Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

In fact, I lost more than $15 million dollars in 2010 in the demise of my manufacturing business because I was vulnerable to my partners and bankers. Whitaker is co-founder and board member of RevTech Accelerator, a leading venture accelerator seed fund. By Mike Whitaker, author of The Decision Makeover.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. But its focus on solving a real-world problem makes it uniquely valuable to most other social graphs.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2022

The company launched in 2010 as Zee Aero and then merged with Kitty Hawk Corporation. Excell Partners, Luminate NY Accelerator, Empire State Development, MHNW Consortium, Dr. Sanjay Jha, (the former CEO of both GlobalFoundries and Motorola Mobility), as well as other investors also participated.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. Back in the 2010’s, trading happened over Bloomberg chat. The collapse of 3AC in and of itself is unremarkable.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

He has served as a co-fund manager of the San Diego Angel Conference, an investor with NuFund Venture Group, and a mentor with both the NexCubed Digital Health Accelerator and the Illumina Accelerator. The mantra for the 2010’s was that health companies needed to become tech companies before tech companies become health companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Specifically we talked about what single trigger vs. double trigger acceleration works and “termination without ’cause’ &#. has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. DEAL OF THE WEEK.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 22, 2023

When we discover a founder who has something that's of real value, and they turn out to be willing to listen to the advice from mentors, that's a deal you want to invest in. The learning curve was how to determine when they were ready to listen and then be prepared to stand in and provide that advice. Damien: [00:09:42] Wow.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

So, I decided to take on the debt in 2010, and be solo. Tommy Mello: In 2010, I started reading a lot and learning about … I read the E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber. Bad employees get fired, good employees slow down the company, great employees accelerate. He exited the business, we’re still best of friends.

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Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Johnson, the company’s first employee, built an epistolary community of fellow runners (a forum of sorts), who, in exchange for his expert advice, would provide him with invaluable product feedback: “ Unlike me, however, most customers came to depend on Johnson’s letters. Most wrote him back. By then, they only had $2m in annual revenues.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

I would only add one more note: When making investments, angel investors may well wish to consider investing in a fund, or as part of an angel group, that has a process to take advantage of the 1202 exclusion. ——— NOTE: This article is not intended to provide tax advice. This 100% exclusion, unlike many other tax breaks, is permanent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? billion in 2010, Video Valley (the area of Lysaker right outside of Oslo) has churned out a lot of successful companies within the space. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy. Which advice would you give to female and underrepresented founders looking for investments?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy. Which advice would you give to female and underrepresented founders looking for investments?

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