2008 networking sustainability 
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. sustainable energy, interplanetary travel) and builds companies to solve them.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 26, 2011
2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
APRIL 3, 2020
During the Great Recession of 2008-10, Kent guided dozens of CEOs and their companies successfully through the crisis and positioned them to capitalize on the economic expansion that followed. EO is the only global network exclusively for entrepreneurs. In the summer of 2020, we will reconvene and continue that critical work.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
And you can see what AVC looked like in September 2008. The key innovation is a sustainable funding model for archives which Dani explained in her post: Arweave had to invent a new method of paying for storage, one where you can pay once, and store forever. And you can see what AVC looked like in September 2008.
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.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Morning in VC.
Feedough
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
As the business is scaling up too quickly, some startups can’t sustain the strong growth and eventually crash. Once the startup is able to prove its potential and sustain this exponential growth during the growth-inflexion phase, its growth continues to accelerate at a fast pace, attracting more customers to try the offering.
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