Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

Founders, I’m talking to you. I’ve seen past crises, cycles, and downturns as an investor and as a founder. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. In 2001, the towers were hit. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. March 30, 2020. I’m one of you.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. That crisis saw a global spending decrease of 9%, with U.S. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still. What the big studies have shown.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. We recently led a large seed round for an autonomous vehicle company called Optimus Ride.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), Booth has announced a course called Building Interet Strartups: Risk, Reward, and Failure and it is being taught by two of Groupon’s co-founders.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

With population reaching 7B, food shortages around the world, deforestation accelerating global warming — there simply is no way we can continue to increase the carbon foot print and sustain the human species in the next 100-200 years. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. Arve Systad.

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