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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I first met Ethan in 2005. And we wanted a head of global marketing. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad. BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized. There are 20x more consumers online.

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Brain Health And Wellness Innovation Drives Digital Health Market, Social Change

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One solution to this challenge lies in technology that is already globally pervasive and relatively inexpensive to deploy: the Internet. New tools are also giving medical professionals more affordable options to diagnose and treat brain conditions. In this era of frequent economic and political paralysis, it’s time to celebrate that.

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[Interview] Imaginary Friends Studios (Is More Real Than You Think)

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That was 2005, and I have been with IFS ever since, growing the company and doing the things that I love, namely illustrating and designing cool concepts for the games industry. Share with us some of the journey that Imaginary Friends Studios has gone through since its founding in 2005.

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Neil Patel Review: Learning Marketing Entrepreneurship From The Master

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Neil Patel is an outstanding, globally revered marketer who can teach you plenty about content marketing, PPC, SEO, and other digital marketing channels to help your business thrive. In 2005, Neil began his first marketing blog, which grew to become the leading source of marketing insights that it is today.

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[Interview] Pekka Viljakainen, Author Of “No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age” (Part I)

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In this interview, Viljakainen also shares some thoughts about entrepreneurship and globalization. In 2004-2005, I found out we were recruiting thousands of people I started to realize that many of these people who are coming in, those born after 1985 – they are behaving differently. This is Part I of the interview.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. That said, for every set of global challenges there are entrepreneurs dreaming of solutions, solving big problems and ready to lead us into the next 20 years.