YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

” The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series by adopting the same strategy. Under new rules implemented in January 2018, the Small Business Administration began lending entrepreneurs up to 90% of the purchase price of companies. Acquisition entrepreneurship is a model in the same vein. Buying Is Better.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). But what do we see from some of the more recent (but mature) vintages? Was this a lost decade for venture capital?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

That business was sold in 2004 and provided JAMCO with its first profitable exit which resulted in the creation of a sizeable pool of capital to use going forward. Our team was able to turnaround the entire operations and bring about a significant increase in value while benefitting from a ever increasing and healthy bottom line results.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The term ESG was first popularized by the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation when they published a report called Who Cares Wins in 2004. Shortly after, activist investors followed suit and used the same strategy to advance other important causes. That figure accounts for 38% of companies that were investing in ESG.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 2, 2018

My goal in 2018 is to read 52 books. When Daniel Lubetzky started KIND Healthy Snacks in 2004, he aimed to defy the conventional wisdom that snack bars could never be both tasty and healthy, convenient and wholesome. Here is a list of all the books I’ve read so far this year.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. In 2018, Wimdu shut down, while a now-profitable Airbnb was one of the world’s most valuable startups. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

Its founder, John McGann, discussed the community and productivity aspects of the space in this article from 2004 : “People are here to work. The 2018 Global Coworking Survey shed some light on the numbers behind who uses coworking spaces. According to FlexJobs, 53% of professionals worked remotely for at least half the week in 2018.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. in December of 2004 with just our one little product, and by the end of 2005 we had sold 1 million Finders Key Purse(r). That’s why in October of 2018, after being laid off from my last position, I started Sedruola Maruska Coaching.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Musk wasn’t impressed: I am super super serious — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2018. Berkshire Hathaway kryptonite … — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2018. Until 2004, when the U.S. link] — Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 9, 2018. Then I’m going to build a moat & fill it w candy.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I started my business back in 2004 when I wanted to escape the corporate rat race. Now I get to do everything I’ve wanted to do, I coach and consult, get paid to speak, write and publish my content along with a book coming out in 2018 and I can close recruiting deals. Thanks to Sahil Gupta, Patch Homes ! #19

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. By 2018, they will operate 75 offices in 8 markets with over 400 primary care clinicians. Coninsurance plans require the patient to pay a percentage (usually 10-30%) of the healthcare costs up to the deductible limit.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

When I moved to Lafayette, Louisiana in 2004, I was inspired by a large delegation of young African-American leaders. I joined JLL in 2004. Recently, the Junior League of Austin’s 2018–2019 Leadership Slate was announced, and when I saw pictures from Facebook it was like someone punched me in the gut.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

BCG (June 2018): “Startups founded and cofounded by women actually performed better over time, generating 10% more in cumulative revenue over a five-year period: $730,000 compared with $662,000.”. Just in 2018, 15 unicorns were born with at least one female founder; in 2019, 21 startups founded or co-founded by a female became unicorns.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

Cyprus – Section 06 of the Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services Law of 2004. The renovated directive is expected to become law across all 28 member EU Member States in 2018. Belgium – Etat des lieux en juillet 2003, July 4, 2003. Czech Republic – Act No. Italy – Personal Data Protection Code.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 10, 2019

Sam Ashdown: But you know what you wrote Duct Tape Marketing at the right time for me, because I started my business in 2004. Sam Ashdown: Something else that came out of it, just an accidental spark was we did a competition for AshdownJones on Facebook, just before Christmas 2018 to boost our likes a little. My SAM club members.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Coinbase Ventures (founded 2012) – the crypto wallet and one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges launched Coinbase Ventures in 2018 to invest in startups building the ‘open financial system’ According to recent reports , Coinbase ventures has already made 50 investments, only 12 of them in tokens.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. trillion in 2018, which means that these 5 technology firms are collectively valued at 19% of the entire US economy. To simply connect to the web with dial up took ‘minutes’ and now it takes 4 seconds to download a 2 hour movie using 5g.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

In 2018, Walmart had $500.3 My company was founded in 2004, but we didn’t have a BHAG until 2013. In 2018, we refined our BHAG to include a due date. According to a 2018 report by Accenture, 63 percent of consumers prefer to purchase from purpose-driven brands. “Democratize the automobile.”

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. One of the reasons it still made sense for a company like Facebook to hire locally in 2004 was that immature technology made effective remote work challenging. Ditto for Apple.

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