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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. 2007 was the watershed year. Summary: Cheap, mobile, social, global, always-on, one-click-purchase =. more than 5 years ago?—?and and hasn’t abated.

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Vaping: the Startup Business in 2018

The Startup Magazine

billion in sales in 2014 to $3 billion in 2017. A 2017 report forecasts a global growth of the e-cigarette and vaporizer market by 20.8% At the same time, smoking bans like the one in the UK in 2007, and the reinforcement of tobacco laws, made e-cigarettes a popular alternative with major benefits when compared to tobacco.

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Female Founder Interview: Latina Leader Elizabeth Colón

The Startup Magazine

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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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

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. He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014.

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PSI Pay Offering Alternative Payment Solutions To The Business Community

YoungUpstarts

The PSI-Pay Company started being functional in the year 2007 as it helped the business community in the world. It is a company that is proud of their efficiency, transparency, and clarity that has helped them become a company that is trusted globally.

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Pledge 1% Today

Feld Thoughts

In 2007, we were a founding member in the predecessor organization to Pledge 1%, called Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (or EFCO). And, the companies that have pledged 1% globally is remarkable. In this spirit, one of the key organizations my partners at Foundry Group have helped create and nurture is Pledge 1%.

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The Great Resignation is Accelerating: Here’s What You Should Do

Board Effect

Anthony Klotz, a professor at Texas A&M University, coined the term the Great Resignation, and it was so apropos that it caught on rapidly and globally. . The Great Recession hit in December of 2007 and ended two years later. We’ll give the issue a broad scope and bring the past into focus with the present. . million until 2019.