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OCTOBER 3, 2014

After seeing my ability to bring a big community together, she wound up introducing me to TK because he was running a hackathon of his own around the first Techcrunch Disrupt in NYC in 2010. Later in 2010, I was introduced by Fabian to Andres Wuerfel , who was leading Deustche Telekom''s Innovation Group.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

In 2010, I funded his company, Backupify , which has gone on to raise over $19 million in funding and is set to have their best year of revenue to date. We connected around R/GA''s role in the tech community and here I am now, a mentor in the R/GA hardware accelerator. I didn''t meet Rob at a big flashy party. Just breakfast.

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JANUARY 1, 2011

I will be competing in my third triathlon and aiming to break 2:30—10 minutes faster than 2010. nextNY, the NYC innovation community group that I started, turns 5 years old in February. My oldest friend, of 25 years, is getting married. My parents will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. My niece will apply to college.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

and FashInvest invite the online fashion community to present their startups to the audience and special feedback panel consisting of leading investors in the space. RSVP: [link] 6:00PM Fashion 2.0: Startups Showcase Fashion 2.0 what is changing/what isn't -- what are we willing to bet on, and where are the wildcards.

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MAY 5, 2023

I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund. This is how Fred Wilson described me back in 2010. I took a lot of pride in that when I first read it. Consider this.

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MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Grockit – Provides online adaptive test prep services and community.

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JUNE 16, 2014

I went back across the 21 investments I''ve made both at First Round and at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --a period that dates back to January 28, 2010, when I closed on Backupify. It also seems to reinforce a lot of the activities in the community that connect me to interesting non-founders.

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DECEMBER 28, 2013

My own track record as a VC across First Round Capital and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures actually starts in January of 2010, *after* the Airbnb class of Winter 2009. You could see that conversation happening: "Hey, let''s reach out to the community. The invitees were a who''s who of the NYC tech scene--all the most visible folks.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In 2010, Gastón participated in a social assistance trip to Peru; recognized the different social, political and economic needs of the area; and saw how his actions could affect the individuals in the community’s lives. Afterward, he wanted to do more than his previous work in marketing and research. and within Argentina.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

We also believe it’s important to be strong pillars of our community. But as LA as a tech community grew massively the percentage of our LA deals went from 15% to 50% from 1996 to 2010 and it has remained solid since then. In short: We want to be pillars of our community. Authenticity. We’re not for everybody.

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MAY 19, 2013

He understands our issues as a community and vows to help keep LA Tech on the map. In 2010 the City of Los Angeles started trying to crack down on tax receipts of Internet startups allocating them to the least favorable gross-receipts tax bracket taking up their city tax by 500%. LA needs Garcetti. Why does it matter?

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JULY 22, 2015

In 2010, a bunch of techies got together to do the next year's NYC Triathlon. I had already done two and was looking forward to joining people from the tech community. I'm excited to be able to finally announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures ' investment in Clubhouse , a company I agreed to back before I even knew what it was.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). And so it goes with social networking. And then came AOL.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 1, 2021

During my tenure with the local University I worked with economic developers all across Iowa, from Sioux City to Davenport and a great many small but mighty communities in-between: Grinnell, Parkersburg, Webster City and Lamoni to name a few. I grew up in a small town in north Iowa—Cedar Falls, to be exact. Population, though 97% of U.S.

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MAY 18, 2014

We first met five years ago through serendipity as I described in this 2009 blog post and elaborated on again in more detail 2010. When Tristan brought me samples of other skin & healthcare products targeting the African American community it was clear to me that he had the opportunity to build a massive brand.

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JULY 29, 2015

I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. I told her that I believed it came down to one main driver – “acceptance of failure” and that I thought this was particularly institutionalized in one industry more than others – the startup community.

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MAY 23, 2012

So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products.

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MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. It’s fair to say that the Seattle startup community would not be where it is today without Techstars.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. He has a lovely family – Joy and Zion – who are also active members of the LA community. We watched together. Los Angeles'

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 17, 2024

Flock Safety has built trust with communities by helping law enforcement solve more crimes quickly and safely. Community feedback as a cornerstone of product strategy. They actively solicit feedback on the toughest crimes to solve from the communities it serves, then build those crimes into its product roadmap.

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MARCH 17, 2010

’ &# His message was that in 2010 great business can be built anywhere if there is a great team and the will to make it work. The community has matured – The LA / Southern California market has many people who are now on their second and third companies. I have one message for you, ‘get over it!’

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

When Chantel asked investors for $3mm for her seed round back in 2010, people stood up and took notice. The community is so connected now, that you'd be surprised how tenuous the connections are that people fundraise off of. Advisors are hurting these companies as well, too--undoubtedly feeding into their own implicit biases.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Winter Wyman, a top local recruiting firm, has been a continual supporter of the tech community and their participation was much appreciated. Looking forward to doing at least two more of these in 2010! You can follow Mike Fitzgerald on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

To get there, Automattic has to shepherd and evolve its developer community even as it empowers more and more of its open source contributors to take leadership roles in the future of the WordPress ecosystem. Even after Automattic launched, a few other startups seemed poised to lead the community. Image Credits: Automattic.

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APRIL 17, 2010

It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. ShopNation : ShopNation, currently in stealth mode, is a next generation shopping platform launching in 2010. , Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife.

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APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Quirky - Platform facilitating collaborative design of consumer products through an online community. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.). There is also another inherent weakness.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. “We Ravi Machani , an EO member in Bangalore, India, is one entrepreneur who has done so admirably.

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. But if you commit one simple day of your life I literally promise you that you will email or Tweet me a “thank you” and tell me you’ve been moved. You can read more about her here but let me give you my take.

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JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. Mobile First, Web Second (continued). If you’re in the minority that never read them – you should.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Furthermore during this economic downturn, we’ve heard a crescendo of voices lamenting the lack of startup funding, as communities finally recognize that new companies are the key source of job creation in this country. Total angel funding in 2010 was up somewhat, but has ranged from $15 to $20 billion for several years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Forbes has reported that millennials “put an emphasis on corporate social responsibility, have a great reverence for the environment, place higher worth on acquiring experiences than material things, and are adept at building communities around shared interests.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Crosscut Ventures, Mubadala Capital, Next Play Capital and Owl Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the Los Angeles-based company’s total raised to $50 million since its 2010 inception. Its efforts are initially primarily focused on the Hispanic community in the U.S. the company says.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Back in 2010, Ingrid had the vision to empower a billion women by 2020. It's a community that brings together women across the globe who are starting and growing companies. Her mission is to make the journey easier especially for diverse and women entrepreneurs. EBW 2020 is a social impact organization.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

” Launched in 2010, Magnet Forensics develops digital investigation software that acquires, analyzes, reports on and manages evidence from computers, mobile devices, Internet of Things devices and cloud services. intelligence community.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults. The number of people worldwide who are 65 and older is expected to grow from 524 million in 2010 to 1.5 Lawrence Kosick. Contributor. Share on Twitter. They’re also one of the fastest-growing age cohorts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It also offers an opportunity to examine those issues from a bit of distance to see if there are any broader takeaways for the community at large. Hipmunk (2010-2020). PicoBrew (2010-2020). Affordable housing continues to be an issue in the Bay Area, and HubHaus’s departure from the scene underscores this truth.

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