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

The Startup Magazine

Bound by her commitment to give back and to help the environment, Claudia later took a leadership position in EALgreen, scaling the sustainability programs across the United States and, not only helping over 21,000 students with EALgreen-based scholarships, but also diverting over 100,000 tons of potential waste out of landfills.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

39:34) Humility in leadership and learning from the mistakes. (42:07) One of the special obligations of leadership in a crisis like this is both to take the long-term view, but also to recognize we have an obligation to take action now. We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered.

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’15 is Gonna Be a Good One

Growthink Blog

this leadership also attracts the best and the brightest scientists, engineers, and developers from around to the world to our shores. private equity firms and $515 billion on the balance sheets of leading tech. In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

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. In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

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. In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists.