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

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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. Coursera set to roughly double its private valuation in impending IPO.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. I’m now back & ready for action.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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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 see opportunities for disruption all around me and am meeting amazingly talented entrepreneurs. Have a cushion.

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

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The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities. We know that Twitter is leading to customer service opportunities for businesses but the opposite is also true. Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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

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The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. FourSquare obviously brings up a lot of interesting commercial opportunities. Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities: Sprout Social, CoTweet, awe.sm, LocalResponse. The Present Era.

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Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs

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There is a second set of career discussions I have even more frequently than my “angel yourself” advice but this type is almost never discussed publicly in blogs, which tend to emphasize only billion-dollar opportunities, 20-something technical founders and Silicon Valley elitism. I saved my main point for last.

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The entire fintech industry is not in distress – here’s who is hiring

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In fact, some companies are finding opportunity in the masses of layoffs. With so many fintechs laying off staff , it can be easy to assume that the entire industry is in distress. But that’s not the case. ” Here are some fintech companies that are hiring.

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