Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. And now they want to revolutionize email.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. 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.

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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. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. At that time, the market had enjoyed a decent recovery from the economic crisis of 2008, but hadn’t quite fully recovered to its highs in 2007. during this time.

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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. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. At that time, the market had enjoyed a decent recovery from the economic crisis of 2008, but hadn’t quite fully recovered to its highs in 2007. during this time.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As the range of ingenuity in the digital space grew, the competition evolved to become the Interactive Awards, and ultimately expanded into the Interactive Innovation Awards, reflecting the increasingly multifaceted and diverse ecosystem of technological achievement and creative work. immersive technologies have come so far in the past year.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies. Sequoia has financed them.

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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. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. At that time, the market had enjoyed a decent recovery from the economic crisis of 2008, but hadn’t quite fully recovered to its highs in 2007. during this time.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

Mobile gaming offers many benefits: mobile devices are the most personal pieces of technology, and they can go almost anywhere. The revenue for brain health (including both games and biometrics) in 2020 is projected to be $6 billion. That figure is expected to rise to $17.1 billion for 2014. Source: Gartner, Oct 2013).

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Transformify

JANUARY 7, 2020

I started working remotely as a freelancer back in 2007, and then became a digital nomad in 2012, traveling to/living in over 120 cities in 50 countries since then. A fintech and digital transformation expert, she is also a professor at Zigurat Business School and expert evaluator Horizon 2020 at the European Commission.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

I was looking for what you teach back in January of 2007 and couldn't find it anywhere. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Thanks to CJ Xia, Boster Biological Technology ! #6- A fledgling tech company in the 1980s upon Steve Jobs’ departure, they bounced back big in the late ‘90s, introducing innovative technology that would eventually become part of the lives of millions around the world. I have been running a PR Firm, Whitegate PRINC since 2007.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

A similar pattern exists for venture capital funding: In 2020, just three regions — the Bay Area, New York, and Massachusetts — accounted for 70%+ of total venture funding in the U.S. Technology transfer office. Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S. coasts housed 9 of the top 10 areas for average earnings (compared to only 3 in 1980).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Obviously, the challenges of 2020 were next level. And it was 2007. And back then, the word technology may as well have been like a dictionary definition for the word good. In other words, all technology was a step forward for humanity. I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. I’m not a Luddite, of course.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Obviously, the challenges of 2020 were next level. And it was 2007. And back then, the word technology may as well have been like a dictionary definition for the word good. In other words, all technology was a step forward for humanity. I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. I’m not a Luddite, of course.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. As the company is still growing, we can easily guess that in 2019-2020 time frame, Airbnb will be delivering around $50B per year to home-owners who were previously sitting on highly underutilized assets. This is a major “unlocking.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2020

Transcript of The Biggest Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Mike Stelzner: We’re talking like 2006-ish, 2007. I’m probably the only person who has had you on to talk about that on a podcast and then back about trends in social media 2020. Back to Podcast.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

But at the end of the day most LPs (like most VCs we surveyed) believe that the president likely won’t have a major impact one way or the other on how the venture capital markets and therefore the underlying technology startup markets perform. Here is the entire survey, which can also be downloaded and shared.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. When we started at Udemy, in Turkey in 2006 and 2007, there was no funding available. Put the mission first, think long term, and everything else will fall into place. They are businesses.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

This is a good time as ever to examine whether financial focus is now shifting towards Impact as an opportunity for companies, and how technologies that intentionally tackle social and environmental issues are becoming business models with strong returns. Tech best sub sectors include cloud computing, machine learning/A.I. and big data.

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