Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2011, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce had a bold vision: to make Kansas City America’s most entrepreneurial city. Identify what you want to change and what success will look like, then determine what steps are needed to reach your community’s specific goals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

In 2011 YouTube had 1 trillion views, which is the equivalent of every human watching 140 videos. YouTube has done a phenomenal job in aggregating audiences, which is why I have taken to calling YouTube the new Comcast and believe it will be a huge disruptor in the TV market . 4 billion videos are watched daily.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

Tim has been an EO member since 2011. Tim Hamilton is the founder and CEO of Praxent , a custom software and web app development firm. Praxent has been named for three consecutive years to the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

If you want to watch my interview from 7 years ago it’s here or you can read the summary notes I wrote up ) Derek built Startup Grind from 2011 with 20 people in one room for a conference into a global phenomenon with 600 chapters all over the world and more than 2 million members.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

2011 was the first year I went to SxSW. And why I still made it to breakfast at 8.30am with Christina Cacioppo the next morning (although I’m not sure she found me too Haimish of a conversationalist that day ). If you get a chance after you’re done with this post then please be sure to read Brook’s Haimish op-ed.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2024

With the recent closing of its Sixth fund of $900 million, the firm stands on a record of 47 IPOs, 28 mergers and acquisitions, and 58 FDA drug approvals since its founding in 2011. With over $3.5 billion now under management, Foresite’s team adheres to a data and science-driven investment strategy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Miro, founded in 2011 and third on the list in the same category, has over 2700 employees and raised $476 million in total capital. Airtable, a low-code platform for building collaborative apps, tops the 2024 list. The productivity and collaboration company founded in 2012 has over 700 employees and has raised approximately $1.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

billion and over 10 times 2011’s total of $3.6 But the gender gap in startup fundraising is closing slightly, new PitchBook data shows. Female-founded companies raised $40.4 billion across 2,661 deals through the first three quarters of 2021, almost doubling 2019’s total of $23.7

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

beSUCCESS Media CEO James Jung talking about the company at BEYOND Expo 2023 beSUCCESS Media, founded in 2011, has played a significant role in supporting and fostering the growth of the startup ecosystem in South Korea and beyond. The company operates various platforms and initiatives to foster entrepreneurship and innovation.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

With the new funds, MessageGears now has investments totaling to $80 million since its founding in 2011. In addition to the fresh investment, Angad Singh of Long Ridge also joined MessageGears’ Board of Directors. “At At Long Ridge, we’ve long understood that enterprise brands have immense amounts of data about their customers.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Selected films include: JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI ( Director: David Gelb | 81 minutes | 2011 ) – the story of 85-year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. The films are available to stream free of charge, without ads, and without a login or subscription on Mailchimp Presents starting today.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

In 2011, the company launched its first core banking product targeting microfinance institutions. One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. The following year, Appzone launched its first product (branchless banking) for commercial banks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

In 2011, edtech startups such as Coursera and Codecademy were popping up — companies that today are valued as multibillion-dollar businesses. For him, the success of two tools that used language as a barrier was the beginning of a long journey into discovering if, and how, language could instead be a bridge. Duolingo’s first words.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. And now today, the company announced its largest round to date, $400 million in a Series C that propels its valuation to $17.5 Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). You may look at this and think to yourself “well, of course, how controversial is those?” ” This year, however, is like any other year in which I’ve tracked these and tried to single out one.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Founded in 2011 to commemorate the legacy of Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung (Asan), the foundation has been a driving force in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in South Korea. The Asan Voyager program is specifically designed to provide comprehensive assistance to early-stage Korean startups with a vision for global expansion.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

Leymah Roberta Gbowee , 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate and Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. Jacinda Ardern , the former prime minister of New Zealand who led with compassion and achieved impact. She is an advocate for climate action and a fierce champion for women.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

” SingleStore was founded as MemSQL in 2011 by Eric Frenkiel, Adam Prout and Nikita Shamgunov; Verma became the CEO in 2020 after a year in a co-CEO role. . “Its proprietary, simplified, data-agnostic approach is built so that organizations can act with informed insights to make business-critical decisions fast.”

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

They’ve been in business since 2011 (founded by entrepreneur coach Ryan Vaughn ) and are growing fast. Because the original idea that won $20,000 in startup funding from Grand Rapids incubator Start Garden was to provide this software tool to lawn companies. They currently work with 2,000 partner schools.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In 2011 he founded Legacy Private Client Group, where he built a platform that facilitated holistic solutions. A leading financial advisor in the entertainment and sports industries, Roman focuses his holistic service model on creating and maintaining efficiencies within his clients’ finances.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

She launched Silicon Hills News in 2011. Writer’s note: Whurley has been a supporter of Silicon Hills News, the tech news site I founded in 2011. She also covers consumer packaged goods startups, and medical tech and biotechnology ventures. In Austin’s tech world, there’s an entrepreneur everyone knows by one name: Whurley.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2011, Ammar used to work for a company called Be Sport. Since 2020, we have been trying to find an amicable solution. But we haven’t reached an agreement despite long hours of negotiation,” Ammar wrote. In 2018, Ammar was given a four-month suspended sentence for a separate case.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Surging Growth: This period started in 2011, where Groupon crossed the 1 billion mark. Blade Years: This was a period of 2 years, where the revenue growth of Groupon was pretty much stagnant at around 14.5 Growth Inflection Point: Groupon hit the growth inflexion point in 2010 when its recorded revenue was around 313 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The company, based out of Miami, also provides a range of other tools for the media professional — including media monitoring, reporting and analytics and collaboration and pitching tools that it introduced in 2011, after running for two years solely as a journalist database — and as such is more generally part of the world of business (..)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Two years after launching the African entertainment company in 2011, Njoku and his co-founder Bastian Gotter launched SPARK , a self-described company builder and a $2 million fund. But before CcHub launched its $500,000 accelerator programme and Aboyeji founded Andela in 2014, Jason Njoku of iROKO had already begun to invest in startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2011 , as Twitter hit the 100 million active users mark, the entrepreneur left to pursue new projects with Obvious Corporation , a startup incubator and investment vehicle that had included fellow Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and former Twitter exec Jason Goldman.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Founded in 2011, the firm presently has about $1.6 Founded in 1902, it notched a reported $14.4 billion in revenue in 2020. Toronto, Ontario-based OMERS Ventures is the VC arm of OMERS, the pension plan for Ontario’s municipal employees. billion in assets under management.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cosmax Headquarters (Photo: beSuccess) Cosmax, a cosmetics research, development and manufacturing company, opened its headquarters in Pangyo in 2011, and then moved its R&D center and marketing headquarters to Pangyo as well, completing preparations to grow as a global company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Founder and chief executive officer Ivy Huq Russell, who grew up in Chittagong and Dhaka before moving to the United Kingdom for university, started Maya as a blog with healthcare information in 2011. At the time, Russell worked in finance.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

In recognition of her work, Bdeir has received numerous awards, including: BBC 100 Most Influential Women (2019), a TED fellowship and she has appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine (2011). Her inventions are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and she holds over a dozen patents.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

LLH: When starting Belly in 2011, yeah, we were tracking something like 15 companies in the Loyalty space. Many competitors were building cool new things, that felt hot and buzzy… like, they were mobile only products at a time (2011) where less than half of a small businesses customers had smart phones.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Roy founded MessageGears in 2011 with Taylor Jones, a colleague, to productize this solution. The solution, he came to believe, was a hybrid approach — one that directly accesses brands’ first-party data instead of relying on cloud data syncs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

While founded long before the pandemic, Steve King says that Black Swan Data , the data science and tech company that he helped co-launch in 2011, is well-suited to the current environment. That’s true during less chaotic times, but the stakes are higher at the moment.

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