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How to Engage Employees—Sustainably

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The media has picked up our story, and it’s a story that highlights our culture and values. After having worked in London, Frankfurt and San Francisco, he returned to Hamburg in 2001, where he lives with his wife and his seven-year-old twins. The post How to Engage Employees—Sustainably appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. I wrote a post in 2015 that memorialized at the time how I felt about all of this, titled, “ Why I F **g Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed.”

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R136 Ventures Tech Stack Profile: B2B enterprise software and fintech

David Teten VC

In addition to myself, our leadership team includes: – Yacov Nachmanovich, Partner, with more than 20 years of private equity experience, asset management and project development in the financial sector and retail. – Tom Dennedy, Partner and COO, who focuses on helping startups realize sustainable growth.

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Debunking the Startup Failure Myth & How To Overcome 3 Common Obstacles to Success

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In a study conducted by Cambridge Associates, researchers found that the real failure rate hasn’t gone above 60% since 2001. Another common challenge startups face is simply running out of cash—or not knowing how to sustain a cash flow that will support growth. The problem, she says, is that the data actually proves otherwise.

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A look at six new funds begs the question: Is a slowdown really coming?

TechCrunch

Whether we will see as dramatic a correction in the next few years as we did in 2001 to 2003, however, is anyone’s guess.”. “If Lerner said this point in time feels like the period between March and December 2000, “when public technology stock prices dropped dramatically and there was little apparent impact on venture capital fundraising.

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“AirB&E” and Disaster Response for Consumer Startups

Gust

Amid the remembrance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks this past weekend, much was made of the voluminous 9/11 Commission report, which described in excruciating detail countless ways in which the United States homeland security and emergency response infrastructure failed to respond adequately to a disaster of unprecedented proportions.

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What was Nike like as a startup?

Unvalidated Learnings

Such is the company’s current scale and standing in popular culture that it’s hard to imagine it once was nothing more than a scrappy upstart with chronic cash shortages. Their growth naturally slowed down with scale but maintained a remarkable consistency over time: $3bn of revenues in 91, $9.5bn in 2001, $21bn in 2010 and $32bn in 2015.

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