Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. While they currently allow international funding opportunities, the bar is set at a different level.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy founded theBoardlist , a premium talent marketplace that helps diverse leaders get discovered for board and executive opportunities. A technology executive and entrepreneur, board member and investor, she has 25 years of experience founding and helping to scale companies, including Google, Amazon and Yodlee.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. For every bear there’s somebody else thinking they have an opportunity. That was written in September 2008. In September 2008 this was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the rippling effect was massive.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 6, 2022

OSSM’s Virtual Regional Center brings added educational opportunities and challenges to rural high school students. The first step, as with college-bound seniors everywhere, is that OSSM students have to figure out how to pay for books and tuition, room and board. By Scott Meacham. That’s where OSSM’s Virtual Regional Center comes in.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2016

When Annmarie Lanesey co-founded a software development business in Troy, NY in 2008, she saw business ownership as a means to successful living. By Annmarie Lanesey, EO Albany member and co-founder of Greane Tree Technology .

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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. The company has 150 employees currently, and another 50 are expected to come on board by the end of the year. Customer feedback is a development opportunity. million in revenue this year. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As part of the investment, Matt McIlwain, managing director at Madrona Venture Group, is joining Read’s board of directors. McIlwain also worked with Shim when they were both at Farecast, which was bought by Microsoft in 2008. There is a huge opportunity for someone to get hints,” he added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser for portfolio companies. For well over a decade since the 2008/2009 Great Recession, the cloud market has known only one direction: up and to the right. Andy Stinnes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

The APAC hub is backed by Enterprise Singapore, a board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry to foster SME development, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, alongside industry partners Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore, PSA unboXed and Synergy Marine Group.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

In 2008 Eric co-founded his own startup, RockMelt, and ran the company as CEO until its acquisition by Yahoo last year. It also allows us to recruit the best possible partner candidates, like Eric Vishria, early in their careers and allow them to dedicate many years to refining their craft as venture investors and board members.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2008, he ended up in a clinic, spending $35,000 on every kind of blood, stool, saliva or urine test there was to figure out why he continued to get sick. It’s about the growth and the opportunity to continue to drive innovation,” he added. “We Image Credits: Athletic Greens. “I

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Tan was a YC founder in the summer of 2008 and served as a partner there from December 2010 to November 2015. Months after the departure, Tan said that Ohanian isn’t leaving the firm altogether but is instead stepping into a board partner role at Initialized. Next year, I'll be going back to Y Combinator as President and CEO.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A: It is an honour to step into this role and have the opportunity to build on the legacy of our past decade and help forge the next one – given the urgent need we now have in the world for sustainable solutions. A: A pragmatic visionary! Q: You’ve been with – and part of – the network for over 15 years. Why this role?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said. We see tremendous opportunity for innovation in the world of B2B payments. If you study previous compression periods in the ecosystem (e.g., What do you feel might be overhyped?

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Everyone loves an underdog, which is why investors and tech journalists are so fond of discussing startups that launched during the Great Recession of 2008, like Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp, Mailchimp, Square and Venmo. The send-ahead deck. The presentation deck. The leave-behind deck. You may need more than one pitch deck.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

Her involvement in JA over the past 15 years includes serving as Board Chair, classroom volunteer, and speaker for the female-focused STEM initiative. “At She was honored as an entrepreneur and for her range of work in 2015 when she was inducted into the JA Space Coast Business Hall of Fame as Laureate.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

But as a founder during the Global Financial Crisis and subsequent recession, I learned how a broad market pullback in online ad spending can create opportunities for startups willing to double down when others are running for the exit. We also learned faster by having more people using our product than we otherwise would have.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

If that entrepreneur has enough money to conservatively make it work (but not quickly), he or she can go it alone, but the business will not scale quickly and it may lose its niche opportunity. Whitaker is co-founder and board member of RevTech Accelerator, a leading venture accelerator seed fund.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Today, one of the more promising startups out of Europe building software to help SMEs run online businesses is announcing some funding to better tap into both the opportunity to build these services, and to meet a growing demand from the SME segment.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

In 2008, he started Bluechip Technologies with a friend, Kazeem Tewogbade as an enterprise company that provides data warehousing solutions and enterprise applications to banks, telcos, insurance firms. .” The ticket sizes will range from $20,000 to $100,000, focusing on startups in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and North Africa.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

If given an opportunity to take seed capital on a discounted fee basis from an anchor investor, I’d always do that deal on a vehicle-specific basis. From CAIA : “Before 2008, a widely accepted rule of thumb was for a [hedge] seeder to expect 1% of revenues for each $1 million of seed capital. Back office , in some cases. .

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. Unlike other groups, ABL members all belong to either healthcare or technology industry-focused roundtables.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer made the decision to take her community service commitment to a new level in November 2008 when she successfully ran for the Ward 6 City Council seat. With a lot of faith, and the opportunity to participate in the rebuilding of what would later become Automobile Alley, we opened our doors on July 17, 1995.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Gabriela will continue to support our Ambition 2030 as a Board Director focusing on developing partnerships and engaging in policy efforts. Tatiana Glad, current Co-Founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam (since 2008), brings diverse experience to our global leadership team. Tatiana holds an MSc in sustainable business practice.

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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. Business Idea #9: Garden Specialist Yes, this is a real business opportunity.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 21, 2020

For 9 years and counting, WWF and Impact Hub have collaborated and supported innovations to accelerate, and scale solutions tackling environmental issues and economic opportunities in local communities. . Thomas Vellacott is CEO of WWF Switzerland and a board member of Impact Hub Association. Views expressed are personal. .

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

If given an opportunity to take seed capital on a discounted fee basis from an anchor investor, I’d always do that deal on a vehicle-specific basis. From CAIA : “Before 2008, a widely accepted rule of thumb was for a [hedge] seeder to expect 1% of revenues for each $1 million of seed capital. Back office , in some cases. .

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Greater governance role for limited partner Boards of Advisors. Recovery from the 2008 Great Recession took two years and was relatively weak. But as with most crises, opportunities for experienced investors who have learned from prior down cycles are still plentiful. When will today’s moribund IPO market recover?

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 25, 2015

Since my co-founders and I started Invoca in 2008, my role as founder-CEO has broadened from proving a concept and building a team to managing personnel and scaling operations. The transition process involves handing off essential responsibilities and creating the opportunity for true leadership. It took six months, but it paid off.

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Feedough

MARCH 5, 2021

He is accountable to and reports directly to the board of directors – a group of individuals elected to represent the company’s shareholders. It’s this board that elects and appoints the chief executive officer of the company. Visionary: The CEO looks into the future for opportunities that the business can capitalise on.

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Feedough

MARCH 5, 2021

He is accountable to and reports directly to the board of directors – a group of individuals elected to represent the company’s shareholders. It’s this board that elects and appoints the chief executive officer of the company. Visionary: The CEO looks into the future for opportunities that the business can capitalise on.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

These people who never had the opportunity to start a store came onto our platform and became entrepreneurs for the first time, because we do not need them to invest any money in working capital or setting up an offline shop. You will see in societies, people will just put a board outside of their house and start selling products.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2014

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. Unlike other groups, ABL members all belong to either healthcare or technology industry-focused roundtables.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2023

Aside from his history in tech sales, Mike leans on his expertise to build sales teams, identify market opportunities, develop partnerships, and strategically increase ARR through multi-product sales and cross-selling efforts. In 2012, the economy was starting to bounce back from the financial collapse of 2008 and 2009. I was right.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Consequently, US regulators have discouraged the selling of equity (shares) through crowd funding websites, so online companies, such as Kickstarter.com , offer the opportunity to donate funds to interesting US startup ventures in exchange for the right to become early product users or simply listed on the new ventures’ websites.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 10, 2024

Since April coincides with the start of major league baseball season, Dave saw the opportunity to coordinate two passions: He would leverage his lifelong love for baseball and his purpose of bringing attention to living organ donation by partnering with major league baseball teams.

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