This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2015

They do this through vertical integration and special packaging--and that's where the technical innovation comes in. I first met Ben on January 29th, 2011 at an SLP mentoring session. So if you don't have any by Friday, no worries. You can have them next week. He was working on Village Vines, which became Savored.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. I think that’s the beauty of both capitalism and innovation. And 18 months later, in May 2011, I have crossed 422,000 views. If you were reading the headlines from only 2.5 If you were reading the headlines from only 2.5 So which is it? Feast or famine?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Our interest in web3 which started back in 2011 was also grounded in the idea that new forms of funding are necessary to finance innovation and creative work. Because web3 presents a set of tools, technologies, and economics that can and is being used to bring badly needed innovation, innovators, and funds to the fight.

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Revolution

MAY 2, 2022

But when it comes to innovation, other more distant examples prove that these sorts of bipartisan accomplishments can have enduring impacts. When I joined a Democratic president and the Republican house majority leader in the Rose Garden for the JOBS Act’s signing ceremony, American innovation had been in decline for nearly 40 years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

In part 1 of this article, Tim discussed the false assumptions driving B2B innovations that fail. According to Accenture, 80 percent of B2B companies try to innovate around CX , but fail to generate a satisfactory return on investment. What does it take to design innovative digital customer experiences that predictably win?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In the world of entrepreneurship and innovation, we're all grossly underqualified for what we're trying to do, so we need the help of others. Do more for others in 2011, and I guarantee it will come back to you in spades. Weekly breakfast at Coffee Shop? A thoughtful comment every time they post a new blog? Some Tumblr reblog love?

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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-?). So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. 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

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? I believe that innovation will be part of what drives us out of the recession / long-recovery eventually. My personal views?

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2023

And you can leverage two very powerful forms of innovation, sustaining innovation and efficiency innovation, to scale your business. Sustaining innovation Sustaining innovation grows a business’s share of an existing market. Efficiency innovation Efficiency innovation improves profitability or productivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2011 I started using Instagram. Sometimes they take off and they reward the early innovators. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. Ironic to be self-centered while you’re trying to offer advice to others.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

MessageGears intends to use the investment to accelerate the innovation of its technology platform, with an emphasis on bolstering its mobile channel capabilities, expanding its global presence, and opportunistically exploring acquisitions that align with its vision for the future.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

If you’re creating truly innovative products, you often have no idea whether the proverbial dog will eat the dog food. 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. You have a hunch.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

In 2011, he founded Pota-Toss, a Kickstarter-funded iOS game, released on the App Store on October 2012. In November 2012 Caya was selected as one of 40-Under-40 Costa Rican innovators, and he was a featured speaker on the 2013 TEDx PuraVida Conference. If you can't build the best business you can create.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

Colmena66 continues to adapt to the needs of entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico, developing new and innovative ways to market their platform and meet small business owners where they are. In 2011, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce had a bold vision: to make Kansas City America’s most entrepreneurial city.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. The goal was to create innovations outside of MySpace and then MySpace would acquire them at pre-agreed prices based on how well they performed. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. Enter Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The result is that we’ve had a lot of innovation coming from LA and other regions outside Silicon Valley in terms of making money on the Internet. But one common theme I’m hearing from there in 2011 is that it’s impossible to recruit. You have no choice.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Political candidates can give all the stump speeches they want, but ultimately, the prescription is simple (though not easy): Entrepreneurial innovation. America’s immigrants opened more than a quarter of all new businesses in 2011; per capita, they’re more than twice as likely to do so as people who were born here.

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

In fact, damage to reputation and brand has moved up to #4 from #6 in the Top 10 risks identified in Aon’s 2013 Global Risk Management Risk Ranking , moving ahead of business interruption and failure to innovate to meet customer needs in 2011.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

My partner Marc saw the new world coming and wrote about it in 2011 in a piece called, “Software is Eating the World.” Finally, we would like to thank our amazing Limited Partners who have enabled us to grow and innovate tremendously over the past 15 years. Shortly after we started the firm, all that began to change.

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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. Innovations such as Viki are getting better at delivering sub-titled shows. To give you a sense of scale: 800 million people visit YouTube.com every month. 4 billion videos are watched daily. Put simply: YouTube OWNS the long tail.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2024

Successful track record of investment spurs latest fund supporting biotech innovation Foresite Capital, a multi-stage healthcare and life sciences investment firm continues to do what they do best—investing in companies that leverage biology and big data to transform healthcare. With over $3.5

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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-?). So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 18, 2022

It would be difficult to find a more prophetic blog post in the history of technology commentary than Marc Andreessen’s 2011 “Why Software is Eating the World.” The post How Data Rights Stifle Innovation in the DoD (and How to Fix Them) appeared first on Future. Over the past decade, software companies have driven the lion’s share.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

My two friends and I started Tejiendo Sonrisas, a Peruvian nonprofit organization, on March 1, 2011. Our mission is to implement innovative proposals for social and economic inclusion in favor of populations at risk and vulnerability, such as farmer communities, indigenous populations, women, children, and adolescents.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 22, 2024

The Thiel Foundation continues its commitment to innovation and disruption achieved by bright young minds, outside of academic studies, by announcing its 2024 class of Thiel Fellows. The latest cohort joins 270 alumni of the program that began in 2011. 20 young bright minds forego academic study to participate in a two-year program.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

It’s what venture capital teams at innovators like First Round Capital and True Ventures realized 15 years ago?—?they Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

The New York City-based company peaked at some 60 employees before it was acquired in December 2011 by Internap Network Services for $35 million. And those acquirers ended up being laboratories for all kinds of innovation, even as few people really remember Akamai or Internap these days (both companies are still around today mind you).

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

Register beSUCCESS Media Group , a well-known media group in South Korea, participated in the prominent BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) in Macau as a designated media partner. The company operates various platforms and initiatives to foster entrepreneurship and innovation.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 16, 2019

Hidden staircases and historic artifacts contrast the colorful furnishing and modern office equipment, providing an inspiring backdrop for social innovation, technology and the realization of ideas. Impact Hub Bergen was an early starter amongst social innovation spaces and joined the global Impact Hub network in 2008.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up. In 2011, the company launched its first core banking product targeting microfinance institutions. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. This is where Appzone has found its sweet spot.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Highlighting the importance of WorkTech and the rapid innovation now underway, the list reflects venture capital investors’ desire to fuel the next generation of market leaders. Miro, founded in 2011 and third on the list in the same category, has over 2700 employees and raised $476 million in total capital. billion in total capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. It means that the investors can focus on the issues that one faces at that particular stage.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. Overall, we are very optimistic about construction robotics and hope to see more companies attempt to solve the issues in productivity with breakthrough technologies, as well as innovative business models.

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