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Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

Feld Thoughts

It was big news in Charlotte, North Carolina where AvidXchange announced the groundbreaking on a new headquarters complex in the N.C. A few years after Amy and I moved to Boulder, Mike and Cindy sold their first company and moved to North Carolina. The post Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

He got his MBA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982, and BSc at Auburn University in 1980. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

When the recession hit in 2007, I was really excited for the art world. So when we co-founded Babbel in Berlin in 2007, we just wanted to develop something better than the status quo. If someone isn’t performing, it’s time to say goodbye, and if someone is doing great things, I have the flexibility to reward them for it.

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The Latest Business News to Help You Plan for the Future

Up and Running

The Atlantic highlights some disturbing data from a recent study by the research group Young Invincibles, that has a disappointing tale to tell: “Since the Great Recession struck in 2007, the median wage for people between the ages of 25 and 34—adjusted for inflation—has fallen in every major industry except for health care,” they report.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

” –Joss Whedon, “Firely” Just a line from a fictional character on a fictional show, but in 2007 when the housing bubble busted, it resonated strongly with me. 26) The Great Recession. “You can’t take the sky from me.” Around me businesses were going under: gone, abandoned, hauled away by creditor.