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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2019

The breakneck speed of innovation and high-stakes, high-pressure environment of the tech world mirrored what I was already used to out on the ice. Risk-taking is necessary for creation and innovation. Risk is what enables you to innovate yourself—to get better and grow. And I loved what I did. To me, it was a no-brainer.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

This new funding round will allow the company to solidify its leading position in the healthcare marketplace space while accelerating HDcare, HD’s new innovative elective surgery product. 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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

But person-to-person communications is vital to enabling democracy and you can’t deny the role of media in driving social change. By now most people acknowledge that social media helped play a role in candidate Obama’s 2008 election campaign. And that brings me to the US election.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 16, 2023

Subsequently, I spent 13 years in direct investments (4+ years in the largest VC in Malaysia and served 8+ years as VP, Strategic Investment for the National Innovation Agency of Malaysia). I have invested in multiple sectors with a focus on growth and tech/tech-enabled companies globally.

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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. We continue to innovate around how we do something amazing for our customers, and we also innovate on how we get the message out there in a very cluttered world.”.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The NoSQL movement launched officially in 1999 but rose to prominence much later perhaps closer to 2008 when Hadoop and other key value pair technologies became en vogue. These bridge technologies enable more developers and users to leverage the database. The pace and breadth of innovation in databases is accelerating.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 11, 2023

Great companies transform a technology innovation into a go-to-market advantage. 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. AI enables ABM-at-scale.

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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. ZLI immerses students into entrepreneurial environments where they can create, lead, and shape innovative ventures. The U-M’s Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) is one of the key engines driving that growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In other words, Plugo enables D2C merchants to focus on their products and supports other processes. “Local businesses [in Indonesia] have accelerated their adoption of digital technology due to innovation in the e-commerce ecosystem and dynamic changes in consumer behavior,” Bang said.

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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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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Also, it’s why I started an Impact Hub (Amsterdam, 2008), why I served on the global Board (2015-2018) and contributed through other roles, and why I want to continue to serve the network. A: I have a passion for water and social innovation. You can read more in our recent Impact Report. How do you do that personally?

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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. . More time is spent on innovation and solving difficult problems for the organization.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 9, 2022

Although the crypto asset industry’s market cap of $1.3Tn ‘only’ represents approximately 1% of global financial markets, the value of subprime mortgage CDOs responsible for the 2008 crash were also valued at ‘just’ $1.3Tn. or individual civil liberties?—?during during the adoption phase of one of the most exciting fields in recent memory.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The Subak incubator launched last summer — with a goal of making a tangible difference to not-for-profit climate action by linking eco-minded entrepreneurs and projects with an ecosystem of tech innovators who know how to scale projects and create global impact. government minister and a former MD of Microsoft for Startups U.K.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “We are not only focusing on innovative entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

“Noom has experienced extraordinary growth over the past several years, and it’s essential that we are structured in a way that enables us to continue growing over the long term,” a Noom spokesperson said over e-mail. It’s the second layoff impacting Noom’s coaching team in a matter of months, impacting hundreds of employees.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

1 billion for multistage startups : Cathay Innovation launches third multistage startup fund at $1 billion by Paul. $10 Based on his time leading startups through the dot-com implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar says it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

Faire has modernized this process, enabling retailers to discover thousands of brands, purchase products online, get free returns on new orders, and finance their working capital. On the other side of the marketplace, Faire enables brands to find new customers, manage their existing customer base, and reduce their risk of non-payment.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who see a new marketplace or niche or how to reach the mass market in ways not previously attempted. Innovation does not always equal invention. And innovation is what creates value. My experience describing innovation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The real innovation was a business one, with Klarna’s young and non-technical founders, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsso, taking an old idea and reconfiguring it for the burgeoning e-commerce industry. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Tatiana Glad, current Co-Founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam (since 2008), brings diverse experience to our global leadership team. At the same time, I plan to continue enabling our impact through large scale partnerships and policy efforts in my Board role.”. Read more about the leadership evolution at Impact Hub Amsterdam.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

In the last two years, financial services startups have been innovating impressively quickly and challenging some of the fundamental ways in which capital and credit are distributed. Math-based currencies are novel ways of enabling instant settlements, low cost transactions and foreign exchanges.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 21, 2020

The Impact Hub network brings together like-minded social entrepreneurs, innovators, partners, and industry professionals who are passionate about creating lasting change in places and for people who are the most in need. In times of crisis, many of us become innovators, whether we sought to or not.

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I still remember reading Eric Ries’ blog post that first coined the term “Lean Startup” in September 2008. Given the company’s slow pace of innovation — which contradicted the core principles of Lean — we assumed they wouldn't amount to much. Challenge #4: The Lean Startup overemphasizes a focus on product over deliberate growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The real innovation was a business one, with Klarna’s young and non-technical founders, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsso, taking an old idea and reconfiguring it for the burgeoning e-commerce industry. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While many lament government regulation as an infringement on innovation, I believe increased scrutiny is a net positive for the future of the software industry. anti-competitive practices that stifled innovation, as was the case with AT&T, IBM, Microsoft and today’s tech titans) rather than how their software operated.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

To put that into perspective, it is almost 10x the $90B 2008 bill that catalyzed the US solar, battery, and EV industries into existence. Sales enablement to better equip contractors to close large ticket projects with detailed ROI and performance reports (similar to what exists for solar today). First, we don’t agree with this.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

The function of the partner team becomes in a lot of ways somewhat akin to almost what RevOps has been in the predictable revenue era, which is this incredibly necessary enabling layer that holds these strategic keys to how you unlock the data, how you enable people on that data, and how you build the playbooks on top of that.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Expanding on its overall positioning and approach, Milanova reiterates: “Again, this has to do with our intention to democratize access to what is otherwise really complex information while also enabling access to better gynaecological care.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

While our firm has grown, our focus on building great management teams and driving innovation remains at the core of what we do. We’ve developed a data-driven sourcing infrastructure that enables us to identify promising deal leads using proprietary filtering tools. What are the strengths and weaknesses of these providers?

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