Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 23, 2021

i2E and Oklahoma scored another first in innovation and entrepreneurship in April when Alkami Technology, our state’s and our firm’s first “unicorn” debuted on the Nasdaq (ALKT). i2E receives state support from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology and is an integral part of Oklahoma’s Innovation Model.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Here are four startup myths that hold innovation back. industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e. According to a recent Crunchbase study , the number of companies founded by women doubled from 10 percent of global startups in 2009 to 20 percent in 2019. Myth 1: Startup founders are young . Mark Zuckerberg?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It had been written that NYC was built by industries of zero sum games like finance and real estate, and that DNA wouldn’t work in the startup community. Early stage VC’s are also aligned around turning over every rock when it comes to finding innovation hubs and being the connectors between them and the rest of the community.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Blackrock, GIC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Birla MF are among the investors who financed the anchor round, Paytm said in a filing with a local exchange. Paytm launched in 2009 to help users easily make digital payments from their phones and top up credit.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 30, 2021

The company was founded as iThryv in 2009 in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma made the initial concept investment in the company through the OCAST Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP). i2E receives state support from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology and is an integral part of Oklahoma’s Innovation Model.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans. I suppose, more specifically, the bubble ended in the last two weeks of September--right after this financing. The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone.

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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. Earlier, she led Finance at a major solar manufacturer. Mar received her Ph.D. Gabriel Scheer — Elemental Excelerator. ” Day 2 . Victoria Beasley — Prelude Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In a region where more than half of the population is either unbanked or underbanked , these open finance players are trying to improve financial inclusion on the continent. However, for Hassan, Mono’s play overlaps open finance and open banking. Getting into the accelerator helps Mono with one of its biggest challenges.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

She debuted in the tech space with the launch of LearnVest in 2009. Take a look: Finance for Founders. As a founder, you not only have to master your company’s finances, you also have to tackle your own personal finances. Take a look: Finance for Founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. .” It’s where the truly innovative separate themselves from the pack. It’s when the game slows.

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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. We are here to ‘arm the rebels’ and help those innovators build applications to give all end users a much better financial experience.”. and we have barely scratched the surface,” Karkal said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It’s a critical appointment — while brief — that can have a lasting impact on the founders who win, as well as help maintain TechCrunch’s reputation as an outlet that finds innovative tech and entrepreneurs behind it. Clicker, which launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2009, was acquired by CBS Interactive.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Of this lot, five were African startups: payments unicorn Flutterwave , credit-led neobank FairMoney , open finance startup Mono , card-issuing API Union54 and SMB credit provider Float ; Float’s round was announced in January but closed in late 2021. However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. If the “forever ramen profitable&# or “startups as a source of M&A innovation&# arguments don’t hold then we’re likely headed for one big brick wall. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

I think that’s the beauty of both capitalism and innovation. And even the best teams combined to create big innovations sometimes don’t time markets well, are surprised by unexpected technology breakthroughs by competitors or just don’t find the magic the leads to mass customer adoption. So which is it?

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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.

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

APRIL 6, 2022

Really, it’s finally fulfilled the vision we’ve all had of it becoming a leading city around innovation, tech, and culture,” Whurley said. In 2009, Whurley and Erwin met Ben Lamm at SXSW and they decided to launch Chaotic Moon, which focused on software, mobile development and design, the next year. But the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Paytm, which is backed by Alibaba, Berkshire Hathaway and SoftBank among others, launched in 2009 to help users easily make digital payments from their phones and top up credit. A successful listing would make Paytm the biggest IPO in India, surpassing a record $2.07

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

That includes over $50 million from Goldman Sachs to help back the company’s green building financing, as well a $30 million investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. He believes the only way to fix the financing problem is for people from underrepresented groups to gain capital and invest in one another. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

It encourages a bit too much FOMO (fear of missing out) and over-valuation in companies and a desire to do huge financing rounds to be perceived as the “knock-out winner.” It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. Business that are innovative.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. Now, a handful of companies, including Cruise and Motional, are trying to turn their innovations into a product that not only has the technical capability to navigate city streets, but is approachable and easy for people to use. with Oliver Cameron (Cruise) and Laura Major (Motional).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. Now, a handful of companies, including Cruise and Motional, are trying to turn their innovations into a product that not only has the technical capability to navigate city streets, but is approachable and easy for people to use. with Oliver Cameron (Cruise) and Laura Major (Motional).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Bonus lesson: Mistakes are the fertile ground of innovation! … 2009: Know what you stand for and surround yourself with people who are aligned with that mission. We grew our customer count 30% in 2009. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. Now, a handful of companies, including Cruise and Motional, are trying to turn their innovations into a product that not only has the technical capability to navigate city streets, but is approachable and easy for people to use. with Oliver Cameron (Cruise) and Laura Major (Motional).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

These days that’s not the case and it’s a great outcome for entrepreneurs and for innovation. What micro VCs need to consider is what happens when several of your companies want to grow and require VC financing? Or when the economy turns downward and they all need financing extensions? That’s awesome.

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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. The next logical step was to go up-market and look for financial “partners” among the many corporations struggling to keep up with the pace of technological innovation during the go-go ZIRP years.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

As you can see below, investments have skyrocketed – up 300% since 2009. The increase in entrepreneurs often brings in many people not in the system to “innovate” but rather to make a quick buck. Why Financing in Falling Markets is So Damn Difficult. Most smart VCs (again, privately) think it is not.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

require payment financing, invoicing/approvals, inventory management) and requirements differ from vertical to vertical. As a result, B2B buyers are looking for online platforms to help with the discovery, purchase, and financing of new products. Similarly, independent establishments in Faire’s core categories have grown from 1.47

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Top Detroit startup Guardhat raised nearly $42 million in funding in early 2021 to create innovative safety solutions for industrial IoT. Credibly is a Detroit fintech startup helping small businesses receive loans and financing by leveraging data and technology. Apply now to Trustpage. They have raised $10.7

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Yes, I studied Ricardo’s theory of Comparative Advantage in college that says that lower-skilled jobs should move to countries with lower labor costs, but Andy Grove’s point about loss of skills in manufacturing leading to a decline in innovation in the next technology wave is both real and troubling.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

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The Entrepreneurs Library

JUNE 30, 2015

I then intersected my work in social innovation in Australia and my economics work and looked at how those two things came together in designing new economic systems. The inspiration came in 2009 when I was at a conference and a gentleman spoke about his engineering company with a 50 person staff and 17 million dollar turnover.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

They bring in experts in legal, finance, marketing, business development, design, engineering, advertising, growth hacking, and other areas. Despite deep local roots in Boston and strong ties to Harvard and MIT, they decided to shut down Ycombinator Cambridge and moved everything to Silicon Valley in January of 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. Be an intern” And by the way, this is 2009. You remember what 2009 was like, right?

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