This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. We're entering another election year, and recent history has given us unprecedented access to information and interaction with our elected representatives. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Canada-based company got its start in 2008 as the payment processing company Zomaron, and rebranded itself as Paystone in 2019. million in a mix of debt and equity. The company has 150 employees currently, and another 50 are expected to come on board by the end of the year. It raised $54.9 million in revenue this year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When you communicate with each other openly and honestly, people respect that and get on board with your mission. It’s about mixing patience with your determination to succeed. You believe that leaders should embrace their culture and values more deeply in a crisis and cite the 2008 Great Recession as an example.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.)

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

The inflation is entrenched because a large number of jobs are now being done from home, and the wealthy computer desk jockeys working these jobs now require a different mix of goods. It is trivially easy to spot a policy that uses confidence intervals rather than outcomes at the extreme. More users, more owners, token number go up?—?wash,

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 27, 2024

Exit and IPO activity have dropped precipitously, and funding has declined across the board. Their DNA was wrapped up in a VC mindset that starting valuations were less important given the lofty later stage valuations and frothiness at that end of the market (hence over 1000 “unicorns” today vs only 8 in 2008 and 1 in 2001).

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OkDork

JANUARY 27, 2023

Airbnb was made during the 2008 recession, and this is very similar. Business Idea #5: Employment Coaching Sadly, there's lots of layoffs across the board in many different companies, and more and more people are looking for work. Whatever space they have that they don't use—you can rent it out on their behalf and split the profit.

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