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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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18 Entrepreneurs Discuss Whether or Not There Will Be More Entrepreneurs in the Future

Hearpreneur

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. 2- More due to uncertainty. Due to the pandemic a lot of people lost their jobs and because of that, people have been forced to look outside of the box — to go beyond of their comfort zone.

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Digital.NYC: The First Ecosystem Hub

Gust

On October 1st, 2014, after more than two years of partnership and development, Gust proudly joined the Mayor of the City of New York and IBM in announcing the launch of Digital.NYC , NYC’s new official hub for tech and startups. All content is reviewed and ultimately posted by dedicated in-house editors.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) 28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. I was proud of my performance and our rocket ship trajectory, but internal politics and personalities led to a division between the owner, me and a third equity partner. I am an entrepreneur and started my business in 2014.

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14 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

In 2014, I saw that influencer marketing was growing in importance but not getting more sophisticated. So we developed a high tech invention that allows you to get a 3-hour workout in just 20 minutes. The model and the timing were good. A decade later, we’ve worked with many of the biggest brands in the world. Thanks to Ira S.

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Why Are Venture Capitalists Ignoring The Future? The Emerging Domestic Economy

David Teten

Somewhat to their surprise, the tech section is one of the highly-trafficked and well-read topics. PureWow offers content on categories like recipes, books, home decor, and gardening, but tech remains one of the strongest. I published in 2010 a research study on best practices in how private equity and VC funds source investments.