Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

From about 2007 to 2015 I was all about the personal brand of “Yaro” and the teaching business that ran behind it. Like so many other online teacher entrepreneurs, self-promotion was my marketing strategy. I wrote about how much money I made and how I made it. I shared pictures and videos of me driving […].

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Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2016

Since Trim launched in November 2015, it has saved users more than $6 million in unwanted subscriptions alone. Since Mint launched in 2007, people have become more comfortable sharing financial information with a third-party / tech company. Trim is our first Fintech-related investment and we’re very excited about it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

So when I suggest making 2015 the year you hardwire uplifting service into your culture, you might be tempted to shrug me off. That’s why, if you want to make 2015 the year you make the leap, commit to my Seven Rules of Service Leadership: Rule 1: Declare service a top priority. That would be a huge mistake. Profits go up.

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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. These shares propelled him to billionaire status in 2015 when the firm’s market value soared. Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

As I look at the data, I am proud of what we’ve built and by all accounts we had a great 2015. I spoke at numerous conferences throughout the year, including the Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering, NY Times Live, Consensus, Money 20/20, and published several thought pieces in 2015 to discuss the potential of the blockchain.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2020

She also ventured into the cosmetic industry in 2015 by launching her company, Kylie Lip Kits. In 2007, the two sisters got shares totaling to 42.2% Apart from being an actress in the famous Keeping Up with the Kardashians reality TV show, Kylie Jenner is also an entrepreneur whose net worth is $I billion. Their father is Johan H.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2019

The PSI-Pay Company started being functional in the year 2007 as it helped the business community in the world. PSI Pay got licensed as a payments institution by the Financial Service Authority in 2007. The company proudly announced that 2015 was its best year financially.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As I look at the data, I am proud of what we’ve built and by all accounts we had a great 2015. I spoke at numerous conferences throughout the year, including the Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering, NY Times Live, Consensus, Money 20/20, and published several thought pieces in 2015 to discuss the potential of the blockchain.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

He was on the computer science faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder from 1977-2007, and Vice Provost for Academic and Campus Technology and Chief Information Officer from 1998-2007, and founding director of the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) 1997-2007.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

From Series A and onwards, fundraising takes longer and valuations are typically below the expectations and benchmarks of 2015. Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). The fundraising environment is certainly tougher for later rounds.

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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. However, to diversify its workforce and economy, in 2015 the country adopted TizaaWorks.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. In 2015 I opened up my Facebook page to the public. In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. In 2008 I started VC blogging. I already have Facebook.”.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 22, 2018

At the end of 2007 , a mere 6% of Americans owned a smartphone. nearly doubling between 2011 and 2015. Apple launched the iPhone a little over 10 years ago and dramatically changed the world. As of 2016, that number was over 80%. People have embraced mobile apps in ways that few industry insiders anticipated. Need proof?

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

They walked me through multiple origin stories, including how I started making angel investments (1994), the origin of Mobius / Softbank Venture Capital (1996-1997), the origin of Foundry Group (2007), and the creation of Foundry Group Next (2015-2016).

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

In 2015, independent breweries across the UK gave the economy a multibillion-pound injection and provided over 869,000 jobs. Started in 2007 by two friends, James Watt and Martin Dickie, the producer of champion Punk IPA now ships across the world and is worth an estimated £306m. Joining the craft beer craze.

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Austin Startup

JULY 26, 2017

This wasn’t 2015 — this was 2007. With the switch of a DNS server, her company connected them to the entire world. Julie took the money she made on the sale of Go Media to Excite, and invested in a coworking space named Launchpad. She was a coworking goddess when other people were sweating their 9–5.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 22, 2018

At the end of 2007 , a mere 6% of Americans owned a smartphone. nearly doubling between 2011 and 2015. Apple launched the iPhone a little over 10 years ago and dramatically changed the world. As of 2016, that number was over 80%. People have embraced mobile apps in ways that few industry insiders anticipated. Need proof?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

So in 2007, they had no position in consumer finance. And the four examples I give that they did from 2007 to 2015 were all failures. Think about the folks in who work in banks right now. I mean, what's a bank gonna be in 10 years? Who are the most interesting players in banking right now are not banks.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

I co-founded CoverWallet with my friend, Inaki Berenguer, in 2015 after we saw firsthand the difficulties businesses face when it comes to managing insurance. I started my business in San Diego in 2007. Thanks to Nancy Reagan, Bella Reina Spa ! #4 4 – Saw Firsthand Difficulties. Image Credit: Rashmi Melgiri. 16 – Laid Off.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The following interview by Steven Loeb was published in Vator.tv on 5 September 2015 and is reproduced below in its entirety. There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2015

OSHA also offers statistics on employee injuries and fatalities reported for 2014 to 2015. In addition, the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Report of March 2007 showed statistic of 15 killed and 180 employees injured during new chemical unit start ups at a Texas refinery.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

With this slide he’s explaining that in 2006-2007 investments into startups were equal to the funds raised by VCs, implying that only minimal amounts of non VC cash was invested in startups, but by 2014/2015 the situation had changed dramatically.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2015, he took into account that there was a lack of a global platform for Indian athletes and sportsmen that would enable them to be recognized the world over. A news company based in India with online and print publications along with regional and national channels under its umbrella, iTV Media Network was launched in 2007.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Fast-forward to June 2015, two years later, and now I feel that the change that I started to notice back in 2013, is here, and it’s here to stay. The early-stage vacuum that existed in 2006-2007 that then led to the formation of “Seed” funds, is oddly enough re-emerging as the Micro-VCs who once dominated this space move upstream.

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Transformify

AUGUST 2, 2017

Started: 2007. Transformify HR Blog : Started: 2015. CIPD is the professional body for HR and people development. Author: Jessica Miller-Merrell ( Guest Blogging ). Posts Daily. TalentCulture: Started: 2010. Author: Meghan Biro ( Guest Blogging ). Posts About 5x week. Guest Blogging. Posts About 3x week. HR Bartender: Started: 2008.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 1, 2015

He used this chart as evidence: Second, I read Josh Kopelman’s/First Round Capital’s Open Letter to Investors from May this year which says that seed valuations are up 3x from 2007-2015 without a corresponding increase in exits. Note that we can see a similar increase in Series A valuations in Fred’s chart above.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 14, 2016

The report indicates that more than 90 percent of 250 large employers said they want to introduce or expand their financial wellness programs in 2015.”. And Americans have named money as their top source of stress every year since 2007.” In short, many employees need help with their finances – they just don’t know where to look.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Let’s jump back to 2007 to see where it all began… Celebrating Year 2 In a dark dorm room on the HEC (the French HBS) campus, Jon and Clement were scratching their heads in search of the business idea to present for their entrepreneurship major. This took foresight, courage, creativity and a lot of hard work.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Since launching in 2015, MeisterTask has been listed as a top app by the Apple App Store, Google’s Chrome Web Store, WIRED, Zapier and many more, acquiring over 2 million users. When we first launched MindMeister in 2007, we provided the first cloud-based, truly collaborative, mind mapping solution on the market. has in store: 1.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

We’ve already begun to see the effects of the 2014-2015 bubble in growth investing, and it’s comforting to know we are moving in the other direction, however slowly. Um… wow. OK, so microVC funds and smaller pre-seed financings could really be a thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. The industry did that in 2007. It’s kind of a truism for life and certainly our industry. I see it in many young pups. Same as I felt.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 29, 2019

Kolb & Wagner, 2015).The Personality styles – these include models such as DiSC , (Wiley, 2007) Myers and Briggs and our own Circles of Empowerment Interaction Styles at EnQPractice (Geyer, 2013), designed to understand what drives the behavior of individuals.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

It’s no secret that access to mainstream credit and lending facilities has dried up significantly since the onset of the financial crisis in 2007. But then the credit crunch and global recession took hold, and 2015 is a markedly different landscape for small businesses in need of finance. The funding landscape. Doing your homework.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Savary, Goldsmith, and Dhar (2015) were collecting donations in a field experiment. self-indulgence), which increase the negative self-attributions associated with not giving.” ( Savary, Goldsmith, & Dhar, 2015 ). Harms (2007) found that economic value was one of the strongest motivators for crowdfunding supporters.

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