Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

Whether you have attended EO’s Leadership Academies or still look forward to the opportunity, the foundation upon which this remarkable programme was built is notable. In the first year (2008), we had a meager budget, limited staff support, and only seven months to pull everything together. All of them did.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( Recode ).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. But before I sent it I had made 10 private phone calls, sent emails & built support.

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Forward Cities

JANUARY 30, 2020

Q: What is your deeper ‘why’ behind your commitment/work to support inclusive entrepreneurship in Kansas City? . It is extremely vital to me and my team that we ‘even the playing field’ and create even more opportunities and invest in these neglected and underserved areas that are still impacted by past corruption.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 6, 2022

OSSM’s Virtual Regional Center brings added educational opportunities and challenges to rural high school students. Jessica Decker, OSSM graduate in 2008, has been an OSSM instructor since 2012 in various courses on the main campus. The post OSSM’s Virtual Center brings added educational opportunities appeared first on i2E.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

“We are thrilled to have the support of our investors and to have the opportunity to make quality healthcare services and elective surgeries more accessible and affordable in emerging Southeast Asia,” said Sheji Ho, CEO and Co-Founder of HD. “As

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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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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Four years later in 2008, the United States was in the grips of the Great Recession. I had left my previous role as an attorney for this position and had a family, including two sons, to support. In 2008, I was so invested in this business that I knew I could not sit there and watch it dissolve. Buying a small business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios. But of course, for every angle of the market where one person sees caution, another spots opportunities.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2018

As Stuart Brown, the author of Play , puts it, “when employees have the opportunity to play, they actually increase their productivity, engagement and morale.”. Kirsten’s first assignment for me was to keep my eyes peeled for even the smallest opportunities to bring playfulness to work and assured me that the fun would follow.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Husk Power Systems , a clean energy company that has been at the forefront of fueling rural electrification since 2008, is planning to launch 500 solar mini-grids in Nigeria over the next five years. In terms of policy frameworks and regulation, the states where Husk works in India (Uttar Pradesh and Bihar) have supportive policies.

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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. Even 2012's Congress agreed, passing the JOBS Act with bipartisan support through both the House and Senate. So why the hold up? The JOBS Act and Title II Startups are great for U.S.

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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. We use a methodology that supports inclusivity with clients, so we can keep the mission true to its end users.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

By some estimates, it takes 1 million pounds of raw material to support the lifestyle of an average American in a year. In the United States and beyond, such extraordinary wastefulness is an opportunity of epic proportions. In 2008, Unilever , a company of 172,000 employees and 2015 sales of $60.6

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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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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. Markets have reacted, and valuation multiples for both public and private companies have been heavily compromised, leaving growth investors in fear of losing the opportunity to secure targeted returns.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up. The company based in Lagos, Nigeria, was founded by Emeka Emetarom , Obi Emetarom and Wale Onawunmi in 2008. Typically , African financial institutions rely on using foreign technology solutions to solve their problems.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Greater Colorado Venture Fund raises $25 million dollar fund, in partnership with Colorado Venture Capital Authority; Funds will be used to galvanize, support and expand rural Colorado founders and entrepreneurs in their business building efforts. GCVF’s Fund I raised $17.5M GCVF is industry agnostic and focused on seed stage companies.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Greater Colorado Venture Fund raises $25 million dollar fund, in partnership with Colorado Venture Capital Authority; Funds will be used to galvanize, support and expand rural Colorado founders and entrepreneurs in their business building efforts. GCVF’s Fund I raised $17.5M GCVF is industry agnostic and focused on seed stage companies.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

“At Sidus Space, we firmly believe that it is our responsibility to give back to our community and we are committed to providing opportunities for our neighbors and educating the next generation of leaders,” said Craig. Her most important contribution, however, has been as a classroom volunteer.

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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. It started as a hobby, but by 2014, with the support of my EO Fort Worth “Tamarindo” Forum, it became a real business. EO Fort Worth was amazingly supportive. How Hire Santa Started.

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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. The product combines more than eight nutritional products into one, including multivitamins, probiotics and immune support, and is approaching its fifty-third iteration later this year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As different use cases are supported, there will be additional features added that can be accessed for a fee, he added. McIlwain also worked with Shim when they were both at Farecast, which was bought by Microsoft in 2008. There is a huge opportunity for someone to get hints,” he added.

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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. They testify to the growing realization that accelerators increasingly compete for capital and opportunity with other established, institutional VC firms. long-term support at the earliest stages).

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

In 2008 Eric co-founded his own startup, RockMelt, and ran the company as CEO until its acquisition by Yahoo last year. It requires investors to work diligently on the boards of startups, providing advice and counsel and supporting the visions and dreams of entrepreneurs. He stayed briefly at HP as a vice president.

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Source Link

MARCH 25, 2020

In 2008, America tried to rebuild the economy from the top down…This time, let's get creative and focus the bailouts on individual Americans and the communities where they live. It is very important to support individuals right now, helping them get through tough and uncertain times and job loss.

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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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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2019

This is a transformational opportunity that we as a state can address. At this moment, if we want to seize the opportunity, we need to invest in these activities that advance the application of our state’s research and development to local companies that create high paying jobs. Not seizing opportunity hurts us all.

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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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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. .” The ticket sizes will range from $20,000 to $100,000, focusing on startups in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and North Africa.

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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. At a fundamental level?—?whether

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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. I do not take this lightly because without your support, I would not be doing this. billion this year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The firm has come a long way from when it closed its first fund — $30 million of internal capital — in 2008. There’s no better confirmation than when an LP doubles down in their support of what we’re doing,” Rotman said. . Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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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. F1 promises the performance and transaction support of an SQL database with the scale of a NoSQL database. Today, it’s hard to argue with the success of the movement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Several platforms have sprung forth to bring stock trading opportunities in their respective markets. This was partly due to the global financial crisis that occurred in 2008. In the past, we’ve seen such growth trickle down to other regions across the world, inspiring similar businesses. Robinhood is no exception.

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