Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States. In 2008, while growing my employee benefits business, my mom took a fall at work that required shoulder surgery. He helps people who have made a complete mess of their finances. And I was right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. It takes partners to make a business work, normally including suppliers, marketing, channel, and distribution partners, as well as funding partners.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

SaaS data integration is the process of distributing applications to your team or anyone within your company conveniently, securely, without configuration. When Windows Server 2008 R2 was launched, Microsoft built off the momentum with the release of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0. Microsoft AD FS.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Millennials, who grew up during the 2008 economic crisis, come from diverse backgrounds, are highly educated, and have taken on large amounts of student loan debt. Buffer thought it would be good to be transparent with all finances, including company salaries. That is why transparency is at the core of leading with purpose.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Generally, a new company can’t undercut the established players in terms of pricing or get wider distribution, but a new idea gives you an advantage that money can’t buy. They are then distributed to plants elsewhere in the country that can recycle them or, if this isn’t possible, disposed of in an environmentally conscious way.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. The 1M/1M program aims to help a million entrepreneurs globally reach $1 million in revenue (and beyond), thereby building the foundation of a robust, distributed and sustainable economic value creation that would add up to $1 trillion dollars in global GDP. What makes 1M/1M unique?

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D. Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs mistakenly often engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors. RS: What makes 1M/1M unique?

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. With the launch of Airbnb in 2008 and Uber (*) in 2009, these two companies established a new category of marketplaces known as the “sharing economy.”

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Leading financial magazine Global Finance named Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer among the top ten World’s Best Central Bankers for the year 2010. It is also reducing energy consumption since water production and distribution require a lot of energy, so preventing water loss also prevents this waste.&#. Diversified U.S.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion in 2008 and $8.8 billion, 7 percent below 2008 levels ($2.74 The average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008. In 2008, Teva acquired American company Barr Pharmaceuticals, a maker of generic birth control pills, for about $7.5 billion in 2009, compared with $10.8

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thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2016

The “blockchain” is a distributed consensus system that allows transactions, or other data, to be securely stored and verified without any centralized authority. The transactions are stored on a global ledger (which is why the concept is often referred to as a distributed ledger). Why Is This Technology So Important?

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Artificial Inteligence United States Global Technical Review 40

thebarefootvc

APRIL 13, 2016

The “blockchain” is a distributed consensus system that allows transactions, or other data, to be securely stored and verified without any centralized authority. The transactions are stored on a global ledger (which is why the concept is often referred to as a distributed ledger). Why Is This Technology So Important?

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence United States Technical Review Global 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. It takes partners to make a business work, normally including suppliers, marketing, channel, and distribution partners, as well as funding partners.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. So what’s left? Warning sign?

Silicon Valley 233

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 233

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. In 2008, KFC used a Brinks armored truck and briefcase marked “Top Secret” to transport the recipe while upgrading the vault. And the power of a secret requires that consumers know it exists.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

Not quite that far back, uh, but let's start at about 2008, which was probably the date that Facebook really became a business tool or started the journey becoming a business tools. I mean, you think back in 2008, you think about early advertising and banner ads. John Jantsch (02:20): Yeah. So let's go.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

But when I returned to venture in 2008, I remember wanting to see people who were similar to me in some sense, but I didn’t see that as much as I would've hoped. That meant that if the change was starting on the founders side, then there had to be a change on the financing side. It's complete chaos.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. In 2008, KFC used a Brinks armored truck and briefcase marked “Top Secret” to transport the recipe while upgrading the vault. And the power of a secret requires that consumers know it exists.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

By that time investment bankers were on a roll privatizing assets as far flung as Chilean Electricity Distribution Rights, Montreal’s container port, parking meters in Chicago, sections of the Pennsylvania turnpike, the London City airport, and (the proposed) CA & FL Lottery systems. Ironically, given the U.S.’s municipal bond market.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). The first finance course I took at MIT was 15.401: Finance Theory I and was taught by Stewart Myers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2020

Further still are the discussions that we may eventually be stuck–similar to the Great Recession of 2008–in a recovery that excludes jobs as we emerge from this cluster. And, if a founder is seeking investor financing , the probability of investor funding is significantly lower and investors become much more pitch-picky.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

I wrote a post a few months ago based on some data from Correlation Ventures about the distribution of returns on venture deals (which revealed that outsized winners are, in fact, much more rare than most people think). This reached it peak in 2008, although that may in large part be due to the lack of a public market option at that time.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After getting laid off from a job back in 2008, I decided I would put all my passions together and become a personal finance journalist. First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students. After several rejections, a friend told me that you could actually just start a blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

Wanova , the Israeli corporate cloud services provider, has announced the completion of its round B financing totaling $10 million. To date, Wanova has raised a total of $23 million since its inception in 2008. Wanova is considered a ‘turnkey’ cloud solution, providing Distributed Desktop Virtualization solutions.

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San Jose Cloud Startup 99

VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

This is a positive step, and more like it, which will allow broader distribution of funds available, need to be taken. During the Great Recession of 2008 and shortly thereafter, the net number of new firms created in the United States was negative: More companies closed than were being started. Nearly a month into the crisis, the U.S.

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Specialized, proprietary cable TV distribution is gradually giving way to big, fast, cheap IP pipes. Of course, HTML5 & native apps will enable the long-awaited vision of “interactive TV” I’ve written about this before (going back years): One more step to IP-delivered television (2008).

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IP Distribution Business Model Advertising 68

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you can do it for $5000 to $15,000, you’re likely to be able to finance it with a deferred payment or a loan from friends and family. What will it cost to build your project? It depends on the scope of the project, of course. But let me put it this way. Might be cost effective if you outsource your project to India Inc. @$10-15/hour.

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Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

I wrote a post a few months ago based on some data from Correlation Ventures about the distribution of returns on venture deals (which revealed that outsized winners are, in fact, much more rare than most people think). This reached it peak in 2008, although that may in large part be due to the lack of a public market option at that time.

IPO 52

IPO Acquisition Distribution Algorithm 52

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Specialized, proprietary cable TV distribution is gradually giving way to big, fast, cheap IP pipes. Of course, HTML5 & native apps will enable the long-awaited vision of “interactive TV” I’ve written about this before (going back years): One more step to IP-delivered television (2008).

IP 55

IP Distribution Business Model Advertising 55

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2015

The right software will unite your workforce whether they are in finance, distribution or manufacturing so that everyone is up-to-date on all processes. Benoît Gruber joined Sage in 2008 and is the Vice President of Corporate Communication for Sage Enterprise Market and Sage X3.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Then in 2008, he had a revelation from his experience on the Penn endowment board about how to democratize investing advice and “accidentally” founded a new company to do it. Is your first instinct to turn it over to see who makes it, and to try to figure out what it might cost, and how is it distributed, and how many people might want it?

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

If you’re still doing SEO by optimizing for keywords, you should know: it’s not 2008 anymore. Always compare data between segments and distributions. The more support you have from everyone to experimentation – IT, legal, finance, C-level people – the faster you can experiment. Things have changed!

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

Deborah has interest from Whole Foods and some other grocery stores to build such greenhouses near their distribution centers. Adam needs a crash course on financing and should go digest the 1M/1M curriculum module on that topic ASAP. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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