crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

iPhone (2007). In 2007 Apple launched the iPhone and revolutionized the mobile phone industry. New research reveals that the iPhone’s market share grew from 37% to 44% in Q4 2017 – a record high. Image courtesy of MacWorld. The iPhone debuted to outstanding success. And, that success has continued unabated.

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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. By 2017, the fund was worth $250 million. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Building off Rob’s original post, let’s continue to look at the 2007 vintage. So, four years later, DPI is still trying to catch up with TVPI from 2017. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). What Does the VC Performance Data Tell Us? during this time.

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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. million worth of books for Walliams in 2017 and £15.47 Nielsen BookScan reported sales of £16.57 Cookery books.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2017

For example, Apple Computer’s 2017 mission statement is: “Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Add the words “clean” or “green” if that’s really true and you keep to it rigorously. Don’t just say it, especially if it isn’t important or always true.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). Well, for instance, the most powerful iMac Pro released in 2017 gives only 22 TFLOPS. The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes.

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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. Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 30, 2016

2017 marks the 10-year anniversary of a big event in my life – the day I sold my editing company for six figures. For seven years, from 2001 to 2007, BetterEdit.com was my main project. It was also the first true Laptop Lifestyle online business I created, providing a full-time.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to the Office for National Statistics, there was a 63% jump in number of renters from 2007 to 2017. Beal also prioritizes the needs of renters. Renting has increased dramatically just in the last 10 years. As a result, the response from property managers can significantly impact the lives of renters.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 5, 2017

In the fall of 2007, my friend Phil Weiser, Executive Director of CU Boulder’s Silicon Flatirons Center, convened 25 leaders from CU Boulder and the Boulder / Denver startup community. One of my suggestions at the 2007 Roundtable was to borrow some ideas from the MIT 100K competition, which was started in 1989 as the MIT $10k.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s been incredibly difficult for both professional and personal reasons—and if I hadn’t met my wife Aja in late 2017, this would have all been a pretty dismal time, to be honest. Even then, as they say, don’t count the money until it’s in the bank. Let’s start with my fundraising timeline.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2017

In 2007, he also sold his Rocawear clothing line for a massive $204 million. According to Forbes, Jay-Z is worth more than $800 million in 2017. Tony Hawk – Skateboarder. Tony Hawk took risks at the skate park and sustained many terrible injuries, but he was also a risk-taker as an entrepreneur.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

In 2007, he founded Millionaire Media, LLC through which the books An American Hedge Fund and Pennystocking were published. In 2017, be donated $1M to Pencils of Promise. Apart from being a renowned stock trader, Timothy Sykes is also a serial entrepreneur.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2016

economy added 178,000 jobs, reducing the unemployment rate to 4.6%, its lowest level since August 2007. And so the ambitious executive should ask: How should 2017 business plans and performance expectations be “reset” in light of this improved outlook? In November the U.S. Work Harder. Excuses yes, but really no good reasons.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The company proved it was adapting to change when they added free Wi-Fi to all of their pubs, and in 2007 the first wedding was held. Value your people: the Group received top employer UK 2017 and 2018 accreditations and recognises that you must look after your own to be a success. Key business features.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

HubSpot finally shifted its language from “internet marketing”—the SEO-friendly choice—to “inbound marketing” in December 2007: The HubSpot homepage in late November 2007—with no mention of “inbound marketing.”. In December 2007, HubSpot went all-in with inbound marketing. September 2017. March 2016. November 2016.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Since we started in 2007, we’ve done around ten new investments per year. I expect in 2016 we’ll do about ten new investments, in 2017 we’ll do about ten new investments, in 2018 we’ll do about ten new investments – you get the picture.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Since 2007 it’s helped find, fund, and nurture technology companies out of its 65,000 square foot workspace in downtown’s Lyric Opera building. Opening 2017: 1720 Division in Wicker Park. 20 N Upper Wacker Dr #1200. Merchandise Mart Plaza. Suite 1212. 600 W Jackson Blvd. 1165 N Clark St.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 27, 2018

With the launch of 3G and the rapid growth of iPhones and iPads in 2007-09, the world realised that paper could be entirely digital, beginning a new era for DocuSign, which had invested early on in “mobilising” its product. Real estate brokers quickly realised the value that could be gained from an expedited signature process.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

I attended in 2007. Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote/rant where he talked about the internet in 2007 as “folk” technology. AirPop attended Startup Grind , Rock Health Summit and Startup Health Conference in 2017, all in the Bay Area. Has anyone on your team been to SXSW before? What is your most outstanding memory?

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Chris Messina (@chrismessina) August 23, 2007. — crowdspring (@crowdspring) July 10, 2017. Chris Messina , a former Google employee who, among other things, helped to design Google+, was the first person to suggest using a # sign in messages on Twitter. how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Every year since ’98 was the year of mobile and it didn’t really happen until the iPhone 2007. This is June of 2017 when we’re having this conversation. Remember how long we talked about mobile is coming? Brian Clark: I made that comment just today. John Jantsch: I feel like AI is gonna be the same way.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

Virtual Vocations was founded in 2007 out of my own frustration over the lack of a solution for remote job seekers. However, some seriously prolonged sitting episodes in 2017 caused me to have severe backaches that did not go away by themselves. Thanks to Dan DeBaun, Big Berkey Water Filters ! #25- Photo Credit: Laura Spawn.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). According to the company, GMV for 2017 was an impressive $150 million, followed by an astounding $600 million in 2018.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

In 2007 the word “coworking” got its own Wikipedia page and started to trend on Google, and the rest is history! - “If you put up walls, there’s no point. Why are people in the same space?” Source: NetworkWorld) After a few similar spaces opened in 2005 and 2006, the public familiarity with coworking started to grow. How does coworking work?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 25, 2020

The first major economic transactions in virtual worlds started around 2007 when the City of Amsterdam inside Second Life was sold for $50,000 or when someone bought a unique elf on World of Warcraft for $9,500. Virtual Worlds Aren’t new. Virtual worlds and commerce. Towards a Metaverse.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2019

If you hung around me during the 2007 – 2010 time period when I was on the Zynga board, you would have heard me talk with amazement at how easy it was to manipulate people into spending huge amounts of their time tending their virtual farm on FarmVille. I stopped using Facebook in 2018 and deleted my account in August.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

Facebook is one of the leading practitioners of the strengths-oriented approach, a strategy that figures significantly in its position as the top employer in technology, according to the anonymous job-survey site Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work in 2017.”. Decide On, and Obsess About, Your North Star Metric.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

For instance, if you’re one of the 871 million people who have viewed the 2007 YouTube hit, “ Charlie bit my finger – again !” Remember Pepsi’s 2017 ad featuring Kendall Jenner? Generally, you don’t want viewers to sit through a video that lasts more than a few minutes. But a lot can be accomplished in a matter of seconds.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I met Stan in late 2007 when, along with Halyard Capital, they shared their idea of a new agency model called Engauge and asked if I’d be interested in selling my agency, Spunlogic, to join them. Then in early 2017 we met up for lunch while I was in New York and I started to tell Stan about the book I was working on.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And it was 2007. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. And just to actually back up, I think it was 2017, there was this rally that we heard about, in Charlottesville, Virginia: Unite the Right.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And it was 2007. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. And just to actually back up, I think it was 2017, there was this rally that we heard about, in Charlottesville, Virginia: Unite the Right.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

This was the start of the Green Arcola project, which began in 2007, that today has become a whole new enterprise of its own. Speaking to The Independent Laura Gutowski, strategy and innovation director at Pret A Manger: “In 2017 we trialled collecting paper cups in some shops in London and Manchester. www.bagelman.co.uk/optimist-beers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

Although this law has just begun baring its teeth — transitional periods end July 1, 2017 — it’s only the start of even stronger anti-spam legislation. New Zealand – The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007. Germany – 7 German Unfair Competition Law. Italy – Personal Data Protection Code.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 23, 2019

The 2007 Global Risk Management Survey indicated the same result more than a decade ago. One notable example of this was when protestors took to chaining themselves to the entrance of Uber because they disapproved of President Trump inviting Uber’s former CEO, Travis Kalanick, to participate in his Strategic and Policy Forum in 2017.

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