Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Let’s start with the fund. This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It offered independence from financial establishments, which in the wake of 2008 were universally considered unreliable, and mere convenience. FinTech had started to grow popular soon after global financial crisis happened, fueled by public’s distrust of banks and incumbent legacy firms, and then exploded in 2015.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The number of flights in the United States was reduced by over 70% in April, seven times more than the impact of the financial crisis of 2008. International traveling was forbidden in most countries in the world, and even domestic trips were not allowed in several countries. The decline of business travel has been a significant factor.

Technical Review 278

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

First, the Bitcoin global popularity increased after the financial crisis of 2008 which led many to question the stability of national currencies and fiat money. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer decentralised form of digital currency that uses cryptography to maintain security and anonymity (Nakamoto 2008).

Technical Review 157

Technical Review Software Review Florida Government 157

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2012

I had been looking around at several deals in late 2008 as the markets were tanking. I had this ethical dilemma pop up on one of the first deals I even did as a VC. I had gotten close on a couple of deals but nothing rose to the level of “must do.”

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Reputation Partner 356

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Almost 20% of young women now aspire to run their own business today as entrepreneurs (15% in 2008), according to a recent poll by The Telegraph. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Put simply, more deals and fewer venture capitalists mean better access to deals, more stability for winners and great returns for the best in our industry. Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2020

In 2008, Adobe tested its software delivery model and in the next few came up with the SAAS model , which is today one of the most popular service delivery models in the tech world. We know that money is the fuel of any business, but when there is a shortage of fuel, we simply don’t ask the travellers to get off in the middle of the journey.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

After the dot.com crash in 2001 and the financial crisis of 2008, traditional investors who previously held their shares for the long-term — public pension funds, institutional investors and money managers — are now more interested in short-term gains.

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Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 269

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Artem is a skilled developer with a master’s degree from Moscow’s Institute of Physics and Technology from 2008. Artem is a serial entrepreneur as he co-founded and acted as CTO of two companies (200 labs & Gipis) between 2011 and 2020 before founding Chatfuel in early 2020.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2020

Garry Ridge, chairman and CEO of the WD-40 Company, says, “When we were going through the global financial crisis in 2008, I observed people in the company as I’d wander around this office or any of our other offices around the world. Be especially present for employees in times of trouble.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 They decided to run the fund close to home in West Conshohocken, PA where they still have offices. During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California! million and opened another office in San Francisco.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Danish-based startup Inpay was formed after founder Jacob Tackmann Thomsen realized money donated to help orphaned children in Myanmar after 2008’s Cyclone Nargis would lose 5% to fees and take days to arrive. Below are four examples of organizations doing just this, including household names and some more up-and-coming startups.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

With an experience of working for more than 10 years in the industry, Rohit Thakral runs a mid-size software development company spread in 4 countries, with development centre in 3 of them, since 2008. He has the experience of managing large CRM and ERP implementation projects, cloud migration projects, and software sales management.

Software Review 127

Software Review Startup Software Software Developers 127

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2020

Consider this: In 2008, Wayback Burgers had 10 restaurants. That lower barrier to entry opens up franchising to a wider variety of applicants, including millennials who may have lower liquidity. Beyond that, Wayback is a fast-growing company. By 2018, there were 155 restaurants.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

From this time through 2008, real estate profits continued to climb, and Vagnozzi ended up repeating this process 15 more times with other fixer uppers, and also purchased 9 parcels of land and constructed and sold 9 individual homes. This provided him with a quick return on his investment from the rental income.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. So rounds tend to be “range bound&# where the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2020

Following its show of strength and economic resilience through its 2008 financial crisis, Canada has proven to be a force to reckon with and a worthy role model to other countries. Recently in 2018, Canada sat at sixth position in Forbes list of the best countries for business.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

For three decades (1978-2008), investors controlled the board. . — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. But the CEO’s arrival meant the days of the company as a startup and its culture of rapid innovation were over. Board Control. Therefore, investors could set the terms.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2019

PDF became an “open standard” in 2008 when Adobe relinquished its control to the International Organization for Standardization. It was published as ISO 32000-1:2008. Even if you have read or scanned a PDF in the past, you may not know these pieces of information about it: PDF is the proprietary brainchild of Adobe.

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Conversion Software Review Operations Software 105

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

This is partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008, which led many companies to reassess their spending to cut costs. This is evident in the widespread use of Jugaad, a Hindi term that refers to improvised or makeshift solutions. In recent years, however, frugal innovation has also gained traction in developed countries.

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Up and Running

APRIL 14, 2021

In 2008, 2.6 Some selling platforms that existed before 2008, like eBay and Etsy, were attractive options for people looking to make extra cash. In many ways, this trend was born out of necessity during the Great Recession. million people found themselves out of work due to mass layoffs and furloughs.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Magento was developed in 2008 to allow businesses to go live on the internet. You would not expect to hear about Magento if you are not in E-commerce. When we do online shopping, we do not realize that all that goes into those few clicks. Pushing the way to for our E-commerce phenomenon.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Technical Support SEO Internet 133

YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2019

So naturally, when I started my company in the aviation sector in 2008, I knew being a woman would definitely come into play and cause obstacles. Even as you work your way up the ladder, men still significantly outnumber women even in the C suite of aviation. What I never realized was just how much of an obstacle this would be in my career.

Entrepreneur 172

Entrepreneur Lean Leadership Founder 172

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

A standard entrepreneur retort I heard back then (2008-09) was “I don’t know what my company is worth now. When convertible debt first started being introduced as a “faster, cheaper way to get startups funded” they didn’t have pricing built into them.

Ratchet 354

Ratchet Liquidation Preference Equity Stock 354

View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Although there are many factors at work, one challenge of those vintages is that most of those portfolios more or less came of age when the 2008 economic crisis occurred. In looking at the data, it’s interesting to note that the TVPI for funds from 2002-2006 is pretty weak.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In 2008, while growing my employee benefits business, my mom took a fall at work that required shoulder surgery. In 2008, I had accumulated a large inventory of domain names and wanted to offer them for sale on my own website. If you search for Rantizo now, the first non-company result is on page 5 of the search. 14- Act of writing.

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Naming CPA Entrepreneur Software Review 157

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

I acquired my first large-company clients right before the financial crisis in 2008. Just out of college, I moved to China to seek my fortune as an entrepreneur, starting a consulting business where we helped large retailers and fashion brands manage their manufacturing infrastructure in China.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire China Silicon Valley 147

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

After founding their real estate development firm during the Great Recession in 2008, the duo received a crash course in perseverance. The path to success is far from easy, which is a lesson Quattro Development’s founders, Rob Walters and Mike Liyeos, know all too well.

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Cofounder Developer United States Founder 148

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections. The current market value of Panasonic, which was formerly known as Matsushita Electric until 2008 when the business formally changed its name to Panasonic, is $66 billion.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2008, Ellen founded Women in Trucking: an association designed to be a resource and encouragement to transportation leaders. That was the moment that I decided to take my first mechanics course.” Virginia smiled. Ellen Voie took the direction from her mother’s experience quite literally.

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deal architect

MARCH 11, 2025

I have had the good fortune (or curse) to survive several recessions and market meltdowns over my career Black Monday in 1987, Dot.com bubble burst in early 2000s, the housing bubble in 2008, COVID crash in 2020 and many.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2020

He says, “When we started with two of us in 2008, we basically grew the company to $30 million in under three-and-a-half years. Tim Hindes, co-founder and CEO of Stay Metrics, a provider of driver retention tools, believes that successful companies are the ones that lead with love from the top down.

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Leadership North America Dallas Employee 194

VC Adventure

JULY 1, 2021

Sweet Grace was born in 2008, as the Great Recession ripped through the United States, particularly affecting working-class communities like Lawrence, Massachusetts where Danaris lives. One of our biggest inspirations and favorite New Builders is Danaris Mazara of Sweet Grace Heavenly Cakes.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review America Massachusetts Finance 127

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

But investors with grey hair can remember the nuclear winter after the past recessions of 2000 and 2008 and can offer some historical patterns of crashes and recovery to CEOs running early stage startups – some who weren’t born when the crash of 1987 hit, were 10 years old in the crash of 2000 and 18 in the last crash of 2008.

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Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. You find out those that have the fortitude to work out a new way forward, who can handle recapitalizations or downsizing or shutting down business lines or hiring whole new teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

This is the problem that first-time entrepreneurs who have never been through a downturn (we haven’t had one since 2008) couldn’t have the muscle memory for and thus it seems “all good” right now. It won’t be. I’ve seen the movie on the other side of economic shifts.

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Cap Table Cofounder Silicon Valley Startup 150