Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2011

Try this on for size – an analysis of over 300 patents acquired between 2002-2008 found an average price per patent of $383,000 ! Companies rich in intellectual property in all its forms – patents, processes, and people – attain purchase offers on factors other than last year’s earnings.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

One of the most Modi, who won in a landslide election with a clear mandate for economic reform (despite controversy surrounding his role in sectarian riots in 2002), is fully aware of the lofty expectations of those he governs. Like Ma, he comes from humble beginnings (he was born to a tea seller in a poor rural family).

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David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

Department of Commerce & the Minority Business Development Agency, between 2002 and 2007, diverse-owned firms outpaced the growth of non-diverse firms in gross receipts and employment. Women-owned businesses, according to the Forte Foundation represent about 775,000 new startups per year. According to the U.S. for non-diverse firms.

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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. Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted. Ten years have passed since this crisis occurred. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Many organizations even adjust their corporate culture to better appeal to the generation of young adults who are expected to make up half the global workforce by 2020, and who are said to be uncomfortable with rigid corporate structures, expect rapid progression and want constant feedback. Deutser launched his firm in 2002.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

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. 4G: Empowering Mobile Broadband Applications.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

He now runs a high-profile, globally active VC firm called Atomico , which has made investments in companies like Rovio, Jawbone, Fab, Klarna, Hailo, Xobni, FON, Jolicloud and Rdio (and then some). Niklas also talks about how the European startup scene has changed, in his view, since he co-founded Skype with Janus Friis back in 2002.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. We raised a lifetime grand total of $100,000 for that business in the form of advance payment from early customers. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. You must be nuts.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The threat is growing, with cybersecurity attacks expected to cost global businesses $2.1 The statistics don’t lie. Last year, cybersecurity breaches cost businesses around the world $400 billion. trillion a year by 2019. The toll on individual businesses is huge, with an average cyberattack in the United States costing $6.5

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. Lane also founded Wheelhouse, a Canadian organization that supports other entrepreneurs through mentorship, access to early stage capital, and connections to global business networks and executive expertise. . And download any of the past shows here.).

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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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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2012

But Tieto was growing rapidly and going global. By 2002, I was down to 54. More importantly, I had learned that leading a global team of what I call “digital cowboys” is not about command and control but about listening and communicating — and about learning, which I am still trying to do. and other countries.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. Lane also founded Wheelhouse, a Canadian organization that supports other entrepreneurs through mentorship, access to early stage capital, and connections to global business networks and executive expertise. . And download any of the past shows here.).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2015

From 2002 to 2011, she worked for ACS, a Xerox company, and rose from General Manager to the Vice President of Sales and Integration. As an executive, she guided 6,000 front line employees located in 12 global sites. Tubbs’ career path has allowed her to leverage her data-driven science mind with her keen sense of understanding people.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2015

With over thirty years of experience, Rothman cemented his Gutsball ethos in the 2002 HP/Compaq merger, a deal that married Compaq’s global reach with HP’s technological prowess and resulted in a state-of-the-art finance and leasing company now producing over $3.5 billion in annual revenue.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2017

Outcomes from a national study conducted by the Center for an Urban Future that reported a dramatic 52 percent growth in woman-owned business formation from 2002 to 2012.( There are significant global markets for fashion, art and architecture, food manufacturing and craft-making markets.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Similarly, in it’s own 2002 study, the communications agency Cone found that 77 percent of respondents said that a company’s commitment to social issues was a major factor when deciding where to work,” writes CEO of TOMS shoes Blake Mycoskie, in his book Start Something That Matters. Healthcare, dental, and vision; especially in the U.S.

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Software Review Employee Retention Silicon Valley 126

thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

One of the most Modi, who won in a landslide election with a clear mandate for economic reform (despite controversy surrounding his role in sectarian riots in 2002), is fully aware of the lofty expectations of those he governs. Like Ma, he comes from humble beginnings (he was born to a tea seller in a poor rural family).

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India China Africa Government 40

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

Fortunately we proved skeptics wrong and every one of these strategic investors made a tidy 2.5 – 3x return once PayPal IPO’d in 2002 and then was acquired by eBay later that year. So the benefits both to the startup and the corporate VC must be overwhelming for it to be a good mutual fit early in a startup’s lifecycle. .

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Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 2002, I decided not to own any public company stocks except for companies that I directly invested in as private companies. Flash Boys was a good capstone to the last week of wallowing in the global financial crisis of 2008, which I began by watching the movie The Big Short. Over the past 18 years this strategy served me well.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

The decision to build an ecommerce platform or global payment gateway is a multi-year, multimillion dollar initiative that can go horribly wrong. Dangelmaier served as the President of Global Markets and Services at ACI Worldwide Inc. since September 2009 and its Executive Vice President of Global Markets since until August 2012.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

And to pile on the misery, with budget deficits exploding from 58% of GNP in 2002 to over 100% today, all of the "free" money poured into the system over the past decade has not had any kind of meaningful stimulative effect. But it is going to be okay. Well by simply exhibiting that most blessed of American freedoms – individual action.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

6- The global automotive. The global automotive industry is going through an enormous disruption these days. The global automakers and suppliers will be adapting their business models accordingly, forming new partnerships and investing in new technologies. Thanks to Parker Lawrence, AlltimePower ! #6- Photo Credit: Michael Lowe.

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur China 157

OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We have been the global market leaders in email deliverability since my co-founder George Bilbrey coined that term back in 2002. We’re establishing ourselves as the global market leaders in email intelligence. For a tech company to grow and thrive in the 21st century it must be in a state of constant adaptation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2014

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has, um, caught fire and spread globally to build awareness and raise over $7 million in donations for the ALS Association. It’s pretty simple what this charity has done: they have leveraged their community to invite others to donate a small amount of money to the organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 29, 2010

In 2002, the CEO of Integreon, Liam Brown, sat in Growthink's offices in Los Angeles. After raising rounds of capital and growing like gangbusters, Integreon is now a global provider of outsourced research, legal and business Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) services. Integreon was just getting started and had 4 employees.

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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. The MamaLingua community has reached well beyond Austin, Texas, expanding nationally and globally.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

market share and 1,000 global employees. In 1998, Multi National Underwriters was founded by two entrepreneurs and in 2002 was purchased by the Noel Group in partnership with the original owners. Over the next 21 years, John and his team grew the business from pure startup to a 60% U.S.

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America Global Demand Web 67

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 11, 2013

But Clinton proceeded top spend the next decade of his life communicating his values, performing good works, and rehabilitating his public image and today he is a beloved figure in American (and global) life.

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Lean Public Relations PR Redemption 84

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor. In 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006.

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Southern California Las Vegas Honolulu Massachusetts 162

Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

From Kevin Kiley of Inside Higher Ed : In inflation-adjusted dollars, total state support for the top 101 public universities declined by 10 percent between 2002 and 2010, with nearly 75 percent receiving cuts. global competitiveness.”. . — sound like its time for the Lean University.

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Lean Colorado Texas Revenue 34

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2015

The advent of paper currency allowed for rapid economic growth, gave governments the ability to raise funds during crises and, ultimately, led to the emergence of monetary policy, currency trading, global regulation, credit cards, electronic banking, and – wait for it – Bitcoin ! Social media (2002). Photo: Wikipedia ).

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Small Business Social Media China Mobile 48

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. The global economy is currently going through a " perfect storm" of change , so we can expect even more creative destruction than normal. The case study to watch is Yammer.

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Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Lefkofsky launched InnerWorkings, a business-to-business online printing firm, in 2002 and took it public in 2006; it’s now run by CEO Eric Belcher, ’95. In 2005, he and Keywell started Echo Global Logistics, a business-to-business online logistics and trucking firm that they took public in 2008.

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Cofounder Chicago Founder IPO 61

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. Previously, he was Vice President of Global Business Development for Massive, Inc., He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Having raised a $35m Series A round from Accel Partners and angel investors behind ebay, Flickr and Squarespace to expand their global presence (which now include offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Paris and Rio), 99designs remain the darlings of the Aussie startup scene and one to watch. Halfbrick Studios. Co-working spaces.

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