TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started ( today and 2005 ), largely due to the emergence of cloud technologies, no-code tools, and artificial intelligence. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

From 2005 to 2009, I was fortunate enough to be part of a small group of New York City innovation community leaders that sowed some of the seeds of the thriving tech hub we have today. Honestly, it was a fair bit of hand waving and maybe a little smoke and mirrors--saying in 2005 that we had a ton of startup-ready tech talent.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

It’s a chess server, forum and networking site that launched in 2005, with premium subscription that ranges between $5 a month or $29 a year. He retired from public chess in 2005, and has since launched a foundation to help children have access to chess worldwide. The product will be available to the public by the end of month.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 22, 2021

Since 2005, she always had a role in shaping EO: as a local board member, an area director, a committee member and a facilitator. One of our key differentiators is having all Canada Bridge members play an active role in EO leadership. The more we involve ourselves in EO, the more gratifying the membership experience becomes.

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Jason Calacanis

DECEMBER 10, 2023

” “If only I had started a company at the start of the internet!” ” “If only I had started an app or cloud company during the ZIRP run up from 2009 to 2021!” ” “If only I had started a company during web 2.0 ” I lived through all four of those tech supercycles. and ZIRP).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2016

.’s annual GrowCo conference on Wednesday, the entrepreneur, investor, and Internet advocate divulged the most valuable lessons he’s learned since he launched the hugely popular website in 2005. –before coming back to lead Reddit. . Great founders don’t quit, but do adapt.

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Y Combinator

MAY 11, 2023

He graduated from Yale University in 2005 with a degree in computer science. In 2014, Twitch Inc. became a fully owned subsidiary of Amazon and the platform has grown to more than 8 million streamers a month. Emmett resigned as CEO in February 2023 and now works with Twitch in an advisory role.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 14, 2023

” Formerly known as Cityneon, the company plans on an initial public offering in Singapore in 2005, raising approximately S$5.3

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 27, 2024

They are: Melba’s Restaurant – Grant Amount: $650,000 – founded in Harlem in 2005 and became a premier comfort food destination in New York City, opening its second location in downtown Newark.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I first started my meditation practice back in 2005. Sitting alone in silence probably sounds like the worst way for a busy business entrepreneur to spend their precious time. However, this small time investment has paid me back in ways I never could’ve imagined. Becoming a Mindful Leader. The company was thriving.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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MAY 5, 2023

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded in 2005, NetEase is now known for its news portal, music streaming app, education products and video games that compete with those of Tencent. . “IMVU operates one of the world’s oldest, yet most vibrant and young — in terms of our user base — metaverses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Odeo was the organization founded in 2005 by Noah Glass and Evan Williams, that later reformed as the Obvious Corporation which ended up becoming the birthplace of Twitter.) . “I think I was in the first 10 accounts on the platform, and one of the first angel investors.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2005, he joined the Arizona Best Real Estate team, where he worked for more than six years before opening his own brokerage. As the son of a successful builder and developer, Noma’s passion for real estate began at a young age. He began personally investing in real estate at the age of 18.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2020

The Jonas family has been raising goats and making goat milk soap since 2005. PJ, like many other business owners, feels that no one will ever care to the same extent, since they aren’t as deeply invested. But of course there are always people willing to work hard and learn. . About Goat Milk Stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. Some companies have to go first. Others will follow. But many of us have been there. It’s not fun. But it’s necessary.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Back in 2005, I was a lowly analyst at Union Square Ventures with a million product ideas that I'd blog about all the time. I'm so excited to hear that Indeed.com, a company that Union Square Ventures invested in while I worked there, just exited for a reported billion dollars.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

The paid had worked together before — founding their first online payments company, MOIP, in 2005. With the checking account, customers have the ability to sending and receive money as well as pay bills digitally. This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2021

At the height of its growth in 2005, the company underwent some changes. Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and led by Irwin Jacobs who, based on Qualcomm’s success, would later become a billionaire and one of San Diego’s most prominent philanthropists.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 19, 2021

on Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. The coronavirus crisis is happening now, but it will certainly not be the last challenge we face. We must be ready. We must be prepared. We must lead. When faced with a crisis, will you rise to the challenge, or will you fall? At 6:10 a.m.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.” Garry, the visionary hacker, designer, and builder who has described how YC is ‘engraved on his heart’ believes in this future and is precisely the right person to take over as YC’s chief executive.” .

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Jason Malki

MARCH 24, 2023

Suissa served on the Board of the Brooklyn-Queens Chapter National Organization, both as President (2006–2013) and as Vice President (2005–2007). Dare to Run will be launching the first cohort of the Women’s Leadership Training Program in 2019. Prior to founding Dare to Run, Ms.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. To counter this “too big to fail” risk—and to promote the UK as a global tech hub—the UK kicked off a policy initiative to become a global superpower in financial services and technology. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The startup was founded in 2005 by a 15-year-old, Andrew Sutherland. It also reclaimed the Q from its less fortunate predecessor, amid an entire rebrand. Quizlet’s quiet march toward the public markets has been slow yet steady. It was fully bootstrapped until 2015. Glotzbach, who was previously an executive at YouTube, then joined in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The company is claiming this is the “world’s first” technology of its kind, and Daniel Russek, founder and CEO of Atarraya, told TechCrunch that Shrimpbox was an idea he got after college in 2005 when he started with a non-government organization working with fishing communities.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Flint co- founded another online real estate giant, Trulia and was its CEO and chairman from its 2005 inception until it was acquired by Zillow for $2.5 NFX founder and general partner Pete Flint has known Schwartz and Armstrong under a different capacity. They were once rivals. billion in 2015. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The company is a role model and innovator in this area: It has been entirely remote since 2005, and at 1,700 employees, it has helped prove that a remote workplace culture can succeed at scale. It’s impossible to talk about Automattic without talking about remote work.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Back in 2005, that meant working on ringtones for mobile phones, and even trying, and failing, to stream Indian concerts to mobile phones in the U.S. Naik followed her passion for Bollywood music and built her first company, Saavn, a successful distribution and streaming service for Indian and Bollywood music and content.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

So in 2005, he launched reCAPTCHA. “During those 10 seconds while you’re typing in a CAPTCHA, your brain is doing something that computers can’t do, which is amazing,” von Ahn said. But the tests were annoying and pointless, so he wondered, “Could we get those 500,000 hours a day to do something useful for humanity?”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The San Francisco-based company, co-founded by Steve Huffman, Aaron Swartz and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, is considering going public as early as the first quarter, sources […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Bloomberg reported on Monday that Reddit “is holding talks with potential investors for an initial public offering.” All rights reserved.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While Nexon has been a regular participant in G-STAR every year since 2005, they did not attend during special circumstances such as internal issues in 2019 and the pandemic in 2021. A company representative stated that they plan to concentrate on developing new games and strengthen their internal operations.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I was one of the first 100 members, dating back to February 2005. I’m just as familiar with the New York Tech Meetup as anyone. I was also part of the original New York Tech Meetup board and participated on it until last year. I offered to step aside to bring a few more faces onto the board last year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

The ongoing expansion of e-commerce in the country and New Delhi’s aim to reduce India’s carbon footprint by 33–35% by 2030 below 2005 levels are expected to boost the demand for e-mobility among stakeholders. Although the market is largely dominated by electric two-wheelers, the country has over 1.39

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

I don''t remember when I started talking to Rob, but I know it was before February of 2005, because I found "rob@businesspundit.com" in the contacts I ported over when I left GM and went to USV. It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky. A former engineer, Rob was a great writer and a thoughtful student of management.

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