The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

She has been named Chicago Business Journal Woman of Influence (2016), the National Association of Women Business Owners’ Woman Business Owner of the Year award (2015), the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Person of the Year award (2014), and Enterprising Women’s Enterprising Woman of the Year award (2013).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

” Except, my previous company Smart Bear was sold on Dec 20, 2007. And we completed our Series C round here at WP Engine on Dec 23, 2013. And no fewer then three other companies I was previously an investor in also raised a round that closed in December of 2013.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. in 2013, Benin is among the countries that have made significant progress in the recent years. 10 African Countries with the Lowest Unemployment Rates.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013. Disrupt NY 2013. Disrupt NY Hackathon 2013. August Capital Party 2013. © 2013 AOL Inc. → Learn More. Upcoming Events. New York City.

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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. Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager. Source: Pexels.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2013

It''s hard to believe that I''ve been involved with the Innotech Beta Summit since 2007. Every year it seems like we move to a larger room, yet each year it is standing room only. This is an incredible showcase for fresh new technology from companies in "Austintonio.". Events beta summit innotech'

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Technology 85

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. 166M round closed Dec 2007. Led by Accel (London) with participation by General Catalyst & Sequoia. Pre-money valuation was approx.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 27, 2023

Looking Back At My Own Departure in 2013. Leading up to my departure in 2013, and after, I too feared the impact of losing that part of my self-worth. Originally Published June, 2013 [and lightly edited/updated] hunter@google.com: From 2003–2013, it was a pretty powerful email address for me.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

In fact, looking back over our comments in the 2013 Google doc where we hashed this out, I can see we had fun doing it. But when I was working as a reporter in 2007, I covered the purchase of a local ski resort in Montana by business mogul Bill Foley. But what if he quit, or if we had to fire him—would he still get a percentage?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2015

In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007. We subsequently raised a $225 million fund in 2010 , another one in 2013 , and a late stage fund in 2013. Our 2013 fund was originally raised in 2012, but we didn’t start investing it until 2013 so we renamed it 2013.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 7, 2017

I was an early angel investor in Harmonix in the mid-1990s, enjoyed the Viacom acquisition of Harmonix in 2007, watched Alex and his co-founder Eran acquire Harmonix back from Viacom in 2010, and then I invested again in the company in 2013 with my partners at Foundry Group. Alex and I have been close friends for over 20 years.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2019

In 2007, we were a founding member in the predecessor organization to Pledge 1%, called Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (or EFCO). United Way Foothills – After the Colorado flood in 2013 we decided to step up and fill a gap in funding from Foothills United Way. We now have a museum in downtown to be proud of.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 21, 2017

But we’ll get there … We’ve been investing in stuff around 3D since we started Foundry Group in 2007. We believed that in 2007 we were at the beginning of a 30+ year shift that would make the WIMP interface , which emerged in the early 1980s and was dominant in 2007, look and feel punch-card archaic in the future.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 13, 2013

At Lightspeed, we had identified the flash storage trend in early 2007 with an investment in Pliant Technology, a manufacturer of SSDs that was later acquired by SanDisk. We blogged about the potential for hybrid storage in late 2007 and 2008. 2013 startups Storage IPO Nimble Storage startup' barryeggers @jvrionis.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 21, 2014

billion, 2007. Waze – $966 million, 2013. Postini – $625 million, 2007. Following Google’s acquisition of Nest last week Venturebeat published the following list of Google’s top ten acquisitions by value: Motorola Mobility – $12.5 billion, 2012. Nest Labs – $3.2 billion, 2014. DoubleClick – $3.1 YouTube – $1.7

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2019

As a case in point, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta published a graphic indicating that stock prices plunged 50% from the high to low between October 2007-March 2009. We’ve seen significantly fewer IPOs pre-and post the financial crisis ( 213 in 2007, 31 in 2008, and 222 in 2013).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2018

But in commercial terms, they seemed to be swimming against the stream after the Amazon Kindle was introduced in 2007 — bringing a portable library of millions of titles to customers worldwide. Bibliophiles wax lyrical about the tactile, sensory qualities of paper books and the most dedicated will never ditch paper for digital versions.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2013

Boyd Au is the co-founder of Enzer Corporation and served as the CEO from 1984 to 2007. After stepping down and selling all of his shares in 2007, he is now an investor at 7 Notes Capital. Having mentored over 200 business owners, Boyd Au is no stranger to the mistakes that new businesses make. That decision paid off.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Tech Startup dedicated to custom jeans circa 2013. The first iPhone came out in 2007 but didn’t make its way mainstream until 2010, when apps were released for purchase on iTunes. What Has Changed Over the Past Ten Years? The startup landscape has changed a lot over the past ten years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2013

Somebody commented that in 2013 I have done a lot more personal posts than usual. Never was that more clear than in this short, but tear-inducing post from 2007 by Aaron Swartz , who you probably know took his life last week at the full-life-in-front-of-him-but-didn’t-feel-that-way age of 26. I didn’t set out that way.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Likely encouraged by various government schemes to grow the games and animation sector , the Singapore video games industry in recent years have expanded rapidly, growing from $87 million in 2005 to $285 million in 2007. “Mobile games are the fastest-growing segment, with revenue set to nearly double between 2013 and 2015 from US$13.2

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2014

In the fall of 2013, we raised a similar type of fund called Foundry Group Select. It was a $225 million fund, just like our other three $225 million funds raised in 2007, 2010, and 2013. Our goal is to make about 30 investments in each fund (2007 has 28, 2010 had 31) that range between $5m and $15m over the life of the company.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2013

If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur looking to start a business but have no idea how or where to start, you may want to consider attending this upcoming sharing session on May 3, 2013 called “ How I Started A Business And Grew It To A Public Listed Company ” by Boyd Au.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In 2007 when I co-founded Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado with a bunch of folks our mission was to create wealth that we could give back to the community that has been the foundation for so many of our entrepreneurial endeavors.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In June of 2013, as I was putting together my thoughts for the K9 Ventures annual meeting, I decided to sit back and reflect on what I thought was happening in “Venture Land”. A re-jiggering of deal stages and sizes had begun in 2013. It is published here in relatively raw form. Comments and feedback are always welcome.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

SXSW audiences were among the first to witness the emergence of Twitter when they won the Best New App in 2007.

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United Arab Emirates Technical Review Switzerland Hawaii 48

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The National Retail Federation (NRF) reported that 90 million shoppers descended upon shopping malls, strip malls and freestanding retail outlets on Black Friday in 2013. The average shopper spent $423 over the Black Friday weekend in 2013, which is a 7% increase over 2011. increase over 2013’s actual sales numbers.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I get asked this because I was a devout Apple Fanboy from the moment the first iPhone came out in 2007, but then I switched to Android in March of 2013 and have been using Android devices ever since. Obviously this is a tough question as no one really knows what will be announced tomorrow.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Agrawal, Catalini, and Goldfarb (2013) examined the types of risks that donors encounter in crowdfunding. Harms (2007) found that economic value was one of the strongest motivators for crowdfunding supporters. Kuppuswamy and Bayus (2013) analyzed all Kickstarter projects from 2009 to 2012. Strategy: Convey Your Reputation.

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Diego Basch

AUGUST 14, 2013

I realized that many people who search Google in 2013 are too young to remember the early days of web search (I’ll use Google as an example for this post, replace with your favorite search engine if you’d like). Back in 2007 Google called this Universal Search , but the concept had been around for years.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Ever since the first iPhone was released in 2007 we have been on an endless, fast paced evolution towards a more mobile business consumer. Following the oft come 4G network auctions of the first quarter of 2013 we now have high-speed Internet through much of the UK. New ways of presenting, meeting and learning.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 30, 2017

I worked at Google from 2003-2013 and at YouTube 2007-2013. I periodically delete my tweets so wanted to preserve this story from yesterday since people seemed to appreciate the historical context as the iPhone turns 10. Apple approached YouTube abt being default app on 1st iPhone.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2014

In the fall of 2013, we raised a similar type of fund called Foundry Group Select. It was a $225 million fund, just like our other three $225 million funds raised in 2007, 2010, and 2013. Our goal is to make about 30 investments in each fund (2007 has 28, 2010 had 31) that range between $5m and $15m over the life of the company.

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Early Stage Later Stage Syndicate Syndication 108

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Startups of 2013. In 2007, two financially strapped friends, Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky , decided to rent out rooms in their apartment to designers visiting San Francisco for the International Design Conference after all the hotel rooms in the area were booked up. She should know. Homejoy was named one of the Hottest U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2013, everything changed. One of our customer service executives recently discovered a space owner who’s been using the platform since 2007. During its infancy, YourParkingSpace was just a website that put drivers in touch with homeowners who had empty driveways and garages. Pick the right business partner.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

In 2007, the BOINC framework became the home of World Community Grid , a distributed computing project created by the IBM Corporation. This last project was created in 2005 and it has managed to discover more than 50 pulsar and about 20 previously unknown gamma-ray pulsars.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on December 7, 2013. It started in 2007 here in Austin and was founded by my friend Matt Cohen. This wasn’t his first rodeo, as we say in Texas. So here we go with the seventeenth lesson from The Entrepreneur’s Essentials. And in the mid-1980s, that guardian angel was Aldus PageMaker.

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