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

TechCrunch

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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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. Back to regular writing this week so check back in. We’re a busy bunch.

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Member Spotlight: Susan Michel, EO New Jersey

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I was an educator before becoming a financial advisor. I then spent 13 years as an independent financial advisor before deciding to start Glen Eagle Advisors in 2002. While I was successful in building and growing Glen Eagle Advisors prior to joining EO, I always felt that my business education was basically self-taught.

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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). But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. The Present Era.

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Tim Brady is leaving YC

Y Combinator

grew when I succeeded him as CPO in 2002, as he left in search of new adventures. We stayed in contact over the years and when I began thinking of starting something in the educational technology space in 2010, it was natural for us to begin batting ideas around. My connection to Tim and what he meant to Yahoo! And what adventures!

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Domestika raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to expand its learning community for creative types

TechCrunch

Domestika has been around for years — it was founded back in 2002 — but its focus and the attention it is getting right now taps into a couple of areas that have proven to be especially popular recently with users, and in turn, investors. (In You are with your people, Cotorruelo said: “A home sweet home.”).

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Saving Lives, One School at a Time

Entrepreneurs' Organization

My first visit to Bangladesh was in 2002, and I had no illusions about this country. The progress in education, health and gender equity, and the fast improvement in basic living conditions, is also partly because of the success of the labour-intensive, export-based garments industry. I expected poverty and there was plenty of it.

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