TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Bernhard Niesner, the co-founder and CEO of Busuu, which was founded in 2008, sees Duolingo as an entry-level tool that can help users migrate to its human-interactive service. “If The year after its founding, Duolingo launched its Language Incubator in 2013. If you want to be fluent, Duolingo needs innovation,” Niesner said.

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Forward Cities

JANUARY 30, 2020

I hope to see business incubators/accelerators and resources dedicated to these areas specifically east of Troost Ave. I graduated from Michigan State University with a BS in Clinical Laboratory Science in 2008. Q: What is the change you are seeing or hope to see as a result of your commitment to this work?

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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. Many find the resources they need at optiMize , a social innovation incubator program housed in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. In the mid-2010s, that focus began to evolve.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others). The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

AUGUST 15, 2021

The 17 entrepreneurs, working out of the 36 Degrees North Incubator, are one-month into their 90-day “incubation” segment. Except that ACT Tulsa founders don’t call it “incubation,” they call it a “sprint.” After all, Selexys scaled from a TBFP investment back in 2008, to being acquired by Novartis in a $665 million deal.

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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. building companies in-house) or incubator (e.g., Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. In the past decade, we lived through an unprecedented run of optimism and climbing valuations, and the gut check we’re seeing now has been long in coming.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

He has been a serial entrepreneur and investor as a co-founder of LaunchTime, an incubator and investor in early-stage tech startups and as a co-founder of Community Connect, which was one of the first social networking companies. Shardul joined Index in 2008. Image Credits: Primary Venture Partners. Shardul Shah, Index Ventures.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 16, 2019

Impact Hub Bergen was an early starter amongst social innovation spaces and joined the global Impact Hub network in 2008. The program guides over 50 participants from idea to incubation, and is supported by Kavlifondet , Bergen Municipality , Hordaland County and Sparebanken Vest.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

He highlights a couple of priority projects: One to create a network to link entrepreneurs and policymakers with the wider ecosystem, and another to connect incubators and accelerators to build out a national support network for founders — both of which have been inspired by approaches taken in other European countries.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Their popularity has surged over the last decade, with the asset class growing from just over $3 trillion in 2008 to more than $10 trillion in 2019, according to data provider Preqin. . Alternative investments are having a moment.

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Jason Malki

MAY 3, 2023

Back in 2008 when I stepped into my first corporate job in an Education company, I had an opportunity to get exposed to an e-learning startup being incubated within and that got me fascinated by the world of internet and Technology. How did you break into a career in tech?

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

At a minimum, getting to the Series A derisks (perhaps temporarily) a seed investment in a world where the shapes of investment outcomes can take a decade or more (consider, Uber is now a decade old and DocuSign, which just went public, was started in 2008).

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 27, 2024

Their DNA was wrapped up in a VC mindset that starting valuations were less important given the lofty later stage valuations and frothiness at that end of the market (hence over 1000 “unicorns” today vs only 8 in 2008 and 1 in 2001). Those micro VC funds need to be invested or they will have to return the capital, hence valuations are bid up.

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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. Statewide, the number of small business incubators that focus on women and minority-owned business has grown rapidly.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

José Maria Macedo ( @ZeMariaMacedo ): co-founder and Head of Delphi Labs at world-class crypto investing & incubating firm Delphi Digital ( @Delphi_Digital ). Tax obligations are like hidden leverage: I know someone who sold his business for $10 million in 2008. and it is much higher.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008.

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