American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

Networking & Collaboration Building relationships, seeking mentorship, and leveraging partnerships for growth. Risk-Taking: He reinvested his entire PayPal earnings (~$180M) into Tesla and SpaceX, nearly going bankrupt in 2008. Resilience: SpaceX had multiple rocket failures before successfully launching into orbit in 2008.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 5, 2023

We also asked how membership in EO’s global network provides value by empowering them to confide in their peers in the confidential space of EO Forum , which can help entrepreneurs move forward through challenges to achieve their full potential. It’s incredibly valuable to have overall support from likeminded people.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 10, 2024

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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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. Machines that provide storage to the network get paid out in small increments over time as they continue to prove that they have held onto archived files. .

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Business networking is a fun time — mingling, eating, chatting about business. Many business owners attend networking events but don’t utilize the time or crowd as well as they can. This networking community provides members with different benefits and advantages, all with one goal in mind: increased business profits and relationships.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. Sopoong has closed on around $8 million (10.3

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008. Fred Wilson supports Montgomery’s view in this thoughtful post on the return of the tech IPO market.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Join the rest of the nation including equity crowdfunding platforms like 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors, where currently only accredited investors are allowed to invest. Even 2012's Congress agreed, passing the JOBS Act with bipartisan support through both the House and Senate.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2017

A close friend of mine founded Mali Rising, and I quickly became inspired to offer support when I learned about Mali’s low literacy rate and the poverty that coincides with it. In 2008, I asked to join the board of directors, and have served on the board as chairman for four years and in other capacities ever since.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 21, 2024

.” Maggie Horne, Director of the Gannon Small Business Development Center (SBDC), echoed similar sentiments, emphasizing the importance of collaborative initiatives like the TechCelerator program in fostering innovation and supporting local entrepreneurs. cnp.benfranklin.org/techcelerator.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth. In the mid-2010s, that focus began to evolve.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Network effects have evolved, moving away from the traditional physical spaces to digital ones. At the dawn of 2022, there were 2,900 active VC firms, marking a 225% increase since 2008. long-term support at the earliest stages). the free YC Startup School courses). Flyover Tech ) have played a significant role in this shift.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Vienna, 10 November 2021 – As the Impact Hub Network continues to accelerate the transition to a more just and sustainable future, we are excited to announce an update on our leadership team. Gabriela will continue to support our Ambition 2030 as a Board Director focusing on developing partnerships and engaging in policy efforts.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 24, 2023

She received her Bachelor of Arts in History and Women’s and Gender Studies from Pace University in New York City in 2008. Suissa has also volunteered with organizations including NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and the Young Women’s Leadership Network. And I suffered emotionally, psychologically and educationally as a result of this.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Tatiana, current Co-Founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam, takes over from Gabriela Gandel, who led the network for the past 10 years. We sat down with Tatiana to learn more about her as a human, her ambitions for the network – and her own entrepreneurial action. And what really inspires you in our network?

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In 2008, I was a medical device salesman frustrated with the fabric, fit and functionality of my undergarments,” says Patterson. “I Another common challenge startups face is simply running out of cash—or not knowing how to sustain a cash flow that will support growth. I wanted to find a better solution, so I created one.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

In 2008, he started Bluechip Technologies with a friend, Kazeem Tewogbade as an enterprise company that provides data warehousing solutions and enterprise applications to banks, telcos, insurance firms. I’ve built that network within the startup ecosystem and reputation as an angel always ready to help.

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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. Of the sub-verticals in construction that tend to cost the most (structural support like concrete and steel or mechanical and plumbing), not many can be automated because of the complexity of the task.

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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 a new generation of young people in government. And this is of utmost importance.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

There, I discovered we had grown our customer count far faster than our employees to support it, and customer service and employee happiness were suffering. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life. Back in 2008, our team did a vision exercise: What would Ruby look like at 10 times our current size?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2024

Since its launch, the Talent x Opportunity Initiative (TxO) has been more than a funding vehicle; it’s been a launchpad for culturally inspired innovation and a community of support for under-networked founders. His career began in advertising, but the 2008 recession prompted him to shift to radiology.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Since then, the company has created a network of 30 staffed primary care providers (PCPs in industry shorthand), who treat female patients online, without phone or video calls. 8 VCs agree: Behavioral support and remote visits make digital health a strong bet for 2021. Alpha Medical was founded in 2017.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” Selivanov co-founded EdgeDB with Elvis Pranskevichus in 2022, after co-launching a software development consultancy called MagicStack in Toronto in 2008. OpenAI co-founder and CTO Greg Brockman is another supporter, having invested in EdgeDB’s seed round this spring. Image Credits: EdgeDB.

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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. She’s passionate about supporting teams who are taking on world-changing ideas.

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Founders Coop

MARCH 1, 2021

And with over 200 companies in our combined portfolios, we’ve assembled the most powerful founder support network in the region. When we started Founders’ Co-op back in 2008, Seattle was still a company town. What’s different this time is mostly how the world has changed around us.

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Source Link

MARCH 24, 2020

These are all emotions I vividly recall from June of 2008. It is our job for the next few months to empower this network, amplify your impact and for us to collectively champion one another. To this end, here is how we are going to support you: COVID-19 Support and Recovery Webinar. SourceLink Support and Technologies.

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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. Apart from supporting social entrepreneurs in the realization of their businesses, Impact Hub Bergen also uses social entrepreneurship as a tool to empower and include marginalized groups in Bergen.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2019

Since 2008, OCAST’s budget has been cut by nearly 40 percent — from about $22 million down to $13.4 The Oklahoma Innovation Model attracts and unites scientific researchers, inventors, entrepreneurs and manufactures. million, which means almost $8 million less a year goes into priming Oklahoma’s STEM-based economy.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

This negative externality is unique to financial services and was particularly obvious in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The scope of the liquidity infusion has been massive even by the 2008 standard. This study would not have been possible without the collaboration and support of Brent Beardsley and the Boston Consulting Group.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

Miners spend energy to maintain the Bitcoin network. Once all bitcoin has been minted and miners no longer receive sufficient income from network rewards in the form of newly minted Bitcoin, they must rely on transaction fees instead. No network … no value. However, Bitcoin– unlike gold– must be used to have value.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

To do this, independent retailers will need tools to support their growth in a world that has moved online. The growth of Amazon/e-commerce resulted in the bankruptcy of Borders in 2011 and caused Barnes & Noble to reduce its footprint from 726 stores at its peak in 2008 to 630 in 2018 5. The viral loop and network effects.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Gorny founded Nextiva in 2008, focused on what it describes today as “UcaaS,” or unified communications as a service. After years of light regulation, the Federal Trade Commission and , separately, 49 state attorneys general are suing to break up social networking company.

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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. Women business leaders have created mentorship networks to help support a culture of innovation and risk-taking.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

Why would I spend so much time networking with other CEOs, discussing mutual problems and solutions? And it happened again in early 2008, as CEOs reported the first evidence of order slowdowns and issues with customer payments – right before the ‘great recession.’. Gather information to support your observations.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

I count seven major categories of innovation to date: Math Based Currencies/Payment Networks - Bitcoin might be the most well-known and best publicized math-based currency, but there are a handful of others in the market, like OpenCoin and LiteCoin. Consumer Credit - After the crash of 2008, bank lending collapsed.

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