Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

states for-profit companies can accept donations and nonprofit companies earn revenue, which dispels the myths that a nonprofit can’t make money, or a for-profit venture would miss out on donations. They also note that after the 2007 recession—when things looked grim for the U.S. economy in general—U.S. Social Enterprise UK .

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In 2007, I graduated United States Air Force Academy as a computer engineer and entered the Air Force’s acquisition corps , excited and confident about my ability to bring technology to bear for our airmen. Here’s Todd’s story of how we got there and progress to date. ——-. Not That Long Ago.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2013

Thomas started Aladom.com in 2007, a French website that started by providing a babysitter matchmaking service – they were given free listings – and later morphed into a site covering service providers in almost every imaginable category.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

Gender lens investing is part of the broader genre of “impact investing,” a term coined by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2007 that put a name to investments made with the intention of generating both financial return and social and/or environmental impact. Contrasted with an average VC fund size of $30M… there is a mismatch.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2021

The former observation tower has been reimagined by noted designer Erla Laurie, who discovered the abandoned tower and transformed it, with work completed in 2007. Since its founding, Concierge Auctions has managed auctions throughout Canada , the United States and 29 other countries. The property is 2.7

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 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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David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

HBSAANY is comprised of New York City tri-state area Harvard alumni who are venture capitalists and other accredited investors investing in early-stage, private companies around the United States. Women-owned businesses, according to the Forte Foundation represent about 775,000 new startups per year. According to the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. To learn more, visit [link].

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

I moved to the United States in my late teens and my first job was as a cleaner. I started my business in San Diego in 2007. I grew up in Minas Gerais, Brazil and my mother was a cleaner in my home town. I loved helping her and growing up, we bonded over these experiences. Thanks to Candice VanWye, Brown Girl Bloggers ! #16

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The service, launched in 2007, reached 11 million users worldwide – with 3 million from the United States – and has recently launched an advertising platform to help brands reach the Indian diaspora around the world.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

SXSW audiences were among the first to witness the emergence of Twitter when they won the Best New App in 2007. Are most of the finalists for the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards from the United States? For 2019, finalists come from Australia, India, Sweden, France, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, and the UK.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 23, 2013

The first Startup Weekend happened in Boulder in June 2007 and have been on the board for the past few years. Steve Case, the chairman of Startup America Partnership, will be the chairman of Up Global. I’m extremely psyched. I’ve been involved in both organizations since inception.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 17, 2020

Rural communities in the United States are encountering challenges that threaten the overall state of the land and quality of life experienced by the residents. million dollars in 2007, all of it owing to the nonprofit arts and culture organizations that are present. Rural community development needs a new look.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 6, 2018

That generated a fun email exchange between us and prompted me to do an analysis on the locations of the direct investments that we’ve made since we started Foundry Group in 2007. The geographic breakdown of our 123 direct investments follows: Twelve years later, we were pretty close.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

That year private equity firms initiated one of every five mergers globally and even more, 29 percent, in the United States. By early 2007, “we told our [investors] that, notwithstanding the fact that everyone else thinks it’s a fantastic time, the economy is rocking, there are no problems, we’re pulling back,” says James.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2013

We funded the first TechStars program in Boulder in 2007 with $230,000. TechStars surpassed our wildest expectations and now runs over 10 programs a year for over 100 start-ups around the United States. As evidence of this, there are already hundreds of accelerators in the U.S.,

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Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2012

This infographic from the Kauffman Foundation presents an interesting look at the state of entrepreneurial activity in the United States. The good news is that more new businesses were created in 2011 than in the several years leading up to the recession that began in late 2007.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Founded in 2007, Wayne, New Jersey-based ConnectYard provides a platform for educational institutions that integrates their learning management systems with the social media tools students use to connect students and instructors for a more web-based community, and provide a better learning experience at the same time. “We

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Small businesses accounted for 44% of all economic activity in the United States and were responsible for $5.9 The net number of new firms created in the United States was negative – more companies closed than were being started. The result was 117,000 fewer companies in 2014 than there were in 2007. government.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

So in 2007, they had no position in consumer finance. Their payment system has a 24% share of transactions that are occurring in retail in the United States. And the four examples I give that they did from 2007 to 2015 were all failures. Who are the most interesting players in banking right now are not banks.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

For example, Ford was the first successfully mass produced car in the United States. Lieberman 2007. What startups lose sight of is there are very few cases where a second, third, or even tenth entrant cannot become a profitable or even dominant player. The rules are different in the life-sciences arena.).

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2019

You have been an entrepreneur and business leader in both Canada and the United States for many years and have worked in a variety of enterprises. Our annual car and boat rallies have raised more than $20 million since we began in 2007. Bobby Genovese: For me, the most important thing is to truly love what you do.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Since we started in 2007, we’ve done around ten new investments per year. We did about ten investments in 2007, 2008, and 2009 – which, if I remember correctly, is a period of time referred to as the Global Financial Crisis.

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Rob Go

APRIL 14, 2014

This particularly hits home for me because I myself was on an H1-B for my entire professional life before gaining permanent residency in the United States in 2007. Thankfully, Jay has been back in the United States for over a year and these immigration worries are well behind him.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 18, 2014

in 2007 to a very discouraging 10% by October 2009. But with the addition of another 217,000 jobs in May , Unemployment now stands at a very manageable 6.3% , and there are now more people with jobs in the United States than ever before. Start with jobs - unemployment went from a very impressive low 4.4%

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. Until recently, the designation “multinational” was reserved for giant corporations. This is no longer the case.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. We discussed: 1. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

When we started Foundry Group in 2007, we stated that we would invest in companies throughout the United States. While we haven’t seen each other in person for a while, we periodically go back and forth on email and have a deep emotional intimacy that comes from the relationship we built through our time in YEO.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In the years since, college matriculation in the United States has skyrocketed. From 1982 to 2007, though median family income rose only 147 percent, college tuition and fees grew a whopping 439 percent. In 2009, 70 percent of graduating seniors immediately enrolled in four-year or community college.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Did you know the number of lawyers in the United States has been increasing steadily since 2007? million in 2007. So if you’re looking to become a lawyer and start your own firm, you’re in good company. Today, there are about 3.5 million lawyers in the country, up from 1.4 Feel like you need some convincing?

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 13, 2007

In the United States, the top 50 Web sites accounted for more than 90 percent of the revenue from online ads in the first half of 2007, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The top 10 sites accounted for 70 percent of the revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

In 2007, Burt’s Bees was bought out by Clorox for a reported sum of $925 million. The Yankee Candle Company may be the largest manufacturer of scented candles in the United States, but this candle company was built on humble beginnings. Yankee Candle Company.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 1, 2010

As recently as 2007 the Small Business Administration estimated that there were more than 21 million self-employed entrepreneurs without employees in the United States. The number of self-employed and freelance entrepreneurs has seen steady growth over the past two decades.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

According to the authors of the 2008 Harvard Business Review article “Innovation Killers,” “Over 90 percent of the shares of publicly traded companies in the United States are held in the portfolios of mutual funds, pension funds, and hedge funds. The average holding period for stocks in these portfolios is less than 10 months.”.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Last week was full of stories on the impending default of the United States Postal Services and the billions taxpayers must put in — even though many of us pay taxes and bills online, send email and text, and use services like skype and facetime. (I’d

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

As head of technology investments at the Partnership Fund from NYC 2007-2010 I collaborated with Partnership management, the Bloomberg administration, and NYC Economic Development Corporation to launch several initiatives, including a seed fund, incubator space, and the Fintech Innovation Lab.

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