abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

This no longer the case – the lean startup concept is being embraced by companies large and small, and is now taught at business schools globally. In the 21st century those forces will make people in every kind of organization — start-ups, small businesses, corporations, and government — feel the pressure of rapid change.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Global personal location tracking. Global manufacturing. Manufacturing is a global industry with complex and widely distributed value chains and a large amount of data available. Every day, we create 2.5

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. Paulina speaks both English and Spanish fluently due to being in primary and grade schools in both Colombia and the U.S.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

government waits, the more devastating the eventual assault is likely to be.” With 17% or less of the global semiconductor fabrication infrastructure physically in the U.S., government. soil can provide 100% assurance. ceded the center of gravity in the semiconductor fabrication industry to Asia many years ago.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

It will also lead to a massive expansion of government, whose only function will be to try to interpret and unravel an impossibly complex set of new tax rules. Oracle real Application Clusters, Qualys QualysGuard, SAP Business Objects Broadcast Scheduler, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 8.5, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . You can scale much better.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . You can scale much better.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Global personal location tracking. Global manufacturing. Manufacturing is a global industry with complex and widely distributed value chains and a large amount of data available. Every day, we create 2.5

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Driven by strong customer demand for its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint achieved record growth in 2010, with revenue up 200% over 2009. SailPoint doubled its customer base in 2010, adding 40 global companies. SailPoint’s worldwide partner network saw dramatic growth in 2010.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. Traditional business models have changed as globalization takes hold on a global scale, and technology changes our lives day by day. Many new programs have been popping up recently, thanks largely to funding from governments and private investors alike.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

According to this source , the global proportion of urban population rose dramatically from 13% (220 million) in 1900, to 29% (732 million) in 1950, to 49% (3.2 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. Macro Trend 2: Urbanization. billion) in 2005.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Jiri Stejskal, this translation and interpretation company offers services to government and corporate clients in almost 100 languages. The company supports organizations including Translators Without Borders, the Philadelphia Global Water Initiative and the American Red Cross. Heritage Homes (Midwest).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The success of this technology hub has continued to influence global innovators around the world. For some examples of its influence, programming schools are springing up faster than ever in Vietnam with help from the government. Of the 131 startups valued at $1B and above Silicon Valley is home to 53 of them.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. When the cost to start a company fell dramatically things started to change.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. We have seen the damage that this share structure can cause over the long run, said Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance for California State Teachers Retirement System, a big public pension fund. Global Support. Customer Service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

So from my perspective, I actually think if you build a for-profit company the right way, with the right governance and the right DNA and the right structure, you can actually have an outsized impact on systems. I mean, we support roughly 2000 employees across cities in the US. What were those first days like?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked. In our livelihoods work, we create initiatives that enhance earning potential for workers, micro-entrepreneurs, artisans, and farmers by collaborating with employers, worker collectives, and government agencies.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

The worst, because the global COVID-19 pandemic, on top of its impact on the health of millions of people, has created havoc in the global economy, triggering unprecedented levels of unemployment and destroying many small and large businesses. We will be working closely with G2 to include their ratings in our ranking.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Formerly known as PhoneDo Networks, Convergin was founded in 2000. Exanet, which was founded in 2000, provides scalable network-attached storage software solutions to OEM partners. Solta Medical is a global leader in the medical aesthetics market providing anti-aging solutions for patients. DVTel, Inc.,

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

AWDF, the first Africa-wide fund-raising and grant-making fund, was established in June 2000. He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development. Tom Cleveland is a writer for SmallBusinessLoansDirect.com.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s also an armed globally-dispersed Sales and Support teams, so we’re selling to our 70,000 existing customers as well as thousands of new customers per month, which means we’ll end up adding more new revenue in one month than a small company will take in over a whole year.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2015

Kirsten is leading our program development and speaker selection -- curating a four day, multi-tracked, 2000-person event. As the editorial director for this year’s conference, I look forward to bringing the latest thinking on Lean Startup practices to the global community.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. Tsunamis, Middle East crises, government shutdown threats and a looming budget deficit are all dampers on the market. Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Despite US centricity, it also serves as a barometer for technology and the global economy. By my reckoning, we’ll all be driving electric long before government regulations make it mandatory. By my reckoning, we’ll all be driving electric long before government regulations make it mandatory. Dropping the ball.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked. In our livelihoods work, we create initiatives that enhance earning potential for workers, micro-entrepreneurs, artisans, and farmers by collaborating with employers, worker collectives, and government agencies.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 24, 2024

Cathedral projects—such as the Apollo Moon Landing program and our global effort to mitigate climate change—are important for the progress of human society. These two are connected: we’ll get better government regulation of AI when these technologies have been deployed to more people to try, use and integrate into their lives.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 11, 2009

The abundance of risk capital during America’s technology bubble in 1999 and 2000 effectively financed the launch of the technology innovation ecosystems that now thrive in China, India, Singapore and other emerging (and increasingly robust) economies. We must stop damaging America’s global competitiveness. Share and Enjoy:

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

My inaugural keynote lecture focused on the challenges and opportunities for Salzburg to become a global center of innovation excellence. How can the Salzburg community come together to nurture ideas into startups and see these startups grow into globally relevant companies? In my view this commitment to collaborate is in place.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. MyUSA Simplifying the process of finding and accessing information and government services that are right for you. Take a look and judge for yourself.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Interestingly, Satis, a blockchain advisory firm, published a report this past week (link below) that predicts offshore markets for cryptocurrency will be main drivers of crypto market growth, citing a loss of confidence in government monetary policy around the world. The post Drinking from a Firehose appeared first on The Barefoot VC.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

Since 2011, Kimberly has helped Black Girl CODE grow from a local organization serving only the Bay Area, to an international non-profit organization with chapters in 7 US cities and Johannesburg, South Africa serving over 2000 African/African-American, Latina, and Native American girls. The @HBCUCaucus is headed to @SXSW !

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caterina.net

OCTOBER 25, 2010

The government, especially DARPA , many university research departments, Xerox PARC (and Interval Research, where I worked briefly in 2000) have sunk a lot of time and money into this kind of research, in some cases billions of dollars, and a lot of this research not only available but free to all comers. Its at least worth a $1.99

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 6, 2016

A company I co-founded back in 2000, Upromise , is focused on helping families save money for college, a necessary ticket to the American Dream. Not for profit examples include President Obama's Open Government Initiative , which has included making massive amounts of government data available to the public in machine readable form.

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