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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Teten: For a large corporate, what are the advantages and disadvantages of a dedicated fund (possibly with external investors) vs. a 100% on-balance sheet investor? A lot of venture investing is done on the balance sheet, meaning there is no dedicated fund and investing is done more opportunistically.

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Fauxmentum

Both Sides of the Table

A certain amount of the growth in today’s market is genuinely caused by the economic leaps that globally connected markets, widely available smart phones and frictionless commerce caused by the linking of our credit cards, bank accounts or crypto currencies to our phones for 1-click purchasing. limit your fixed costs.

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Female Founder Interview – Claudia Freed, CEO of Non-Profit EALgreen

The Startup Magazine

Freed is a global thinker and living proof that purpose-driven businesses transform lives. By redistributing these products to colleges and universities, EAL generated financial aid for 1,132 students seeking degrees from welding to healthcare, from engineering to robotics–the very subjects that will fuel economic development.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered. And you think about how hard it is to hire a normal employee in any business. You'll be able to use that on the other side with everybody you hire going forward. Their offices are shuttered, all these facilities are shuttered.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. You’re going to school with somewhere between 200 to 800 people who are going to be future global business leaders; these relationships can be enormously valuable.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. You’re going to school with somewhere between 200 to 800 people who are going to be future global business leaders; these relationships can be enormously valuable.