 encoder.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Growing too slowly is particularly dangerous in a business with network effects, which the best startups usually have to some degree.” It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. It’s not merely that you need a scalable idea to grow.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Winnie Hart , former Global Board Director and EO Houston member, and her team at Twin Engine worked passionately to develop and launch the Living Liver Foundation brand. I leveraged “Gestalt” protocol (Forum mindset) to reach out to my network and ask others to share their experience with the legislative process,” Dave said. “I

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And my specialty was computer networks. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. ” And just – you develop a pattern over time that no matter how many times I try to say no to you, I can’t. Be an intern” And by the way, this is 2009.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. Rumored to be appox.

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This is going to be BIG.

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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network.

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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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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

” Then we needed a permit to go unescorted, or something. ”But my credentials are for a television network. 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. . ”Why?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

After a founder takes the quiz, the Funding Finder algorithm points them to what could be their best bets: debt financing, community development financial institutions (CDFIs), banks, bootstrapping, family and friend rounds, or even crowdfunding. of the approximate $238.8 billion in venture capital allocated to U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The company has built out its online sales platform, pre- and post-purchase customer support teams, retail showrooms, service van and a local service partner network. 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. of the funding raised since 2009, while Latinx female founders saw only 0.4% Ximena Aleman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. of total investment dollars.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India. The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. UPI has since become the world’s fifth largest payment network by volume, and a model for the rest of the globe.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

She previously founded Dress for Success, a network that empowers women to thrive both professionally and personally, and Crisis Textline, a non-profit that provides crisis intervention support via text. Taskrabbit; Nov 2009 What is one question you ask yourself before investing in a company? Nancy is a natural creator of movements.

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EntreWorks Consulting

MARCH 10, 2020

In recent years, many states and communities have embraced food systems and ag/food sector development as core economic development strategies. access to capital, changing consumer demand, agritourism trends) that are relevant to food systems development and support. dairy, cider, hemp) and nine issue clusters (e.g.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In “The Social Network,” it’s when this coding, viral platform genius that we’ve been introduced to, gets presented with the Harvard Connect idea by the Winklevii and decides to steal it. If you are building a B2B SaaS platform targeting enterprise, you need engineers, business development and sales.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 17, 2021

After assisting in founding four angel groups - the Frontier Angel Fund (2006), Vegas Valley Angels (2003), Tech Coast Angels (San Diego - 2000), and Aztec Venture Network (1999) – it was clear to Bill that angels needed comprehensive education, no matter where they were in their investing journey.

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