YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

Introduced in 2008, by 2015 the mobile app market was generating $30 billion annually. Rooted in a 2002 Pentagon initiative to replace traditional telephony with a VoIP communications infrastructure, 4G was designed to address the growing need for bandwidth to support the increasing number of mobile device users in the 2000s.

South Korea 133

South Korea China SMS Germany 133

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Square loses money on every transaction (-23% gross margin in 1H 2015), and since the deal’s inception Square has incurred over $70M in cumulative losses on processing Starbucks transactions. Square grew revenue >170% YoY in 2013, then 54% YoY in 2014, and is on pace to grow about 32% YoY here in 2015. Per Merchant Unit Economics.

IPO 165

IPO .Net Revenue Acquisition 165

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

My father and I started the business back in 2002 with the following dream: “our mission is to support USA families and jobs by producing high-quality clothing, in the USA, at an affordable price. I started my business back in 2015 with my brother after I tried a really fun escape room for the first time. Photo Credit: BJ Nickol.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Detroit Software Review Florida 98

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

2002 was the Trough of Disillusionment. It spans the time frame from 1985 – 2015 which you can just lay down on the Gartner Hype Cycle. 2001 – 2002 was the collapse to the Trough. Ponder Gartner’s Hype Cycle for a moment. You can apply this to pretty much anything in tech. Ponder where you end up.

Merger 70

Merger Stock Internet America 70

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I wanted to be able to provide pet information along with cannabis and hemp products to help their pets live better lives, so in 2015 I started VETCBD. I founded Wings Air Helicopters in 2002, which started out as a flight school with just one training helicopter and has since grown into a premier helicopter company. 2- From a hobby.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur PR Affiliate Social Media 114

Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Stan Shields is a martial arts professional who began operating a martial arts school in January 2002 (nearly 14 years now). Our Guest Stan Shields is a martial arts professional who began operating a martial arts school in January 2002 (nearly 14 years now). Our Guest .

America 60

America Operations Security Sales 60

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 2, 2017

We created a film series in late 2015 to examine the contributing factors impacting American women called Giving Birth In America and to inform people about the maternal crisis here at home heading into an election year. Any of this attributable to your upbringing in the Bay Area? Did you feel connected to Silicon Valley back then?

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Silicon Valley Georgia Haiti Louisiana 110

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and immigrated to Austin, Texas, in 2002 at the age of 15. In 2015, Nelly received the honor to be chosen as one of Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” in the category of food and wine.

Founder 62

Founder Iowa Cofounder Mexico 62

Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2015, Facebook anointed her as the Small Business and Facebook Marketing expert. Meghan was voted by Forbes and StatSocial as one of the Top 100 Social Media Power Influencers in 2015 as well as one of General Sentiment’s Top 50 Most Valuable Social Media Influencers and more. Holly Ransom. Website: emergent.global.

Entrepreneur 76

Entrepreneur Social Media B2B Cofounder 76

Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2015

Lynda.com, which sold to LinkedIn on April 9th, 2015 for $1.5b, started and popularized the movement. While Lynda began offering online classes in 2002, my first taste of online education came from seeing Skillshare grow from it’s founding in 2010 from within the Carbonmade office (shoutout to the Skillshare founder, Mike Karnjanaprakorn).

New York City 28

New York City Video Internet Cofounder 28