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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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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. How does Amber Media support it? It is also a cross-nation initiative among several African countries and supportive countries. He founded AmberMedia in 2002.

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

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The Past (1985-2002). rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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

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The Past (1985-2002). rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. then bought GeoCities for $3.6 They looked unstoppable.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year. They have data from surveys they did with corporate development officers (e.g.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

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Our existing investors supported us and a new lead came in. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit. We set up a development center in India and I had to be there for three weeks to tour all of the prospective cities. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this.

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Lee Jun-goo, CEO of ANDOPEN, Sets Sights on Global Biometric Control Market

AsiaTechDaily

Register The once futuristic scene of iris recognition for identification, seen in the 2002 film Minority Report, has become a reality in 2023. To tackle this issue, ANDOPEN has developed a decentralized face recognition solution that doesn’t require separate server storage of personal information. ANDOPEN is growing swiftly.