Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 2, 2022

In 2008, tightfistedness dominated the market. Today, a story is sufficient to raise a 2008-sized Series B. More capital enables this by permitting faster hiring, quicker software development, and perhaps less efficient unit economics. In my notebook, I sketched this 2x2. More capital has inflected the ARR growth curves upward.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

And you can see what AVC looked like in September 2008. Arweave is a decentralized protocol that enables archiving and the funding to support it at web scale. And you can see what AVC looked like in September 2008. The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine are awesome. The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine are awesome.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Scotts Valley, California-based company is using cloud technology and the Ethereum blockchain as the engine for its Paystand Bank Network that enables business-to-business payments with zero fees. During the 2008 economic downturn, Almond’s family lost their home.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. This has spawned growth in related VC-backed businesses like Burstly, TapJoy and Flurry who help enable real-time transactions in mobile apps. Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 21, 2023

From a single Michigan location in 1995 to becoming the fastest-growing coffee chain in America by 2008, the co-founding duo was encountering great success. But, Bob and Mike began to realize that their exponential growth came at a cost. They weren’t internally practicing the values they had started the company with.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

With low utilization rates across private hospital infrastructure, this ‘Airbnb for Surgeries’ solution enables HD to help both healthcare providers as well as patients. HDcare works with healthcare providers – many already on the HDmall platform – to increase utilization of hospitals’ and clinics’ operating room capacities.

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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 . All these issues have been addressed through software we built ourselves.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Crowd funding enables entrepreneurs to raise money in relatively small amounts from large numbers of interested investors. Nelson Gray , Europe’s 2008 Angel of the Year, suggests that crowd funding may lead to the “dead-end of an uninvestable proposition.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

If you need a reminder, Venmo, Instagram, Uber and WhatsApp all launched during the Great Recession of 2008. “For instance, we have one company we are investing in that enables customers to significantly increase their sales by enabling them to do things in a way that hasn’t been done before. But all is not lost.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2019

Risk is what enables you to innovate yourself—to get better and grow. A former professional athlete, Nagtegaal speed-skated with the North Holland Region/Utrecht KNSB from 2005 to 2008. It is what makes you pivot when a solution doesn’t address a need the way you want it to.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 16, 2023

I have invested in multiple sectors with a focus on growth and tech/tech-enabled companies globally. I have always wanted to start a fund; hence I joined the industry in 2008. We are sector agnostic, but we have a bias towards tech or tech-enabled companies. I will say my domain expertise is in venture and growth investments.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

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. Founders’ Co-op turns fifteen this year.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Four years later in 2008, the United States was in the grips of the Great Recession. In 2008, I was so invested in this business that I knew I could not sit there and watch it dissolve. This helped me overcome challenges and enabled me to lead by being myself. In 2004, I left the firm to join Intuit as their in-house GM.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. Nearly two years ago, we set up our first credit fund to provide products like asset and project finance and built out financial tools focused [on] asset-enabled businesses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

It’s worth noting that Box offers a similar secure document sharing capability enabling users to share a link instead of using an attachment. Both Dropbox and SendDoc participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield with Houston debuting Dropbox in 2008 at the TechCrunch 50, the original name of the event.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

The crisis of 2008: The housing bubble pops. Now let’s look at 2008, when we had our most recent major recession. Loan originators, propelled by cheap credit and lax mortgage policies, enabled the fast growth of subprime loans. One month after that, Google made its public debut on July 29. What happened?

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Otherwise called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, the legislation modifies a series of laws that enable startups to seek funds using methods that have been illegal since FDR's Securities Act of 1933. Equity crowdsourcing advocates are quick to mention that small business loans are at 75 percent of their 2008 peak.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Exercise hadn’t been enough of a priority in 2008-09. I plan to keep track on DailyBurn to measure my weight through a new wi-fi enabled scaled from Withings. My wife said to me, “I thought you weren’t supposed to work entrepreneur hours when you’re a VC?&#. But now I’m nearly 42.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 16, 2025

In 2008, while living in New Jersey and practicing law in New York City, I learned that my one-year-old son needed open-heart surgery. We also are champions of small business, enabling them to not only survive but thrive while they face competition from not only big box retailers but online retailers likeAmazon.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 9, 2013

In the summer of 2008, a crisis evolved on my team at Google: social networks had grown exponentially. It’s about waking up in the morning and asking, “How will I enable greatness today?”. The AdSense network was flooded with social network page impressions whose poor performance challenged advertisers and Google alike.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 11, 2023

The iTunes store launch in 2008 enabled Uber. There are a few emerging possibilities : OpenAI plug-in architecture enables companies to build products integrated into a new search & discovery experience. Novel content creation techniques used the right way might enable a new form of inbound lead acquisition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Launched in 2008 in Dublin, AccountsIQ’s cloud-based FMS aims to simplify how multi-entity businesses “capture, process and report” their financial results.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In other words, Plugo enables D2C merchants to focus on their products and supports other processes. The company offers a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, from making a website, setting up a payment system, and managing marketing to handling shipping, warehousing, and logistics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” ” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The CFE is a unit of the College of Engineering and the Center has helped more than 30,000 researchers and students since 2008. Eric, also the CEO of Tempus, is enabling physicians to deliver personalized care for patients through the company’s interactive analytical and machine learning platform. university.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Founded in 2008, Deputy has raised $104 million AUD (about $72 million USD) from investors like Square Peg and IVP, reaching soonicorn valuation. Between its formation in 2008 and 2017, Deputy didn’t have a CEO, until Ahmed stepped into the position after the startup’s first funding round. million shift workers. In the U.S.

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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. Ashenden explained the company is at an inflection point, and the new funding will enable the company to take on larger capacity for the first time. Gainful raises $7.5M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“SonarSource enables companies to improve the quality of their source code.” Gaudin says he launched SonarSource to enable developers to administer best code quality practices that, in theory, could help to fix problematic code. . ” Detecting issues in source code.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In 2008, a friend asked me to help him commercialize an invention for making frames for tables, desks and a wide variety of other applications. a website platform enabling customers to customize furniture specifications to the millimeter and choose the top and frame colors to suit their space. Thus Table and Desk was born?a

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

To that end, Valon Mortgage , a tech-enabled mortgage servicer, announced this morning it has raised $50 million in a Series A round of funding — which is large for its stage even by today’s standards. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round for the New York-based company formerly known as Peach Street. residential loans.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Tribevest founder Travis Smith went on a fishing trip with his brothers in 2008 that he says they couldn’t afford. Tribevest enables its users to break into private markets like real estate and startups, which can often require prohibitively large upfront investments, through pooling their money, Smith said.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 10, 2022

Each Basel Accord was authored in response to a crisis Basel I - the crash of 1989; Basel II - the dotcom crash, and Basel III - the GFC of 2008. Tokens and DAOs remain distinct from stocks and boards because of the regulatory arbitrage that enables startups to go public in half the time of the classic route.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

To understand what I mean, let’s look at the global financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the ensuing regulation of the financial services industry. Venture capitalists helped power this trend by enabling the creation of hundreds of unicorns and counting.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

By offering to take half the round or my prorata I fully enabled the company to do whatever they needed to do. And more to the point – if you hit a major economic down cycle (like September 2008) you’ll have tough times with all investors. Entrepreneurs – please take note.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Its approach is also drastically different from most fertility service providers — it has savvy, intelligent marketing; a tech-enabled and fully virtual care facility; a focus on compassion; and ample customer education to help patients feel involved and understood. The company today has 12 outlets in 10 cities in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

’s 2008 Climate Change Act — and is funded by the Quadrature Climate Foundation, a climate-focused corporate social responsibility initiative launched by algorithmic trading tech firm, Quadrature Capital, in 2019. The incubator was founded by Baroness Bryony Worthington, who was the lead author of the U.K.’s

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 22, 2023

HYUH CEO and Professor Byung-Hee Lee said that both HYUH and FVC share the same dream to enable early-stage university startups to strategise, scale, and thrive in the overseas markets. HYUH, that was established in 2008, is the first university-based holding company in Korea that commercialises HYU technologies.

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