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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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. I believed in the company, its customers, the employee, and wanted nothing more than to receive the opportunity to grow and manage the business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

While DocSend has 17,000 customers, Houston says the acquisition gives the company the opportunity to get in front of a much larger customer base as part of Dropbox. It’s worth noting that Box offers a similar secure document sharing capability enabling users to share a link instead of using an attachment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

If you’re an EO member seeking acquisitions, mergers, partnerships, exit transactions, financing, investment opportunity or member-to-member deal experiences, MyEO DX is for you. 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.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

It significantly broadens investment opportunities and a startup’s potential to raise capital through only a few legislative provisions. 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.

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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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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. acquisition of Duo Security gave Ann Arbor its first modern unicorn, the CFE was experiencing record demand for more entrepreneurship education and opportunities. Just as the $2.4B

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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 12, 2022

But former Google AI tech leader Tomas Vykruta is taking a different tack with EvolutionIQ , which works with insurers to analyze claimant data and third-party information to identify “high-opportunity” claims — specifically those involving bodily injury. ” Market opportunity.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs.

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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. The groups source their own investment opportunities through personal networks or external platforms, as Tribevest is “investment-agnostic,” according to Smith. .

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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

AUGUST 15, 2023

At the dawn of 2022, there were 2,900 active VC firms, marking a 225% increase since 2008. Factors such as remote work, offshore development, and the steadily growing labor pool of software engineers have enabled startups to hire additional engineering talent, adding yet another catalyst to this vibrant ecosystem.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

My latest company, Hire Santa, started at an employee Christmas party in 2008 where I handed out bonuses dressed as Santa Claus. In addition to watching and analyzing every episode with me, she has always kept our entire household running, which enables me to follow my dreams. How Hire Santa Started. Mysti always goes the extra mile.

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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. Each cycle enables more data to be processed, faster.

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. “That was our loss for being too arrogant,” says Zennström.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Since Thanksgiving is less than a week away, I’ll take this opportunity to say how truly thankful I am to be given the trust and confidence to draft this newsletter and for you all to take the time to read and share it. inflation remains above 7% and short-term borrowing rates are at their highest level since January 2008.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

It is not hard to find strands of gold in the carnage left by failed businesses lost when a bubble bursts, such as in 1857, 1902, 1929, 2001 and 2008. Sometimes, innovators enable unfinished visions of others. The Internet and AI – new opportunities for innovation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

“We need to reform stock options so that they become a tool in order to compete internationally for talent,” he says, noting that the idea is to enable Spain to compete with regimes already offered by countries elsewhere in Europe, such as the U.K., France and Germany.

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StartupNation

MAY 17, 2021

After Apple added the App Store to the iPhone, companies like Uber saw an opportunity to leverage the device’s internet and GPS capabilities. Some will even reject an investment opportunity because “the idea has been tried a dozen times before and never worked.” The first was the makeup of the team).

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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. Tatiana says, “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.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

Math-based currencies are novel ways of enabling instant settlements, low cost transactions and foreign exchanges. Consumer Credit - After the crash of 2008, bank lending collapsed. This created the opportunity for new forms of consumer lending like peer-to-peer lending championed by Prosper, Lending Club and many others.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. “That was our loss for being too arrogant,” says Zennström.

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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. . This is what has driven and shaped our global partnerships from the very beginning.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Several top-tier funds recently redefined themselves as “investment advisors,” enabling them to place long-term bets by holding rather than distributing IPO shares. Recovery from the 2008 Great Recession took two years and was relatively weak. From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again?

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Continuations

JULY 1, 2019

———- Universal Basic Income: An Introduction Thank you for the opportunity to speak to this audience about Universal Basic Income. UBI then is a central pillar of a new social contract that enables a transition to the Knowledge Aga, a transition that is as profound as the one from the Agrarian Age to the Industrial Age.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker resale market, for companies like Kicks Crew , a Los Angeles- and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Built as a decentralized app, it enables people to “build better hometowns on the internet” to “truly own their town squares.” “Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them,” reports Tim De Chant. You can sign up here.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

Adora Cheung [02:13] – Most of these people, before Meesho existed, did they even have a business or most of them you have enabled them to even have a business in the first place? When we started off, we were just enabling existing guys who were doing this, because we saw this behavior. India is not such a rich country.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. Opportunity funds typically have better economics for the LPs who invest in them. We are in a bubble (with so many private $1bn+ valuations). Where are we today?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

After Sibilant closed up shop in 2008 due to illiquidity, David and Daniil — together with Anna and Maria — co-launched Concept Space, a vendor for motion capture and CGI animation software. “There is both an opportunity and a challenge in the current environment,” David and Daniil added.

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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. Consider the following; Inexperienced investors may see every opportunity as the next Facebook and may not understand the risks inherent in investing in early stage companies. But, is this true?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If there are no concerns about a technology, then there may also not be a significant opportunity for that technology. Therefore, the possibility of regulation itself creates significant opportunities for companies. Venture capitalists helped power this trend by enabling the creation of hundreds of unicorns and counting.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The financial opportunity of doing so is massive: an estimated $3-10 trillion in EBITDA will be up for grabs. To put that into perspective, it is almost 10x the $90B 2008 bill that catalyzed the US solar, battery, and EV industries into existence. Marketing enablement by aggregating lots of hard-to-acquire data (e.g.

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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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