Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I remain a huge supporter and am very proud of our accomplishments and hugely optimistic about our future. Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. 5 years ago.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2019

EO Philadelphia Executive Director Katie Baer shares her story of entrepreneur-style community and support. It has been almost 10 years since I walked into a Strategy Summit dinner, my absolute first experience with EO. I was hired in early June 2009 as the part-time administrator for the EO Philadelphia chapter.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external investment will be put toward expanding the company’s marketing and sales teams, opening a new office in New York and supporting product development. This represents a potential switching opportunity to modern CMS solutions.”

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

From commerce, where it’s fine-tuning marketing strategies, to healthcare, where it aids in rapid advancements, data is key. Image: Galloping) Supporting individual players and helping them grow through accurate data instead of coaching without any plans. Register Data analytics is revolutionizing various sectors.

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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? Execute on the strategy to win.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Pervasive BI remains elusive, but statistics on the category reveal that about a third of employees use BI tools for analytics to inform strategy. Pyramid got its start in 2009, when Kohl and co-founders Avi Perez and Herbert Ochtman secured a development partnership with Microsoft that evolved into a fully-featured BI product.

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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 report also calls for government to support inclusion via the creation of a Diverse Co-Investment Fund — which it suggests should be set at £1.8 It found that all-ethnic teams received an average of just 1.7%

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

He also talked about the work he enjoyed doing: coming up with our strategy, working with our largest customers (like Allstate, DirecTV), working with VCs (Accel, Upfront, Rincon, Salesforce.com) and talking with future investors. Its a big to-do list and one that demands someone experienced in operating at this sort of scale.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

It was such a blast that I did it again in 2009. It started as a hobby, but by 2014, with the support of my EO Fort Worth “Tamarindo” Forum, it became a real business. EO Fort Worth was amazingly supportive. This level of support was extraordinary, and I couldn’t have done it without their help.

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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. I think it would have been equally annoying if I had chosen to be dogmatic about it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

There, I discovered we had grown our customer count far faster than our employees to support it, and customer service and employee happiness were suffering. … 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.

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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. So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. Rolling ten-year returns have steadily declined across hedge fund strategies. The HFRI Index returned 18.3% annually over the last twenty years.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

He started the company in 2009, facilitating peer-to-peer transactions from Kenya to Zambia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast, and vice versa. MFS Support Team. We are excited to join MFS Africa’s world-class management team on its mission and to support its growth journey,” he concluded.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Ironically enough, the second nudge she gave my career also had to do with AOL--ten years later when in 2009, she introduced me to Jon Brod who was forming AOL Ventures. Just as importantly, she was an incredibly loyal and supportive friend and co-worker during really difficult times. Are there examples of that? Not in the slightest.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. Can a deal get done?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. But this strategy great depends on point 3. But while Net Burn is the more critical figure at first blush and what most investors will focus on, Gross Burn is not irrelevant.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Segment One: Jim’s background and Clearstone’s investment strategy. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66 Segment Two: “Deal of the Week”. Read more: peHUB. Terms not disclosed.

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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. Rather than compete for the #1 market, Techstars made a virtue of supporting nascent startup ecosystems in the other major tech and financial hubs in the US, and eventually, around the world.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Numbering more than 400 people, Optimizely has built an amazing business since 2009, serving thousands of customers. Before Optimizely, Pete was a product manager at Google building Google App Engine which grew to support 150,000 developers. Before App Engine, Pete worked in the AdSense team and managed the OKR process at Google.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I found this annoying (I can’t think of a better word for the behavior) because it seemed like entrepreneurs were more concerned about the optics of the financing round than who was participating, would the lead (me) but supportive or simply focusing on building a great product and trusting that the financing nomenclature would work itself out.

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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. I have one message for you, ‘get over it! LA investors are more pragmatic.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

If I look back to the beginning of the current tech boom which started around 2009, we often wrote a $3–5 million check and this was called an “A round” and 12 years later in an over-capitalized market this became known as a “Seed Round” but in truth what we do hasn’t changed much at all. We will continue to work hard to make you all proud.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

For a long time, I believed and wrote supporting arguments underscoring the idea that the principal causes of this decline were Sarbanes-Oxley costs, decreasing equity coverage and decimalization of exchanges. Without significant barriers to entry, new entrants use lower prices and freemium strategies to win market share.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 1, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg, for example, has been making his goals public since 2009. Once you have set big-picture goals, craft strategies that will help you achieve those goals. When your strategies are simple, success doesn’t have to be hard. And he’s not the only executive to use new year’s as a catalyst to improve his business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The agency was founded in 2009 after Thomson created an early way to customize online profile images called Twibbon, which took off rapidly. Over the past decade or so, Storm Ideas has matured into a 70-person company that now offers strategy, design, development, and content for its clients across the sports and entertainment industries.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

He will also address common challenges that nontechnical founders may encounter when building their founding team and offer practical strategies for overcoming them. Wilcox founded E Ink, which commercialized electronic paper displays and was acquired by Amazon in 2009. Currently he’s a partner at Pillar VC. Who knows?

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

The most dangerous strategy for any platform company is to price too high – to charge a greedy and overzealous rake that could serve to undermine the whole point of having a platform in the first place. This resulted in more selection for the consumer and more support from the supplier base. But in fact, the opposite may often be true.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Coworking spaces support hybrid work models in a variety of ways. Teams looking to transition to hybrid work should poll their employees and design a strategy that best suits them. Additionally, we offer supportive and inspiring programming and events to keep members inspired and connected. It’s not just a space.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As evidence of that, the firm led Credit Karma’s Series A in 2009; led Remitly’s Series A in 2014 and participated in Nubank’s Series A in 2014. There’s no better confirmation than when an LP doubles down in their support of what we’re doing,” Rotman said. . That’s especially true as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to (sadly) rage on.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

“A brilliant hire is going to come up with ideas, but will absolutely need a team to support them, turn them into experiments and then make them a reality.” Last week, Kickstarter announced that people have backed more than 200,000 projects with $6 billion in pledges since the company launched in 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I ran a team of 14 people (12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk … both of whom were fluent in Japanese) who produced an Internet strategy for the board of Sony. Obviously if you’re in a customer support role, a sales role or a customer service industry this can be impossible. It was not a touristy experience. Close enough.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Venture capital is just equity--and it's equity that isn't widely available to everyone and it gets invested in by a wide variety of investor types with different strategies. Strategies are enacted to take the "market" part of the return out and just leave the "better or worse than the market" part in. It's a lot more skill based.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

When I was looking through their company’s history I saw the following statement made in September 2009: “Takes on WebEx, launches web conferencing and announces its US expansion with 900 US resellers&#. I think they should take some advice from their brand name and then regroup around what their core strategy will be.

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