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After bootstrapping since 2002, Articulate raises $1.5B on $3.75B valuation

TechCrunch

But Articulate , a SaaS training and development platform, is not your typical company and today it announced a whopping $1.5 CEO Adam Schwartz founded the company with his life savings in 2002 and hasn’t taken a dime of outside investment since. He says that the company started back in 2002 as a plug-in for PowerPoint.

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Why Web3?

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

As such Web3 can, if properly developed and with the right kind of regulation, provide a meaningful shift in power back to individuals and communities. Some of the best entrepreneurs and developers have moved over. It reminds me of the early days of web2 in 2001/2002/2003, when we started USV. The tooling is getting better.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. You feel it, too.

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What does it take to go carbon neutral as a business?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

When we heard about the EO’s initiative to support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals , we felt on the right path. He founded AmberMedia in 2002. At the beginning of 2020 we decided to finally kick off our GREENAMBER initiative and go public with it. We hope that many other EO members join forces.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Tapulous had raised $1.8mm.

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