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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Hey, we got to raise again next year. Let’s deploy faster!

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On Funding?—?Shots on Goal

Both Sides of the Table

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. Being too early is the same as being wrong.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. I think you're going to see a major shift towards getting youth across the board interested in math and science, on accessible learning on demand, and the positive encouragement of innovation. Reader beware.).

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Should Founders Still Raise in an Economic Downturn?

Dream It

Having been at the forefront of the dot-com boom, 9/11, and the financial crisis of 2008, Jason knows what it takes to survive this downturn. Runway is a crucial indicator of survival that signifies your company’s future financial ability to sustain operations. In fact, Jason started investing during the financial crisis.

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How One Entrepreneur Utilizes Visualization To Promote Living Organ Donation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We provide jobs that help drive the economy, give back to local communities , and create sustainability practices that support climate neutrality to make our world a better place. Contributed to EO by Dave Galbenski, an EO Detroit member who served as EO Global Chair in 2008-2009. Entrepreneurs change the world.

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15 Years of Founders’ Co-op

Founders Coop

We started the firm in 2008, on the cusp of the Global Financial Crisis, and it’s somehow fitting to be entering our 15th year as the laws of financial gravity reassert themselves once again. Our investing journey has also spanned one of the most pronounced and sustained oscillations of the business cycle since the VC business was invented.

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

But getting farmers on board has never been easy, Goslinga told TechCrunch. When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). As part of the new fundraise, TLcom’s senior partner Omobola Johnson will join Pula’s board. Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds.

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